Rogers McVaugh (May 30, 1909 – September 24, 2009)[1] was a research professor of botany and the UNC Herbarium's curator of Mexican plants.

He specialised in the Compositae, Myrtaceae, Campanulaceae, woody Rosaceae, and the flora of Mexico, as well as botanical history and nomenclature.

[2] McVaugh was an expert in the field, especially of neotropical families and collected extensively in western Mexico particularly in the 1930s and 1940s.

[3] The Jardín Botánico Rogers McVaugh public park in San Sebastián del Oeste, Jalisco, Mexico was named in his honor in 2009.

[2] The Rogers McVaugh Graduate Student Research Grant Fund was set up within the American Society of Plant Taxonomists in 2004 to provide an annual grant in plant systematics.