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Roger is primarily a common first name of English, French and Catalan usage, from the Germanic elements hrod (fame) and ger (spear) meaning "famous with the spear". The Latin form of the name is Rogerius, as used by a few medieval figures.

The name "Roger" was transmitted to England by the Normans after the Norman Conquest along with other names such as William, Robert, Richard, and Hugh. It replaced its Anglo-Saxon cognate, Hroðgar.

Phonetics

Roger also means "GUM", "heard you" on the radio in the military and civilian aviation. This usage comes from the letter "R" of "received" which in the old phonetic alphabet was called "roger" (now called Romeo) in radio alphabets (such as the Joint Army/Navy Phonetic Alphabet). It is commonly followed by the word "that" to form the common aviation phrase "Roger That". It is also often shortened in writing to "rgr". The updated phrases now in use are, for example, "I'll Romeo that" or "Romeo and Out".

Contrary to popular belief, it does not mean "I will comply". That distinction goes to the phrase "wilco", which is a contraction of the phrase "will comply".

Slang

Roger is also a short version of the term Jolly Roger which refers to a black flag with white skull and crossbones, formerly used by sea pirates since as early as 1723.

"Roger" has an old (1711) vulgar slang usage as a verb where it means to have sexual intercourse with a woman. After a number of comic references throughout the late 20th century, in the late 1990s the word 'roger' as a sexual act came back into more frequent use, chiefly amongst the young, male, upper class intellectual elite. ^{[citation needed]} From c.1650 to c.1870 it was slang for the word "penis."[1]

People

Only name

• Roger I of Sicily, Norman ruler of Sicily
• Roger II of Sicily, Norman ruler of Sicily
• Roger, bishop of Worcester from 1163 to 1179
• Roger, a porn star
• Roger, brazilian football goalkeeper

First name

• Roger Adams, Nobel Prize chemist
• Roger Angell, baseball writer for The New Yorker
• Roger Avary, motion picture director
• Roger Bacon
• Roger Bannister, first man to run the four minute mile
• Roger "Syd" Barrett, founder of Pink Floyd
• Roger C. Carmel, American character actor
• Roger Casement, Irish patriot, poet, revolutionary, and British Diplomat
• Roger Chan, the Bus uncle
• Roger Christian, pop music lyricist
• Roger Clemens, baseball player
• Roger Corman, B-movie director and producer
• Roger Craig, baseball player and Roger Craig, American football player
• Roger Daltrey, lead singer of The Who
• Roger Davis, American actor
• Roger Delgado, British actor
• Roger Dobkowitz, a Price of Right producer and stats expert.
• Roger Donaldson, movie producer and director
• Roger Ebert, motion picture critic
• Roger Federer, Swiss tennis player
• Roger Galera Flores, Brazilian football (soccer) player
• Roger Fortin, Canadian boxer
• Roger Frugardi, medieval surgeon
• Roger García Junyent, Spanish football (soccer) player
• Roger Gibbon, Trinidad and Tobago track cyclist
• Roger Goodell, Current commissionner of the NFL
• Roger Ilegems, Belgian track cyclist and road bicycle racer
• Roger Manganelli, bass guitarist for Less Than Jake
• Roger Maris, baseball player
• Roger Meddows-Taylor, drummer for Queen
• Roger Lee Mendoza, noted pension economist and scholar
• Roger Michell, film director
• Roger Milla, Cameroon international footballer
• Roger Miller, American musician
• Roger Moore, English actor most famous for his role as James Bond
• Roger E. Mosley, American actor
• Roger Mudd, TV journalist
• Roger Penrose, English mathematical physicist
• Roger Tory Peterson, American ornithologist
• Roger Toussaint, transit worker's union official
• Frère Roger, baptised Roger Louis Schutz-Marsauche, initiator of the Taizé Community
• Roger Rees, British actor
• Roger Sheaffe, British general in the War of 1812
• Roger Sherman, American revolutionary, signer of many famous documents, inventor of congressional system
• Roger Smith, American actor
• Roger Sumich, New Zealand cyclist
• Roger Troutman, American R&B artist
• Roger Vadim, French film director
• Roger Van Der Weide, a Dutch Flash artist of I.M.P fame
• Roger Waters, English rock musician and songwriter
• Roger Whittaker, British singer
• Roger Williams (theologian), co-founder of Rhode Island
• Roger Zelazny, science-fiction author

Fictional characters

• Roger, a kangaroo character from the Tekken fighting game series, and Roger Jr., his son.
• Roger, a homunculus, is a character from the series Hellboy
• Roger the Alien, fictional character from American Dad!
• Roger Chillingworth, the fictional antagonist in Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter
• Roger Davis, musician and ex-druggie of RENT
• Roger Fox, a character from the comic FoxTrot
• Roger Murtaugh, cop played by Danny Glover in the Lethal Weapon movies
• Roger Rabbit, main cartoon character of the movie Who Framed Roger Rabbit
• Roger Ramjet, cartoon superhero
• Roger Wilco, the fictional protagonist of the Space Quest game series
• Roger, a character in the novel Lord of the Flies, Jack's lieutenant and the savage tribe's torturer/hangman
• Roger Danish, a minor character in Arrested Development, Lindsey's high school counterpart and co-winner of the BEst Hair Award.
• Roger the Shrubber, a character in Monty Python and the Holy Grail who sells a shrubbery to King Arthur and Sir Bedevere.
• Roger, a fictional person that gave name for the design magazine ROGER that is made by students of the Köln International School of Design
• Gol D. Roger, or Gold Roger was the Pirate King in the manga/anime-series One Piece.

References

• being used as a slang meaning for penis from c.1650 to c.1870 - information from the Online Etymology Dictionary.
• Also used as vulgar slang meaning to have sexual intercourse (mainly by men). - Oxford Dictionary

See also

• Roger Dodger (phrase)

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