Roydon Frederick Nurse was a New Zealand rugby league player who represented New Zealand.

Nurse played for the Ponsonby United side in the late 1930s and early 1940s before transferring to the Mount Albert Lions in the Auckland Rugby League competition and also represented Auckland Pakehā in several matches against Auckland Māori and Auckland.^{[citation needed]}

Nurse played one test match for New Zealand in 1946, becoming Kiwi number 286.^[2] The test was against the touring Great Britain Lions, and New Zealand won 13-8.^{[citation needed]}