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Rolph Payet, FRGS, is an Seychelles international policy expert, researcher and speaker on environment, climate and island issues, and was the first President & Vice-Chancellor of the University of Seychelles. He was Minister of Environment and Energy in the Cabinet of Seychelles from 2012 to 2014. He is currently United Nations Executive Secretary for the Basel, Rotterdam and Stockholm Convention.

Rolph Gobits is a Dutch-born, London-based photographer best known for his portrait, lifestyle, and landscape images.

Michel-Rolph Trouillot, PhD, Johns Hopkins 1985 (1949– 2012), was a Haitian American academic and anthropologist. He was Professor of Anthropology and of Social Sciences at the University of Chicago. He was best known for his books Open the Social Science (1990), Silencing the Past: Power and the Production of History (1995), and Global Transformations (2003), which explored the origins and application of social science in academia and its implications in the world. Trouillot has been one of the most influential thinkers of Afro-Caribbean diaspora, because he developed wide-ranging academic work centered on Caribbean issues. Alyssa Goldstein Sepinwall holds that "Trouillot was one of the most original and thoughtful voices in academia. His writings influenced scholars worldwide in many fields, from anthropology to history to Caribbean studies".

Rolph Barnes (1904 – 1982) was a Canadian middle-distance runner. He competed in the men's 1500 metres at the 1924 Summer Olympics.

Rolph Ludwig Edward Schwarzenberger (1936 – 1992) was a British mathematician at the University of Warwick who worked on vector bundles (where he introduced jumping lines), crystallography, and mathematics education.

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He was President of the Mathematical Association in 1983–1984.