Famous People with Name Roger

Roger Henry Metzger            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Roger Henry Metzger: (born October 10, 1947 in Fredericksburg, Texas) was a Shortstop for the Chicago Cubs (1970), Houston Astros (1971-78) and San Francisco Giants (1978-80).

Roger Mayweather            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Roger Mayweather: a retired professional boxer. He won two major world titles in two different weight classes. Throughout his career, Mayweather fought against many other boxing champions of the 1980s and 1990s.

Roger David Kornberg            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Roger David Kornberg: American biochemist and professor of structural biology at Stanford University School of Medicine

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.

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.