Robert Anderson

• Robert Anderson (editor and biographer) (1750–1830), Scottish literary scholar and editor • Robert Anderson (poet) (1770–1833), English poet • Robert Rowand Anderson (1834–1921), Scottish architect • Robert Anderson (silent film actor) (1890–1963), Danish-born American actor • Robert Alexander Anderson (composer) (1894–1995), American composer • Robert Anderson (filmmaker) (1913–1997), Canadian filmmaker • Robert Anderson (playwright) (1917–2009), American playwright and screenwriter • Robert Anderson (singer) (1919–1995), African-American gospel singer and composer • Robert Theodore Anderson (1934–2009), American organist, composer, and pedagogue • Robert G. W. Anderson (born 1944), historian, former director of the British Museum • Robert Anderson (artist) (born 1946), American portrait artist • Robert Mailer Anderson (born 1968), American novelist • Robert T. Anderson (poet) (1880–1960), Canadian poet ==Law and politics==

• Robert Anderson (mayor) (fl. 1810s–1820s), mayor of Williamsburg, Virginia • Robert Stirling Hore Anderson (1821–1883), Irish-born Australian colonial politician • Robert M. Anderson (politician) (1824–1878), lieutenant governor of California • Robert H. Anderson (politician) (c. 1831–1879), American politician in New York • Sir Robert Anderson, 1st Baronet (1837–1921), Irish businessman and Lord Mayor of Belfast • Robert Anderson (Scotland Yard official) (1841–1918), lawyer, British intelligence officer and London CID chief, in charge during the Jack the Ripper murders • Robert Alexander Anderson (politician) (1858–1916), Canadian politician in British Columbia • Robert King Anderson (1861–1950), Canadian politician, physician and teacher • Robert Newton Anderson (1871–1948), MP in the Northern Ireland Parliament for Londonderry • Robert P. Anderson (1906–1978), United States judge in Connecticut • Robert B. Anderson (Texas politician) (1910–1989), businessman, politician, and U.S. Secretary of the Treasury • Robert B. Anderson (South Carolina politician), member of the South Carolina House of Representatives • Robert Banneka Anderson Sr., member of the South Carolina General Assembly • Robert Anderson (diplomat) (1922–1996), United States ambassador to Morocco • Robert A. Anderson (1932–2006), American politician and businessman • Robert Anderson (New Zealand politician) (1936–1996), New Zealand politician • Robert T. Anderson (politician) (born 1945), American politician, lieutenant governor of Iowa • Robert Anderson (Australian Aboriginal elder) (born 1929), Australian Aboriginal elder and union official ==Military==

• Robert Anderson (Revolutionary War) (1741–1813), Revolutionary War general and lieutenant governor of South Carolina • Robert Anderson (Union officer) (1805–1871), Union commander at Fort Sumter at the start of the American Civil War • Robert H. Anderson (Confederate officer) (1835–1888), Confederate officer (brigadier general) in the American Civil War • Robert Anderson (Medal of Honor) (1843–1900), U.S. Navy sailor and Medal of Honor recipient • Robert Anderson (Australian general) (1865–1940), Australian World War I brigadier general ==Sports==

• Robert Anderson (MCC cricketer) (1811–1891), English cricketer, played for Hertfordshire 1835–36 and MCC 1837–41 • Robert Anderson (New Zealand cricketer) (1948–2025), New Zealand cricketer, played nine Tests and two One Day Internationals for New Zealand • Robert Anderson (rugby union) (c. 1900 – c. 1979), Australian rugby player • Robert Anderson (Australian rules footballer) (born 1959), Australian rules footballer • Robert Kiplagat Andersen (born 1972), Kenyan-born middle-distance runner who ran internationally for Denmark • Robbie Anderson (American football) (born 1993), American football wide receiver • Robbie Anderson (footballer) (1936–1996), English footballer ==Other==

• Robert Anderson (mathematician) (fl. 1668–1696), English mathematician and silk-weaver • Robert Anderson (inventor) (fl. 1830s), Scottish inventor • Robert Anderson (banker) (1912–1998), banker and community leader in Hollywood, Florida • Robert Anderson (New Zealand philanthropist), New Zealand businessman and philanthropist (knighted 1934) • Robert Orville Anderson (1917–2007), American businessman and philanthropist • Robert Marshall Anderson (1933–2011), Episcopal bishop of Minnesota • Robert Leroy Anderson (1969–2003), American murderer and self-proclaimed serial killer • Robert Anderson (murderer) (1966–2006), American murderer executed for killing a 5-year-old girl in Texas • Robert M. Anderson (mathematician) (born 1951), professor of economics and of mathematics • Robert Henry Anderson (1899–1969), Australian botanist • Robert P. Anderson, American zoologist • Robert Wherry Anderson (1864–1937), British journalist • Robert S. Anderson (born 1952), American geomorphologist • Robert J. Anderson (public health administrator) (1914–1999), director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention • Robert Anderson (sex offender) (1928–2008), American sex offender • Robert Ball Anderson (1843–1930), African-American homesteader and landowner in Nebraska • Robert Anderson Middle School, school in Anderson, South Carolina. ==See also==