Robert Thompson
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Robert or Bob Thompson may refer to:
- Bob Thompson (musician)Bob Thompson (musician)Bob Thompson born Robert Lamar Thompson in San Jose was a composer, arranger, and orchestra leader from the 1950s through the 1980s...
(born 1924), American orchestra leader, arranger, composer - Bob Thompson (painter)Bob Thompson (painter)Bob Thompson was an African-American figurative painter known for his bold and colorful canvases, whose compositions were appropriated from the Old Masters. He was very prolific in his eight-year career, producing over 1000 works before his death in Rome, Italy in 1966. The Whitney Museum in New...
(1937–1966), American figurative painter - Bob Thompson (producer writer)Bob Thompson (producer writer)Bob Thompson is a British writer and producer best known for co-creating the hugely successful Bionicle intellectual property for the Lego Company and producing the original multi award-winning Lego Bionicle movies.-Career:...
, British producer and writer - Bob Thompson (wine)Bob Thompson (wine)Bob Thompson is an American wine writer considered an expert on California wine. He has been described by Frank J. Prial as "one of California's foremost wine writers" and "the sage of St...
(born 1934), American wine writer - Bobby Thompson (comedian) (1911–1988), English comedian
- Robert (Mouseman) Thompson (1876–1955), British furniture maker
- Robert A. ThompsonRobert A. ThompsonRobert Augustine Thompson was a U.S. Representative from Virginia, father of Thomas Larkin Thompson.Born near Culpeper Court House, Virginia, Thompson attended a private school at Gallipolis, Ohio, and the University of Virginia at Charlottesville, Virginia.He studied law.He was admitted to the...
(1805–1876), American politician, U.S. Representative from Virginia - Robert B. ThompsonRobert B. ThompsonRobert Blashel Thompson was an associate of Joseph Smith, Jr., a Danite and leader in the Latter Day Saint movement, and an official historian of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints....
(1811–1841), Latter Day Saint leader, historian, and newspaper editor - Robert F. ThompsonRobert F. ThompsonRobert F. Thompson is a Democratic member of the Arkansas Senate, representing the 11th District since 2007. This district includes several counties in northeast Arkansas. From 2005 to 2007, he was a State Representative for the 78th district of the Arkansas House of Representatives, representing...
(born 1971), American politician, Arkansas state senator - Robert Farris ThompsonRobert Farris ThompsonRobert Farris Thompson is the Colonel John Trumbull Professor of the History of Art at Yale University....
(born 1932), Yale University Professor and Master of Timothy Dwight College - Robert G. ThompsonRobert G. ThompsonRobert George Thompson was born on June 21, 1915 in Grants Pass, Oregon, Thompson fought on the side of the Spanish Republicans in the Civil War in Spain, attaining the rank of battalion commander with the all-American volunteer Abraham Lincoln Brigade.Following the Spanish Civil War Thompson saw...
(1915–1966), American World War II hero and Communist Party USA activist - Robert Grainger Ker Thompson (1916–1992), British soldier and counter-insurgency expert
- Robert J. ThompsonRobert J. ThompsonRobert J. Thompson was a Republican member of the Pennsylvania State Senate.-Early life:A native of West Chester, Pennsylvania, Thompson earned a degree in journalism from Penn State University in 1959. He then worked as a photographer for the Philadelphia Evening Bulletin, published in-house...
(died 2006), Pennsylvania State Senator - Robert M. ThompsonRobert M. ThompsonRobert Means Thompson was a United States Navy officer, business magnate, philanthropist and a president of the American Olympic Association. He is the namesake of the destroyer USS Thompson .-Biography:...
(1849–1930), American naval officer - Robert N. ThompsonRobert N. ThompsonRobert Norman Thompson was a Canadian politician, chiropractor, and educator. He was born in Duluth, Minnesota, to Canadian parents and moved to Canada in 1918 with his family...
(1914–1997), Canadian politician, chiropractor, and educator - Robert Thompson (American football)Robert Thompson (American football)Robert Thompson is a retired American football linebacker. He played for the University of Michigan from 1979 to 1982 and in the NFL for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers and Detroit Lions.-Early years:...
(born 1960), American football linebacker - Robert Thompson (cyclist)Robert Thompson (cyclist)Robert Thompson was a Scottish road racing cyclist who competed in the 1912 Summer Olympics.Thompson was born in Coldstream in the Scottish Borders....
(1884–?), British Olympic road racing cyclist - Robert Thompson (footballer)Robert Thompson (footballer)Robert Thompson was an English football player. Thompson played centre forward for Preston North End, Leeds United, Luton Town, Accrington Stanley, and Bury. He was a member of the inaugural Leeds United side and was the team's top scorer in their first season. He also score the team's first...
, English footballer in the 1920s - Robert Thompson (New Zealand)Robert Thompson (New Zealand)Robert Thompson was a Member of Parliament for Marsden, in Northland, New Zealand.- Member of Parliament :Robert Thompson represented Marsden in the New Zealand House of Representatives for fifteen years from 1887 to 1902....
(1840–1922), New Zealand politician - Robert Thompson (poker director)Robert Thompson (poker director)Robert Thompson is a Las Vegas poker official. He served as the tournament director on Celebrity Poker Showdown. Phil Gordon said on one broadcast that Thompson is one of the best tournament directors in Las Vegas...
, American poker official in Las Vegas - Robert Thompson (professor)Robert Thompson (professor)Robert J. Thompson is an American educator and media scholar.Thompson is the Trustee Professor of Television and Popular Culture at the S.I...
(born 1959), American academic in the fields of television and popular culture - Robert Thompson (rugby player)Robert Thompson (rugby player)Robert Thompson was an Irish rugby union forward who was a member of the British Isles XV that toured South Africa in 1891...
(1869–1952), Irish rugby union player - Robert Thompson (rugby)Robert Thompson (rugby)Robert John Thompson was a rugby union player who represented Australia.Thompson, a hooker, was born in Rotorua and claimed a total of 3 international rugby caps for Australia.-References:...
(born 1947), rugby union player who represented Australia - Robert Thompson (Soviet spy)Robert Thompson (Soviet spy)Robert Thompson was a U.S. Air Force clerk that confessed, in 1965, to passing hundreds of photos of secret documents to the Soviets while he was based in West Berlin. He received a 30-year sentence to the Lewisburg Federal Penitentiary in Pennsylvania.U.S. investigators held that he was a...
(born 1935), U.S. Air Force clerk and spy for the Soviet Union - Robert W. ThompsonRobert W. ThompsonRobert Thompson is a former Australian rules footballer who played with Melbourne University Football Club.-Sources:*Holmesby, Russell & Main, Jim . The Encyclopedia of AFL Footballers. 7th ed. Melbourne: Bas Publishing....
(1891–?), Australian rules footballer for University - Robert Thompson (born 1983), one of the two ten-year-old boys who were convicted of the murder of James BulgerMurder of James BulgerJames Patrick Bulger was a boy from Kirkby, England, who was murdered on 12 February 1993, when aged two. He was abducted, tortured and murdered by two ten-year-old boys, Robert Thompson and Jon Venables .Bulger disappeared from the New Strand Shopping Centre in Bootle, near Liverpool, while...
See also
- Robert Thomson (disambiguation)