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David Rogers

Wikimedia disambiguation page

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 17, 2026
Entity authorityQ4025847
Source-derived summary

David or Dave Rogers may refer to:

Arts and entertainment

David Rogers (singer) (1936–1993), American country music singer

D.V. Rogers (born 1968), New Zealand performance installation artist

David Clayton Rogers (born 1977), American film producer, writer and actor

David Rogers (film editor) (fl. 1996–present), American television editor, director and producer

David Rogers (musician) (1935–1983), Hawaiian steel guitar player

Politics and law

David McGregor Rogers (1772–1824), Canadian farmer and political figure in Upper Canada

David Rogers (Canadian politician) (1829–1909), Canadian merchant, shipbuilder and politician in Prince Edward Island

David Dickson Rogers (1845–1915), Canadian politician

David Rogers (North Carolina politician) (born 1965), American politician in the North Carolina House of Representatives

Dave Rogers (Massachusetts politician) (fl.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “David Rogers” is wikimedia disambiguation page. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through David, Rogers and Wikimedia, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1936, 1993, 1968, 1977—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, David, Rogers and Wikimedia is the immediate research focus.
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Why this record matters

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The citation trail is more important than the brevity of the summary: it shows where individual claims can be examined in context. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jul 17, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q4025847. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1936, 1993, 1968 and 1977.

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This entry incorporates text from David Rogers” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.