Royalty ;Kings of Scotland •
Robert the Bruce (1274–1329) ("Robert I of Scotland"), king and national hero of Scotland, legendary for his victory at the
Battle of Bannockburn, one of the most prominent and skilled warriors of his time who freed Scotland from the English rule during the
Wars of Scottish Independence •
Robert II of Scotland (Robert Stewart) (1316–1390), one of the principal commanders at the
Battle of Halidon Hill •
Robert III of Scotland (c. 1337/40–1406) ;Kings of France •
Robert I of France (c.866–923) •
Robert II of France (972–1031) ;King of Naples •
Robert, King of Naples (1276–1343) ;King of Germany •
Robert of Germany (Rupertus,
Rex Romanorum) (1352–1410) ;King of Hungary and Croatia •
Charles I Robert (1288–1342) ;King of Bulgaria •
Robert of Bulgaria,
Tsar of the
Kingdom of Bulgaria (1894–1943), one of the principal commanders of
European theatre of World War II ;Dukes of Normandy •
Robert I, Duke of Normandy (1000–1035), also known as Robert the Magnificent or Robert the Devil; father of William the Conqueror •
Robert Curthose (c.1051–1134, son of William the Conqueror, claimant to throne of Kingdom of England. ;Duke of Chartres •
Prince Robert, Duke of Chartres, Crown Prince of France (1840–1910) ;Duke of Parma •
Robert I, Duke of Parma (1848–1907) ;Count of Flanders •
Robert I, Count of Flanders (c.1035–1093) •
Robert II, Count of Flanders (c.1065–1111). ;Crown Prince of Bavaria •
Robert I, crown prince of Bavaria (1869–1955), also known as Prince Rupprecht, last heir apparent to the Bavarian throne. ;Latin Emperor •
Robert I, Latin Emperor (d. 1228), Emperor of the Latin Empire and Constantinopole •
Robert II of Taranto (died 1364), Angevin Dynasty,
King of Albania and titular Latin Emperor ;Duke of Burgundy •
Robert I, Duke of Burgundy (1011–1076) •
Robert II, Duke of Burgundy (1248–1306) ;Duke of Sicily and Prince of Benevento •
Robert Guiscard (c. 1015–1085), Norman nobleman, adventurer and explorer, leader of the
conquest of southern Italy and Sicily ;Princes of Capua •
Robert I of Capua (died 1120), ruling Prince of Capua •
Robert II of Capua (died 1156), ruling Prince of Capua •
Robert III of Capua (1153–1158), Prince of Capua ; Counts and Lords of Artois •
Robert I, Count of Artois (1216–1250), first Count of Artois •
Robert II, Count of Artois (1250–1302), one of the principal Commanders of
Franco-Flemish War,
Battle of Furnes and
Battle of Golden Spurs •
Robert III of Artois, one of the principal Commanders of
Battle of Saint-Omer •
Robert III of Artois (1287–1342), Lord of Conches-en-Ouche, of Domfront, and of Mehun-sur-Yèvre, Earl of Richmond ;Franconian Babenbergers/
Robertian Capetians •
Robert II, Count of Hesbaye (died 807), of Worms, Germany (a.k.a.
Rutpert II,
Hruodbertus II) •
Robert III, Count of Worms (800–834), Germany (a.k.a.
Rutpert III,
Hruodbertus III) •
Robert the Strong (c. 830 – 866) (a.k.a.
Rutpert IV,
Hruodbertus IV) ; Others •
Robert Fitzhamon (died 1107), Norman feudal baron of Gloucester and the Norman conqueror of Glamorgan, southern Wales, later became Lord of Glamorgan •
Robert Stewart, Duke of Albany (c. 1340–1420), a member of the
Scottish royal house,
regent to three different Scottish monarchs •
Robert, Count of Mortain (c. 1031–c. 1095), Norman nobleman and the half-brother (on his mother's side) of King
William the Conqueror Medieval figures •
Robert of Bellême, 3rd Earl of Shrewsbury, Anglo-Norman nobleman, and one of the most prominent figures in the competition for the succession to England and Normandy, member of the
House of Bellême •
Robert de Craon (died 1147), the second Grand Master of the
Knights Templar from June 1136 until his death. •
Robert de Juilly (died 1377), Grand Master of the
Knights Hospitaller from 1374 to his death •
Robert IV of Sablé (1150–1193), eleventh
Grand Master of the Knights Templar from 1191 to 1192 and Lord of Cyprus from 1191 to 1192. •
Robert Le Mennot or
The Hermit (14th century) French visionary and intermediary between King Charles VI of France and King Richard II of England and member of the Order of the Passion (now extinct) • Blessed
Robert Grissold (died 1604), English layman and martyr •
Roberto of La Florida (dates unknown), Catholic Native American martyr •
Robert Fitzgerald (died 1581), Irish Catholic layman and martyr •
Roberto de Nobili (1577–1656), Italian Jesuit missionary to Southern India •
Roberto de' Nobili (1541–1559),
Roman Catholic cardinal • Robert Naoussi (20th century) a young Cameroonian man who suffered from leprosy and died with a reputation for holiness. His cause for sainthood is underway. •
Robert de Sorbon (1201–1274), French theologian and founder of
College of Sorbonne • Saint
Robert de Turlande (d. 1067), founding abbot of the
Abbey of Casa Dei, also called
Chaise-Dieu •
Robert Francis Prevost (born 1955), American Roman Catholic priest who became Pope Leo XIV.
Presidents and prime ministers ;British Prime Ministers • Lord
Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury (1830–1903), British statesman, serving as Prime Minister three times for a total •
Robert Harley, 1st Earl of Oxford and Earl Mortimer (1661–1724),
Lord High Treasurer of the British Empire, sometimes regarded as the first Prime Minister of Great Britain •
Robert Jenkinson, 2nd Earl of Liverpool (1770–1828), British statesman and
Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1812 to 1827,
Secretary of State for War and the Colonies • Sir
Robert Peel (1788–1850), British statesman who served as
Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, father of modern
British policing, leader of
Peelite, founder of
Conservative Party of United Kingdom and the
Metropolitan Police Service • Sir
Robert Walpole (1676–1745), British statesman who served as the first
Prime Minister of Great Britain ;Australian Prime Ministers •
Robert "Bob" Hawke (1929–2019), Australian politician who served as Prime Minister of
Australia and Leader of the Labor Party • Sir
Robert Menzies (1894–1978), Australian politician who twice served as
Prime Minister of Australia, in office from 1939 to 1941 and again from 1949 to 1966 ;Presidents and Prime Ministers from Asia / Oceania •
Robert Kocharyan (born 1954), Armenian politician who served as the first president of
Nagorno-Karabakh Republic and the second
president of
Armenia between 1998 and 2008 •
Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton (1831–1891), English statesman,
Conservative politician, and poet, who served as
Viceroy of India (Governor-General) between 1876 and 1880 and
British Ambassador to France from 1887 to 1891 • Sir
Robert Stout (1844–1930), New Zealand politician who served as 13th
Prime Minister of New Zealand on two occasions in the 19th century, and later
Chief Justice of New Zealand ;Presidents and Prime Ministers from Europe •
Robert Abela (born 1977), Maltese lawyer and politician, currently serving as the 14th prime minister of
Malta •
Robert Fico (born 1964), Slovak politician who served as
Prime Minister of Slovakia from 2012 to 2018 •
Robert Haab (1865–1939), Swiss politician and
President of Switzerland •
Robert Schuman (1886–1963), Luxembourg-born French statesman,
Christian Democrat, activist,
Prime Minister of France, a reformist Minister of Finance and a Foreign Minister, one of the founders of the
European Union, the
Council of Europe and
NATO; •
Robert Themptander (1844–1897), Swedish politician and public official who served as
Prime Minister of Sweden from 1884 to 1888 ;Presidents and Prime Ministers from the Americas • Sir
Robert Borden (1854–1937), Canadian lawyer and politician who served as the eighth
prime minister of Canada •
Roberto Micheletti (born 1943), Honduran politician who served as the president of
Honduras following the
2009 Honduran coup d'état •
Roberto Marcelino Ortiz (1886–1942), 19th president of
Argentina during the
Infamous Decade •
Roberto Suazo Córdova (1927–2018), 29th President of
Honduras •
Roberto Sánchez Vilella (1913–1997),
Governor of Puerto Rico,
Head of State and
Head of Government of Puerto Rico
Dictators • Baron
Robert Clive (1725–1774),
British army officer and
privateer who established the military and political supremacy of the
East India Company in
Bengal, served as the
Commander-in-Chief of British India •
Robert Mugabe (1924–2019), former
Zimbabwean politician and revolutionary, Prime Minister of Zimbabwe from 1980 to 1987 and President (Dictator) from 1987 to 2017
Secretaries of Defense •
Robert Gates (born 1943), American statesman, scholar, intelligence analyst, and university president who served as the director of
Central Intelligence Agency (CIA),
Director of Central Intelligence and 22nd
United States Secretary of Defense from 2006 to 2011 •
Robert A. Lovett (1895–1986), fourth
United States Secretary of Defense •
Robert McNamara (1916–2009), American business executive and the eighth
United States Secretary of Defense Wartime figures and military leaders ;American military •
Robert N. Adams (1835–1914), American Brevet Brigadier General during the
American Civil War •
Robert S. Beightler (1892–1978), American military officer, major General, military governor of Okinawa, War Department General Staff, commander of the
37th Infantry Division •
Robert C. Bradshaw (1840–1927), American Brevet Brigadier General during the
American Civil War •
Robert C. Buchanan (1811–1878), American military officer, one of the principal commanders of
Black Hawk War and
Rogue River Wars •
Robert Lee Bullard (1861–1947), senior officer in the United States Army during World War I •
Robert L. Eichelberger (1886–1961),
general officer in the
United States Army who commanded the
Eighth United States Army in the
Southwest Pacific Area during World War II •
Robert L. Ghormley (1883–1958), admiral in the
United States Navy, serving as Commander of
South Pacific Area during World War II •
Robert H. Harrison (1745-1790), American lieutenant colonel of the
Continental Army •
Robert Hoke (1837–1912), Confederate major general during the American Civil War •
Robert B. Johnston (1937–2023), retired United States Marine Corps lieutenant general whose last duty assignment was as Commander, Marine Forces Atlantic Marine Forces Europe and
II Marine Expeditionary Force •
Robert E. Lee (1807–1870), American and
Confederate general, supreme commander of the
Confederate States Army during
American Civil War •
Robert A. Lewis (1917–1983),
United States Army Air Forces officer serving in the
Pacific Theatre during World War II, one of the
pilots of the
Enola G •
Robert McGowan Littlejohn (1890–1982), major general in the United States Army, leader of
War Assets Administration •
Robert McDade (1922–2009), United States Army colonel, •
Robert Mellard (1919–1976), United States Army sergeant who fought at the
Battle of Monte Cassino •
Robert C. Murphy (1827–1888), American colonel during the
American Civil War •
Robert "Robin" Olds Jr. (1922–2007), American fighter pilot and general officer in the U.S. Air Force •
Robert Olds Sr. (1896–1943), general officer in the US Army Air Forces •
Robert Patterson (1792–1881), Irish-born United States major general during the
American Civil War •
Robert W. Porter Jr. (1908–2000),
United States Army four-star general who served as Commander in Chief,
United States Southern Command from 1965 to 1969 •
Robert Gould Shaw (1837–1863), American officer in the
Union Army during the
American Civil War, commander of the first all-
African American regiment •
Robert Sink (1905–1965), senior United States Army officer who fought during World War II, the Korean War, and early parts of the Vietnam War •
Robert G. Smith (colonel) (1854-1923), American colonel of the Spanish–American War •
Robert F. Stockton (1795–1866), United States Navy commodore,
United States Senator from
New Jersey,
Military Governor of California •
Robert Alfred Theobald (1884–1957), United States Navy officer who served in World War I and World War II, achiever of the rank of
rear admiral, the air forces commander during
Attack on Pearl Harbor •
Robert F. Travis (1904–1950),
United States Army Air Forces general during World War II •
Robert Toombs (1810–1885), American lawyer, planter, army general, and politician from Georgia who became one of the organizers of the
Confederacy and served as its first
Secretary of State •
Robert Treat (1624–1710), American colonial leader, militia officer and governor of the
Connecticut Colony between 1683 and 1698 and the founder of
Newark, New Jersey •
Robert C. Tyler (1832–1865), Confederate brigadier general during the American Civil War •
Robert O. Tyler (1831–1874), American soldier who served as a general in the
Union Army during the American Civil War ;British / Scottish military • Sir
Robert Abercromby (1740–1827), British general •
Robert Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powell (1857–1941), British Army officer, writer, founder and first Chief Scout of the world-wide
Boy Scout Movement •
Robert Blake (1598–1657), British Royal Navy officer and one of the most important military commanders of the
Commonwealth of England •
Robert Brooke-Popham (1878–1953), senior commander in the
Royal Air Force and leader of
Operation Matador (1941) •
Robert Brownrigg (1758–1833), British statesman, general and soldier who brought the last part of Sri Lanka under British rule,
Governors of British Ceylon,
General Officer Commanding, Ceylon • Sir
Robert Calder (1745–1818), British naval officer •
Robert Henry Dick (1787–1846), Scottish soldier •
Robert Rollo Gillespie (1766–1814), officer in the British Army •
Robert Haining (1882–1959), British Army officer •
Robert Peverell Hichens (1909–1943), British Lieutenant Commander and the most highly decorated officer of the
Royal Navy Volunteer Reserve (RNVR) •
Robert Kekewich (1854–1914), British Army officer • Sir
Robert Mansell (1573–1656), English Royal Navy officer and a member of parliament (MP), mostly for Welsh constituencies •
Robert Monckton (1726–1782),
officer of the
British Army and also a colonial
administrator in
British North America •
Robert Monro (died 1680), Scottish general during
Thirty Years' War • Sir
Robert Moray (1608/09–1673), Scottish soldier, statesman, diplomat, judge, spy and natural philosopher, one of the founders of
Royal Society and
Freemasonry •
Robert Munro, 18th Baron of Foulis (died 1633), known as the Black Baron, Scottish soldier and military warlord •
Robert Orme (c. 1725–1781/1790), British soldier and military leader •
Sir Robert Pigot, 2nd Baronet (1720–1796), British Army officer during the American Revolutionary War •
Robert Rogers (1731–1795),
American colonial frontiersman and officer in the British Army, commander of
Rogers' Rangers •
Robert Ross (1766–1814), officer in the British Army, born in Ireland •
Robert Sale (1782–1845), British army officer • Sir
Robert Stopford (1768–1847), distinguished officer in the Royal Navy •
Robert Stanford Tuck (1916–1987), British
fighter pilot,
flying ace, and
test pilot, member of the
Royal Air Force, war hero of World War II •
Robert Sturges (1891–1970), British Royal marine general •
Robert "Roy" Urquhart (1901–1988), British Army officer •
Robert Whittaker (1894–1967),
City of London banker and a senior officer in Britain's part-time
Territorial Army (TA), chief of staff at
Anti-Aircraft Command during World War II ;Australian military •
Robert A. Little (1895–1918),
World War I fighter pilot and the most successful Australian
flying ace ;German / Austrian military •
Robert von Eggenberg (1546–1611), Austrian colonel-general •
Robert Gysae (1911–1989), a German U-boat commander in the Kriegsmarine during World War II •
Robert Ritter von Greim (1892–1945),
German Field Marshal and pilot •
Robert Kosch (1856–1942), Prussian general in the Imperial German army •
Robert Zapp (1904–1964), German U-boat commander in World War II ;Irish military •
Robert Emmet (1778–1803), Irish Republican, orator and rebel leader ; Cuban military •
Roberto Rodriguez Fernandez (1935–1958), Cuban revolutionary ;Italian military •
Roberto Farinacci (1892–1945), leading Italian Fascist politician and important member of the
Grand Council of Fascism, Secretary of
National Fascist Party and one of the leading perpetrators of the
Holocaust in Italy ;French military •
Robert Nivelle (1856–1924), French artillery officer who led the French forces during
World War I as commander in-chief of French army ;Russian military •
Robert Bruce (1668–1720), first chief commander of Saint Petersburg •
Robert Segercrantz (1808—1879), Russian general in the Russian Imperial army •
Robert von Ungern-Sternberg (1886–1921), also known as The Mad Baron or The Bloody White Baron, Austrian-born, Russian Empire's Baltic German
anti-Bolshevik lieutenant general in the
Russian Civil War •
Robert Viren (1857–1917), general, admiral and career naval officer in the
Imperial Russian Navy in
Russian Empire Other military •
Robert B. Abrams (born 1960), four-star
general in the
United States Army •
Robert Bartels (1911–1943), German U-boat commander in World War II •
Robert Grierson Combe (1880–1917), Scottish-Canadian military officer •
Robert E. Cushman Jr. (1914–1985),
United States Marine Corps general who served as the 25th
Commandant of the Marine Corps •
Robert Duff (c. 1721–1787), British Royal Navy officer •
Robert Kajuga (1960–2007), national president and leader of the
MRND-affiliated extremist militia, the
Interahamwe •
Robert James Miller (1983–2008),
United States Army Special Forces soldier •
Robert Miller Montague (1899–1958),
lieutenant general in the
United States Army •
Robert Neller (born 1953), retired
United States Marine Corps four-star
general who served as the 37th
Commandant of the Marine Corps •
Robert H. Reed (1929–2017),
General in the
United States Air Force and the former chief of staff of the
Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe •
Robert Rheault (1925–2013), American colonel in the
U.S. Army Special Forces •
Robert Roddam (1719–1808), British Royal Navy officer •
Robert M. Shoemaker (1924–2017), United States Army general and former commander of the
United States Army Forces Command, inductee into the Aviation Hall of Fame
Nazis •
Robert Grawitz (1899–1945),
Nazi German physician and an
SS functionary, chief physician of the SS, head of the
German Red Cross •
Robert Ley (1890–1945), DAF
Führer of Nazi Germany (head of the
German Labour Front), high-ranking member of the SS, labour and economical leader of
Nazi Germany, founder of
Volkswagen, creator of
NSDAP School system •
Robert Mulka (1895–1969), German Nazi
SS-Hauptsturmführer and later
SS-Obersturmführer, commander of
Auschwitz concentration camp •
Robert Ritter (1901–1951),
Nazi German "
racial scientist" doctor of psychology and medicine, with a background in child psychiatry and the biology of criminality •
Robert Heinrich Wagner (1895–1946),
Gauleiter of
Gau Baden,
Gauleiter of
Alsace and head of the civil government of Alsace during the
Nazi German occupation of France during
World War II Nuclear physicists •
Robert Oppenheimer (1904–1967), American
theoretical physicist, professor of
physics at the
University of California, developer and inventor of the
atomic bomb •
Robert Serber (1909–1997), American physicist who participated in the
Manhattan Project Explorers •
Robert Ballard (born 1942), retired United States Navy officer and a professor of oceanography at the University of Rhode Island •
Robert Bartlett (1875–1946), Newfoundland-born American Arctic explorer of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, accompanied United States Navy Commander
Robert Peary on his attempts to reach the North Pole •
Robert O'Hara Burke (1821–1861), Irish soldier and police officer who explored Australia, leader of the first
expedition to cross Australia from south to north •
Robert Dudley (1574–1649), English explorer and cartographer • Sir
Robert McClure (1807–1873), Irish explorer of the
Arctic who in 1854 traversed the
Northwest Passage by boat and sledge and was the first to circumnavigate the Americas •
Robert Peary (1856–1920), American explorer and United States Navy officer who made several expeditions to the Arctic, reached the geographic
North Pole with his expedition on April 6, 1909, believed to be the first man to have ever reached the North Pole •
Robert Falcon Scott (1868–1912), British Royal Navy officer and explorer who led two expeditions to the Antarctic regions •
Robert Swan (born 1956), the first person to walk to both
Poles Intelligence officers •
Robert P. Ashley Jr. (fl. 1980s–2020s), retired lieutenant general in the United States Army who served as the Director of the
Defense Intelligence Agency from 2017 to 2020 •
Robert Hanssen (1944–2023), FBI secret agent who spied for Soviet and Russian intelligence services against the United States from 1979 to 2001 •
Robert Maheu, American businessman and lawyer, known primarily for his work with the FBI and CIA, and
Howard Hughes •
Robert Mueller (1944–2026), American lawyer, Director of the FBI from 2001 to 2013
Movie industry •
Robert Altman (1925–2006), American film director, screenwriter, and producer •
Robert "Robbie" Amell (born 1988), Canadian-American actor and producer •
Robert "Rob" Benedict (born 1970), American actor and writer •
Robert Benton (1932–2025), American film director and screenwriter •
Robert "Bob" Bergen (born 1964), American voice actor •
Robert Carlyle (born 1961), Scottish actor •
Robert Carradine (1954–2026), American actor •
Robert "Bob" Chapek (born 1960), American media executive and businessman, chairman of Disney Parks, Experiences and Products, the current CEO of Walt Disney Company •
Robert "Robbie" Coltrane (1950–2022), Scottish actor and author •
Robert Cummings (1910–1990), American actor •
Robert Davi (born 1954), American actor •
Robert De Niro (born 1943), American actor, director and producer • Robert FitzGerald Diggs (born 1969), American rapper, actor, filmmaker, and record producer known as
RZA •
Robert Downey Sr. (1936–2021), American actor, director and producer •
Robert Downey Jr. (born 1965), American actor •
Roberto Draghetti (1960–2020), Italian actor and voice actor •
Robert Duvall (1931–2026), American actor •
Robert Eggers (born 1983), American film director, screenwriter and production designer •
Robert Englund (born 1947), American actor, voice actor, singer and film director •
Robert Fuller (fl. 1950s-2000s), American horse rancher and actor •
Robert Goulet (1933–2007), French-Canadian singer and actor •
Robert Guillaume (1927–2017), American actor and singer •
Robert Gustafsson (born 1964), Swedish comedian and actor •
Robert Gwisdek (born 1984), German actor and musician •
Robert Hardy (1925–2017), British actor •
Robert Hays (born 1947), American actor •
Robert Hegyes (1951–2012), American actor •
Robert "Bob" Iger (born 1951), American media executive, film producer, author and businessman, chairman and chief executive officer of The Walt Disney Company •
Robert Iler (born 1985), American actor •
Robert Irwin (born 2003), Australian television personality and wildlife photographer •
Robert "Rob" Kardashian (born 1987), American television personality •
Robert Knepper (born 1959), American actor •
Robert Lansing (1928–1994), American stage, film and television actor •
Robert "Rob" Letterman (born 1970), American film director and screenwriter •
Robert "Rob" Lowe (born 1964), American actor, producer and director •
Robert "Rob" Marshall (born 1960), American film and theater director, producer and choreographer •
Robert "Rob" McElhenney (born 1977), American actor, producer and screenwriter •
Robert McKimson (1910–1977), American animator and illustrator, best known for his work on creating the Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies series of cartoons •
Robert Duncan McNeill (born 1964), American director, producer, and actor •
Robert "Rob" Minkoff (born 1962), American film and animation director •
Robert Mitchum (1917–1997), American film actor, director, author, poet, composer and singer •
Robert Montgomery (1904–1981), American actor, director and producer •
Robert Mulligan (1925–2008), American film director •
Robert Patrick (born 1958), American actor and voice actor •
Robert Pattinson (born 1986), British actor •
Robert "Bob" Peck (1945–1999), English stage, television and film actor •
Robert Redford (1936–2025), American actor, director and producer •
Robert Rodriguez (born 1968), American film director, screenwriter, producer, musician, filmmaker and visual effects supervisor, best known for his film
Alita: Battle Angel •
Robert Ryan (1909–1973), American actor •
Robert Schwentke (born 1968), German film director •
Robert Sheehan (born 1988), Irish actor •
Robert Singer (fl. 1970s–2020s), American film director and producer •
Robert Smigel (born 1960), American actor, voice actor, comedian, humorist, writer, director, producer and puppeteer •
Robert A. Stemmle (1903–1974), German screenwriter and film director •
Robert Stromberg (born 1965), American special effects artist, designer and film director •
Robert Taylor (1911–1969) American actor, one of the most famous Hollywood actors of his time •
Robert Vaughn (1932–2016), American actor •
Robert Wagner (born 1930), American actor •
Robert Walker (1918–1951), American actor •
Robert B. Weide (born 1959), American screenwriter, producer and director •
Robert Wiene (1873–1938), film director of the silent era of German cinema •
Robert Wise (1914–2005), American film director •
Robert Young (1907–1998), American actor •
Robert Zemeckis (born 1952), Lithuanian-Italian born American film director, screenwriter and producer
Musicians ;Record producers and DJs • Robert Abisi (born 1989), member of the electronic music and DJ duo
Lost Kings •
Robert Babicz (born 1973), Polish born German electronic music producer, DJ and mastering engineer • Robert van de Corput (born 1988), real name of the award-winning Dutch DJ, twice worlds No.1 DJ, composer and music producer
Hardwell •
Robert DeLong (born 1986), American electronic musician, record producer, composer and performer • Robert Hughes (fl. 2010s–2020s), real name of the Canadian trap music DJ and record producer known as
Vincent and Tiger Drool •
Robert Miles (1969–2017), Swiss-born Italian DJ and record producer, inventor of the dream trance genre; • Robert Toomey (1955–2022), real name of the American DJ, keyboardist and mixologist
Brother Cleve • Robert "Bob" Rifo (born 1977), founder of the Italian electronic music project
The Bloody Beetroots •
Robert "Rob" Swire (born 1982), Australian electronic music producer and DJ ;Singers •
Roberto Carlos (born 1941), Brazilian singer-songwriter, also known as King of Latin Music or simply The King •
Robert "Bob" Chilcott (born 1955), British choral composer, conductor, and singer •
Robert "Bob" Crosby (1913–1993), American jazz singer and bandleader, best known for his group the Bob-Cats •
Robert "Bobby" Darin (1936–1973), American singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, impressionist, and actor •
Robert Francis (born 1987), American multi-instrumentalist, singer, songwriter •
Robert Kelly (born 1967), American singer, songwriter, record producer, and former semi-professional basketball player who helped redefine R&B and hip hop, earning the nicknames "King of R&B" and "King of Pop-Soul" •
Robert Johnson (1911–1938), American blues singer-songwriter and musician •
Robert "Bob" Marley (1945–1981), Jamaican singer-songwriter •
Robert "Bobby" McFerrin (born 1950), American musician, singer, conductor, arranger and record producer •
Roberto "Bert" Nievera (1936–2018), Filipino-American singer •
Robert Palmer (1949–2003), English composer, songwriter, singer and record producer; • Robert Ritchie (born 1971), American singer-songwriter, rapper, musician, record producer, and actor known as
Kid Rock •
Robert "Bob" Seger (born 1945), American singer-songwriter and guitarist •
Robert Tepper (born 1950), American songwriter, composer, recording artist and singer •
Robert "Bobby" Vee (1943–2016), American singer, songwriter, musician and teen idol •
Robert "Robbie" Williams (born 1974), British singer and songwriter •
Robert "Rob" Zombie (born 1965), American musician, singer, songwriter, programmer, voice actor, filmmaker and founding member of the heavy metal band
White Zombie • Robert Allen Zimmerman (born 1941), real name of American singer-songwriter
Bob Dylan ;Band members •
Robert "Rob" Bourdon (born 1979), American musician, drummer and founding member of the rock band
Linkin Park •
Robert "Rob" Cantor (born 1983), American singer-songwriter and creator of multiple
viral videos. He is mostly known as a vocalist, guitarist, and co-writer for the indie rock band
Tally Hall •
Robert Fripp (born 1946), English musician, songwriter, and record producer, best known as the guitarist, founder and longest-lasting member of the band
King Crimson •
Robert "Rob" Halford (born 1951), English singer and songwriter, lead vocalist of the Grammy Award-winning heavy metal band
Judas Priest, also a member of
Fight,
Two,
Halford,
Great White and
Black Sabbath •
Robert Hunter (1941–2019), American poet, principle lyricist for the rock band
Grateful Dead •
Robert "Rob" Hyman (born 1950), American singer, songwriter, keyboard and accordion player, producer, arranger, recording studio owner and a founding member of the rock band
The Hooters •
Robert Janson (born 1965), Polish composer, singer, guitarist, leader and co-founder of the band
Varius Manx •
Robert Jon, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and founder of the band
Robert Jon & the Wreck •
Robert "Robby" Krieger (born 1946), American guitarist and singer-songwriter best known as the guitarist of the rock band
The Doors, inducted into the
Rock and Roll Hall of Fame •
Robert Del Naja (born 1965), British artist, musician, singer and songwriter, founding member of the band
Massive Attack •
Robert Plant (born 1948), English singer, songwriter, and musician, lead singer and lyricist of the English rock band
Led Zeppelin •
Robert Smith (born 1959), lead singer of
The Cure •
Robert Trujillo (born 1964), American singer and songwriter, one of the members of American heavy metal band
Metallica •
Robert "Bob" Weir (1947–2026), American musician and songwriter, one of the founders of the rock band
Grateful Dead, also a member of bands
The Other Ones,
The Dead,
Kingfish,
Bobby and the Midnites,
RatDog,
Furthur and
Dead & Company ;Rappers • Robert Ginyard (born 1967), real name of American hip hop artist
Rob Base Robert Rihmeek Williams (born 1987), American rapper, singer and activist known as
Meek Mill • Robert Thomas (born 1999), American rapper known as
Rob49 • Robert van Winkle (born 1967), real name of American rapper, actor, and television host
Vanilla Ice ;Composers •
Robert Kajanus (1856–1933), Finnish composer, conductor and teacher, founder of the Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra •
Robert Schumann (1810–1856), German composer and music critic, one of the greatest composers of romantic era •
Robert Volkmann (1815–1883), German composer •
Robert "Bob" Wiseman (born 1962), Canadian film composer, songwriter and music teacher ;Instrumentalists •
Robert "Rob" Barrett (born 1969), guitarist for death metal band
Cannibal Corpse •
Robert "Bobby" Hackett (1915–1976), American jazz musician •
Robert "Bob" Kerr (born 1940), comic musician who plays trumpet and cornet •
Robert Mirabal (born 1966), Native American musician and flute player •
Robert "Rob" Scallon (born 1990), American YouTuber, musician and multi-instrumentalist
Scientists •
Robert Arno, engineer •
Robert Balch (born 1945), American sociologist •
Robert Anthony Bonomo, American physician and academic •
Robert Boyle (1627–1691), British natural philosopher, chemist, physicist, and inventor, first modern chemist, and one of the founders of
modern chemistry •
Robert Bunsen (1811–1899), German chemist who discovered caesium in 1860 and rubidium in 1861, pioneer of photochemistry and organoarsenic chemistry and developer of the
Bunsen burner •
Robert F. Christy (1916–2012), Canadian-American theoretical physicist, astrophysicist, one of the last surviving people to have worked on the Manhattan Project during World War II •
Robert Dorsey Coale (1857–1915), American chemist and colonel, professor and dean at the University of Maryland, Baltimore •
Robert Colebunders (born 1949/1950), Belgian clinician and researcher •
Robert Darwin (1766–1848), English medical doctor, father of the naturalist Charles Robert Darwin •
Robert Esnault-Pelterie (1881–1957), French aircraft designer and spaceflight theorist, developer of ballistic missiles, father of modern rocketry •
Robert Fulton (1765–1815), American engineer and inventor who is widely credited with developing a commercially successful steamboat known as North River Steamboat •
Robert H. Goddard (1882–1945), American engineer, professor, physicist, and inventor, credited with creating and building the world's first liquid-fueled rocket, father of modern rocketry •
Robert C. Green (fl. 1970s–2020s), American medical geneticist, physician, and public health researcher •
Robert J. Van de Graaff (1901–1967), engineer and physicist, inventor of high-voltage
Van de Graaff generators •
Robert Gardiner Hill (1811–1878), British surgeon specialising in the treatment of lunacy •
Robert Hooke (1635–1703), English natural philosopher, architect and polymath, best known for discovering and naming the cell in 1665 •
Sir Robert Jones, 1st Baronet (1857–1933), Welsh orthopaedic surgeon who helped to establish the modern specialty of orthopaedic surgery in Britain, early proponent of the use of radiography in orthopaedics, and described the eponymous
Jones fracture •
Robert Koch (1843–1910), German physician and microbiologist, founder of modern bacteriology, received the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1905 for his research on Tuberculosis •
Robert Liston (1794–1847), Scottish surgeon •
Robert F. Maronde (1920–2008), professor at
University of Southern California Medical School •
Robert Andrews Millikan (1868–1953), American experimental physicist honored with the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1923 for the measurement of the elementary electric charge and for his work on the photoelectric effect •
Robert Mitchell (geologist) (fl. 1980s–2020s), Distinguished Professor at Western Washington University • Sir
Robert Robinson (1886–1975), Nobel Prize and Medal of Freedom winning British organic chemist •
Robert Allen Rolfe (1855–1921), English botanist specialising in the study of orchids •
Robert Shapiro (1935–2011), professor emeritus of chemistry at New York University, best known for his work on the origin of life •
Robert I. Tilling (born 1935), Geologist known for research in Hawaii •
Robert Winston, Baron Winston (born 1940), British professor, medical doctor, scientist •
Robert Crooke Wood (1799–1869), American physicist and neurologist during the American Civil War •
Robert W. Wood (1868–1955), American physicist and inventor who is often cited as being a pivotal contributor to the field of optics and a pioneer of infrared photography and ultraviolet photography •
Robert J. White (1926–2010), American neurosurgeon best known for his head transplants on living monkeys
Prison officials • Robert McKenty (fl. 1900s–1920s), warden of
Eastern State Penitentiary •
Robert J. Kirby (1889–1944), 45th commandant of
Sing Sing prison
Criminals •
Robert J. Anderson (1966–2006), American murderer •
Robert Bales (born 1973), former United States army soldier who committed the
Kandahar massacre •
Robert John Bardo (born 1970), American assassin of
Rebecca Schaeffer •
Robert Biehler (1934–1993), American serial killer •
Robert Berdella, American serial killer, known as The Kansas City Butcher and The Collector •
Robert H. Birch, (c. 1827 – c. 1866), American criminal •
Robert Black (1947–2016), Scottish serial killer •
Robert Eugene Brashers (1958–1999), American serial killer and rapist •
Robert Charles Browne (born 1952), American murderer •
Robert Anthony Buell (1940–2002), American serial killer •
Robert Francis Burns (1840–1883), Irish Australian murderer and probable serial killer •
Robert Edward Chambliss (1904–1985), white supremacist terrorist •
Robert Glen Coe (1956–2000), American murderer •
Robert Wayne Danielson (1946–1995), American serial killer •
Robert Durst (1943–2022), American convicted murderer •
Robert Mark Edwards (born 1961), American murderer •
Robert William Fisher (born 1961), American fugitive •
Robert Newton Ford, 19th century American outlaw •
Robert Garrow (1936–1978), American spree killer •
Robert Hansen (1939–2014), American serial killer known as "The Butcher Baker" •
Robert Wayne Harris (1972–2012), American mass murderer and serial killer • Robert Hawkins (born c. 1988), mass murderer who perpetrated the
Westroads Mall shooting •
Robert Dale Henderson (1945–1993), American spree killer •
Robert Hohenberger (1943–1978), American criminal, kidnapper and serial rapist •
Robert Wesley Knighton (1941–2003), American serial killer •
Robert Seldon Lady (born 1954), United States agent convicted of kidnapping in Italy •
Robert Liberty (1947–1971), American serial killer • Robert A. Long (born 1999), American spree killer who perpetrated the
2021 Atlanta spa shootings •
Robert "Bobby" Long (1953–2019), American serial killer and rapist •
Robert Jay Mathews (1953–1984), American neo-Nazi •
Robert Maudsley (born 1953), English serial killer •
Robert Napper (born 1966), British serial killer •
Robert Palin (c.1835–1861), convict transported to Western Australia •
Robert Perrino (1938–1992), Bonanno crime family associate and murder victim •
Robert Pickton (1949–2024), Canadian serial killer •
Robert Ben Rhoades (born 1945), American serial killer known as "The Truck Stop Killer" •
Robert Dale Rowell (1955–2005), American murderer •
Robert Lloyd Schellenberg (born 1982), Canadian drug contrabandist •
Robert M. Shelton (1929–2003), leader of United Klans of America, a Ku Klux Klan group • Robert Steinhäuser (1983–2002), German mass murderer and perpetrator of the
Erfurt school massacre •
Robert Stroud (1890–1963), a convicted murderer, American federal prisoner and author known as the "Birdman of Alcatraz" who has been cited as one of the most notorious criminals in the United States •
Robert Tilton (born 1946), American televangelist and fraudster •
Robert Trimbole (1931–1987), Australian businessman, drug baron and organized crime boss •
Robert Lee Yates (born 1952), American serial killer from Spokane, Washington •
Robert Zarinsky (1940–2008), American murderer
Judges •
Robert C. Brickell (1824–1900), associate justice and chief justice of the Supreme Court of Alabama •
Robert J. Cindrich (born 1943), American judge, former
United States district judge of the
United States District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania •
Robert H. Jackson (1892–1954), American attorney and judge who served as an
Associate Justice of the
United States Supreme Court, previously served as
United States Solicitor General, and
United States Attorney General, the Chief United States Prosecutor at the
Nuremberg Trials •
Robert Mangion, Maltese judge •
Robert Morgenthau (1919–2019), American lawyer,
District Attorney for
New York County and
United States Attorney for the
Southern District of New York •
Robert Price (1653–1733), British judge and politician •
Robert T. Price (1903–1982), justice of the Kansas Supreme Court •
Robert Rajanayagam Selvadurai (1894–1973), Sri Lankan Tamil lawyer, police magistrate, and civil servant
Political figures •
Robert Antropov (born 1965), Estonian politician •
Robert Buckland (born 1968), Welsh Conservative Party politician and barrister who served as
Solicitor General for England and Wales and
Minister of State for Prisons, currently serving as
Secretary of State for Justice and
Lord Chancellor •
Robert J. Bulkley (1880–1965), United States Democratic Party Politician from Ohio; •
Robert Baird (1798–1863), American clergyman and author •
Robert "Bob" Brogoitti (1920-2009), member of the Oregon House of Representatives •
Robert Byrd (1917–2010), American lawyer and politician who served as a United States Senator from West Virginia for over 51 years, from 1959 until his death in 2010 •
Robert Chadwick (1879–1939), Pennsylvania State Representative •
Robert J. Clendening (1914–1982), Pennsylvania State Representative •
Robert Crosser (1874–1957), U.S. Representative from Ohio, the longest serving member of the United States House of Representatives from the state of Ohio •
Robert "Bob" Dole (1923–2021), American politician and attorney who represented Kansas in the United States Senate from 1969 to 1996 •
Robert Budd Dwyer (1939–1987), the 70th State Treasurer of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, best remembered for his public suicide on live TV; •
Robert Eikhe (1890—1940), Latvian
Bolshevik, provincial head of the
Communist Party of the Soviet Union in
Siberia •
Robert M. La Follette Jr. (1895–1953), U.S. senator from Wisconsin from 1925 to 1947 •
Robert H. Foerderer (1860–1903), U.S. Congressman from Pennsylvania from 1901 to 1903 •
Robert J. Gamble (1851–1924), Representative and Senator from
South Dakota •
Robert Gichimu Githinji (fl. 1990s–2020s), Kenyan MP •
Robert Goguen (born 1957), Canadian politician •
Robert A. Green (1892–1973), U.S Representative from Florida •
Arthur Robert Guinness (1846–1913), Zealand politician and Speaker of the House of Representatives •
Robert Gunawardena (1904–1971), founder of the Trotskyist
Lanka Sama Samaja Party, diplomat •
Robert Habeck (born 1969), German politician and writer,
Vice Chancellor of Germany,
Federal Minister for Economic Affairs and Climate Action •
Robert Goodloe Harper (1765–1825), a Federalist, member of the United States Senate from Maryland, serving from January 1816 until December of the same year •
Robert Edward Jayatilaka (born 1911, fl. 1950s/60s), Sri Lankan Sinhala politician •
Robert F. Kennedy (1925–1968), American politician and lawyer who served as the 64th
United States Attorney General, United States
Senator for New York, brother of the U.S. president
John F. Kennedy •
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. (born 1954), American politician serving as the 26th
United States Secretary of Health and Human Services. •
Sir Robert Laurie, 5th Baronet (c. 1738–1804), Scottish soldier and politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1774 to 1804 •
Robert L. Henry (1864–1931), Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives from Texas from 1897 to 1917 •
Robert Hertzberg (born 1954), American politician serving as Majority Leader in the
California State Senate •
Robert Laimer (born 1966), Austrian politician •
Robert E. Leachman (1806–1892), American lawyer, politician, and judge •
Robert Lowe (1811–1892), British statesman and pivotal figure who shaped British politics in the latter half of the 19th century •
Robert James Manion, Canadian politician best known for leading the
Conservative Party of Canada from 1938 until 1940 •
Robert Maxwell (1923–1991), Czechoslovak-born British media proprietor and member of parliament •
Robert "Bob" Moses (1935–2021), American educator and civil rights activist •
Robert "Beto" O'Rourke (born 1972), American politician •
Robert Schmidt (1864–1943),
Reich Minister of Food and Agriculture of Germany •
Robert Sesselmann (born 1973), German politician •
Robert Sobukwe (1924–1978), prominent South African political dissident and teacher who founded and became the first president of the
Pan Africanist Congress •
Robert Roosevelt (1829–1906), a sportsman, author and politician who served as a
United States representative from New York and as
Minister to the Hague brother of the president of America
Theodore Roosevelt; •
Robert K. Steel (born 1951), American businessman, financier and government official •
Robert A. Taft (1889–1953), American conservative politician, lawyer, and scion of the
Taft family •
Robert Toupin (born 1949), Canadian politician •
Robert L. "Bob" Turner (born 1941), American businessman and politician •
Roberto Mangabeira Unger (born 1947), Brazilian philosopher and politician •
Robert F. Williams (1925–1996), American civil rights leader and author best known for serving as president of the
Monroe, North Carolina chapter of the
NAACP Secretaries of War •
Robert Todd Lincoln (1843–1926), American politician, lawyer, and businessman, the first son of
Abraham Lincoln,
United States Secretary of War and
United States Minister to the United Kingdom •
Robert P. Patterson (1891–1952),
United States Secretary of War Secretaries of State • Lord
Robert Crewe-Milnes, 1st Marquess of Crewe (1858–1945),
Secretary of State for India during
World War I and
Lord Lieutenant of Ireland •
Robert M. T. Hunter (1809–1887),
Virginia lawyer, politician and plantation owner,
U.S. Representative (1837–1843, 1845–1847),
Speaker of the House (1839–1841), and
U.S. Senator (1847–1861), during the
American Civil War, the
Confederate States Secretary of State (1861–1862) and then a
Confederate Senator (1862–1865) •
Robert Smith (1757–1842), second
United States Secretary of the Navy from 1801 to 1809 and the sixth
United States Secretary of State from 1809 to 1811 •
Sir Robert Southwell (1635–1702), Irish diplomat,
Secretary of State for Ireland and
President of the Royal Society from 1690
Governors •
Robert J. Bentley (born 1943), American politician and physician who served as the 53rd Governor of
Alabama from 2011 until 2017; •
Robert Brooke (c. 1751–1800), soldier and Virginia political figure who served as the
tenth Governor of Virginia •
Robert Brooke (1744–1811), lieutenant-colonel in the army of
Bengal and
governor of the island of
St Helena from 1788 to 1800 •
Robert Carter I (c. 1664–1732), American colonist,
Colonial Governor of Virginia and Speaker of the Virginia House of Burgesses; •
Robert S. Green (1831–1895), American Democratic Party politician, who served as the 27th
Governor of New Jersey from 1887 to 1890 •
Robert Hunter (c. 1666–1734), British military officer, colonial governor of
New York and
New Jersey from 1710 to 1720, and governor of Jamaica from 1727 to 1734; •
Robert M. La Follette (1855–1925), American lawyer and politician who served as the 20th Governor of
Wisconsin; •
Robert S. Kerr (1896–1963), American businessman and politician, 12th
Governor of Oklahoma •
Robert S. Kerr III (born 1950), American politician,
Lieutenant Governor of Oklahoma •
Robert Lowry (1829–1910), American politician and a
Confederate States Army general during the
American Civil War, who served as 32nd Governor of
Mississippi; •
Robert D. Orr (1917–2004), American politician and diplomat who served as the
45th Governor of Indiana from 1981 to 1989 •
Robert E. Quinn (1894–1975), American attorney and politician from
Rhode Island who served as the 58th
Governor of Rhode Island and Judge for the
Rhode Island Superior Court •
Robert Marcellus Stewart (1815–1871), 14th Governor of
Missouri from 1857 to 1861, during the years just prior to the American Civil War; •
Robert Yellowtail (1889–1988), leader of the
Crow Nation, the first
Native American to hold the post of Agency Superintendent at a reservation in the
Crow Indian Reservation Mayors •
Robert Worth Bingham (1871–1937), American politician, judge,
United States Ambassador to the United Kingdom and mayor of
Louisville, Kentucky •
Robert Brent (1764–1819), the first
Mayor of Washington, D.C., the federal capital of the United States; •
Robert T. Conrad (1810–1858), the first mayor of
Philadelphia to take office following the
Consolidation Act of 1854; •
Robert "Rob" Ford (1969–2016), Canadian politician and businessman who served as the 64th Mayor of
Toronto; •
Robert King High (1924–1967), American politician who served as 29th mayor of the city of
Miami; •
Robert H. Morris (1808–1855), 64th
mayor of New York City; •
Robert F. Wagner Jr. (1910–1991), American politician who served three terms as the mayor of
New York City from 1954 through 1965
Founding Fathers of United States •
Robert R. Livingston (1746–1813), American lawyer, politician, diplomat from New York, 1st
United States Secretary of Foreign Affairs, 1st
Chancellor of New York and a
Founding Father of the United States •
Robert Morris (1734–1806), English-born merchant,
United States Secretary of the Navy,
United States Superintendent of Finance and a
Founding Father of the United States •
Robert Treat Paine (1731–1814), American lawyer, politician and
Founding Father of the United States who signed the
Continental Association and the
Declaration of Independence as a representative of
Massachusetts Literary figures •
Robert Browning (1812–1889), English poet and playwright whose mastery of the
dramatic monologue made him one of the foremost 19th century poets •
Robert Burns (1759–1796), Scottish/British poet and lyricist, widely regarded as the national poet of Scotland •
Robert Commanday (1922–2015), American music critic,
chief classical music critic of the
San Francisco Chronicle (1964–1994) •
Robert Cormier (1925–2000), American author and journalist, known for his deeply pessimistic novels •
Robert Frost (1874–1963), American poet •
Robert Hardman (born 1965), British journalist, author, and documentary filmmaker •
Robert Harris (born 1957), English novelist and former
BBC reporter •
Robert A. Heinlein (1907–1988), American science-fiction writer, one of the pioneers of
hard science fiction genre •
Robert Hichens (1864–1950), English journalist, novelist, music lyricist, short story writer, music critic •
Robert E. Howard (1906–1936), American author who wrote pulp fiction, well known for his character
Conan the Barbarian, regarded as the father of the
sword and sorcery subgenre •
Robert G. Ingersoll (1833–1899), American writer and orator during the
Golden Age of Freethought, who campaigned in defense of agnosticism •
Robert "Bob" Kane (1915–1998), American comic book artist and writer, best known for creating the character
Batman •
Robert Kirkman (born 1978), American comic book author best known for creating
The Walking Dead •
Robert "Rob" Liefeld (born 1967), American comic book artist and writer, best known for creating the character
Deadpool •
Robert Nozick (1938–2002), American philosopher and writer •
Robert Evans Peterson (1812-1894), American book publisher and writer •
Robert Rozhdestvensky (1932–1994), Soviet Russian poet, regarded as one of the most significant Russian poets •
Robert W. Service (1874–1958), British-Canadian poet and writer •
Robert J.C. Stead (1880–1959), Canadian novelist •
Robert Louis Stevenson (1850–1894), Scottish novelist, poet, essayist, musician and travel writer, best known for his work
Treasure Island, which became one of the most popular literary works of all time •
Robert Wilson (1941–2025), American experimental theater stage director and playwright •
Robert Anton Wilson (1833–1892), American author, futurist, philosopher and self-described agnostic mystic, co-author (with
Robert Shea) of
The Illuminatus! Trilogy Businessmen •
Robert T. Bess (1889–after 1958), British Guiana-born American stockbroker and civil rights activist •
Robert Budi Hartono (born 1941), Indonesian businessman, founder
Djarum and owner of
BCA •
Robert Bosch (1861–1942), German industrialist, businessman, engineer and inventor, founder of
Robert Bosch GmbH (Bosch) •
Robert Kardashian (1944–2003), American attorney and businessman •
Robert Kiyosaki (born 1947), American businessman and author, founder of the Rich Dad Company •
Robert Kyncl (born 1970), American business executive, Chief Business Officer of
YouTube and former Vice President of Content Acquisitions of
Netflix •
Robert Napier (1791–1876), Scottish marine engineer and founder of
Robert Napier and Sons •
Robert Miles Sloman (1783–1867), English-German shipbuilder, ship owner and sailor •
Robert Smalls (1839–1915), American businessman, publisher, and politician •
Robert F. Smith (born 1962), American billionaire, businessman, philanthropist, chemical engineer, and investor, founder, chairman, and CEO of private equity firm
Vista Equity Partners •
Robert Trump (1948–2020), American real estate developer and business executive, brother of U.S. president
Donald Trump •
Robert Winthrop (1833–1892), wealthy banker and capitalist in New York City
Administrators of NASA •
Robert A. Frosch (1928–2020), American scientist who was the fifth administrator of
NASA from 1977 to 1981 •
Robert M. Lightfoot Jr. (fl. 1980s–2020s), engineer and former
Acting Administrator of the
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), serving from January 20, 2017, until April 23, 2018, making him the longest-serving Acting Administrator in NASA history
Astronauts •
Robert L. Behnken (born 1970), United States Air Force officer, NASA astronaut and former
Chief of the Astronaut Office •
Robert D. Cabana (born 1949), director of NASA's
John F. Kennedy Space Center, a former NASA astronaut, and a veteran of four
Space Shuttle flights •
Robert J. Cenker (born 1948), American aerospace and electrical engineer, aerospace systems consultant, and former astronaut •
Robert Crippen (born 1937), American retired naval officer and aviator, test pilot, aerospace engineer, and retired astronaut •
Robert Curbeam (born 1962), former
NASA astronaut and captain in the United States Navy •
Robert L. Gibson (born 1946), former American naval officer and aviator, test pilot, aeronautical engineer, and a retired NASA astronaut, as well as a professional pilot and regular racer at the annual
Reno Air Races •
Robert S. Kimbrough (born 1967), retired United States Army officer, and a NASA astronaut •
Robert Henry Lawrence Jr. (1935–1967), a United States Air Force officer and the first African-American
astronaut •
Robert F. Overmyer (1936–1996), American test pilot, naval aviator, aeronautical engineer, physicist, United States Marine Corps officer and USAF/NASA astronaut •
Robert A. Parker (born 1936), American physicist and astronomer, former Director of the NASA Management Office at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, and a retired NASA astronaut •
Robert Satcher (born 1965), American physician, chemical engineer and NASA astronaut •
Robert C. Springer (born 1942), retired American astronaut and test pilot •
Robert L. Stewart (born 1942), retired brigadier general of the United States Army and a former NASA astronaut •
Robert Thirsk (born 1953), a Canadian engineer and physician, and a former
Canadian Space Agency astronaut •
Roberto Vittori (born 1964), Italian air force officer and an
ESA astronaut
Sportsmen •
Robert Alexander (1910–1943), Irish sportsman •
Roberto Baggio (born 1967), Italian professional footballer who mainly played as a second striker, or as an attacking midfielder •
Robert Bateson (born 1961), American football player •
Robert Bundtzen (born 1949), American physician and
dog musher •
Roberto Carlos (born 1973), Brazilian footballer, widely regarded as one of the best football players of all time •
Roberto Clemente (1934–1972), Puerto Rican baseball player •
Robért Conway (born 1974), American professional wrestler •
Robert Dunning (born 1997), American hurdler •
Robert Emmiyan, Armenian and Soviet long jumper •
Robert Enteric (fl. 1950s), French sprint canoer •
Robert Fein (1907–1975), Austrian Olympic champion weightlifter •
Robert Gaca (born 1980), former Polish professional footballer who played as defender •
Robert Gibson (born 1801, fl. 1820s), English cricketer •
Robert Gibson (1821–1875), English cricketer •
Robert Gibson (born 1958), American wrestler •
Robert Gibson (born 1986), Canadian rower •
Robert Green (born 1980), English professional footballer who played as a goalkeeper, played in the Premier League and Football League and for the England national team •
Robert Griffin III (born 1990), American football quarterback for the
Baltimore Ravens of the
National Football League •
Robert Gsellman (born 1993), American baseball player •
Robert Harting (born 1984), German Olympic gold medalist and world champion discus thrower •
Robert Helenius (born 1984), Finnish professional boxer •
Robert Henry Jr. (born 2001), American football player •
Robert Howard (born 1938), Irish
Grandmaster of
taekwondo •
Robert Hübner (1948–2025), German chess grandmaster and papyrologist •
Robert "Bobby" Hull (1939–2023), Canadian
ice hockey player who is regarded as one of the greatest players of all time •
Róbert Jež (born 1981), retired Slovak footballer •
Robert "Bob" Kalsu (1945–1970), American football player and United States Army officer •
Robert Kerr (1882–1963), Irish Canadian sprinter •
Robert "Robbie" Kerr (born 1979), British racing driver •
Robert Kiprop (born 1997), Kenyan long-distance runner •
Robert Kubica (born 1984), Polish racing driver •
Robert Lewandowski, Polish football player who plays as a striker for
FC Barcelona and is the captain of the
Poland national team •
Robert Longerbeam (born 2001), American football player •
Roberto López Ufarte, Basque footballer •
Roberto Mancini, Italian football manager and former player who is the manager of the Italy national team •
Robert "Bob" McNamara, American baseball player •
Robert Alexander Michel Melki (born 1992), Swedish-Lebanese footballer •
Robert Mocellini, Italian bobsledder •
Robert Mühren, Dutch professional footballer •
Robert Person (born 1969), American baseball player •
Robert "Bobby" Orr, Canadian professional ice hockey player, widely acknowledged as one of the greatest of all time • Robert Remus, American professional wrestler known as
Sgt. Slaughter •
Robert Shwartzman, Russian-Israeli racing driver •
Robert Spears-Jennings (born 2004), American football player •
Robert Stevenson (Scottish footballer), Scottish footballer •
Robert Summers (born 2002), South African badminton player •
Robert "Rob" Terry, Welsh professional wrestler and bodybuilder •
Robert Turdean (born 2010), American soccer player •
Robert Walls (1950–2025), Australian footballer, coach and commentator •
Robert Whittaker, New Zealand-born Australian professional mixed martial artist •
Robert Wickens, Canadian racing driver
Others •
Robert Barclay Allardice, generally known as Captain Barclay, Scottish walker of the early 19th century, known as the celebrated pedestrian, considered the father of the 19th century sport of
pedestrianism, a precursor to
racewalking •
Robert Arntfield, Canadian
intensivist and
medical educator •
Robert T. Barrett, American painter, illustrator, and professor of illustration at
Brigham Young University •
Robert "Rob" Bell Jr., American author, speaker and former pastor •
Rob Bell, American TV host and adventurer •
Robert Bevan (artist), British painter,
draughtsman and
lithographer, founding member of the
Camden Town Group, the
London Group, and the
Cumberland Market Group •
Róbert Cvi Bornstein (1926–2024), Slovak antifascist fighter •
Robert Boylestad, American academic •
Robert S. Browne (1924–2004), American economist •
Robert Capa, Hungarian war photographer and
photojournalist •
Robert Chung, Hong Kong academician, former Director of the Public Opinion Programme (POP) of the
University of Hong Kong, head of the
Hong Kong Public Opinion Research Institute •
Robert Conquest, an English-American historian and poet •
Robert Cornelius, American pioneer of photography and a lamp manufacturer who took the first light picture ever taken and whose self-taken portrait is the first known photographic portrait taken in America •
Robert de Cotte, French architect-administrator, under whose design control of the royal buildings of France the earliest notes presaging the
Rococo style were introduced •
Robert G. Elliott, American
executioner •
Robert S. Ellwood (1933–2025), American academic •
Robert Elms, English writer and broadcaster •
Robert Ford, multiple people with the name •
Robert F. "Toby" Fox, American video game developer and composer, creator of
Undertale and
Deltarune •
Robert Garrow (1936–1978), American serial rapist and later spree killer •
Robert Gibbings, Irish artist and author who was most noted for his work as a wood engraver and sculptor •
Robert Gregg, Anglican Archbishop •
Robert Gray, first Anglican Bishop of Cape Town and Metropolitan of Africa •
Robert Gray, English Bishop of Bristol •
Robert Gray, American merchant sea captain who pioneered the maritime fur trade •
Robert H. Gray, American data analyst, author and astronomer •
Robert Grierson, Canadian missionary to Korea •
Roparz Hemon (Robert Hemon), Breton author and scholar of Breton expression •
Robert Henri, American painter and teacher •
Robert Hichens, British sailor who was part of the deck crew on board the
RMS Titanic as one of six quartermasters on board the vessel and was at the
ships wheel when it struck the iceberg •
Robert Hollander (1933–2021), American academic and translator, best known for his work regarding the poet
Dante Alighieri •
Carl Robert Jakobson, Estonian writer, politician and teacher, one of the most important people in the
Estonian national awakening •
Robert Jarczyk (born 1959), German television actor •
Robert Knox, Irish bishop •
Robert Scotland Liddell (1885–1972), British war reporter and photographer •
Robert Lopez, award-winning American songwriter of musicals, best known for co-creating
The Book of Mormon and
Avenue Q, and for composing the songs featured in the
3D Disney computer animated films
Frozen and
Coco •
Roberto Matta, Chilean painter and a seminal figure in 20th century abstract expressionist and surrealist art •
Robert Mallard (1918–1958) African-American man who was lynched by the
Ku Klux Klan •
Bob Moir (1929–2016) was a Canadian television producer, sports commentator, and journalist •
Robert Molyneux, English-American Catholic priest and Jesuit missionary to the United States •
Robert de Montesquiou, French aesthete, Symbolist poet and art collector • Captain
Robert Nairac,
British Army officer in
14 Intelligence Company who was abducted from a pub in
Dromintee, south
County Armagh, during an undercover operation and assassinated by the
Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) on his fourth tour of duty in Northern Ireland as a Military Intelligence Liaison Officer •
Robert Patterson (1743-1824), Irish-American educator and 4th director of the United States Mint •
Robert Maskell Patterson (1787-1854), American professor and 6th director of the United States Mint •
Robert M. Price, American theologian and writer •
Robert "Bob" Ross, American painter, art instructor, and television host •
Robert Livingston Rudolph, American bishop of the Reformed Episcopal Church •
Robert O. Scholz, American architect from Washington, D.C. •
Robert Spoo (born 1957), American legal scholar and educator •
Robert A. M. Stern (1939–2025), American architect and professor •
Robert Stevens, British-born American photojournalist killed in the
2001 anthrax attacks • Robert Topala, also known as Zhenmuron, Swedish musician and video game developer known for developing the popular rhythm based arcade art game
Geometry Dash •
Robert Thompson (murderer), British murderer •
Robert Vilvain (1575?–1663), English physician and philanthropist •
Robert Barron (bishop), American prelate of the Catholic Church, author, theologian and evangelist, known for his
Word on Fire ministry •
Robert Wadlow, known as the
Alton Giant and the Giant of
Illinois, an American who became famous as the tallest person in recorded history •
Robert Wipper, Russian historian of classical antiquity, medieval and modern period •
Roberto (born 1997), known online as Fanum, American streamer and content creator ==Objects and artifacts==