Famous People with Name Roger

Roger Guillemin            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Roger Guillemin: National Medal of Science in 1976, and Nobel prize for medicine in 1977 for his work on neurohormones.

Roger Wolcott Sperry            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Roger Wolcott Sperry: a neuropsychologist, neurobiologist and Nobel laureate who, together with David Hunter Hubel and Torsten Nils Wiesel, won the 1981 Nobel Prize in Medicine for his work with split-brain research.

Roger A. Brown            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Roger A. Brown: was an American professional basketball player. A 6'5" forward/guard, Brown starred at Brooklyn's Wingate High School and signed to play for the University of Dayton in 1960, but he was banned from the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) and National Basketball Association (NBA) when it was revealed that while still in High School and along with fellow Brooklyn star Connie Hawkins, he had been introduced to a gambler, Jack Molinas, who was involved in illegal point shaving. Roger was never accused of point shaving and his only crime was associating with Molinas. With the NCAA and NBA ban in place, he continued to play basketball in Dayton's amateur leagues, and in 1967 Brown signed with the American Basketball Association (ABA)'s Indiana Pacers. During his eight-year (1967-1975) ABA career, spent with the Pacers, Utah Stars, and Memphis Sounds, he scored 10,498 points, appeared as an ABA All-Star four times, and earned three ABA Championship rings. He died of liver cancer in 1997.

Roger Brown            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Roger Brown: is a former NBA and ABA basketball player. He played for the Carolina Cougars, Los Angeles Lakers, San Antonio Spurs, Virginia Squires, Denver Nuggets, Detroit Pistons, and Chicago Bulls. He attended the University of Kansas.

Roger Dale Phegley            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Roger Dale Phegley: is a retired American professional basketball player. A 6'6" (198 cm) 205 lb (93 kg) shooting guard, he played college basketball at Bradley University and had a career in the NBA from 1978 to 1984. He ended his career playing in France.[1]

Frère Roger            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Frère Roger: baptised Roger Louis Schütz-Marsauche, also known as Brother Roger, was the founder and prior of the Taizé Community, an ecumenical monastic community.In 1940, he rode a bicycle from Geneva to Taizé, a small town near Mâcon, about 390 kilometres (240 miles) southeast of Paris. Taizé was then in unoccupied France, just beyond the line of demarcation to the zone occupied by German troops. For two years Brother Roger hid Jewish refugees before being forced to leave Taizé. In 1944, he returned to Taizé to found the Community, first as a small quasi-monastic community of men living together in poverty and obedience.