Roger A. Bruns is an author and the former deputy director for the National Archives and Records Administration of the United States. His books have included Preacher : Billy Sunday and big-time American evangelism, Almost History, an anthology of historical American documents which were about the subsequent course of American history, as well as biographies of Billy Graham, Jesse Jackson, Martin Luther King Jr., and George Washington.

Roger Caillois was a French intellectual whose idiosyncratic work brought together literary criticism, sociology, ludology and philosophy by focusing on diverse subjects such as games and play as well as the sacred. He was also instrumental in introducing Latin American authors such as Jorge Luis Borges, Pablo Neruda and Miguel Ángel Asturias to the French public. After his death, the French Literary award Prix Roger Caillois was named after him in 1991.

Roger Chartier,, is a French historian and historiographer who is part of the Annales school. He works on the history of books, publishing and reading. He teaches at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris, the Collège de France, and the University of Pennsylvania.

Roger Crowley is a British historian and author known for his books on maritime and Mediterranean history.

Roger D. Launius is an American historian and author of Lithuanian descent, a former chief historian of NASA. He retired in 2016 as Associate Director for Collections and Curatorial Affairs for the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum in Washington, D.C. Launius is a consulting historian in air and space history. He has written many books on space flight, and also published on the history of the Latter Day Saint movement.

Roger Dachez is a professor at the Paris Diderot University and president of the Jean-Alfred Fournier Institute in Paris. He is a physician, an historian and a freemason.

Roger de Beauvoir was the pen name of French Romantic novelist and playwright Eugène Augustin Nicolas Roger.

Roger de Damas was a French Army officer and Royalist general who fought against the French Revolutionary forces in order to assist the Russian Empire and the Kingdom of Naples.

Roger de Rabutin, comte de Bussy, commonly known as Bussy-Rabutin, was a French memoirist. He was the cousin and frequent correspondent of Madame de Sévigné.

Roger D. Aycock was an American author who wrote under the pseudonym Roger Dee. He primarily wrote science fiction.