- Will Rogers is also a newspaper columnist with Los Angeles Times Community Newspapers, and has been since 1990. He's been named 'Columnist of the Year' several times by the Greater Los Angeles Press Club, and by the California Newspaper Publishers Assoc.
- Born William Wege, his father died when he was 4 years old. His mother married into the name Rogers, and William Rogers (or Will Rogers) has been his name since 1962.
- Raised in Richfield, then Bloomington, Minnesota.
- He was elected to the Burbank city council in 2015, was named vice mayor for the 2016 - 2017 term and was named mayor in 2017 and held the position until his death in April 2018.
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