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He was a keen sportsman and a highly regarded member of the high school's cricket and rugby teams. At 15, Waters was chairman of the Cambridge Youth Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (YCND), having designed its publicity poster and participated in its organisation. Waters attended Morley Memorial Junior School in Cambridge and then the Cambridgeshire High School for Boys (now Hills Road Sixth Form College) with Syd Barrett, while future Pink Floyd guitarist David Gilmour lived nearby on Mill Road and attended the Perse School. Waters's earliest memory is of the V-J Day celebrations. Following her husband's death, Mary Waters, also a teacher, moved with her two sons to Cambridge and raised them there. On 18 February 2014, Waters unveiled a monument to his father and other war casualties in Aprilia, Italy and was made an honorary citizen of Anzio. He is commemorated in Aprilia and at the Cassino War Cemetery. He was killed five months later on 18 February 1944 at Aprilia, during the Battle of Anzio, when Roger was five months old. He later changed his stance on pacifism, joined the Territorial Army and was commissioned into the 8th Battalion, Royal Fusiliers as a Second Lieutenant on 11 September 1943.

In the early years of the Second World War, Waters's father was a conscientious objector who drove an ambulance during the Blitz. His father, the son of a coal miner and Labour Party activist, was a schoolteacher, a devout Christian, and a Communist Party member. Waters was born on 6 September 1943, the younger of two boys, to Mary (née Whyte 1913–2009) and Eric Fletcher Waters (1914–1944), in Great Bookham, Surrey.

As a member of Pink Floyd, he was inducted into the US Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1996 and the UK Music Hall of Fame in 2005. In 1990, Waters staged one of the largest rock concerts in history, The Wall – Live in Berlin, with an attendance of 450,000. In 2005, he released Ça Ira, an opera translated from Étienne and Nadine Roda-Gils' libretto about the French Revolution. (1987), Amused to Death (1992), and Is This the Life We Really Want? (2017). Waters's solo work includes the studio albums The Pros and Cons of Hitch Hiking (1984), Radio K.A.O.S. Amid creative differences, Waters left in 1985 and began a legal dispute over the use of the band's name and material. By the early 1980s, they had become one of the most critically acclaimed and commercially successful groups in popular music. Pink Floyd achieved international success with the concept albums The Dark Side of the Moon (1973), Wish You Were Here (1975), Animals (1977), The Wall (1979), and The Final Cut (1983). Waters initially served solely as the bassist, but following the departure of singer-songwriter Syd Barrett in 1968, he also became their lyricist, co-lead vocalist, conceptual leader and occasional rhythm guitarist until 1983. In 1965, he co-founded the progressive rock band Pink Floyd. George Roger Waters (born 6 September 1943) is an English musician, singer-songwriter and composer.