Famous People with Name Roy

Roy Turnbull Black            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Roy Turnbull Black: was an American chess player. Black was a judge by profession. Although his record against Capablanca was one win, one draw and three losses, he beat Capablanca with black pieces in New York in 1911:

Roy Schafer            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Roy Schafer: American psychologist and psychoanalyst, who has emphasised a psychoanalytic concept of narrative. For Schafer, an important purpose of the analytic process is that the analysand regains agency of her own story and of her own life. Psychoanalyst and analysand each have a role in telling and retelling the analysand's lifestory: the analyst helps the analysand by elevating subjectivity as awareness of multiple interpretations.

Roy Chapman Andrews            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Roy Chapman Andrews: Douglas Preston of the American Museum of Natural History wrote:Andrews is allegedly the real person that the movie character of Indiana Jones was patterned after. Andrews was an accomplished stage master. He created an image and lived it out impeccably—there was no chink in his armor. Roy Chapman Andrews: famous explorer, dinosaur hunter, exemplar of Anglo-Saxon virtues, crack shot, fighter of Mongolian brigands, the man who created the metaphor of 'Outer Mongolia' as denoting any exceedingly remote place.[1]

Roy Britten            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Roy Britten: an American molecular biologist known for his discovery of repeated DNA sequences in genomes of higher organisms.Britten attended the phage course at the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory and started working on DNA hybridization. Through this work, he showed that eukaryotic genomes have many repetitive, non-coding DNA sequences -- junk DNA.Britten has been at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) for many years. He was a Visiting Associate at from 1971-73, a Senior Research Associate at Caltech from 1973-81 and Distinguished Carnegie Senior Research Associate from 1981-99. In 1999 he became Distinguished Carnegie Senior Research Associate in Biology, Emeritus at caltech.

Roy Fox Lichtenstein            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Roy Fox Lichtenstein: was a prominent American pop artist, his work heavily influenced by both popular advertising and the comic book style. He himself described Pop art as, "not 'American' painting but actually industrial painting".[1]Lichtenstein then left New York to study at the Ohio State University which offered studio courses and a degree in fine arts.[2] His studies were interrupted by a three year stint in the army during World War II and after between 1943 and 1946.[2] Lichtenstein returned home to visit his dying father and was discharged from the army under the Servicemen's Readjustment Act (USA).[3] Returning to studies in Ohio under the supervision of one of his teachers, Hoyt L. Sherman,

Robert H. Roy            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Robert H. Roy: was an American mechanical engineer and the former Dean of Engineering Science at Johns Hopkins University. He was a defender on the U.S. national lacrosse team that competed in the 1928 Summer Olympics in Amsterdam, where lacrosse was a demonstration spo

Jean-Philippe Roy            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Jean-Philippe Roy: is a Canadian alpine skier. Roy's best finish on the World Cup circuit is a 5th place in a giant slalom in Alta Badia. Roy also has two top-ten finishes at the World Alpine Ski Championships, finishing 8th in the 2001 combined and 7th in the 2007 giant sl

Vesta M. Roy            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Vesta M. Roy: was a Republican New Hampshire politician, born in Dearborn, Michigan.As president of the state Senate, she served as acting governor of New Hampshire from December 29, 1982 until January 6, 1983 as a result of the death of Governor Hugh Gallen shortly be

Karl Van Roy            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Karl Van Roy: is a Wisconsin politician and legislator.He served in the Wisconsin State Assembly since 2003.

William Robert Roy            Origin/Culture/Country: American

William Robert Roy: is a former United States Representative from Kansas, a retired phyisician, and a columnist for The Topeka Capital-Journal. He practiced medicine in Topeka from 1955 to 1970 and was elected as a Democrat to the Ninety-second and Ninety-third Congresses (J