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The name Robert is derived from Germanic roots hrod and beraht or berht meaning "fame"(also possible variation for the word flame) and "bright". Dictionary.com stated it also means 'bright with glory' After becoming widely used in Continental Europe it entered England
England

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, where an Old English cognate form also already existed before the Norman Conquest.










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The name Robert is derived from Germanic roots hrod and beraht or berht meaning "fame"(also possible variation for the word flame) and "bright". Dictionary.com stated it also means 'bright with glory' After becoming widely used in Continental Europe it entered England
England

native_name =|conventional_long_name = England|common_name = England|image_flag = Flag of England.svg|image_coat = England COA.svg|symbol_type = Royal Coat of Arms...
, where an Old English cognate form also already existed before the Norman Conquest.

  • Proto-Germanic hrôdberxtas
  • Old German
    Old German

    Old German could refer to:*Old High German*Old Low German *brands of beer produced by brewing companies, including Pittsburgh Brewing Company and Yuengling...
     Hrodebert, Rodbert
  • Old English
    Old English language

    Old English is an early form of the English language that was spoken and written in parts of what are now England and south-eastern Scotland between the mid-5th century and the mid-12th century....
     Hreodbeorht, Hrodberht, Hreodbeorð, Hrœdbœrð, Hrœdberð
  • Old French
    Old French

    Old French was the Romance languages dialect continuum spoken in territories which span roughly the northern half of modern France and parts of modern Belgium and Switzerland from around 1000 to 1300....
     Rodbert, Robert
  • Modern English
    Modern English

    Modern English is the form of the English language spoken since the Great Vowel Shift, completed in roughly 1550.Despite some differences in vocabulary, texts from the early 17th century, such as the works of William Shakespeare and the King James Bible, are considered to be in Modern English, or more specifically, are referred to as using...
     Robert, Roberta (feminine
    Grammatical gender

    In linguistics, grammatical genders, sometimes also called noun classes, are classes of nouns reflected in the behavior of associated words; every noun must belong to one of the classes and there should be very few which belong to several classes at once....
    )
  • Modern French Robert, Rober, Roper, Roberta (feminine)
  • New High German
    New High German

    New High German is the term used for the most recent period in the history of the German language. It is a translation of the German Neuhochdeutsch ....
     Robert, Rodebrecht, Rodeberht, Roberta (feminine)
  • (Medieval) Latin
    Medieval Latin

    Medieval Latin was the form of Latin used in the Middle Ages, primarily as a medium of scholarly exchange and as the liturgical language of the medieval Roman Catholic Church, but also as a language of science, literature, law, and administration....
     Rotberti


Variations

Bert
Bert

Bert is a fictional character, a The Muppets on the Public Broadcasting Service's long-running children's television show, Sesame Street. Bert was originally performed by Frank Oz....
Bret
Bobby
Berto
Bertus
Bertros
Bo
Bo

Bo/BO/B.O. For 'B and O', see B&O. For B?, see B?.Bo may refer to:...
Bob
Bob

Bob may refer to:* A diminutive of Robert* Bob , the weight at the end of a pendulum* BOB , a UK indie pop band* Bob , a song by "Weird Al" Yankovic from Poodle Hat...
Hob
Hob

Hob or HOB may refer to:* Hob : a household deity in Northern England* A generic term for various Dwarf-like and Elf-like magical creatures in Germanic folklore...
 (Medieval)
Rab (Scots
Scots language

Scots or Lowland Scots refers to the Germanic Variety derived from Middle English spoken in parts of Lowland Scotland, Northern Ireland and the border areas of the Republic of Ireland....
)
Robby
Robere (Old French
Old French

Old French was the Romance languages dialect continuum spoken in territories which span roughly the northern half of modern France and parts of modern Belgium and Switzerland from around 1000 to 1300....
)
Roberts
Roberts

Roberts may apply to:*.257 Roberts, a medium powered .25 caliber Cartridge *Roberts , a popular surname, especially among the Welsh.Places in the United States:...
 (Robertson
Robertson

Robertson may refer to:...
)
Rob
Rob

Rob may refer to:*The shortened form of Robert or Robin *R.O.B., an abbreviation of "Robotic Operating Buddy", an accessory for the Nintendo Entertainment System in 1985...
Robb
Robb

Robb is a surname of Scottish origin, and may refer toPeople* Andrew Robb, * AnnaSophia Robb* Bruce Robb * Chuck Robb* Curtis Robb* David Robb...
Robercik* (Polish
Polish language

Polish , an official language of Poland, has the largest number of speakers of any West Slavic languages. Polish-speakers use the language in a uniform manner through most of Poland, and it has a regular orthography....
)
Rodbert
Rodepertus (Latin
Latin

Latin is an Italic language, historically spoken in Latium and Ancient Rome. Through the Military history of the Roman Empire, Latin spread throughout the Mediterranean and a large part of Europe....
)
Roth
Roth

Roth is a surname, and it may also refer to:In places:* Roth , in Bavaria** Roth bei N?rnberg, capital of that district* in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany:...
bert
Róbert (Icelandic
Icelandic language

Icelandic is a North Germanic languages, the language of Iceland. Its closest relative is Faroese language and Norwegian dialects such as Telemark dialect and Sognam?l....
)
Roberto (Italian
Italian language

Italian is a Romance languages spoken by about 63 million people as a first language, primarily in Italy. In Switzerland, Italian is one of four Linguistic geography of Switzerlands....
)
Roberta
Roberta

Roberta is a musical from 1933 with music by Jerome Kern, and lyrics and book by Otto Harbach. The musical is based on the novel Gowns by Roberta by Alice Duer Miller....
 (Feminine
Feminine

Feminine, or femininity, normally refers to qualities positively associated with women.Feminine may also refer to:*Feminine , a grammatical gender...
)
Robertino (Italian
Italian language

Italian is a Romance languages spoken by about 63 million people as a first language, primarily in Italy. In Switzerland, Italian is one of four Linguistic geography of Switzerlands....
, "Little Robert")
Robbert (Dutch
Dutch language

Dutch is a West Germanic languages spoken by over 22 million people as a first language, and about 5 million people as a second language."1% of the EU population claims to speak Dutch well enough in order to have a conversation." Outside the European Union the number of second language speakers of Dutch is very small. Most native...
)
Robbi (Icelandic
Icelandic language

Icelandic is a North Germanic languages, the language of Iceland. Its closest relative is Faroese language and Norwegian dialects such as Telemark dialect and Sognam?l....
)
Robbie
Robbie

"Robbie" is a science fiction short story by Isaac Asimov. It was first published in the September 1940 issue Super Science Stories magazine as "Strange Playfellow", a title that was chosen by editor Frederik Pohl and described as "distasteful" by Asimov....
Robertus (Latin
Latin

Latin is an Italic language, historically spoken in Latium and Ancient Rome. Through the Military history of the Roman Empire, Latin spread throughout the Mediterranean and a large part of Europe....
)
Röbi (Swiss German
Swiss German

Swiss German is any of the Alemannic Germans spoken in Switzerland and in some Alpine communities in Northern Italy. Occasionally, the Alemannic dialects spoken in other countries are called Swiss German as well, especially the dialects of Liechtenstein and Austrian Vorarlberg which are closely associated to Switzerland's....
)		 Robin
Robin (name)

Robin was originally a diminutive given name of Robert, derived from the prefix Rob- , and the suffix -in . More recently, it is used as an independent name....
Röpke (Low German
Low German

Low German or Low Saxon is any of the regional language varieties of the West Germanic languages spoken mainly in northern Germany and the eastern part of the Netherlands....
)
Rabbie
Robban (Swedish
Swedish language

Swedish is a North Germanic languages language, spoken by around 10 million people, predominantly in Sweden and parts of Finland, especially along the coast and on the ?land islands....
)
Roban
Robert
Robetus
Roibeárd (Irish
Irish language

Irish , also known as Irish Gaelic, is a Goidelic languages of the Indo-European language family, originating in Ireland and historically spoken by the Irish people....
)
Roeper
Roper
Roper (surname)

Roper is a surname, and may refer to:...
 (Breton
Breton language

The Breton language is a Celtic languages spoken by some of the inhabitants of Brittany in France....
/French
French language

French is a Romance language spoken around the world by around 80 million people as first language, by 190 million as second language, and by about another 200 million people as an acquired tongue, with significant speakers in 54 countries....
)
Roope (Finnish
Finnish language

Finnish is the language spoken by the majority of the population in Finland and by Finnish people outside of Finland. It is one of the official languages of Finland and an official minority language in Sweden....
)
Roupen (Armenian
Armenian language

The 'Armenian language' is an Indo-European language spoken by the Armenians. It is the official language of the Armenia as well as in the region of Nagorno-Karabakh....
)
Ruben*
Rubens
Rubens

Rubens is often used to mean Peter Paul Rubens , Flemish artist.Rubens may also refer to:*Paul Rubens , co-lyricist of Florodora*Alma Rubens , American actor...
*
Raban
Rabanus
Rambert*
Ratbert*		 Rupert
Rupert

Rupert is derived from the Latin Rupertus, which is a loan from the Old German Hroberahtus; thus it is a variation of modern English Robert, and can refer to:...
Ruprecht (Old High German)
Ruppert
Rvpertvs (Latin: "Rupertus")
Rubert
Rochbert
Robrecht (German
German language

German is a West Germanic languages, thus related to and classified alongside English language and Dutch language. It is one of the world's world language and the most widely spoken mother tongue in the European Union....
)
Rodebert
Rodebrecht (Old German)
Rudbert
Rudebet
Roteberht (Germanic
Germanic languages

The Germanic languages are a group of related languages that constitute a branch of the Indo-European languages language family. The common ancestor of all the languages in this branch is Proto-Germanic, spoken in approximately the mid-1st millennium BC in Pre-Roman Iron Age....
)
Rotebert (Germanic)
Rodebert		 Feminine forms:
Roberta
Robertine
Robertina
Ruprette/a (archaic French
French language

French is a Romance language spoken around the world by around 80 million people as first language, by 190 million as second language, and by about another 200 million people as an acquired tongue, with significant speakers in 54 countries....
)


In Italy during the Second World War
World War II

World War II, or the Second World War , was a global military conflict which involved a Participants in World War II, including all of the great powers, organised into two opposing military alliances: the Allies of World War II and the Axis powers....
, the form of the name, Roberto, briefly acquired a new meaning derived from, and referring to the Rome-Berlin-Tokyo Axis
Axis Powers

The Axis powers were those countries that were opposed to the Allies of World War II during World War II. The three major Axis powers - Nazi Germany, Kingdom of Italy , and Empire of Japan - were part of a military alliance on the signing of the Tripartite Pact in September 1940, which officially founded the Axis powers....
.

Given names


Historical

Saint
Saint

A saint in Christianity is a human being who has been called to holiness. The term is used differently by various denominations, with some, such as the Anglicans, Methodists, and Lutherans distinguishing between Saints and saints....
s
  • Saint Robert of Molesme
    Robert of Molesme

    Saint Robert of Molesme was a Christianity saint and abbot, one of the founders of the Cistercian Order in France....
    , founder of the Cistercian Order
  • Saint Robert Bellarmine
    Robert Bellarmine

    Robert Bellarmine was an Italian Jesuit and a Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church. He participated in the Catholic Church's proceedings against Giordano Bruno and Galileo Galilei ....
    , Doctor of the Church
    Doctor of the Church

    Doctor of the Church is a title given by a variety of Christian churches to individuals whom they recognize as having been of particular importance, particularly regarding their additions to theological or doctrinal matters....
  • Saint Robert of Newminster
    Robert of Newminster

    Saint Robert of Newminster was a Priest, Abbot, and a canonized saint of the Roman Catholic Church....
    , established the Abbey of Newminster
    Newminster Abbey

    Newminster Abbey was a Cistercian abbey in Northumberland in the north of England.Ranulph de Merlay, lord of Morpeth, Northumberland, founded the abbey in 1137 and Saint Robert of Newminster from the Cistercian Fountains Abbey was appointed as the first abbot; he governed from 1138 to 1159....
     near the castle of Ralph de Merlay, at Morpeth, Northumberland
    Northumberland

    Northumberland is a Counties of England in the North East England of England. The non-metropolitan counties of England of Northumberland borders Cumbria to the west, County Durham to the south and Tyne and Wear to the south east, as well as having a border with the Scottish Borders council area to the north, and nearly eighty miles of Nort...
    .


Medieval
  • Robert, 1st Earl of Gloucester
    Robert, 1st Earl of Gloucester

    Robert, 1st Earl of Gloucester was an illegitimate son of King Henry I of England, and one of the dominant figures of the period of English history sometimes called The Anarchy....
    , English noble
  • Robert of Melun
    Robert of Melun

    Robert of Melun was a English scholasticism Christian theologian who taught in France, and later became Bishop of Hereford in England. He studied under Peter Abelard in Paris before teaching there and at Melun, which gave him his surname....
    , scholastic theologian
  • Robert of Winchelsea, theologian and opponent of both Edward I
    Edward I of England

    Edward I , popularly known as Longshanks, the English Justinian, and the Hammer of the Scots , was a House of Plantagenet King of England who achieved historical fame by conquering large parts of Wales and almost succeeding in doing the same to Scotland....
     and Edward II of England
    Edward II of England

    Edward II, of Caernarfon, was Kingdom of England from 1307 until he was deposition in January 1327. His tendency to ignore his nobility in favour of low-born favourites led to constant political unrest and his eventual deposition....
  • Robert Guiscard
    Robert Guiscard

    Robert Guiscard, from Latin Viscardus and Old French Viscart, often rendered the Resourceful, the Cunning, the Wily, or the Fox, was a Normans adventurer conspicuous in the Norman conquest of southern Italy....
    , Norman
    Normans

    The Normans were the people who gave their names to Normandy, a region in northern France. They descended from Viking conquerors of the territory and the native population of mostly Frankish and Gallo-Roman stock....
     adventurer and Duke of Apulia and Calabria from 1059-1085
  • Brother Robert
    Brother Robert

    Brother Robert was a cleric working in Norway who adapted several French language literary works into Old Norse during the reign of King Haakon IV of Norway ....
    , 13th century translator of French works into Old Norse
Elizabethan
  • Robert Dudley, 1st Earl of Leicester
    Robert Dudley, 1st Earl of Leicester

    Robert Dudley, 1st Earl of Leicester was the long-standing favourite of Elizabeth I of England. He was appointed Master of the Horse on her accession in November 1558, and a Privy Councillor in October 1562....
    , English noble and favourite of Elizabeth I


King of France
  • Robert I
    Robert I of France

    Robert I , King of France , was the younger son of Robert the Strong, count of Anjou, and the brother of Odo, Count of Paris, who became king of the Western Franks in 888....
  • Robert II "the Pious"
    Robert II of France

    Robert II , called the Pious or the Wise, was King of France from 996 until his death. The second reigning member of the House of Capet, he was born in Orl?ans to Hugh Capet and Adelaide of Aquitaine....


Dukes of Normandy
Duke of Normandy

Duke of Normandy is a title held or claimed by various Normans, France, England and United Kingdom rulers from the 10th century until the present, in recognition of their history....
  • Robert the Magnificent, also known as Robert the Devil, father of William the Conqueror
    William I of England

    William I , better known as William the Conqueror , was Duke of Normandy from 1035 and English monarchy from later 1066 to his death. William is sometimes also referred to as "William II" in relation to his position as the second Duke of Normandy of that name....
  • Robert Curthose, eldest son of William the Conqueror
    William I of England

    William I , better known as William the Conqueror , was Duke of Normandy from 1035 and English monarchy from later 1066 to his death. William is sometimes also referred to as "William II" in relation to his position as the second Duke of Normandy of that name....
     and leader of the First Crusade
    First Crusade

    The First Crusade was launched in 1095 by Pope Urban II with the primary goal of responding to the appeal from Byzantine Emperor Alexius I. The Emperor requested that western volunteers come to their aid and repel the Seljuk Turks in Anatolia, Modern day Turkey....


Kings of Scotland
Scotland

conventional_long_name = ScotlandAlba|common_name= Scotland|image_flag = Flag of Scotland.svg|flag_width = 130px...
  • Robert I of Scotland
    Robert I of Scotland

    Robert I, King of the Scots usually known in modern English as Robert the Bruce was King of the Scots from 1306 until his death in 1329....
     ("Robert the Bruce")
  • Robert II of Scotland
    Robert II of Scotland

    Robert II became King of Scots in 1371 and was the first of the House of Stewart. Before his accession he held the titles of High Steward of Scotland and the Earl of Strathearn....
  • Robert III of Scotland
    Robert III of Scotland

    Robert III , King of Scots ...


Franconian Babenbergers/Robertian Capetians
Capetian dynasty

The Capetian dynasty is the largest European royal house. It includes any of the direct descendants of Hugh Capet of France. King Juan Carlos of Spain and Grand Duke Henri%2C_Grand_Duke_of_Luxembourg of Luxembourg are members of this family, both through the House of Bourbon of the dynasty....
  • Robert I of Wormgau
    Worms, Germany

    Worms is a city in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany, on the Rhine River. At the end of 2004, it had 85,829 inhabitants.Established by the Celts who called it Borbetomagus, Worms today remains embattled with the cities Trier and Cologne over title of "Oldest City in Germany"....
    (aka Rutpert I, Hruodbertus I)
  • Robert II of Wormgau
    Worms, Germany

    Worms is a city in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany, on the Rhine River. At the end of 2004, it had 85,829 inhabitants.Established by the Celts who called it Borbetomagus, Worms today remains embattled with the cities Trier and Cologne over title of "Oldest City in Germany"....
    (aka     Rutpert II, Hruodbertus II)
  • Robert III of Wormgau
    Worms, Germany

    Worms is a city in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany, on the Rhine River. At the end of 2004, it had 85,829 inhabitants.Established by the Celts who called it Borbetomagus, Worms today remains embattled with the cities Trier and Cologne over title of "Oldest City in Germany"....
    (aka     Rutpert III, Hruodbertus III)
  • Robert the Strong
    Robert the Strong

    Robert IV the Strong , was March of Neustria. His family is named after him and called Robertians. He was first nominated by Charles the Bald missus dominicus in 853....
    (aka     Rutpert IV, Hruodbertus IV)


Politics and Legal

  • Robert Bell (speaker), Speaker of the British House of Commons
    Speaker of the British House of Commons

    In the United Kingdom, the Speaker of the House of Commons is the presiding officer of the House of Commons of the United Kingdom, and is seen historically as the First Commoner of the Land....
     1572-76, Lord Chief Baron of the Exchequer
    Lord Chief Baron of the Exchequer

    Lord Chief Baron of the Exchequer was the first "baron" of the Exchequer of pleas. "In the absence of both the Treasurer of the Exchequer or First Lord of the Treasury, and the Chancellor of the Exchequer, it was he who presided in the equity court and answered the bar i.e....
  • Robert Bertrand
    Robert Bertrand

    Robert "Bob" Bertrand is a Canadian politician.He was a federal member of Parliament for the riding of Pontiac?Gatineau?Labelle. He ran and won in the Canadian federal election, 1993, Canadian federal election, 1997 and Canadian federal election, 2000 Canadian federal elections with significant majorities under the banner of the Liberal P...
    , Canadian politician
  • Robert Bork
    Robert Bork

    Robert Heron Bork is a conservative United States legal scholar who advocates the judicial philosophy of originalism. Bork formerly served as United States Solicitor General, acting United States Attorney General, and judge for the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit....
    , American judge
  • Robert Fico
    Robert Fico

    Robert Fico is the current List of Prime Ministers of Slovakia .His relatively new left-wing party Direction ? Social Democracy was the winner of the Slovak parliamentary election, 2006, receiving approximately 30 percent of the cast votes....
    , Prime Minister of Slovakia
    Slovakia

    Slovakia . It was amended in September 1998 to allow direct election of the president and again in February 2001 due to EU admission requirements....
  • Robert Gates
    Robert Gates

    Robert Michael Gates is currently serving as the 22nd United States Secretary of Defense. He took office on December 18, 2006. Prior to this, Gates served for 26 years in the Central Intelligence Agency and the United States National Security Council, and under President of the United States George H....
     U.S. Secretary of Defense
  • Robert Hawke, former Prime Minister of Australia
    Australia

    Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the southern hemisphere comprising the Australia of the world's smallest continent, the major island of Tasmania, and numerous list of islands of Australia in the Indian Ocean and Pacific Oceans....
  • Robert Heinrich Wagner
    Robert Heinrich Wagner

    Robert Heinrich Wagner was Gauleiter of Baden and Head of the Civil Government of Alsace during the German occupation of France in World War II....
    , Nazi
    Nazism

    Nazism, officially National Socialism , refers to the ideology and practices of the National Socialist German Workers? Party under Adolf Hitler, and the policies adopted by the dictatorial government of Nazi Germany from 1933 to 1945....
     Gauleiter
    Gauleiter

    A Gauleiter was the party leader of a regional branch of the NSDAP or the head of a Gau or of a Reichsgau....
     and Reich Governor of Alsace
    Alsace

    Alsace is the fourth-smallest of the 26 regions of France in land area , and the smallest in metropolitan France. It is also the sixth-most densely populated region in France , with 222 inhabitants per km? ....
  • Robert Hill
    Robert Hill

    Robert Hill may refer to:*Robert Hill , Australian Ambassador to the United Nations*Robin Hill , also known as Robert Hill, British biochemist...
    , former Australian Defence Minister
  • Robert Jovicic
    Robert Jovicic

    Robert Jovicic Robert Jovicic was a long-time resident of Australia who was deported to Serbia where he became destitute in 2005.Jovicic was born on December 4, 1966 in France of Serbs parents....
    , stateless person.
  • Robert Francis Kennedy, U.S. Attorney General (1961-1964) and younger brother of President John F. Kennedy
    John F. Kennedy

    John Fitzgerald "Jack" Kennedy , often referred to by his initials JFK, was the List of Presidents of the United States President of the United States, serving from 1961 until John F....
  • Robert M. La Follette, Sr.
    Robert M. La Follette, Sr.

    Robert Marion La Follette, Sr. nicknamed "Fighting Bob" La Follette was an American politician who served as a United States House of Representatives, the 20th Governor of Wisconsin , and Republican Party United States Senate from Wisconsin ....
    , politician
  • Robert M. La Follette, Jr.
    Robert M. La Follette, Jr.

    Robert Marion La Follette, Jr. was an United States United States Senate from Wisconsin from 1925 to 1947, the son of Robert M. La Follette, Sr., the brother of Philip La Follette, and the brother-in-law of the playwright George Middleton ....
    , politician
  • Robert E. Lee
    Robert E. Lee

    Robert Edward Lee , was a career United States United States Army officer , an engineer, and among the most celebrated generals in American history....
    , General of Confederate
    Confederate States of America

    The Confederate States of America formed as the government set up from 1861 to 1865 by eleven Southern United States U.S. state of the United States of America that had declared their secession from the U.S....
     army during United States Civil War
  • Robert McClelland
    Robert McClelland

    Robert McClelland is the name of:*Robert McClelland , Governor of Michigan and U.S. Secretary of the Interior*Robert McClelland , current Australian Attorney-General...
    , Australian politician
  • Robert McNamara
    Robert McNamara

    Robert Strange McNamara is an United States business executive and the 8th United States Secretary of Defense. McNamara served as Defense Secretary during the Vietnam War from 1961 to 1968....
    , U.S. Secretary of Defense (1961 to 1968) during President Lyndon B. Johnson
    Lyndon B. Johnson

    Lyndon Baines Johnson , often referred to as LBJ, was the List of Presidents of the United States President of the United States and List of Vice Presidents of the United States Vice President of the United States ....
    's administration
  • Robert Menzies
    Robert Menzies

    Sir Robert Gordon Menzies, Order of the Thistle, Order of Australia, Order of the Companions of Honour, Queen's Counsel , Australian politician, was the twelfth Prime Minister of Australia....
    , former Prime Minister of Australia
  • Robert Milligan
    Robert Milligan

    Robert Milligan was a prominent England merchant and ship-owner, and was the driving force behind the construction of the West India Docks in London....
    , British soldier and politician
  • Robert Mugabe
    Robert Mugabe

    Robert Gabriel Mugabe is the List of Presidents of Zimbabwe of Zimbabwe. He has held power as the head of government since 1980, as Prime Minister of Zimbabwe from 1980 to 1987, and as the first executive head of state since 1987....
    , former president of Zimbabwe
  • Robert Muldoon
    Robert Muldoon

    Sir Robert David Muldoon, Order of St Michael and St George, Order of the Companions of Honour served as Prime Minister of New Zealand from 1975 in New Zealand to 1984 in New Zealand, as leader of the governing New Zealand National party....
    , former Prime Minister of New Zealand
    New Zealand

    New Zealand is an island country in the south-western Pacific Ocean comprising two main landmasses , and numerous Islands of New Zealand, most notably Stewart Island/Rakiura and the Chatham Islands....
  • Robert Peel
    Robert Peel

    Sir Robert Peel, 2nd Baronet was the Conservative Party Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 10 December 1834 to 8 April 1835, and again from 30 August 1841 to 29 June 1846....
    , British politician, founder of the first modern police force
  • Robert Schuman
    Robert Schuman

    Robert Schuman was a noted France statesman. Schuman was a Christian Democrat and an independent political thinker and activist. Twice Prime Minister of France, a reformist Minister of Finance and a Foreign Minister, he was instrumental in building post-war European and trans-Atlantic institutions and is regarded as one of the founders of t...
    , late German-French foreign minister, regarded as one of the founders of the European Union
    European Union

    The European Union is an economic and political union of 27 European Union member state, located primarily in Europe. It was established by the Treaty of Maastricht on 1 November 1993 upon the foundations of the pre-existing European Economic Community....
  • Robert F. Wagner
    Robert F. Wagner

    Robert Ferdinand Wagner was a United States Democratic Party United States Senator from New York from 1927 until 1949....
    , Democratic U.S. Senator, New York
  • Robert F. Wagner, Jr.
    Robert F. Wagner, Jr.

    Robert Ferdinand Wagner, Jr., usually known as Robert F. Wagner, Jr. served three terms as the mayor of New York City, from 1954 through 1965....
    , New York City
    New York City

    The City of New York is the List of United States cities by population in the United States, while the New York metropolitan area ranks among the List of urban areas by population....
     Mayor
  • Robert Walpole
    Robert Walpole

    Robert Walpole, 1st Earl of Orford, Order of the Garter, Order of the Bath, Privy Council of Great Britain , known before 1742 as Sir Robert Walpole, was a Kingdom of Great Britain statesman who is generally regarded as having been the first Prime Minister of the United Kingdom....
    , popularly regarded as the first British Prime Minister
  • Robert Zubrin
    Robert Zubrin

    Robert Zubrin is an American aerospace engineer and author, best known for his advocacy of manned Mars exploration. He was the driving force behind Mars Direct—a proposal intended to produce significant reductions in the cost and complexity of such a mission....
    , Martian
    Martian

    As an adjective, the term "martian" is used to describe anything pertaining to the planet Mars.However, a Martian is more usually a hypothetical or fictional native inhabitant of the planet Mars....
     advocate
  • Robert Zoellick
    Robert Zoellick

    Robert Bruce Zoellick is the eleventh president of the World Bank Group, a position he has held since July 1, 2007. He was previously a managing director of Goldman Sachs, United States United States Deputy Secretary of State and Office of the United States Trade Representative, from February 7, 2001 until February 22, 2005....
    , U.S. Deputy Secretary of State


Entertainment & the arts

  • Robert Adam
    Robert Adam

    Robert Adam was a Scotland neoclassicism architect, interior designer and furniture designer. He was the son of William Adam , Scotland's foremost architect of the time, and trained under him....
    , Scottish architect
  • Robert Aldrich
    Robert Aldrich

    Robert Aldrich was an American film director, writer and Film producer, notable for such films as Kiss Me Deadly, The Big Knife, What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? , The Flight of the Phoenix, Hush? Hush, Sweet Charlotte and The Dirty Dozen....
    , American film director
  • Robert Altman
    Robert Altman

    Robert Bernard Altman was an United Statesn film director known for making Cinema of the United States that are highly Naturalism , but with a stylized perspective....
     Movie Director
  • Robert April, fictional character
    Fictional character

    A character is any person, persona, identity, or entity that exists in a The arts. The process of conveying information about characters in fiction is called characterisation....
     in the     Star Trek
    Star Trek

    Star Trek is an American Science fiction on television entertainment series and media franchise. The Star Trek fictional universe created by Gene Roddenberry is the setting of six television series including the original 1966 Star Trek: The Original Series, in addition to ten feature films with Star Trek to be released on May 8,...
     universe
  • Robert Barclay
    Robert Barclay

    Robert Barclay , one of the most eminent writers belonging to the Religious Society of Friends and a member of the Clan Barclay. He was also governor of the East Jersey colony in North America through most of the 1680s....
    , eminent writer of the 17th century
  • Robert Beltran
    Robert Beltran

    Robert Adame Beltran is an United States actor, known for his role as Commander Chakotay on Star Trek: Voyager....
    , best known for his role as Commander Chakotay
    Chakotay

    Chakotay, played by Robert Beltran, is a character in Star Trek: Voyager. He is the First Officer of the USS Voyager ....
     on Star Trek: Voyager
    Star Trek: Voyager

    Star Trek: Voyager is a science fiction television series set in the Star Trek universe. The show was created by Rick Berman, Michael Piller, and Jeri Taylor and is the fourth incarnation of Star Trek, which began with the 1960s series Star Trek: The Original Series, created by Gene Roddenberry....
  • Roberto Benigni
    Roberto Benigni

    Roberto Remigio Benigni, Italian orders of merit is an Academy Awards-winning Italian actor, comedian, writer and film director of film, theatre and television....
    , Academy-Award winning Italian
    Italy

    Italy , officially the Italian Republic , is a country located on the Italian Peninsula in Southern Europe and on the two largest islands in the Mediterranean Sea, Sicily and Sardinia....
     movie director and actor
  • Robert Bingham
    Robert Bingham

    Robert Bingham was an United States writer and a founding editor of the Open City . Bingham graduated from Brown University in 1988. He then received a Master of Fine Arts degree from Columbia University....
    , American writer
  • Robert Blake
    Robert Blake

    Robert Blake may refer to:*Bob Blake , Canadian professional ice hockey player*Robert Blake , English naval commander*Robert Blake , pioneering Irish dentist...
    , any of several people
  • Rob Bourdon
    Rob Bourdon

    Robert Gregory Bourdon is an American musician, who is currently the drummer and one of the founders of the rock band Linkin Park....
    , American drummer for Linkin Park
    Linkin Park

    Linkin Park is an American Rock music band from Agoura Hills, California, California. Since its formation in 1996, the band has sold more than 50 million albums and won two Grammy Awards....
    . (Born Robert Gregory Bourdon)
  • Bob Bryar, American drummer for My Chemical Romance
    My Chemical Romance

    My Chemical Romance is an American rock band formed in 2001 in Jersey City, New Jersey. The band consists of five members that are Gerard Way, Mikey Way, Frank Iero, Ray Toro and Bob Bryar....
    . (born Robert Nathaniel Corey Bryar)
  • Rob Brydon
    Rob Brydon

    Rob Brydon is a Wales actor, comedian and impressionist most famous for his role as Keith Barret in the BBC comedy Marion and Geoff and its spin-off The Keith Barret Show, as well as the host of panel quiz Rob Brydon's Annually Retentive....
    , British actor and comedian
  • LeVar Robert Martyn Burton Jr.
    LeVar Burton

    Levardis Robert Martyn Burton Jr. , professionally known as LeVar Burton, is an United States of America actor, television director and author who first came to prominence portraying Kunta Kinte in the 1977 award-winning American Broadcasting Company television miniseries Roots , based on the novel by Alex Haley....
    , actor
    Actor

    An actor or actress is a person who acting in a dramatic production and who works in film, television, theatre, or radio programming in that capacity....
     and director
    Television director

    A television director directs the activities involved in making a television episode....
     who first came to prominence playing Kunta Kinte
    Kunta Kinte

    Kunta Kinte is the central character of the novel, Roots: The Saga of an American Family by United States author Alex Haley, and of the television mini-series Roots , based on the book....
     in the 1977 award winning television miniseries     Roots
    Roots (TV miniseries)

    Roots is a 1977 in television American television miniseries based on Alex Haley's work Roots: The Saga of an American Family.Roots received 37 Emmy Award nominations....
  • Roberto Carlos
    Roberto Carlos (singer)

    Roberto Carlos Braga is a Grammy Award-winning M?sica Popular Brasileira singer, who has achieved a great deal of success and recognition in his 50 year old career....
    , Brazilian singer (born Roberto Carlos Braga)
  • Robert Carlyle
    Robert Carlyle

    Robert Carlyle, Order of the British Empire , is an acclaimed BAFTA and Screen Actors Guild Award-winning Scottish film actor....
    , Scottish actor
  • Bob Catley
    Bob Catley

    For the Australian politician, see Bob Catley Robert Adrian 'Bob' Catley is a United Kingdom musician, perhaps best known as the lead singer of the Rock musical band Magnum ....
    , English singer
  • Robert Colescott
    Robert Colescott

    Robert Colescott is an United States painting. He is known for satirical genre and crowd subjects, often conveying his exuberant, comical, or bitter reflections on being African-American....
    , United States painter
  • Robert Conrad
    Robert Conrad

    Robert Conrad is an United States actor and television director of film and television. He is primarily known for the 1965 in television CBS television series The Wild Wild West, in which he played the sophisticated United States Secret Service agent James West....
    , American actor
  • Robert Cormier
    Robert Cormier

    Robert Edmund Cormier was an United States author, columnist and reporter, known for his deeply pessimistic, downbeat literature. His most popular works include I Am the Cheese, After the First Death, We All Fall Down and The Chocolate War, all of which have won awards....
    , American writer
  • Robbie Coltrane
    Robbie Coltrane

    Robbie Coltrane, Order of the British Empire , is a Scottish actor, comedian and author....
    , Scottish Actor
  • Robert Conway
    Robert Conway

    Robert Conway may refer to:*Robert Conway , United States military officer*Robert Seymour Conway , British classical scholar and comparative philologist...
    , professional wrestler
  • Robert Culp
    Robert Culp

    Robert Martin Culp is an United States actor and scriptwriter, perhaps best known for his work in television. Culp earned an international reputation for his role as Kelly Robinson on I Spy , the espionage television series, where he and co-star Bill Cosby played a pair of secret agents....
    , American actor,
  • Robert Cummings
    Robert Cummings

    Robert Cummings , also known as Bob Cummings, was an United States motion picture and television actor, noted for his fresh faced youthful look which lasted long into his old age....
    , American film director and musician under the name Rob Zombie
    Rob Zombie

    Robert Bartleh Cummings , better known by his stage name, Rob Zombie, is an American musician, film director, screenwriter and film producer....
  • Robert D. Forward, writer
  • Robert De Niro
    Robert De Niro

    Robert Mario De Niro, Jr. is a two-time Academy Award-winning United States actor, director and producer. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest and most influential actors of all time....
    , two-time Oscar-winning Italian-American actor
  • Robert Del Naja
    Robert Del Naja

    'Robert Del Naja' , also known as '3D', is an England artist and musician. Originally famous as a graffiti artist and a member of the Bristol group known as "The Wild Bunch ", Del Naja went on to become a founding member of the band Massive Attack in addition to working with James Lavelle as a collaborator on the UNKLE albums Never, Neve...
    , British
    United Kingdom

    The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom , the UK or Britain,is a sovereign state located off the northwestern coast of continental Europe....
     trip-hop musician best known for his work with Massive Attack
    Massive Attack

    Massive Attack are a United Kingdom trip hop group, founded in 1988 by Robert Del Naja, Daddy G, and Andrew Vowles in Bristol, England. The trio were together prior to the formation of this band, as part of The Wild Bunch ....
  • Robert Diggs, American rapper and hip hop producer, professionally known as RZA
    RZA

    Robert F. Diggs , better known as RZA , is an United States Grammy winning music producer, rapper, and occasional actor. A prominent figure in hip hop music, he is the de facto leader of the hip hop music group Wu-Tang Clan....
  • Robert Donat
    Robert Donat

    Friedrich Robert Donat , was an England Academy Award-winning film and stage actor.Donat was born in Withington, Manchester, England, to Ernst Emil Donat and his wife Rose Alice nee Green who married at Withington St Paul in 1895....
    , Academy Award Actor
  • Robert Downey Jr.
    Robert Downey Jr.

    Robert John Downey Jr., is an United States Golden Globe-winning and two-time Academy Award-nominated actor and musician. Downey made his screen debut at the age of five when he started to appear in Robert Downey, Sr.'s films....
    , American actor
  • Robert Duvall
    Robert Duvall

    Robert Selden Duvall is an United States film actor and Film director who has won an Academy Award, two Emmys, and four Golden Globes. He has appeared in films such as To Kill a Mockingbird , The Godfather, The Godfather Part II, Apocalypse Now, The Natural , Network , THX 1138, MASH , The Great Santini,...
     , American actor
  • Bob Dylan, American musician (born Robert Allen Zimmerman)
  • Robert Englund
    Robert Englund

    Robert Barton Englund is an United States actor, best known for playing the fictional character serial killer Freddy Krueger, in the Nightmare on Elm Street film series....
    , American actor best known for his portrayal of horror character Freddy Krueger
    Freddy Krueger

    Freddy Krueger is a fictional character from the A Nightmare on Elm Street of films. Created by Wes Craven and portrayed by actor Robert Englund in every film of the series, he is an undead serial killer, who can attack his victims from within their own dreams....
  • Robert Evans
    Robert Evans

    Robert Evans may refer to:*Bob Evans , Formula One driver from England*Bob Evans , restaurateur and founder of Bob Evans Restaurants*Bob Evans , Wales international rugby union player...
    , Film Producer
  • Robert Forster
    Robert Forster

    Robert Forster is an Academy Award-nominated United States actor....
    , American actor
  • Robert L. Forward, writer
  • Robert Frost
    Robert Frost

    Robert Lee Frost was an American poet. He is highly regarded for his realistic depictions of rural life and his command of American colloquial speech....
    , American poet
  • Roberto Gañan Ojea, lead singer of ska punk band Ska-P
    Ska-P

    Ska-P is a ska punk band formed in Madrid , Spain, in 1994, that could be categorized, politically, as an anti-establishment musical group. It is one of the most popular ska bands in Spain and Europe....
  • Robert Garcia
    Robert Garcia

    is a character in The King of Fighters series. A practitioner of Kyokugenryu Karate, he first appeared as the deuteragonist in Art of Fighting and currently appears in The King of Fighters series....
    , second main character of Art of Fighting
    Art of Fighting

    is a trilogy of fighting game titles that were released for the Neo Geo platform in the early 1990s. It was the second fighting game franchise created by SNK Playmore, following the Fatal Fury series and is set in the same fictional universe....
    's videogame series
  • Bob Geldof
    Bob Geldof

    Robert Frederick Zenon Geldof KBE, known as Bob Geldof , is an Republic of Ireland singer, songwriter, actor and political activist who became famous as a member of the Rock music The Boomtown Rats....
    , Irish singer and poverty campaigner
  • Robert Goulet
    Robert Goulet

    Robert Gerard Goulet was a Canadian-United States Grammy Award- and Tony Award- winning entertainer. He rose to international stardom in 1960 as Lancelot in Lerner and Loewe's hit Broadway theatre musical Camelot ....
    , singer
  • Robert Guillaume
    Robert Guillaume

    Robert Guillaume is an United States stage and television actor, best known for his role as Benson Du Bois on the TV series Soap and the spin-off Benson , voicing the mandrill Rafiki in The Lion King, as Isaac Jaffe on Sports Night, and as Eli Vance in the Half Life 2 series....
    , actor
  • Robert Halford, Lead singer for Judas Priest
    Judas Priest

    Judas Priest is an England Heavy metal music band formed in 1969 in Birmingham. Judas Priest's core line-up consists of bass player Ian Hill, vocalist Rob Halford and guitarists Glenn Tipton and K....
  • Robert Hass
    Robert Hass

    Robert L. Hass is a Pulitzer Prize winning American poet. He served as Poet Laureate of the United States from 1995 to 1997. He was awarded the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for Time and Materials....
    , American poet
  • Robert A. Heinlein
    Robert A. Heinlein

    Robert Anson Heinlein was an United States novelist and science fiction writer. Often called "the dean of science fiction writers", he is one of the most popular, influential, and controversial authors of the genre....
    , late German-American science fiction author
  • Robert Herrick
    Robert Herrick (poet)

    Robert Herrick was a 17th century English poet....
    , a British poet
  • Robert Herrick
    Robert Herrick (novelist)

    Robert Welch Herrick was a novelist who was part of a new generation of United States realists. His novels deal with the turbulence of industrialized society and the turmoil it can create in sensitive, isolated people....
    , an American fiction writer
  • Robert Hooks
    Robert Hooks

    Robert Dean "Bobby" Hooks is an United States actor of film, television and stage . With a career as a producer and political activist to his credit, he is most recognizable to the public for his over 100 roles in film and television....
    , American actor N.Y.P.D.
    N.Y.P.D.

    N.Y.P.D. is the title of a half-hour Television in the United States Police procedural of the 1960s set in the context of the New York City Police Department....
  • Robert Iler
    Robert Iler

    Robert Iler is an United States actor, known for his portrayal of Anthony Soprano, Jr. on The Sopranos.Iler was born in New York, New York, of Irish descent....
    , American actor The Sopranos
    The Sopranos

    The Sopranos was an United States television drama series created and Executive producer#Television by David Chase. It was originally broadcast in the United States on the premium television cable television HBO from January 10, 1999 to June 10, 2007, spanning List of The Sopranos episodes....
  • Robert Irvine
    Robert Irvine

    Robert Irvine MCFA is a celebrity chef who has appeared on numerous Food Network programs, including hosting Dinner: Impossible....
    , British celebrity chef and former host of     Dinner: Impossible
  • Robert Johnson, an influential American blues
    Blues

    Blues is a music genre based on the use of the blues chord progressions and the blue notes. Though several blues musical form s exist, the 12-bar blues chord progressions are the most frequently encountered....
     singer and songwriter
  • Robert Kelly, American singer known as R Kelly
  • Robert Klein
    Robert Klein

    Robert Klein is an United States stand-up comedian and actor....
    , American comic
  • Robby Krieger
    Robby Krieger

    Robert Alan Krieger is an American rock and roll guitarist and songwriter. He was the guitarist in The Doors, and wrote some of the band's best known songs, including "Light My Fire", "Love Me Two Times", "Touch Me " and "Love Her Madly"....
    , The Doors
    The Doors

    The Doors were an United States rock music band formed in 1965 in Los Angeles, California by Singer Jim Morrison, keyboard instrument Ray Manzarek, drummer John Densmore, and guitarist Robby Krieger....
     guitarist
  • Robert Lansing
    Robert Lansing

    Robert Lansing served in the position of Legal Advisor to the State Department at the outbreak of World War I where he vigorously advocated against Britain's policy of blockade and in favor of the principles of freedom of the seas and the rights of neutral nations....
    , actor
  • Robert Sean Leonard
    Robert Sean Leonard

    Robert Sean Leonard is an American actor known for his role as James Wilson on the TV series House ....
    , actor
  • Robert Lindsay
    Robert Lindsay

    Robert Lindsay may refer to:*Robert Lindsay of Pitscottie , Scottish chronicler*Robert Lindsay , English actor*Robert Lindsay , British Olympic track and field athlete...
    , British actor
  • Robert Lowe
    Rob Lowe

    Robert Hepler Lowe is an United States actor. He became famous after appearing in popular 1980s movies such as The Outsiders and St. Elmo's Fire , which included other members of the Brat Pack ....
    , American actor
  • Robert Ludlum
    Robert Ludlum

    Robert Ludlum was an United States author of 25 Thriller novels. There are more than 290 million copies of his books in print, and they have been translated into 32 languages....
    , American fiction author
  • Robert Mapplethorpe
    Robert Mapplethorpe

    Robert Mapplethorpe was an United States photographer, known for his large-scale, highly stylized black and white portraits, photos of flowers and naked men....
    , American photographer
  • Robert Nesta Marley
    Bob Marley

    Robert "Bob" Nesta Marley Jamaican Order of Merit was a Jamaican singer-songwriter and musician. He was the lead singer, songwriter and guitarist for the ska, rocksteady and reggae bands: The Wailers and Bob Marley & the Wailers ....
    , musician better known as Bob Marley
  • Robert Merrill
    Robert Merrill

    Robert Merrill was an American operatic baritone. While there has been dispute regarding his birth year , the Social Security Death Index, his family, and his gravestone state that he was born in 1917....
    , opera singer
  • Robert Merwald
    Robert Merwald

    Robert Merwald is a Germany baritone.Robert began singing as a boy soprano with the Regensburger Domspatzen. From 1994 he studied singing at the Hochschule f?r Musik und Theater in Munich and attended masterclasses with Kurt Moll and Irwin Gage....
    , opera singer
  • Robert McCormick
    Robert McCormick

    Robert McCormick is the name of:* Robert R. McCormick , American publisher of the Chicago Tribune* Robert McCormick , naturalist with the British Royal Navy...
    , Australian drummer
  • Robert Duncan McNeill
    Robert Duncan McNeill

    Robert Duncan McNeill is an United States actor, Film producer, movie director, and television director who is best known for his role as Lieutenant Tom Paris on the television show Star Trek: Voyager....
    , American
    United States

    The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
     actor
    Actor

    An actor or actress is a person who acting in a dramatic production and who works in film, television, theatre, or radio programming in that capacity....
    , producer
    Film producer

    A film producer is someone who creates the conditions for making film. The producer initiates, co-ordinates, supervises and controls matters such as fund-raising, hiring key personnel and arranging for distributors....
    , movie director, and television director
    Television director

    A television director directs the activities involved in making a television episode....
     who is best known for his role as Lieutenant Tom Paris
    Tom Paris

    Thomas Eugene Paris, played by Robert Duncan McNeill, is a character in the television series "Star Trek: Voyager". Paris serves as the chief helmsman and a medic aboard the USS Voyager ....
     on the television
    Television

    Television is a widely used telecommunication mass-media for transmitting and receiving moving , either monochrome or color, usually accompanied by sound....
     show,     Star Trek: Voyager
    Star Trek: Voyager

    Star Trek: Voyager is a science fiction television series set in the Star Trek universe. The show was created by Rick Berman, Michael Piller, and Jeri Taylor and is the fourth incarnation of Star Trek, which began with the 1960s series Star Trek: The Original Series, created by Gene Roddenberry....
  • Robert Miles
    Robert Miles

    Robert Miles is a Swiss Italian record producer, composer and musician in trance music and ambient music music....
  • Robert Mitchum
    Robert Mitchum

    Robert Charles Durman Mitchum was an Academy Award-nominated United States film actor, author, composer and singer. Mitchum is largely remembered for his starring roles in several major works of the film noir style, and is considered a forerunner of the anti-heroes prevalent in film during the 1950s and 1960s....
     American actor
  • Roberto Miura, fictional character
    Fictional character

    A character is any person, persona, identity, or entity that exists in a The arts. The process of conveying information about characters in fiction is called characterisation....
     from the     Rival Schools
    Rival Schools

    'Rival Schools' may refer to the following:*...
     video game universe
  • Robert Moog
    Robert Moog

    Dr. Robert Arthur Moog was an American pioneer of electronic music, best known as the inventor of the Moog synthesizer....
    , electronic music synthesizer and pioneer
  • Robert Morley
    Robert Morley

    Robert Morley Commander of the Order of the British Empire was an Academy Award-nominated England actor who, often in supporting roles, was usually cast as a pompous English gentleman representing the Establishment....
    , British Actor
  • Robert Morse
    Robert Morse

    Robert Morse is an United States actor. Morse is best known for his appearances in musicals and Play on Broadway theatre, and has also acted in movies and TV shows....
    , American actor
  • Robert Novak
    Robert Novak

    Robert David Sanders "Bob" Novak is syndicated columnist, journalist and conservative politicial commentator who writes the longest-running current U.S....
    , columnist and writer
  • Robert Palmer, English rock singer best known for the song Addicted to Love
  • Robert Pastorelli
    Robert Pastorelli

    Robert Joseph Pastorelli was an United States actor. He had many roles on TV, in film, and on the stage, but is probably best known for the seven years he played the portly painter Eldin Bernecky on the television series Murphy Brown....
     actor
  • Robert Pattinson
    Robert Pattinson

    Robert Thomas-Pattinson is an United Kingdom actor, fashion model, and musician. He is best known for playing Edward Cullen in the film adaptation of Twilight , based on Twilight by Stephenie Meyer, and for the role of Cedric Diggory in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire ....
     actor
  • Robert Picardo
    Robert Picardo

    Robert Picardo is an Emmy Award-nominated United States actor. He may be best known for his portrayals of Dr. Dick Richards on American Broadcasting Corporation's China Beach, the Emergency Medical Hologram also known as The Doctor , on United Paramount Network's Star Trek: Voyager, as The Cowboy in Innerspace, as Joe "The Meat...
    , American
    United States

    The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
     actor
  • Robert Plant
    Robert Plant

    Robert Anthony Plant Order of the British Empire , is an England Rock and Roll singer and songwriter, famous for his membership in the former rock band Led Zeppelin as the lead vocalist, as well as for his successful solo career....
    , singer and songwriter; lead vocalist for the band Led Zeppelin
    Led Zeppelin

    Led Zeppelin were an English rock music band formed in 1968 by Jimmy Page , Robert Plant , John Paul Jones and John Bonham . With their heavy, guitar-driven sound, Led Zeppelin are regarded as one of the first heavy metal music bands....
  • Robert Polidori
    Robert Polidori

    Robert Polidori is a photographer known for his architectural studies and frequent contributions to magazines and books....
    , Photographer
  • Robert Preston
    Robert Preston

    Robert Preston may refer to:*Robert Preston , American actor*Robert Preston *Robert K. Preston, White House intruder*Robert Henry Preston , Ontario doctor and political figure...
    , American actor
  • Robert Prince
    Robert Prince

    Robert Prince, also known as Bobby Prince, is a composer and sound designer. He has worked as an independent contractor for several gaming companies, most notably id Software and Apogee Software/3D Realms....
    , American poet and manga artist
  • Robert Rauschenberg
    Robert Rauschenberg

    Robert Rauschenberg was an American artist who came to prominence in the 1950s transition from Abstract Expressionism to Pop Art. Rauschenberg is perhaps most famous for his "Combines" of the 1950s, in which non-traditional materials and objects were employed in innovative combinations....
    , American artist
  • Robert Reed
    Robert Reed

    Robert Reed was an Emmy Award-nominated American stage and television actor....
    , actor     The Brady Bunch
    The Brady Bunch

    The Brady Bunch is an United States television situation comedy based around a large stepfamily. The show originally aired from September 26, 1969, to March 8, 1974, on the American Broadcasting Company network and was subsequently television syndication around the world....
  • Robert Redford
    Robert Redford

    Charles Robert Redford Jr. , better known as Robert Redford, is an Academy Award-winning United States film director, actor, film producer, businessman, model , environmentalism, philanthropist, and founder of the Sundance Film Festival....
    , American actor
  • Robert Ripley
    Robert Ripley

    Robert LeRoy Ripley was an United States cartoonist, entrepreneur and amateur anthropologist, who created the world famous Ripley's Believe It or Not! newspaper panel series, featuring odd 'facts' from around the world....
    ,     Ripley's Believe it or Not
  • Robert Rodriguez
    Robert Rodriguez

    Robert Anthony Rodriguez is an United States filmmaker, screenwriter, film producer, cinematographer, Film editing#Film_editor and musician. He is perhaps best known for making profitable, crowd-pleasing independent film and major film studio films with fairly low budgets and fast schedules by Hollywood standards....
    ,film maker
  • Roberto Rossellini
    Roberto Rossellini

    Roberto Rossellini was an Italian film director. Rossellini was one of the most important directors of Italian neorealism film, contributing films such as Roma citt? aperta to the movement....
    , Italian Director
  • Robert Ryan
    Robert Ryan

    Robert Bushnell Ryan was an Academy Award and British Academy of Film and Television Arts-nominated United States actor who often played hardened cops and ruthless villains....
    , actor
  • Robert Neil Sandberg, Award playwright and lecturer at Princeton University
    Princeton University

    Princeton University is a private university university located in Princeton, New Jersey, New Jersey, United States. The school is one of the eight universities of the Ivy League and has the largest per-student Financial endowment in the world....
  • Robert Scheurwater
    Robert Scheurwater

    Robert, Arie Scheurwater in Dordrecht, Currently living in Kensington,_Gauteng, Johannesburg, South Africa and working with Wave Computers in Johannesburg, South Africa....
    , Award Winning Web Designer
  • Robert Schimmel
    Robert Schimmel

    Robert George "Bob" Schimmel is an American stand-up comedian whose material is often X-rated and controversial. He is perhaps best known for his comedy albums and his appearances on HBO and The Howard Stern Show....
    , comic
  • Robert Schumann
    Robert Schumann

    Robert Schumann, sometimes given as Robert Alexander Schumann, was a German composer, aesthete and influential music critic. He is one of the most famous Romantic music composers of the 19th century....
    , German composer
  • Robert Shaw
    Robert Shaw (actor)

    Robert Archibald Shaw was an English people Theatre and film actor and writer.He is most remembered for his performances in The Sting, From Russia with Love, A Man for all Seasons and as Quint in Jaws ....
    , actor,     Jaws
    Jaws (film)

    Jaws is a 1975 in film Cinema of the United States horror film thriller film directed by Steven Spielberg and based on Peter Benchley's best-selling Jaws ....
    , The Sting
    The Sting

    The Sting is a 1973 caper film set in September 1936 and revolving around a complicated plot by two professional Confidence trick to confidence trick a mob boss ....
  • Robert Sheckley
    Robert Sheckley

    Robert Sheckley was a Hugo award and Nebula award nominated United States author. First published in the science fiction magazines of the 1950s, his numerous quick-witted stories and novels were famously unpredictable, absurdism and broadly comical....
    , American author
  • Robert B. Sherman
    Robert B. Sherman

    Robert Bernard Sherman is an United States songwriter who specializes in musical films with his brother Richard M. Sherman. Some of Sherman's best known writing includes the songs from Mary Poppins , The Jungle Book , The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang , The Slipper and the Rose and the them...
    , American songwriter
  • Robert Smith (musician)
    Robert Smith (musician)

    Robert James Smith is an England guitarist, vocalist and songwriter. He is the lead singer and principal songwriter of the Rock music band The Cure, and its only constant member since its founding in 1976....
    , vocalist and songwriter for the rock group The Cure
    The Cure

    The Cure are an English Rock music band formed in Crawley, West Sussex in 1976. The band has experienced several lineup changes, with frontman, vocalist, guitarist and principal songwriter Robert Smith being the only constant member....
  • Robert A. M. Stern
    Robert A. M. Stern

    Robert Arthur Morton Stern, usually credited as Robert A. M. Stern, is an United States architect and Dean of the Yale School of Architecture....
    , American architect
  • Robert Louis Stevenson
    Robert Louis Stevenson

    Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson , was a Scottish novelist, poet, essayist and Travel writing. Stevenson was greatly admired by many authors, including Jorge Luis Borges, Ernest Hemingway, Rudyard Kipling, Vladimir Nabokov, J....
    , novelist, poet
  • Robert Taylor
    Robert Taylor (actor)

    Robert Taylor was an United States actor....
    , American actor
  • Robert Thomas
    Rob Thomas (musician)

    Robert Kelly Thomas is an American rock recording artist, and songwriter. He is the primary songwriter and lead singer of the band Matchbox Twenty and formerly of the band Tabitha's Secret....
    , singer known as Rob Thomas
  • Robert Townsend
    Robert Townsend

    Robert Townsend is an United States actor, comedian, film director, and writer....
    , actor and film maker
  • Robert Trujillo
    Robert Trujillo

    Roberto Trujillo is a bassist who played with Suicidal Tendencies, Infectious Grooves, Black Label Society, Jerry Cantrell, and Ozzy Osbourne's band before joining Metallica in 2003....
    , Bassist
    Bassist

    A bass player is a musician who plays a double bass, bass guitar, or another low-pitched instrument, such as keyboard bass or a low brass instrument such as tuba or sousaphone....
     for Metallica
    Metallica

    Metallica is an American heavy metal music band that formed in 1981 in Los Angeles. Founded when drummer Lars Ulrich posted an advertisement in a local newspaper, Metallica's line-up has primarily consisted of Ulrich, rhythm guitarist and vocalist James Hetfield, and lead guitarist Kirk Hammett, while going through a number of bassists....
  • Robert Urich
    Robert Urich

    'Robert Urich' was an actor, best known for playing private investigators on the television program Spenser: For Hire and Vega$ . He also starred in numerous other television series over the years including: S.W.A.T....
    , American actor
  • Robert Vaughn
    Robert Vaughn

    Robert Francis Vaughn is an American Academy Award-nominated actor noted for theater, film and television work. He is perhaps best known as suave spy Napoleon Solo in the popular 1960's TV series The Man from U.N.C.L.E.....
    , American actor
  • Robert Wagner
    Robert Wagner

    Robert John Wagner is a Golden Globe- nominated prolific United States film and television actor of theatre and screen, who starred in movies, soap operas and television....
    , American actor
  • Robert Warwick
    Robert Warwick

    Robert Warwick was an American stage, film and television actor with over 200 film appearances....
    , character actor in silent and talkies
  • Robert Webb
    Robert Webb (actor)

    Robert Webb is an England comedian, actor and writer, and one half of the Mitchell and Webb double act, alongside David Mitchell ....
    , British actor and comedian
  • Robert Westerholt
    Robert Westerholt

    Robert Westerholt is the founder of, and guitarist in, the symphonic metal band Within Temptation. He writes a great deal of the music for the band, along with the band's vocalist, his partner, Sharon den Adel....
    , guitarist for Within Temptation
    Within Temptation

    Within Temptation is a Netherlands heavy metal music band. The band was founded in 1996 by vocalist Sharon den Adel and guitarist Robert Westerholt....
  • Robert Williams
    Robbie Williams

    Robbie Williams is a Grammy Award-nominated and ten time BRIT Awards-winning England singer-songwriter. His career started as a member of the pop band Take That in 1990, which he left in 1995 to begin his solo career....
    , English pop star, more commonly known as     Robbie Williams
  • Robert Wise
    Robert Wise

    'Robert Earl Wise' was an United States sound effects editor, film editor, and Academy Awards-winning United States film producer and director. Among his many famous films are Citizen Kane, The Sand Pebbles , The Sound of Music , West Side Story , The Hindenburg , Star Trek: The Motion Picture, The Day the Earth Stood...
    , director and producer
  • Robert Hewitt Wolfe
    Robert Hewitt Wolfe

    Robert Hewitt Wolfe is an United States television producer and scriptwriter. He is mostly known for his work as a writer on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine and for developing and producing the series Gene Roddenberry's Andromeda....
    , American television producer and scriptwriter
  • Robert Young
    Robert Young

    Robert, Rob or Bob Young may refer to:In sports:* Robert Young , American track athlete* Bob Young , American football player...
    , American actor     Father Knows Best
    Father Knows Best

    Father Knows Best is a long-run United States radio and television comedy series which portrayed middle class family life in the Midwest. It was created by writer Ed James in the 1940s....
    , Marcus Welby, M.D.
    Marcus Welby, M.D.

    Marcus Welby, M.D. is a popular medical drama that aired on American Broadcasting Company from September 23, 1969 to July 29, 1976. It starred Robert Young as the title character, a family practitioner with a kind bedside manner, and was produced by David Victor and David J....
  • Robert Zemeckis
    Robert Zemeckis

    Robert Lee "Bob" Zemeckis is an Academy Award- and Golden Globe-winning American film director, Film producer and screenwriter. Zemeckis first came to public attention in the 1980s as the director of the comedic time-travel Back to the Future trilogy films as well as the live-action/animated film Who Framed Roger Rabbit , though in t...
    , film director and producer


Sports

  • Robert Allenby
    Robert Allenby

    Robert Allenby is an Australian professional golfer.Allenby was born in Melbourne, Australia. His father was from Leeds, England and emigrated to Australia as a young man....
    , Australian golfer
  • Roberto Alomar
    Roberto Alomar

    Roberto Alomar Vel?zquez is a former Major League Baseball player , considered by many to be one of the best second baseman in history. During his career he won more Rawlings Gold Glove Award than any other second baseman in history, and also won the second-most Silver Slugger Awards for a second baseman....
    , baseball player
  • Roberto Andino
    Roberto Andino

    Roberto Andino is a retired boxing from Puerto Rico, who competed in the men's lightweight division . He represented his native country at the Boxing at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montr?al, Canada....
    , Puerto Rican boxer
  • Roberto Carlos da Silva
    Roberto Carlos da Silva

    Roberto Carlos da Silva , better known simply as Roberto Carlos, is a Brazilian Association football player who currently plays for Turkey club Fenerbah?e S.K., normally as a Defender #Wingback....
    , Brazilian football (soccer) player
  • Roberto Baggio
    Roberto Baggio

    Roberto Baggio is a retired Italians Association football, among the most technically gifted and popular players in the world throughout the 1990s and early 2000s....
    , Italian football (soccer) player
  • Robert Bartko
    Robert Bartko

    Robert Bartko is a road bicycle racing and track cyclist from Germany, who was born in the former East Germany. He won two gold medals at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, Australia: in the individual and in the team pursuit....
    , German road and track cyclist
  • Roberto Batata
    Roberto Batata

    Roberto Monteiro, commonly known by the nickname Roberto Batata was a Brazilian association football player who played for several Campeonato Brasileiro S?rie A club Cruzeiro Esporte Clube and for the Brazil national football team....
    , Brazilian football (soccer) player
  • Roberto Beshe, Palestinian football (soccer) player
  • Robert Brazile
    Robert Brazile

    Robert Lorenzo Brazile, Jr. is a former professional American football linebacker in the National Football League. Nicknamed "Dr. Doom", Brazile played from 1975-1984 for the Houston Oilers....
    , 1970s all decade team NFL linebacker
  • Roberto Calcaterra
    Roberto Calcaterra

    Roberto Calcaterra is a retired water polo defense player from Italy, who represented his native country at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, Georgia....
    , Italian water polo player
  • Roberto Clemente
    Roberto Clemente

    Roberto Clemente Walker was a professional baseball player and a Major League Baseball right fielder. He was born in Carolina, Puerto Rico, Puerto Rico, the youngest of seven children....
    , Puerto Rican baseball player for whom the team owner named his champion racehorse Roberto (horse)
    Roberto (horse)

    Roberto was an United States Thoroughbred Champion horse racing who competed in Ireland and United Kingdom. He was named for Major League Baseball star Roberto Clemente by his owner John W....
  • Robert Conway
    Robert Conway

    Robert Conway may refer to:*Robert Conway , United States military officer*Robert Seymour Conway , British classical scholar and comparative philologist...
    , professional wrestler
  • Rob Dibble
    Rob Dibble

    Robert Keith Dibble is a former Major League Baseball pitcher....
    , baseball player and sports analyst
  • Roberto Donadoni
    Roberto Donadoni

    Roberto Donadoni is an Italy Association football coach and former player. He was an attacking midfielder or winger known for pace and technique....
    , Former Italian football (soccer) player and head coach of the Italian national team
  • Roberto Duran
    Roberto Durán

    Roberto Dur?n is a retired professional boxing from Panama, widely regarded as one of the greatest boxers of all time. During his career he was nicknamed "Manos de Piedra", "Hands of Stone"....
    , boxer
  • Rob Dyrdek
    Rob Dyrdek

    Robert Stanley "Rob" Dyrdek is an United States professional skateboarder, actor, entrepreneur, and former star of his own reality TV series entitled Rob & Big with the personal bodyguard and best friend Chris Boykin....
    , American skateboarder, reality TV star
  • Roberto Ferrari
    Roberto Ferrari (athlete)

    Roberto Ferrari is a retired Italy high jumper.He was born in Cremone. He became Italian high jump champion in 1992 and 1994, rivalling with Fabrizio Borellini and Ettore Ceresoli....
    , Italian high jumper
  • Robert Fick
    Robert Fick

    Robert Charles Fick is a Major League Baseball first baseman who is currently a free agent. In , he was named to the American League Major League Baseball All-Star Game....
    , baseball player
  • Robbie Fowler
    Robbie Fowler

    Robert Bernard "Robbie" Fowler is an English Association football, who plays for the North Queensland Fury FC in the A-League. He is the fourth-highest goalscorer in the history of the Premier League....
    , English football (soccer) player,
  • Robert Gesink
    Robert Gesink

    Robert Gesink is a Netherlands professional road bicycle racer for UCI ProTeam Rabobank . With his natural climbing capabilities Gesink is being touted as one of the biggest prospects of the sport....
    , Dutch cyclist
  • Robert Grondelaers
    Robert Grondelaers

    Robert Grondelaers was a road cyclist from Belgium, who won the silver medal in the men's individual road race at the 1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki, Finland....
     (1933-1989), Belgian cyclist
  • Roberto Hernandez
    Roberto Hernández

    Roberto Hernandez may refer to:*Roberto Hern?ndez Ram?rez , Mexican billionaire*Roberto Hernandez, Jr., Mexican sportscaster*Roberto Hern?ndez , Cuban athlete...
    , baseball player,
  • Robert Hintz, Javelin Thrower
  • Robert Horry
    Robert Horry

    Robert Keith Horry is an United States professional basketball player who has played 16 seasons in the National Basketball Association . Horry's last name is pronounced "Orry", with a silent 'H'....
    , American professional basketball player
  • Robert Horstink
    Robert Horstink

    Robert Horstink is a volleyball player from the Netherlands, who represented his native country at the Volleyball at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece....
    , Dutch volleyball player
  • Robert Booker Tio Huffman
    Booker Huffman

    Booker Tio Huffman , better known by his ring name Booker T, is an United States Professional wrestling. He is currently wrestling for Total Nonstop Action Wrestling, where he is the current and inaugural TNA Legends Championship....
    , American professional wrestler
  • Robert Hull
    Bobby Hull

    Robert Marvin "Bobby" Hull Order of Canada is a retired Canada ice hockey player. He is regarded as one of the greatest ice hockey players of all time and perhaps the greatest Winger to ever play the game....
    , Canadian-born hockey player
  • Robert Iarusci
    Robert Iarusci

    Robert "Bob" Iarusci is a former star North American Soccer League player and member of the Canadian national soccer team.A defender , Iarusci began his NASL career with his hometown Toronto Metros-Croatia, playing the 1976 and part of 1977....
    , Canadian/Italian professional soccer player
  • Robert Ihly
    Robert Ihly

    Robert Ihly is a retired race walker from Germany, who was one of the nation's leading athletes in race walking in the 1990s. He represented Germany thrice at the Summer Olympics, starting in Athletics at the 1992 Summer Olympics ....
    , German race walker
  • Robert Jones (American football)
    Robert Jones (American football)

    Robert Lee Jones is a former American football linebacker who played 10 seasons in the National Football League for the Dallas Cowboys, the St....
    , former pro bowl football player for the Dallas Cowboys
  • Robert Karlsson
    Robert Karlsson

    Robert Karlsson is a Sweden professional golfer who plays on the European Tour.Karlsson was born in Katrineholm, Sweden. His father was a greenkeeper....
    , Swedish golfer
  • Roberto Kelly
    Roberto Kelly

    Roberto Conrado Kelly is a former Outfielder in Major League Baseball and is currently the first base coach for the San Francisco Giants. He previously managed the Giants single A team, the Augusta GreenJackets....
    , baseball player
  • Robert Knievel
    Evel Knievel

    This article is about the stunt performer. For the wooden roller coaster by the same name, see Evel Knievel Robert Craig Knievel , better known as the Evel Knievel , was an United States motorcycle Stunt performer, an entertainer famous in the United States and elsewhere between the late 1960s and early 1980s....
     motorcycle daredevil Evel Knievel
    Evel Knievel

    This article is about the stunt performer. For the wooden roller coaster by the same name, see Evel Knievel Robert Craig Knievel , better known as the Evel Knievel , was an United States motorcycle Stunt performer, an entertainer famous in the United States and elsewhere between the late 1960s and early 1980s....
  • Robbie Knievel
    Robbie Knievel

    Robert Edward "Kaptain" Knievel is an American daredevil and son of the legendary daredevil Evel Knievel....
    , motorcycle daredevil son of Evel Knievel
    Evel Knievel

    This article is about the stunt performer. For the wooden roller coaster by the same name, see Evel Knievel Robert Craig Knievel , better known as the Evel Knievel , was an United States motorcycle Stunt performer, an entertainer famous in the United States and elsewhere between the late 1960s and early 1980s....
  • Robert Kubica
    Robert Kubica

    Robert Kubica is the first Polish racing driver to compete in Formula One. From 2006 he has driven for the BMW Sauber F1 team, promoted from test driver to race driver during 2006....
    , Polish Formula One driver
  • Roberto Lopes
    Roberto Lopes

    Roberto Lopes da Costa is a beach volleyball player from Brazil, who won the bronze medal in the men's beach team competition at the 1999 Pan American Games in Winnipeg, Canada, partnering Franco Neto....
    , Brazilian beach volleyball player
  • Roberto Luongo
    Roberto Luongo

    Roberto Luongo is a Canada professional ice hockey goaltender and captain of the Vancouver Canucks of the National Hockey League . He is the first NHL goaltender to be named team captain since Bill Durnan in 1947?48 NHL season....
    , Canadian ice hockey player
  • Roberto Machusso
    Roberto Machusso

    Roberto Zablith Machusso is a retired competitive judoka from Brazil, who represented his native country at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montr?al, Canada....
    , Brazilian judoka
  • Roberto Mancini
    Roberto Mancini

    Roberto Mancini is an Italy football coach and former player. His last job was as head coach of F.C. Internazionale Milano in Serie A....
    , Italian manager of F.C Internazionale Milano
  • Robert Oliver
    Robert Oliver

    Robert Gordon Oliver is a former road cycling and track cyclist from New Zealand, who represented his native country in two disciplines at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, West Germany: the men's individual road race and the men's team pursuit ....
    , New Zealand road and track cyclist
  • Robert Orr
    Bobby Orr

    Robert Gordon "Bobby" Orr, Order of Canada is a retired Canadian ice hockey defenceman and is considered to be one of the greatest hockey players of all time....
    , Canadian-born hockey player
  • Robert Pires
    Robert Pirès

    Robert Emmanuel Pir?s is a France national football team football player, of Portugal and Asturian_people descent. He is married to Jessica Lemarie, with whom he has two children....
    , French footballer
  • Robert Parish
    Robert Parish

    Robert Lee Parish is a retired United States basketball center . He was known for his strong defense and jump shooting, and was elected to the Basketball Hall of Fame in 2003....
    , American professional basketball player
  • Robert Porcher
    Robert Porcher

    Robert Porcher is a former American football defensive end. He played for the Detroit Lions his entire career. He retired before the 2004 NFL season with 95.5 career Quarterback sack....
    , Former Detroit Lions defensive stand out
  • Robert Prosinecki
    Robert Prosinecki

    Robert Prosinecki [] is a Croatian former football midfielder and current assistant manager of the Croatia national football team....
    , Former Croatian football (soccer) player
  • Robert Reid (basketball)
    Robert Reid (basketball)

    Robert Keith Reid is an United States former professional basketball player.A 6'8" forward from St. Mary's University, Texas, Reid played thirteen seasons in the National Basketball Association as a member of the Houston Rockets, New Orleans Hornets, Portland Trail Blazers, and Philadelphia 76ers....
     (1955- ), American basketball player
  • Robbie Savage
    Robbie Savage

    Robert William "Robbie" Savage is a professional association football who plays as a midfielder. He currently plays for Derby County F.C., and formerly played for the Wales national football team national team....
    , Welsh footballer
  • Robert Remus, former pro wrestler Sgt. Slaughter
  • Robert Smith (football player), former standout running back for the Minnesota Vikings
    Minnesota Vikings

    The Minnesota Vikings are a professional American football team based out of Minneapolis, Minnesota. The Vikings compete in the NFC North of the National Football Conference in the National Football League ....
  • Robert Szatkowski, professional wrestler under the name Rob Van Dam
    Rob Van Dam

    Robert "Rob" Alexander Szatkowski better known by his ring name Rob Van Dam , is an United States Professional wrestling. He is best known for his time in Extreme Championship Wrestling and World Wrestling Entertainment ....
  • Robby Thompson
    Robby Thompson

    Robert Randall Thompson is a retired baseball infielder with an 11 year career from to . He graduated from the University of Florida.He played his entire career with the San Francisco Giants of the National League....
    , baseball player, 2nd baseman San Francisco Giants
    San Francisco Giants

    The San Francisco Giants are a Major League Baseball team based in , that currently play in the National League West. One of the oldest of the MLB teams, the Giants hold the distinction of having won the most games of any team in the history of organized sports....
  • Robert de Wit
    Robert de Wit

    Robert Hubert Maria de Wit is a retired decathlete from the Netherlands. He competed in two consecutive Summer Olympics for his native country, starting in 1988....
    , Dutch decathlete and bobsledder
  • Robert Witschge, Dutch footballer
  • Robert van der Zant
    Robert van der Zant

    Robert van der Zant is a former Medley swimming swimmer who competed for Australia at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney. There he finished in fourteenth position in the 200m Individual Medley....
    , Australian medley swimmer


Other

  • Robert Atkins (nutritionist)
    Robert Atkins (nutritionist)

    Robert Coleman Atkins, MD was an United States physician and cardiologist, best known for the Atkins Nutritional Approach , a popular but controversial way of dieting that entails close control of carbohydrate consumption, emphasizing protein and fat intake, including saturated fat in addition to leaf vegetables and dietary supplements....
    , Creator of the famous Atkins Diet.
  • Robert Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powell
    Robert Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powell

    Robert Stephenson Smyth Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powell Order of Merit , Order of St Michael and St George, Royal Victorian Order, Order of the Bath , also known as B-P or Lord Baden-Powell, was a Lieutenant-General in the British Army, writer, and founder of the Scouting....
    , soldier, writer and founder of the world Scouting
    Scouting

    Scouting, also known as the Scout Movement, is a worldwide youth movement with the stated aim of supporting young people in their physical, mental and spiritual development, so that they may play constructive roles in society....
     movement
  • Robert Ballard
    Robert Ballard

    Robert Duane Ballard is a former Commander in the United States Navy and an oceanography who is most noted for his work in underwater archaeology....
    , Marine geologist, discoverer of the Titanic wreck
  • Robert Browning
    Robert Browning

    Robert Browning was an English poet and playwright whose mastery of dramatic verse, especially dramatic monologues, made him one of the foremost Victorian literature poets....
    , British poet
  • Robert Boyle
    Robert Boyle

    Robert Boyle was an Irish People theologian, natural philosopher, chemist, physicist, inventor, and early gentleman scientist, noted for his work in physics and chemistry....
    , Famous Irish-born Scientist responsible for Boyle's Law
  • Roberto Cavalli
    Roberto Cavalli

    Roberto Cavalli is an Italy fashion designer....
    , Fashion Designer
  • Robert Crowley (Survivor contestant)
    Robert Crowley (Survivor contestant)

    Robert "Bob" Crowley is the winner of the American television show Survivor: Gabon. On December 14, 2008, it was revealed that he had been voted the winner, receiving four out of the seven votes and thus beating out hairdresser Susie Smith and pin-up model Jessica Kiper....
    , winner of Survivor: Gabon
    Survivor: Gabon

    Survivor: Gabon - Earth's Last Eden was the seventeenth season of the United States reality show Survivor . The premiere aired September 25, 2008, with the first two episodes screened back-to-back....
  • Robert William Fisher
    Robert William Fisher

    Robert William Fisher is a wanted fugitive suspected of murdering his wife and their two children. On June 29, 2002 he was named by the FBI as the FBI Ten Most Wanted Fugitives, 2000s on the list of FBI Ten Most Wanted Fugitives....
    , alleged murderer listed on the FBI Ten Most Wanted Fugitives
  • Robert Ford (outlaw)
    Robert Ford (outlaw)

    Robert Newton "Bob" Ford was an United States outlaw who gained fame by killing the criminal Jesse James in 1882....
    , the man who shot Jesse James
  • Robert Fulton
    Robert Fulton

    Robert Fulton was an United States engineer and inventor who is widely credited with developing the first commercially successful steamboat. He also designed a new type of steam warship....
    , Inventor of the Steamship
  • Robert Hooke
    Robert Hooke

    Robert Hooke, Fellow of the Royal Society was an England natural philosopher and polymath who played an important role in the scientific revolution, through both experimental and theoretical work....
    , Famous British Scientist, best known for Hooke's Law
  • Robert L. Johnson
    Robert L. Johnson

    Robert L. Johnson is an United States businessman and founder of Black Entertainment Television , and is also its former chairman and chief executive officer....
     , Founder of BET
    Black Entertainment Television

    Black Entertainment Television is an American cable television based in Washington, D.C. and targeted towards young black people and urban audiences in the United States....
     network, owner of the NBA's Charlotte Bobcats
    Charlotte Bobcats

    The Charlotte Bobcats are a professional basketball team based in Charlotte, North Carolina. The team is part of the Southeast Division of the Eastern Conference in the National Basketball Association....
    . first African American billionaire
  • Robert Morris (financier) (1734–1806), financier of the American Revolution and signatory of three important founding documents of the United States. Robert Morris University
    Robert Morris University

    This article is about the university in Pennsylvania. For the college in Illinois, see Robert Morris College.Robert Morris University is a private, coeducational university....
     college is named after him.
  • Robert Moses
    Robert Moses

    Robert Moses was the "master builder" of mid-20th century New York City, Long Island, and Westchester County, New York. As the shaper of a modern city, he is sometimes compared to Baron Haussmann of Second French Empire Paris, and is one of the most polarizing figures in the history of urban planning in the United States....
    , city planner and architect
  • Robert Nozick
    Robert Nozick

    Robert Nozick was an United States philosopher and Joseph Pellegrino University Professor at Harvard University. He was educated at Columbia University , where he studied with Sydney Morgenbesser, at Princeton University , and Oxford University as a Fulbright Scholar....
    , Polish-American Philosopher
  • Robert Oppenheimer
    Robert Oppenheimer

    Julius Robert Oppenheimer was an American theoretical physics and professor of physics at the University of California, Berkeley. He is best known for his role as the scientific director of the Manhattan Project: the World War II effort to develop the first nuclear weapons at the secret Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico....
    , German-American nuclear physicist, regarded as the     Father of the Atomic Bomb
  • Robert Perko, Slovenian entertainer, people person
  • Robert Pickton
    Robert Pickton

    Robert William "Willie" Pickton of Port Coquitlam, British Columbia, British Columbia is a Canada Domestic pig#Farming and serial killer convicted of the second-degree murders of six women....
    , Canadian accused of multiple murders
  • Robert Scoble
    Robert Scoble

    Robert Scoble is an United States wikt:Blogger, Technology evangelist, and author. Scoble is best known for his blog, , which came to prominence during his tenure as a technical evangelist at Microsoft....
    , technology blogger.
  • Robert Shapiro
    Robert Shapiro

    Robert Leslie Shapiro is an attorney, most notable for being part of the defense team which successfully defended O.J. Simpson from the charges that he murdered his ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman in 1994 ....
    , lawyer
  • Robert Spencer
    Robert Spencer

    Robert Bruce Spencer is an United States author of articles and books relating to Islam and Islamic terrorism. He has published Robert_Spencer#Bibliography, including two bestsellers....
    , American writer on Islam
  • Robert Spencer (disambiguation)
    Robert Spencer (disambiguation)

    Robert Spencer may refer to:* Several members of the British aristocratic Spencer family**Robert Spencer, 1st Baron Spencer **Robert Spencer, 2nd Earl of Sunderland ...
  • Robert Sweet
    Robert Sweet

    Robert Sweet may refer to:* Robert Sweet , English botanist, horticulturist and ornithologist* Robert Sweet , American drummer* Robert W. Sweet, U.S. federal judge...
    , three of this name: a botanist, a drummer and a judge
  • Robert Swirsky
    Robert Swirsky

    Robert Swirsky is a computer scientist, author, and pianist. In the early 1980s, Swirsky was one of the first regular contributors to the nascent computer magazine industry....
    , pianist and computer scientist
  • Robert La Salle
    René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle

    Ren? Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle, or Robert de LaSalle was a France List of explorers. He explored the Great Lakes region of the United States and Canada, the Mississippi River, and the Gulf of Mexico....
    , French explorer


Surnamed


  • Alain Robert
    Alain Robert

    Alain Robert , is a France rock climbing and buildering, from Digoin, Sa?ne-et-Loire, Bourgogne, France. Known as "the French Spider-Man" , or "The Human Spider", Robert is famous for scaling skyscrapers....
    , French rock
    Rock Climbing

    Rock climbing is a sport in which participants climb up or across natural Rock formations or man-made climbing wall with the goal of reaching the Summit of a formation or the endpoint of a pre-defined route....
     and urban climber
    Buildering

    Buildering is the act of climbing on the outside of buildings and other artificial structures. The word "buildering" is a portmanteau combining the word "building" with the climbing term "bouldering"....
  • Hubert Robert
    Hubert Robert

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    , French painter
  • Laurent Robert
    Laurent Robert

    Laurent Robert is a France left winger who currently plays for Larissa F.C.....
    , French footballer
  • Paul Robert
    Paul Robert

    Paul Charles Jules Robert , usually called Paul Robert, was a French lexicographer and publisher, best-known for his large Dictionnaire alphab?tique et analogique de la langue fran?aise , often called simply the Robert, and its abridgement, the Petit Robert ....
    , French lexicographer


see also Roberts (surname)
Roberts (surname)

Roberts derives from the Anglo-Saxons/Normans given name Robert, meaning "bright fame" – from the Germanic languages elements "hrod" meaning fame and "beraht" meaning bright....


Institutions

  • Robert College
    Robert College

    Robert College of Istanbul , is the most selective independent private high school in Turkey. Robert College is a co-educational, boarding school with a 65-acre wooded campus on the European side of Istanbul between the two bridges on the Bosphorus, with the Arnavutk?y district to the east, and the upscale Ulus district to the west....
     of Istanbul
    Istanbul

    Istanbul is the largest city in Turkey, List of metropolitan areas in Europe by population, and List of cities proper by population in the world with a population of 12.6 million....
  • Robert Gordon University
    Robert Gordon University

    The Robert Gordon University is a modern university located in Aberdeen, Scotland. Granted university status in 1992, Robert Gordon University currently has approximately 12,790 students at its two campuses at Garthdee and Schoolhill, studying on over 145 full-time and part-time undergraduate and postgraduate courses....
     of Scotland
    Scotland

    conventional_long_name = ScotlandAlba|common_name= Scotland|image_flag = Flag of Scotland.svg|flag_width = 130px...


See also

  • Robertson
    Robertson

    Robertson may refer to:...
    , Roberts
    Roberts

    Roberts may apply to:*.257 Roberts, a medium powered .25 caliber Cartridge *Roberts , a popular surname, especially among the Welsh.Places in the United States:...
    ,
  • Roberson
    Roberson

    Roberson is a surname, and may refer to* Anthony Roberson* Chris Roberson* Dan Roberson* Dante Roberson* Ell Roberson* Eric Roberson* Evan Evans ...
  • Robinson
    Robinson

    Robinson may refer to:...
  • 240-Robert
    240-Robert

    240-Robert was a television series that ran on American Broadcasting Company from 1979 to 1981. It chronicled the missions of "240-Robert," a specialized unit of the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department Emergency Services Detail....
  • .257 Roberts
    .257 Roberts

    The .257 Roberts a medium powered .25 caliber Cartridge known affectionately as the Bob. It has been described as the best compromise between the low recoil and flat trajectory of smaller calibers such as the 5 mm caliber and 6 mm caliber, and the strong energy but strong recoil of larger popular hunting calibers, such as the 7 mm calibe...
  • Roger
    Roger

    Roger is primarily a common first name of English, French, and Catalan language usage, from the Germanic elements hrod and ger meaning "famous with the spear"....
    , Rodger
    Rodger

    Rodger is a surname, and may refer to:* Alan Rodger, Baron Rodger of Earlsferry , Scottish judge* George Rodger , British photojournalist* N. A. M. Rodger, British naval historian...
  • Rupert
    Rupert

    Rupert is derived from the Latin Rupertus, which is a loan from the Old German Hroberahtus; thus it is a variation of modern English Robert, and can refer to:...