David Rodney "Roger" Heath-Brown is a British mathematician working in the field of analytic number theory.

[1] He was an undergraduate and graduate student of Trinity College, Cambridge; his research supervisor was Alan Baker.

[13] He was an invited speaker at International Congress of Mathematicians in 1983 in Warsaw and in 2010 in Hyderabad on the topic of "Number Theory.

[15] In 2022 the Royal Society awarded him the Sylvester Medal "for his many important contributions to the study of prime numbers and solutions to equations in integers".

[17] In September 2007, he co-authored (along with Joseph H. Silverman) the preface to the Oxford University Sixth Edition of the classic text An Introduction to the Theory of Numbers by G.H.