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This article is about the given name. For other uses, see Robert (disambiguation).

"Roberto" redirects here. For other uses, see Roberto (disambiguation).

"Robertus" redirects here. For the spider, see Robertus (spider).

Robert

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King Robert I of Scotland, national hero of Scotland

Pronunciation English: /ˈrɒbərt/

French: [ʁɔbɛʁ]

German: [ˈʁoːbɛʁt]

Czech: [ˈrobɛrt]

Slovak: [ˈrɔ(ː)bert]

Serbo-Croatian: [rǒbert]

Armenian: [rɔbɛɾt]

Gender Male

Origin

Word/name Indo-European

Germanic

Meaning "fame-bright", "glory-bright", "shining with glory"

Region of origin Germanic countries (England, Scotland, Germany, Netherlands, France, Iceland,
Scandinavian region (Denmark, Sweden, Norway))

Other names

Derived Hrōþiberhtaz

Related names Variants

Rupert, Ruprecht
Boris

Robrecht

Rodbert

Raivis

Raivo

Roberts

Robin

Robinette

Nicknames

Rob (short form),

Robb (short form),

Roby (nickname),

Robbie (nickname),

Robby (nickname),

Ro (nickname),

Roe (nickname),

Bob (nickname),

Bobby (nickname)

See also Roger, Roland, Rudolph, Roderick, Roman, Rose, Herbert, Waldemar, Vladimir

The name Robert is an ancient Germanic given name, from Proto-Germanic *Hrōþi- "fame" and *berhta-
"bright" (Hrōþiberhtaz).[1] Compare Old Dutch Robrecht and Old High German Hrodebert (a compound
of Hruod (Old Norse: Hróðr) "fame, glory, honour, praise, renown" and berht "bright, light, shining"). It is
the second most frequently used given name of ancient Germanic origin.[2][3] It is also in use as a
surname. Another commonly used form of the name is Rupert.

After becoming widely used in Continental Europe it entered England in its Old French form Robert,
where an Old English cognate form (Hrēodbēorht, Hrodberht, Hrēodbēorð, Hrœdbœrð, Hrœdberð,
Hrōðberχtŕ) had existed before the Norman Conquest. The feminine version is Roberta. The Italian,
Portuguese, and Spanish form is Roberto.
Robert is also a common name in many Germanic languages, including English, German, Dutch,
Norwegian, Swedish, Scots, Danish, and Icelandic. It can be used as a French, Polish, Irish, Finnish,
Romanian, and Estonian name as well.

Contents

1 Variations

2 Popularity and trivia

3 People named Robert

3.1 Royalty

3.2 Medieval figures

3.3 Folk heroes

3.4 Nobility

3.5 Religious figures and saints

3.6 Presidents and prime ministers

3.7 Dictators

3.8 Secretaries of Defense

3.9 Wartime figures and military leaders

3.10 Other military

3.11 Nazis and communists

3.12 Nuclear physicists

3.13 Explorers

3.14 Intelligence officers

3.15 Movie industry

3.16 Musicians

3.17 Scientists

3.18 Prison officials

3.19 Criminals

3.20 Judges
3.21 Political figures

3.22 Secretaries of War

3.23 Secretaries of State

3.24 Governors

3.25 Mayors

3.26 Founding fathers of United States

3.27 Literary figures

3.28 Businessmen

3.29 Administrators of NASA

3.30 Astronauts

3.31 Sportsmen

3.32 Paranormal

3.33 Others

4 Fictional characters

5 Folklore

6 See also

7 References

Variations

Bert, Bertie, Berto, Bertus (also short for Albert or Herbert)

Beto, Betinho (Portuguese)

Bo, Bob, Bobbie, Bobby

Beau

Chrodobert, Chrodobrecht (Frankish)

Dobbie, Dobby

Boris (Bulgarian) (possibly not etymologically connected, but linked together through nickname "Bob")

Hob, Hopkin (Medieval English)

Hopcyn (Welsh)

Hrodberaht, Hrodebert, Hrodpreht (Old High German)

Rab, Rabbie (Scots)

Raibeart (Scottish Gaelic)

Rhobert (Welsh)

Roibeárd, Riobárd (Irish)

Rob, Robb, Robbie, Robby (also short for Robin)

Rod

Robbe (Dutch, Frisian and Low German short form)

Roban

Robban (Swedish)

Robbert (Dutch)

Robbi, Hrobbi, Hrobjartur, Bjartur, Art (Icelandic)

Robercik or Robuś (Polish, "Little Robert")

Robere (Old French)

Ροβῆρος, Rovēros (Greek)

Róbert (Hungarian, Icelandic, Slovak)

Robertas (Lithuanian)

Roberto (Italian, Portuguese, Spanish)

Robertino (Italian, "Little Robert")

Robertinho (Portuguese, "Little Robert")

Роберт (Robert), Роман (Roman) (Russian)

Ροβέρτος, Rovértos (Greek)

Raivo (Estonian)

Roberts (Latvian)

Raivis (Latvian form of the Estonian variant)

Robertson (English given name)

Robertus (Latin)

Robetus (Medieval misspelling?)

Robi (Croatian, Hungarian, Romanian, Serbian)

Röbi (Swiss German)

Robin (Medieval diminutive in English, Dutch, Swedish)

Robo

Robrecht (Old Dutch)

Rochbert

Rodbeard, Rodbeart

Rodbert, Rodebert, Rotbert, Roteberht, Rotebert (Germanic)

Rodbertus, Rodepertus (Latin)

Rodebrecht (Old German)

Röpke (Low German diminutive form)

Rotbryht (Old English)

Rothbert

Roopertti, Pertti, Roope (Finnish)

Robertukka, Roopertukka, Tuukka (Finnish nicknames)

Ropars, Ropartz, Roparzh (Breton)

Ruben, Rupen, Roupen (Armenian)

Reuben (Hebrew)

Rutbert, Rubert, Ruby (Old Dutch)

Rudebet, Rudbert, Rudbert, Rudpert, Rudbrecht, Rudprecht

Rupert (Dutch, English, German, Polish)

Ruperto (Spanish)

Rupertus, Rvpertvs (Latin)

Rutpert, Ruppert, Rupprecht, Ruprecht (Upper German)

Trebor (reversal)

Feminine forms:

Bobbi, Bobbie

Robbi, Robbie

Roberta
Robertina, Robertine

Robina

Robyn, Robynne

Ruprette, Rupretta (archaic French)

Surnames:

Robert, Roberts, Robertson, Roberson, Robinson, Robero, Romero, Bertson, Bertke, Robertsen,
Robertov, Robright

Popularity and trivia

Robert I of Normandy a.k.a. Robert the Magnificent

The name Robert was a royal name in France, Germany, Scotland and England during the medieval
period, and was the name of several kings, dukes, and other rulers and noblemen. It was one of the
most popular male names in medieval Europe, likely due to its frequent usage amongst royalty and
nobility. To this day, Robert remains one of the most frequently given male names.

Robert was in the top 10 most given boys' names in the United States for 47 years, from 1925 to 1972.
[4] While some names become less frequently used due to negative associations, Robert is still widely
used despite its connection to many negatively evaluated historical figures.

In Italy during the Second World War, the form of the name, Roberto, briefly acquired a new meaning
derived from, and referring to the Rome-Berlin-Tokyo Axis.[5]

The name's second component, *berhta-, is the original root for the modern English word "bright".[6]

People named Robert

Royalty

See also: List of rulers named Robert

Kings of Scotland
Robert I of Scotland (1274–1329) ("Robert the Bruce"), king and national hero of Scotland, legendary for
his victory at the Battle of Bannockburn, one of the most prominent and skilled warriors of his time who
freed Scotland from the English rule during the Wars of Scottish Independence

Robert II of Scotland (Robert Stewart) (1316–1390), one of the principal commanders at the Battle of
Halidon Hill

Robert III of Scotland (c. 1337/40–1406)

Kings of France

Robert I of France (c.866–923)

Robert II of France (972–1031)

King of Naples

Robert of Naples (1276–1343)

King of Germany

Robert of Germany (Rupertus, Rex Romanorum) (1352–1410)

King of Hungary and Croatia

Charles I Robert (1288–1342)

King of Bulgaria

Robert of Bulgaria, Tsar of the Kingdom of Bulgaria (1894–1943), one of the principal commanders of
European theatre of World War II

Dukes of Normandy

Robert I, Duke of Normandy (1000–1035), also known as Robert the Magnificent or Robert the Devil;
father of William the Conqueror

Robert Curthose (c.1051–1134, son of William the Conqueror, claimant to throne of Kingdom of
England.

Duke of Chartres

Prince Robert, Duke of Chartres, Crown Prince of France (1840–1910)

Duke of Parma

Robert I, Duke of Parma (1848–1907)

Count of Flanders

Robert I, Count of Flanders (c.1035–1093)

Robert II, Count of Flanders (c.1065–1111).

Crown Prince of Bavaria

Robert I, crown prince of Bavaria (1869–1955), also known as Prince Rupprecht, last heir apparent to the
Bavarian throne.

Latin Emperor and Emperor of Constantinople

Robert I, Latin Emperor (d. 1228), Emperor of the Latin Empire and Constantinopole

Duke of Sicily and Prince of Benevento

Robert Guiscard (c. 1015–1085), Norman nobleman, adventurer and explorer, leader of the conquest of
southern Italy and Sicily

Medieval figures

Robert III of Artois (1287–1342), Lord of Conches-en-Ouche, of Domfront, and of Mehun-sur-Yèvre, Earl
of Richmond.

Robert of Bellême, 3rd Earl of Shrewsbury, Anglo-Norman nobleman, and one of the most prominent
figures in the competition for the succession to England and Normandy, member of the House of
Bellême

Robert de Craon (died 1147), the second Grand Master of the Knights Templar from June 1136 until his
death.

Robert de Juilly (died 1377), Grand Master of the Knights Hospitaller from 1374 to his death

Robert IV of Sablé (1150–1193), eleventh Grand Master of the Knights Templar from 1191 to 1192 and
Lord of Cyprus from 1191 to 1192.

Folk heroes

Robert Huntington, known as Robin Hood, legendary heroic outlaw and nobleman originally depicted in
English folklore, highly skilled archer and swordsman, sometimes regarded as a national hero of England

Robert Roy Macgregor (1671–1734), Scottish outlaw and national hero

Nobility

Robert Benson, 1st Baron Bingley

Robert Bertie, 1st Earl of Lindsey

Robert Bruce, 1st Earl of Ailesbury

Robert Carey, 1st Earl of Monmouth

Robert Carr, 1st Earl of Somerset

Robert Cecil, 1st Viscount Cecil of Chelwood, British lawyer, politician and diplomat, one of the
architects of the League of Nations;

Robert Cecil, 1st Earl of Salisbury

Sir Robert Dashwood, 1st Baronet, English politician

Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex, English nobleman and military commander

Robert Dudley, 1st Earl of Leicester, British statesman and military commander, governor-general of
British Empire

Robert Devereux, 3rd Earl of Essex, British nobleman and military leader in English Civil War and
Roundhead

Robert Finlay, 1st Viscount Finlay, Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain

Sir Robert Gordon, 1st Baronet, Scottish politician and courtier

Robert Greville, 2nd Baron Brooke, English Baron, military commander and Roundhead general

Robert Harley, British statesman and Master of the Mint

Robert Henley, 1st Earl of Northington, Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain

Robert Herbert, 12th Earl of Pembroke

Sir Robert Inglis, 2nd Baronet, English Conservative politician;

Robert Kerr, 1st Earl of Ancram

Robert Kerr, 1st Marquess of Lothian

Sir Robert Kingsmill, 1st Baronet, Royal navy officer

Robert III de La Marck, Seigneur of Fleuranges, Marshal of France

Robert Maxwell, 1st Earl of Nithsdale, Scottish nobleman and military commander

Robert Maxwell, 5th Lord Maxwell, Scottish soldier and nobleman, member of the Council of Regency of
the Kingdom of Scotland, Regent of the Isle of Arran, patriarch of the House of Maxwell/Clan Maxwell

Robert Paston, 1st Earl of Yarmouth

Sir Robert Peel, 1st Baronet, British politician and industrialist and one of early textile manufacturers of
the Industrial Revolution, father of Sir Robert Peel, twice Prime Minister of the United Kingdom

Robert Pierrepont, 1st Earl of Kingston-upon-Hull

Robert Raymond, 1st Baron Raymond

Robert Reid, 1st Earl Loreburn

Robert Rich, 2nd Earl of Warwick

Robert Rolfe, 1st Baron Cranworth, Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain

Lord Robert Walpole, 2nd Earl of Orford, British peer and politician

Robert Windsor-Clive, 1st Earl of Plymouth, British nobleman and Conservative politician

Robert Stewart, 1st Marquess of Londonderry

Robert Stewart, Viscount Castlereagh, Irish/British statesman, and British Foreign Secretary

Religious figures and saints

See also: Saint Robert (disambiguation)

Saint Robert Bellarmine (died in 1621), Jesuit Doctor of the Church, one of the leaders of Roman
Inquisition and Galileo affair

Saint Robert of Bury (died 1181)

Robert Holman, 36th Abbot of Ten Duinen Abbey

Saint Robert of Molesme (d. 1111), founder of the Cistercian Order

Saint Robert of Newminster (d. 1159), established the Abbey of Newminster at Morpeth,
Northumberland

Roberto de Nobili (1577–1656), Italian Jesuit missionary to Southern India

Roberto de' Nobili (1541–1559), Roman Catholic cardinal

Robert de Sorbon (1201–1274), French theologian and founder of College of Sorbonne

Saint Robert de Turlande (d. 1067), founding abbot of the Abbey of Casa Dei, also called Chaise-Dieu

Presidents and prime ministers

British Prime Ministers

Lord Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury, British statesman, serving as Prime Minister
three times for a total

Robert Harley, 1st Earl of Oxford and Earl Mortimer, Lord High Treasurer of the British Empire,
sometimes regarded as the first Prime Minister of Great Britain

Robert Jenkinson, 2nd Earl of Liverpool, British statesman and Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
from 1812 to 1827, Secretary of State for War and the Colonies

Sir Robert Peel, British statesman who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, father of
modern British policing, leader of Peelite, founder of Conservative Party of United Kingdom and the
Metropolitan Police Service

Sir Robert Walpole, British statesman who served as the first Prime Minister of Great Britain

Australian Prime Ministers

Robert "Bob" Hawke, Australian politician who served as Prime Minister of Australia and Leader of the
Labor Party

Sir Robert Menzies, Australian politician who twice served as Prime Minister of Australia, in office from
1939 to 1941 and again from 1949 to 1966

Presidents and Prime Ministers from North America

Sir Robert Borden, Canadian lawyer and politician who served as the eighth prime minister of Canada

Robert F. Kennedy, American politician and lawyer who served as the 64th United States Attorney
General, United States Senator for New York, brother of the U.S. president John F. Kennedy

Presidents and Prime Ministers from Asia / Oceania

Robert Kocharyan, Armenian politician who served as the first president of Nagorno-Karabakh Republic
and the second president of Armenia between 1998 and 2008

Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton, English statesman, Conservative politician, and poet, who
served as Viceroy of India (Governor-General) between 1876 and 1880 and British Ambassador to
France from 1887 to 1891

Sir Robert Stout, New Zealand politician who served as 13th Prime Minister of New Zealand on two
occasions in the 19th century, and later Chief Justice of New Zealand

Presidents and Prime Ministers from Europe

Robert Abela, Maltese lawyer and politician, currently serving as the 14th prime minister of Malta

Robert Fico, Slovak politician who served as Prime Minister of Slovakia from 2012 to 2018

Robert Haab, Swiss politician and President of Switzerland

Robert Schuman, Luxembourg-born French statesman, Christian Democrat, activist, Prime Minister of
France, a reformist Minister of Finance and a Foreign Minister, one of the founders of the European
Union, the Council of Europe and NATO;

Robert Themptander, Swedish politician and public official who served as Prime Minister of Sweden
from 1884 to 1888

Presidents and Prime Ministers from Central / South America

Roberto Micheletti, Honduran politician who served as the president of Honduras following the 2009
Honduran coup d'état

Roberto María Ortiz, 19th president of Argentina during the Infamous Decade

Roberto Suazo Córdova, 29th President of Honduras

Roberto Sánchez Vilella, Governor of Puerto Rico, Head of State and Head of Government of Puerto Rico

Dictators

Baron Robert Clive (1725–1774), British army officer and privateer who established the military and
political supremacy of the East India Company in Bengal, served as the Commander-in-Chief of British
India

Robert Mugabe (1924–2019), former Zimbabwean politician and revolutionary, Prime Minister of
Zimbabwe from 1980 to 1987 and President (Dictator) from 1987 to 2017

Secretaries of Defense
Robert Gates (1943), American statesman, scholar, intelligence analyst, and university president who
served as the director of Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), Director of Central Intelligence and 22nd
United States Secretary of Defense from 2006 to 2011

Robert A. Lovett (1895–1986), fourth United States Secretary of Defense

Robert McNamara (1916–2009), American business executive and the eighth United States Secretary of
Defense

Wartime figures and military leaders

American army

Robert N. Adams, American Brevet Brigadier General during the American Civil War

Robert S. Beightler, American military officer, major General, military governor of Okinawa, War
Department General Staff, commander of the 37th Infantry Division

Robert C. Bradshaw, American Brevet Brigadier General during the American Civil War

Robert C. Buchanan, American military officer, one of the principal commanders of Black Hawk War and
Rogue River Wars

Robert Lee Bullard, senior officer in the United States Army during World War I

Robert L. Eichelberger, general officer in the United States Army who commanded the Eighth United
States Army in the Southwest Pacific Area during World War II

Robert L. Ghormley, admiral in the United States Navy, serving as Commander of South Pacific Area
during World War II

Robert Hoke, Confederate major general during the American Civil War

Robert B. Johnston, retired United States Marine Corps lieutenant general whose last duty assignment
was as Commander, Marine Forces Atlantic Marine Forces Europe and II Marine Expeditionary Force

Robert E. Lee, American and Confederate general, supreme commander of the Confederate States Army
during American Civil War

Robert A. Lewis, United States Army Air Forces officer serving in the Pacific Theatre during World War II,
one of the pilots of the Enola G

Robert McDade, United States Army colonel,

Robert McGowan Littlejohn, major general in the United States Army, leader of War Assets
Administration

Robert C. Murphy, American colonel during the American Civil War

Robert "Robin" Olds Jr., American fighter pilot and general officer in the U.S. Air Force

Robert Olds Sr., general officer in the US Army Air Forces

Robert Patterson, Irish-born United States major general during the American Civil War
Robert W. Porter Jr., United States Army four-star general who served as Commander in Chief, United
States Southern Command from 1965 to 1969

Robert Gould Shaw, American officer in the Union Army during the American Civil War, commander of
the first all-African American regiment

Robert Sink, senior United States Army officer who fought during World War II, the Korean War, and
early parts of the Vietnam War

Robert F. Stockton, United States Navy commodore, United States Senator from New Jersey, Military
Governor of California

Robert A. Theobald, United States Navy officer who served in World War I and World War II, achiever of
the rank of rear admiral, the air forces commander during Attack on Pearl Harbor

Robert F. Travis, United States Army Air Forces general during World War II

Robert Toombs, American lawyer, planter, army general, and politician from Georgia who became one
of the organizers of the Confederacy and served as its first Secretary of State

Robert Treat, American colonial leader, militia officer and governor of the Connecticut Colony between
1683 and 1698 and the founder of Newark, New Jersey

Robert C. Tyler, Confederate brigadier general during the American Civil War

Robert O. Tyler, American soldier who served as a general in the Union Army during the American Civil
War

British / Scottish army

Sir Robert Abercromby, British general

Robert Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powell, British Army officer, writer, founder and first Chief Scout
of the world-wide Boy Scout Movement

Robert Blake, British Royal Navy officer and one of the most important military commanders of the
Commonwealth of England

Robert Brooke-Popham, senior commander in the Royal Air Force and leader of Operation Matador
(1941)

Robert Brownrigg, British statesman, general and soldier who brought the last part of Sri Lanka under
British rule, Governors of British Ceylon, General Officer Commanding, Ceylon

Sir Robert Calder, British naval officer

Robert H. Dick, Scottish soldier

Robert Rollo Gillespie, officer in the British Army

Robert Haining, British Army officer

Robert Peverell Hichens, British Lieutenant Commander and the most highly decorated officer of the
Royal Navy Volunteer Reserve (RNVR)

Robert Kekewich, British Army officer

Sir Robert Mansell, English Royal Navy officer and a member of parliament (MP), mostly for Welsh
constituencies

Robert Monckton, officer of the British Army and also a colonial administrator in British North America

Robert Munro, 18th Baron of Foulis, known as the Black Baron, Scottish soldier and military warlord

Robert Monro, Scottish general during Thirty Years' War

Sir Robert Moray, Scottish soldier, statesman, diplomat, judge, spy and natural philosopher, one of the
founders of Royal Society and Freemasonry

Robert Orme, British soldier and military leader

Sir Robert Pigot, 2nd Baronet, British Army officer during the American Revolutionary War

Robert Rogers, American colonial frontiersman and officer in the British Army, commander of Rogers'
Rangers

Robert Ross, officer in the British Army, born in Ireland

Robert Sale, British army officer

Sir Robert Stopford, distinguished officer in the Royal Navy

Robert Stanford Tuck, British fighter pilot, flying ace, and test pilot, member of the Royal Air Force, war
hero of World War II

Robert Sturges, British Royal marine general

Robert "Roy" Urquhart, British Army officer

Robert Whittaker, City of London banker and a senior officer in Britain's part-time Territorial Army (TA),
chief of staff at Anti-Aircraft Command during World War II

Australian army

Robert A. Little, World War I fighter pilot and the most successful Australian flying ace

German / Austrian army

Robert von Eggenberg, Austrian colonel-general

Robert Gysae, a German U-boat commander in the Kriegsmarine during World War II

Robert Ritter von Greim, German Field Marshal and pilot

Robert Kosch, Prussian general in the Imperial German army

Robert Zapp, German U-boat commander in World War II

Irish army

Robert Emmet, Irish Republican, orator and rebel leader

Cuban army

Roberto Rodriguez Fernandez, Cuban revolutionary

Italian army

Roberto Farinacci, leading Italian Fascist politician and important member of the Grand Council of
Fascism, Secretary of National Fascist Party and one of the leading perpetrators of the Holocaust in Italy

French army

Robert Nivelle, French artillery officer who led the French forces during World War I as commander in-
chief of French army

Russian army

Robert Bruce, first chief commander of Saint Petersburg

Robert Segercrantz, Russian general in the Russian Imperial army

Robert von Ungern-Sternberg, also known as The Mad Baron or The Bloody White Baron, Austrian-born,
Russian Empire's Baltic German anti-Bolshevik lieutenant general in the Russian Civil War

Robert Viren, general, admiral and career naval officer in the Imperial Russian Navy in Russian Empire

Other military

Robert B. Abrams, four-star general in the United States Army

Robert Bartels (1911–1943), German U-boat commander in World War II

Robert Grierson Combe, Scottish-Canadian military officer

Robert E. Cushman Jr., United States Marine Corps general who served as the 25th Commandant of the
Marine Corps

Robert Duff, British Royal Navy officer

Robert Kajuga, national president and leader of the MRND-affiliated extremist militia, the Interahamwe

Robert J. Miller, United States Army Special Forces soldier

Robert Miller Montague, lieutenant general in the United States Army

Robert Neller, retired United States Marine Corps four-star general who served as the 37th
Commandant of the Marine Corps

Robert H. Reed, General in the United States Air Force and the former chief of staff of the Supreme
Headquarters Allied Powers Europe

Robert Rheault, American colonel in the U.S. Army Special Forces

Robert Roddam, British Royal Navy officer

Robert M. Shoemaker, United States Army general and former commander of the United States Army
Forces Command, inductee into the Aviation Hall of Fame

Nazis and communists

Robert Eikhe, Latvian Bolshevik, provincial head of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union in Siberia

Robert Grawitz, Nazi German physician and an SS functionary, chief physician of the SS, head of the
German Red Cross

Robert Ley, DAF Führer of Nazi Germany (head of the German Labour Front), high-ranking member of
the SS, labour and economical leader of Nazi Germany, founder of Volkswagen, creator of NSDAP School
system

Robert Mulka, German Nazi SS-Hauptsturmführer and later SS-Obersturmführer, commander of

Auschwitz concentration camp

Robert Ritter, Nazi German "racial scientist" doctor of psychology and medicine, with a background in
child psychiatry and the biology of criminality

Robert Wagner, Gauleiter of Gau Baden, Gauleiter of Alsace and head of the civil government of Alsace
during the Nazi German occupation of France during World War II

Nuclear physicists

Robert Oppenheimer (1904—1967), American theoretical physicist, professor of physics at the

University of California, developer and inventor of the atomic bomb

Robert Serber (1909—1997), American physicist who participated in the Manhattan Project

Explorers

Robert Ballard, retired United States Navy officer and a professor of oceanography at the University of
Rhode Island

Robert Bartlett, Newfoundland-born American Arctic explorer of the late 19th and early 20th centuries,
accompanied United States Navy Commander Robert Peary on his attempts to reach the North Pole

Robert O'Hara Burke, Irish soldier and police officer who explored Australia, leader of the first
expedition to cross Australia from south to north

Robert Dudley, English explorer and cartographer

Sir Robert McClure, Irish explorer of the Arctic who in 1854 traversed the Northwest Passage by boat
and sledge and was the first to circumnavigate the Americas

Robert Peary, American explorer and United States Navy officer who made several expeditions to the
Arctic, reached the geographic North Pole with his expedition on April 6, 1909, believed to be the first
man to have ever reached the North Pole
Robert Falcon Scott, British Royal Navy officer and explorer who led two expeditions to the Antarctic
regions

Robert Swan, the first person to walk to both Poles

Intelligence officers

Robert P. Ashley Jr., retired lieutenant general in the United States Army who served as the Director of
the Defense Intelligence Agency from 2017 to 2020

Robert Hanssen, former Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) secret agent who spied for Soviet and
Russian intelligence services against the United States from 1979 to 2001

Robert S. Mueller III, American attorney who served as the sixth Director of the Federal Bureau of
Investigation (FBI) from 2001 to 2013

Movie industry

Robert Altman (1925–2006), American film director, screenwriter, and producer

Robert "Robbie" Amell (born 1988), Canadian-American actor and producer

Robert "Rob" Benedict (born 1970), American actor and writer

Robert "Bob" Bergen, American voice actor

Robert Carlyle (born 1961), Scottish actor

Robert "Bob" Chapek (born 1960), American media executive and businessman, chairman of Disney
Parks, Experiences and Products, the current CEO of Walt Disney Company

Robert "Robbie" Coltrane (born 1950), Scottish actor and author

Robert Cummings (1910–1990), American actor

Robert Davi (born 1954), American actor

Robert De Niro (born 1953), American actor, director and producer

Robert FitzGerald Diggs (born 1969), American rapper, actor, filmmaker, and record producer known as
RZA

Robert Downey Sr. (1936–2021), American actor, director and producer

Robert Downey Jr. (born 1965), American actor

Roberto Draghetti (1960–2020), Italian actor and voice actor

Robert Duvall (born 1931), American actor

Robert Eggers (born 1983), American film director, screenwriter and production designer

Robert Englund (born 1947), American actor, voice actor, singer and film director

Robert Fuller, American horse rancher and actor

Robert Goulet (1933–2007), French-Canadian singer and actor

Robert Guillaume (1927–2017), American actor and singer

Robert Gustafsson (born 1964), Swedish comedian and actor

Robert Hardy (1925–2017), British actor

Robert Hays (born 1947), American actor

Robert Hegyes, American actor

Robert "Bob" Iger (born 1951), American media executive, film producer, author and businessman,
chairman and chief executive officer of The Walt Disney Company

Robert Irwin (born 2003), Australian television personality and wildlife photographer

Robert "Rob" Kardashian (born 1987), American television personality

Robert Knepper (born 1959), American actor

Robert Lansing (1928–1994), American stage, film and television actor

Robert "Rob" Letterman (born 1970), American film director and screenwriter

Robert "Rob" Lowe (born 1964), American actor, producer and director

Robert "Rob" Marshall (born 1960), American film and theater director, producer and choreographer

Robert McKimson (1910–1977), American animator and illustrator, best known for his work on creating
the Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies series of cartoons

Robert Duncan McNeill (born 1964), American director, producer, and actor

Robert "Rob" Minkoff (born 1962), American film and animation director

Robert Mitchum (1917–1997), American film actor, director, author, poet, composer and singer

Robert Montgomery (1904–1981), American actor, director and producer

Robert Mulligan (1925–2008), American film director

Robert Patrick (born 1958), American actor and voice actor

Robert Pattinson (born 1986), British actor

Robert "Bob" Peck (1945–1999), English stage, television and film actor

Robert Redford,(born 1936), American actor, director and producer

Robert Rodriguez (born 1968), American film director, screenwriter, producer, musician, filmmaker and
visual effects supervisor, best known for his film Alita: Battle Angel

Robert Ryan (1909–1973), American actor

Robert Schwentke,(born 1968), German film director

Robert Sheehan (born 1988), Irish actor

Robert Singer, American film director and producer

Robert Smigel (born 1960), American actor, voice actor, comedian, humorist, writer, director, producer
and puppeteer

Robert Adolf Stemmle (1903–1974), German screenwriter and film director

Robert Stromberg (born 1965), American special effects artist, designer and film director

Robert Taylor (1911–1969) American actor, one of the most famous Hollywood actors of his time

Robert Vaughn (1932–2016), American actor

Robert Wagner (born 1930), American actor

Robert Walker (1918–1951), American actor

Robert B. Weide (born 1959, American screenwriter, producer and director

Robert Wiene (1873—1938), film director of the silent era of German cinema

Robert Wise (1914–2005), American film director

Robert Young (1907–1998), American actor

Robert Zemeckis (born 1952), Lithuanian-Italian born American film director, screenwriter and producer,
best known for his "Back to the Future" film trilogy, frequently credited as an innovator in visual effects

Musicians

Record producers and DJs

Robert Abisi, member of the electronic music and DJ duo Lost Kings

Robert Babicz, Polish born German electronic music producer, DJ and mastering engineer

Robert van de Corput, real name of the award-winning Dutch DJ, twice worlds No.1 DJ, composer and
music producer Hardwell;

Robert DeLong, American electronic musician, record producer, composer and performer

Robert Hughes, real name of the Canadian trap music DJ and record producer known as Vincent and
Tiger Drool;

Robert Miles, Swiss-born Italian DJ and record producer, inventor of the dream trance genre;

Robert "Bob" Rifo, founder of the Italian electronic music project The Bloody Beetroots

Robert "Rob" Swire, Australian electronic music producer and DJ

Singers

Roberto Carlos, Brazilian singer-songwriter, also known as King of Latin Music or simply The King
Robert "Bob" Chilcott, British choral composer, conductor, and singer

Robert "Bob" Crosby, American jazz singer and bandleader, best known for his group the Bob-Cats

Robert "Bobby" Darin, American singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, impressionist, and actor

Robert Francis, American multi-instrumentalist, singer, songwriter;

Robert Kelly, American singer, songwriter, record producer, and former semi-professional basketball
player who helped redefine R&B and hip hop, earning the nicknames "King of R&B" and "King of Pop-
Soul"

Robert Johnson, American blues singer-songwriter and musician;

Robert "Bob" Marley, Jamaican singer-songwriter, widely regarded as one of the greatest musicians of
all time

Robert "Bobby" McFerrin, American musician, singer, conductor, arranger and record producer

Roberto "Bert" Nievera, Filipino-American singer

Robert Palmer, English composer, songwriter, singer and record producer;

Robert Ritchie, American singer-songwriter, rapper, musician, record producer, and actor known as Kid
Rock;

Robert "Bob" Seger, American singer-songwriter and guitarist

Robert Tepper, American songwriter, composer, recording artist and singer

Robert "Bobby" Vee, American singer, songwriter, musician and teen idol

Robert "Robbie" Williams, British singer and songwriter

Robert "Rob" Zombie, American musician, singer, songwriter, programmer, voice actor, filmmaker and
founding member of the heavy metal band White Zombie

Robert Allen Zimmerman, real name of American singer-songwriter Bob Dylan

Band members

Robert "Rob" Bourdon, American musician, drummer and founding member of the rock band Linkin Park

Robert Fripp, English musician, songwriter, and record producer, best known as the guitarist, founder
and longest-lasting member of the band King Crimson

Robert "Rob" Halford, English singer and songwriter, lead vocalist of the Grammy Award-winning heavy
metal band Judas Priest, also a member of Fight, Two, Halford, Great White and Black Sabbath

Robert Hunter, American poet, principle lyricist for the rock band Grateful Dead

Robert "Rob" Hyman, American singer, songwriter, keyboard and accordion player, producer, arranger,
recording studio owner and a founding member of the rock band The Hooters

Robert Janson, Polish composer, singer, guitarist, leader and co-founder of the band Varius Manx
Robert "Robby" Krieger, American guitarist and singer-songwriter best known as the guitarist of the rock
band The Doors, inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame

Robert Del Naja, British artist, musician, singer and songwriter, founding member of the band Massive
Attack

Robert Plant, English singer, songwriter, and musician, lead singer and lyricist of the English rock band
Led Zeppelin;

Robert Smith, lead singer of The Cure;

Robert Trujillo, American singer and songwriter, one of the members of American heavy metal band
Metallica;

Robert "Bob" Weir, American musician and songwriter, one of the founders of the rock band Grateful
Dead, also a member of bands The Other Ones, The Dead, Kingfish, Bobby and the Midnites, RatDog,
Furthur and Dead & Company

Rappers

Robert Rihmeek Williams, American rapper, singer and activist known as Meek Mill

Robert van Winkle, real name of American rapper, actor, and television host Vanilla Ice

Composers

Robert Kajanus, Finnish composer, conductor and teacher, founder of the Helsinki Philharmonic
Orchestra

Robert Schumann, German composer and music critic, one of the greatest composers of romantic era;

Robert Volkmann, German composer

Robert "Bob" Wiseman, Canadian film composer, songwriter and music teacher

Instrumentalists

Robert "Rob" Barrett, guitarist for death metal band Cannibal Corpse

Robert "Bobby" Hackett, American jazz musician

Robert "Bob" Kerr, comic musician who plays trumpet and cornet

Robert Mirabal, Native American musician and flute player

Robert "Rob" Scallon, American YouTuber, musician and multi-instrumentalist

Scientists

Robert Boyle, British natural philosopher, chemist, physicist, and inventor, first modern chemist, and
one of the founders of modern chemistry

Robert Bunsen, German chemist who discovered caesium in 1860 and rubidium in 1861, pioneer of
photochemistry and organoarsenic chemistry and developer of the Bunsen burner
Robert F. Christy, Canadian-American theoretical physicist, astrophysicist, one of the last surviving
people to have worked on the Manhattan Project during World War II,

Robert Dorsey Coale, American chemist and colonel, Professor and Dean at the University of Maryland,
Baltimore

Robert Darwin, English medical doctor, who today is best known as the father of the naturalist Charles
Robert Darwin

Robert Esnault-Pelterie, French aircraft designer and spaceflight theorist, developer of ballistic missiles,
father of modern rocketry

Robert Fulton, American engineer and inventor who is widely credited with developing a commercially
successful steamboat known as North River Steamboat

Robert H. Goddard, American engineer, professor, physicist, and inventor, credited with creating and
building the world's first liquid-fueled rocket, father of the modern rocketry

Robert C. Green, American medical geneticist, physician, and public health researcher

Robert J. Van de Graaff, engineer and physicist, inventor of high-voltage Van de Graaff generators

Robert Gardiner Hill, British surgeon specialising in the treatment of lunacy

Robert Hooke, English natural philosopher, architect and polymath, best known for discovering and
naming the Cell in 1665

Sir Robert Jones, 1st Baronet, Welsh orthopaedic surgeon who helped to establish the modern specialty
of orthopaedic surgery in Britain, early proponent of the use of radiography in orthopaedics, and
described the eponymous Jones fracture

Robert Koch, German physician and microbiologist, founder of modern bacteriology, received the Nobel
Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1905 for his research on Tuberculosis

Robert Liston, Scottish surgeon, noted for his speed and skill in an era prior to anaesthetics, when speed
made a difference in terms of pain and survival

Robert Andrews Millikan, American experimental physicist honored with the Nobel Prize for Physics in
1923 for the measurement of the elementary electric charge and for his work on the photoelectric effect

Sir Robert Robinson, Nobel Prize and Medal of Freedom winning British organic chemist

Robert A. Rolfe, English botanist specialising in the study of orchids

Robert Shapiro, professor emeritus of chemistry at New York University, best known for his work on the
origin of life

Robert Winston, British professor, medical doctor, scientist

Robert Crooke Wood, American physicist and neurologist during the American Civil War

Robert W. Wood, American physicist and inventor who is often cited as being a pivotal contributor to
the field of optics and a pioneer of infrared photography and ultraviolet photography
Robert J. White, American neurosurgeon best known for his head transplants on living monkeys

Prison officials

Robert McKenty, warden of Eastern State Penitentiary

Robert J. Kirby, 45th commandant of Sing Sing prison

Criminals

Robert J. Anderson (1966–2006), American murderer

Robert Bales (born 1973), former United States army soldier who committed the Kandahar massacre

Robert John Bardo, American assassin of Rebecca Schaeffer

Robert Berdella, American serial killer, known as The Kansas City Butcher and The Collector

Robert H. Birch, (c. 1827 – c. 1866), American criminal

Robert Black, Scottish serial killer

Robert Eugene Brashers (1958–1999), American serial killer and rapist

Robert Charles Browne (born 1952), American murderer

Robert Anthony Buell (1940–2002), American serial killer

Robert Edward Chambliss (1904–1985), white supremacist terrorist

Robert Glen Coe (1956–2000), American murderer

Robert Durst (1943–2022), American convicted murderer

Robert Mark Edwards (born 1961), American murderer

Robert William Fisher (born 1961), American fugitive

Robert Newton Ford, 19th century American outlaw

Robert Garrow, American spree killer

Robert Hansen (1939–2014), American serial killer known as "The Butcher Baker"

Robert Hawkins, mass murderer who perpetrated the Westroads Mall shooting

Robert Seldon Lady (born 1954), United States agent convicted of kidnapping in Italy

Robert A. Long, American spree killer who perpetrated the 2021 Atlanta spa shootings

Robert "Bobby" Long, American serial killer and rapist

Robert Jay Mathews, American neo-Nazi terrorist and the leader of The Order, an American white
supremacist militant group

Robert Maudsley, English serial killer

Robert Napper, British serial killer

Robert Perrino (1938–1992), Bonanno crime family associate and murder victim

Robert Pickton, Canadian serial killer

Robert Ben Rhoades, American serial killer known as "The Truck Stop Killer"

Robert Lloyd Schellenberg, Canadian drug contrabandist

Robert M. Shelton, leader of United Klans of America, a Ku Klux Klan group

Robert Steinhäuser, German mass murderer and perpetrator of the Erfurt school massacre

Robert Stroud, a convicted murderer, American federal prisoner and author known as the "Birdman of
Alcatraz" who has been cited as one of the most notorious criminals in the United States

Robert Tilton, American televangelist and fraudster

Robert Trimbole, Australian businessman, drug baron and organised crime boss

Robert Lee Yates, American serial killer from Spokane, Washington

Judges

Robert J. Cindrich, American judge, former United States district judge of the United States District Court
for the Western District of Pennsylvania

Robert H. Jackson, American attorney and judge who served as an Associate Justice of the United States
Supreme Court, previously served as United States Solicitor General, and United States Attorney
General, the Chief United States Prosecutor at the Nuremberg Trials

Robert Morgenthau, American lawyer, District Attorney for New York County and United States Attorney
for the Southern District of New York

Robert Price, British judge and politician

Robert Rajanayagam Selvadurai (1894–1973), Sri Lankan Tamil lawyer, police magistrate, and civil
servant

Political figures

Robert Buckland, Welsh Conservative Party politician and barrister who served as Solicitor General for
England and Wales and Minister of State for Prisons, currently serving as Secretary of State for Justice
and Lord Chancellor

Robert J. Bulkley, United States Democratic Party Politician from Ohio;

Robert Baird, American clergyman and author

Robert Byrd, American lawyer and politician who served as a United States Senator from West Virginia
for over 51 years, from 1959 until his death in 2010

Robert Chadwick, Pennsylvania State Representative

Robert J. Clendening, Pennsylvania State Representative

Robert Crosser, U.S. Representative from Ohio, the longest serving member of the United States House
of Representatives from the state of Ohio

Robert "Bob" Dole, American politician and attorney who represented Kansas in the United States
Senate from 1969 to 1996

Robert Budd Dwyer, the 30th State Treasurer of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, best remembered
for his public suicide on live TV;

Robert Gichimu Githinji, Kenyan MP

Robert A. Green, U.S Representative from Florida

Arthur Robert Guinness, Zealand politician and Speaker of the House of Representatives

Robert Gunawardena (1904–1971), founder of the Trotskyist Lanka Sama Samaja Party, diplomat

Robert Habeck, German politician and writer, Vice Chancellor of Germany, Federal Minister for
Economic Affairs and Climate Action

Robert G. Harper, a Federalist, member of the United States Senate from Maryland, serving from
January 1816 until December of the same year

Robert H. Foerderer, U.S. Congressman from Pennsylvania from 1901 to 1903

Robert M. La Follette Jr., U.S. senator from Wisconsin from 1925 to 1947

Robert J. Gamble, Representative and Senator from South Dakota

Robert Edward Jayatilaka, Sri Lankan Sinhala politician

Sir Robert Laurie, 5th Baronet, Scottish soldier and politician who sat in the House of Commons from
1774 to 1804

Robert Lee Henry, Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives from Texas from
1897 to 1917;

Robert Hertzberg, American politician serving as Majority Leader in the California State Senate

Robert Lowe, British statesman and pivotal figure who shaped British politics in the latter half of the
19th century

Roberto Mangabeira Unger, Brazilian philosopher and politician

Robert James Manion, Canadian politician best known for leading the Conservative Party of Canada from
1938 until 1940.

Robert "Bob" Moses, American educator and civil rights activist

Robert "Beto" O'Rourke, American politician

Robert Schmidt, Reich Minister of Food and Agriculture of Germany

Robert Sobukwe, prominent South African political dissident and teacher who founded and became the
first president of the Pan Africanist Congress

Robert Roosevelt, a sportsman, author and politician who served as a United States representative from
New York and as Minister to the Hague, brother of the president of America Theodore Roosevelt;

Robert K. Steel, American businessman, financier and government official;

Robert A. Taft, American conservative politician, lawyer, and scion of the Taft family;

Robert L. "Bob" Turner, American businessman and politician

Robert F. Williams, American civil rights leader and author best known for serving as president of the
Monroe, North Carolina chapter of the NAACP

Secretaries of War

Robert Todd Lincoln, American politician, lawyer, and businessman, the first son of Abraham Lincoln,
United States Secretary of War and United States Minister to the United Kingdom

Robert P. Patterson, United States Secretary of War

Secretaries of State

Lord Robert Crewe-Milnes, 1st Marquess of Crewe, Secretary of State for India during World War I and
Lord Lieutenant of Ireland

Robert M. T. Hunter, Virginia lawyer, politician and plantation owner, U.S. Representative (1837–1843,
1845–1847), Speaker of the House (1839–1841), and U.S. Senator (1847–1861), during the American
Civil War, the Confederate States Secretary of State (1861–1862) and then a Confederate Senator
(1862–1865)

Robert Smith, second United States Secretary of the Navy from 1801 to 1809 and the sixth United States
Secretary of State from 1809 to 1811

Sir Robert Southwell, Irish diplomat, Secretary of State for Ireland and President of the Royal Society
from 1690

Governors

Robert J. Bentley, American politician and physician who served as the 53rd Governor of Alabama from
2011 until 2017;

Robert Brooke, soldier and Virginia political figure who served as the tenth Governor of Virginia

Robert Brooke, lieutenant-colonel in the army of Bengal and governor of the island of St Helena from
1788 to 1800

Robert Carter I, American colonist, Colonial Governor of Virginia and Speaker of the Virginia House of
Burgesses;

Robert Stockton Green, American Democratic Party politician, who served as the 27th Governor of New
Jersey from 1887 to 1890
Robert Hunter, British military officer, colonial governor of New York and New Jersey from 1710 to 1720,
and governor of Jamaica from 1727 to 1734;

Robert M. La Follette, American lawyer and politician who served as the 20th Governor of Wisconsin;

Robert S. Kerr, American businessman and politician, 12th Governor of Oklahoma

Robert S. Kerr III, American politician, Lieutenant Governor of Oklahoma

Robert Lowry, American politician and a Confederate States Army general during the American Civil
War, who served as 32nd Governor of Mississippi;

Robert D. Orr, American politician and diplomat who served as the 45th Governor of Indiana from 1981
to 1989

Robert E. Quinn, American attorney and politician from Rhode Island who served as the 58th Governor
of Rhode Island and Judge for the Rhode Island Superior Court

Robert Marcellus Stewart, 14th Governor of Missouri from 1857 to 1861, during the years just prior to
the American Civil War;

Robert Yellowtail, leader of the Crow Nation, the first Native American to hold the post of Agency
Superintendent at a reservation in the Crow Indian Reservation

Mayors

Robert Worth Bingham, American politician, judge, United States Ambassador to the United Kingdom
and mayor of Louisville, Kentucky

Robert Brent, the first Mayor of Washington, D.C., the federal capital of the United States;

Robert T. Conrad, the first mayor of Philadelphia to take office following the Consolidation Act of 1854;

Robert "Rob" Ford, Canadian politician and businessman who served as the 64th Mayor of Toronto;

Robert King High, American politician who served as 29th mayor of the city of Miami;

Robert H. Morris, 64th mayor of New York City;

Robert F. Wagner Jr., American politician who served three terms as the mayor of New York City from
1954 through 1965

Founding fathers of United States

Robert R. Livingston, American lawyer, politician, diplomat from New York, 1st United States Secretary
of Foreign Affairs, 1st Chancellor of New York and a Founding Father of the United States

Robert Morris, English-born merchant, United States Secretary of the Navy, United States
Superintendent of Finance and a Founding Father of the United States

Robert Treat Paine, American lawyer, politician and Founding Father of the United States who signed
the Continental Association and the Declaration of Independence as a representative of Massachusetts

Literary figures
Robert Browning, English poet and playwright whose mastery of the dramatic monologue made him one
of the foremost 19th century poets

Robert Burns, Scottish/British poet and lyricist, widely regarded as the national poet of Scotland

Robert Commanday, American music critic, chief classical music critic of the San Francisco Chronicle
(1964–1994)

Robert Cormier, American author and journalist, known for his deeply pessimistic novels

Robert Frost, American poet

Robert Hardman (born 1965), British journalist, author, and documentary filmmaker

Robert Harris, English novelist and former BBC reporter

Robert A. Heinlein, American science-fiction writer, one of the pioneers of hard science fiction genre

Robert Hichens, English journalist, novelist, music lyricist, short story writer, music critic

Robert E. Howard, American author who wrote pulp fiction, well known for his character Conan the
Barbarian, regarded as the father of the sword and sorcery subgenre

Robert G. Ingersoll, American writer and orator during the Golden Age of Freethought, who campaigned
in defense of agnosticism

Robert "Bob" Kane, American comic book artist and writer, best known for creating the character
Batman

Robert Kirkman, American comic book author best known for creating The Walking Dead

Robert "Rob" Liefeld, American comic book artist and writer, best known for creating the character
Deadpool

Robert Nozick, American philosopher and writer

Robert Rozhdestvensky, Soviet Russian poet, regarded as one of the most significant Russian poets

Robert W. Service, British-Canadian poet and writer

Robert J.C. Stead, Canadian novelist

Robert Louis Stevenson, Scottish novelist, poet, essayist, musician and travel writer, best known for his
work Treasure Island, which became one of the most popular literary works of all time

Robert Anton Wilson, American author, futurist, philosopher and self-described agnostic mystic, co-
author (with Robert Shea) of The Illuminatus! Trilogy

Businessmen

Robert Bosch, German industrialist, businessman, engineer and inventor, founder of Robert Bosch
GmbH (Bosch)

Robert Kardashian, American attorney and businessman

Robert Kiyosaki, American businessman and author, founder of the Rich Dad Company

Robert Kyncl, American business executive, Chief Business Officer of YouTube and former Vice President
of Content Acquisitions of Netflix

Robert Napier, Scottish marine engineer and founder of Robert Napier and Sons

Robert Miles Sloman, English-German shipbuilder, ship owner and sailor

Robert Smalls, American businessman, publisher, and politician

Robert F. Smith, American billionaire, businessman, philanthropist, chemical engineer, and investor,
founder, chairman, and CEO of private equity firm Vista Equity Partners

Robert Trump, American real estate developer and business executive, brother of the president of
America Donald Trump

Robert Winthrop, wealthy banker and capitalist in New York City

Administrators of NASA

Robert A. Frosch, American scientist who was the fifth administrator of NASA from 1977 to 1981

Robert M. Lightfoot Jr., engineer and former Acting Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space
Administration (NASA), serving from January 20, 2017, until April 23, 2018, making him the longest-
serving Acting Administrator in NASA history

Astronauts

Robert L. Behnken, United States Air Force officer, NASA astronaut and former Chief of the Astronaut
Office

Robert D. Cabana, director of NASA's John F. Kennedy Space Center, a former NASA astronaut, and a
veteran of four Space Shuttle flights

Robert J. Cenker, American aerospace and electrical engineer, aerospace systems consultant, and
former astronaut

Robert Crippen, American retired naval officer and aviator, test pilot, aerospace engineer, and retired
astronaut

Robert Curbeam, former NASA astronaut and captain in the United States Navy

Robert L. Gibson, former American naval officer and aviator, test pilot, aeronautical engineer, and a
retired NASA astronaut, as well as a professional pilot and regular racer at the annual Reno Air Races

Robert S. Kimbrough, retired United States Army officer, and a NASA astronaut

Robert Lawrence Jr., a United States Air Force officer and the first African-American astronaut

Robert F. Overmyer, American test pilot, naval aviator, aeronautical engineer, physicist, United States
Marine Corps officer and USAF/NASA astronaut
Robert A. Parker, American physicist and astronomer, former Director of the NASA Management Office
at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, and a retired NASA astronaut

Robert Satcher, American physician, chemical engineer and NASA astronaut

Robert C. Springer, retired American astronaut and test pilot

Robert L. Stewart, retired brigadier general of the United States Army and a former NASA astronaut

Robert Thirsk, a Canadian engineer and physician, and a former Canadian Space Agency astronaut

Roberto Vittori, Italian air force officer and an ESA astronaut

Sportsmen

Robert Alexander, Irish sportsman

Roberto Baggio, Italian former professional footballer who mainly played as a second striker, or as an
attacking midfielder

Roberto Carlos, Brazilian footballer, widely regarded as one of the best football players of all time

Robért Conway, American professional wrestler

Robert Fein (1907–1975), Austrian Olympic champion weightlifter

Robert Gibson (1801–1???), English cricketer

Robert Gibson (1821–1875), English cricketer

Robert Gibson (born 1958), American wrestler

Robert Gibson (born 1986), Canadian rower

Robert Green, English professional footballer who played as a goalkeeper, played in the Premier League
and Football League and for the England national team

Robert Griffin III, American football quarterback for the Baltimore Ravens of the National Football
League

Robert Gsellman (born 1993), American baseball player

Robert Helenius, Finnish professional boxer

Robert Howard, Irish Grandmaster of taekwondo

Robert "Bobby" Hull, Canadian former ice hockey player who is regarded as one of the greatest players
of all time

Róbert Jež, retired Slovak footballer

Robert "Bob" Kalsu, American football player and United States Army officer

Robert Kerr, Irish Canadian sprinter

Robert "Robbie" Kerr, British racing driver

Robert Kubica, Polish racing driver

Robert Lewandowski, Polish football player who plays as a striker for FC Barcelona and is the captain of
the Poland national team

Roberto López Ufarte, Basque former footballer

Roberto Mancini, Italian football manager and former player who is the manager of the Italy national
team

Robert "Bob" McNamara, American baseball player

Robert Alexander Michel Melki (born 1992), Swedish-Lebanese footballer

Robert Mühren, Dutch professional footballer

Robert Person (born 1969), American baseball player

Robert "Bobby" Orr, Canadian former professional ice hockey player, widely acknowledged as one of the
greatest of all time

Robert Remus, American professional wrestler known as Sgt. Slaughter

Robert "Rob" Terry, Welsh professional wrestler and bodybuilder

Robert Whittaker, New Zealand-born Australian professional mixed martial artist

Robert Wickens, Canadian racing driver

Paranormal

Robert the Doll, a supposedly haunted doll exhibited at a museum, center of an urban legend

Others

Robert Barclay Allardice, generally known as Captain Barclay, Scottish walker of the early 19th century,
known as the celebrated pedestrian, considered the father of the 19th century sport of pedestrianism, a
precursor to racewalking

Robert T. Barrett, American painter, illustrator, and professor of illustration at Brigham Young University

Robert "Rob" Bell Jr., American author, speaker and former pastor

Rob Bell, American TV host and adventurer

Robert Bevan, British painter, draughtsman and lithographer, founding member of the Camden Town
Group, the London Group, and the Cumberland Market Group

Robert S. Browne (1924–2004), American economist

Robert Capa, Hungarian war photographer and photojournalist

Robert Chung, Hong Kong academician, former Director of the Public Opinion Programme (POP) of the
University of Hong Kong, head of the Hong Kong Public Opinion Research Institute

Robert Conquest, an English-American historian and poet

Robert Cornelius, American pioneer of photography and a lamp manufacturer who took the first light
picture ever taken and whose self-taken portrait is the first known photographic portrait taken in
America

Robert de Cotte, French architect-administrator, under whose design control of the royal buildings of
France the earliest notes presaging the Rococo style were introduced

Robert G. Elliott, American executioner

Robert Elms, English writer and broadcaster

Robert Gibbings, Irish artist and author who was most noted for his work as a wood engraver and
sculptor

Robert Gregg, Anglican Archbishop

Robert Gray, first Anglican Bishop of Cape Town and Metropolitan of Africa

Robert Gray, English Bishop of Bristol

Robert Gray, American merchant sea captain who pioneered the maritime fur trade

Robert H. Gray, American data analyst, author and astronomer

Robert Grierson, Canadian missionary to Korea

Roparz Hemon (Robert Hemon), Breton author and scholar of Breton expression

Robert Henri, American painter and teacher

Robert Hichens, British sailor who was part of the deck crew on board the RMS Titanic as one of six
quartermasters on board the vessel and was at the ships wheel when it struck the iceberg

Carl Robert Jakobson, Estonian writer, politician and teacher, one of the most important people in the
Estonian national awakening

Robert Knox, Irish bishop

Robert Lopez, award-winning American songwriter of musicals, best known for co-creating The Book of
Mormon and Avenue Q, and for composing the songs featured in the 3D Disney computer animated
films Frozen and Coco

Roberto Matta, of Chilean painter and a seminal figure in 20th century abstract expressionist and
surrealist art

Bob Moir (1929–2016) was a Canadian television producer, sports commentator, and journalist

Robert Molyneux, English-American Catholic priest and Jesuit missionary to the United States
Robert de Montesquiou, French aesthete, Symbolist poet and art collector

Captain Robert Nairac, British Army officer in 14 Intelligence Company who was abducted from a pub in
Dromintee, south County Armagh, during an undercover operation and assassinated by the Provisional
Irish Republican Army (IRA) on his fourth tour of duty in Northern Ireland as a Military Intelligence
Liaison Officer

Robert M. Price, American theologian and writer

Robert "Bob" Ross, American painter, art instructor, and television host

Robert O. Scholz, American architect from Washington, D.C.

Robert Livingston Rudolph, American bishop of the Reformed Episcopal Church

Robert Stevens, British-born American photojournalist killed in the 2001 anthrax attacks

Robert Scotland Liddell, British war reporter and photographer

Robert Topala, also known as Zhenmuron, Swedish musician and video game developer known for
developing the popular rhythm based arcade art game Geometry Dash

Robert Barron (bishop), American prelate of the Catholic Church, author, theologian and evangelist,
known for his Word on Fire ministry

Robert Wadlow, known as the Alton Giant and the Giant of Illinois, an American who became famous as
the tallest person in recorded history

Robert Wipper, Russian historian of classical antiquity, medieval and modern period

Fictional characters

Robert "Rocky" Balboa, the main character in the Rocky Balboa film series;

King Robert Baratheon, a fictional king in A Song of Ice and Fire novels by George R. R. Martin & the
2011 TV series Game of Thrones (King of the Andals, the Rhoynar and the First Men, Lord of the Seven
Kingdoms, Protector of the Realm, Lord of Storm's End, Lord Paramount of the Stormlands)

Commander Robert Hicks, A senior officer with the LAPD Special Operations Bureau in 2017 TV series
S.W.A.T.

Robert, main character of the 2021 action thriller Roberrt

Robert Barone, a character from the 1996 sitcom Everybody Loves Raymond

Robert Baxter, one of the main characters in the video game Time Crisis II, later the main antagonist of
Time Crisis 5

Robert Blake, main character in the story The Haunter of the Dark by H.P. Lovecraft

Robert the Devil, main character of a legend of medieval origin about a Norman knight who discovers he
is the son of Satan
Robert "Yokai" Callaghan, a former robotics professor at the San Fransokyo Institute of Technology and
the main antagonist of Big Hero 6

Robert Philip, one of the main characters in the 2007 film Enchanted

Robert Jürgens, owner of Griffolyon, character from the Japanese Manga series Beyblade

Robert Drake, fictional superhero known as Iceman, appearing in comic books published by Marvel
Comics, a founding member of the X-Men

Robert Ford, main character in TV series Westworld

Robert "Rob" Smith, character from the TV series The Goldbergs

Robert Langdon, symbologist and cryptologist in Dan Brown's novels Angels & Demons, The Da Vinci
Code, The Lost Symbol & Inferno, the 2006 film The Da Vinci Code & the 2009 film Angels & Demons

Robert McGonagall, father of Minerva McGonagall, the transfiguration teacher and Head of Gryffindor
House in the Harry Potter franchise;

Robert "Bobby" Nash, a firefighter in TV series 9-1-1

Robert Neville, a main protagonist and US Army Virologist in 2007 movie I Am Legend;

Robert "Bob" Newby, a character from the TV series Stranger Things

Robert Paulson, a character in Chuck Palahniuk's novel Fight Club and the 1999 film of the same name

Robert "Bob" Fossil, a zoo owner in the TV series The Mighty Boosh

Robert Reynolds, a Marvel Comics Superhero known as Sentry

Robbie Rotten, the main villain in LazyTown since the second play, Glanni Glæpur í Latabæ (Robbie
Rotten in LazyTown);

Robert "Robbie" Shapiro, character from TV series Victorious

Robert "Bobby" Singer, fictional character in The CW Television Network's horror-drama television series
Supernatural

Robert The Scotsman, character from animated series Samurai Jack

Robert "Bob" Stone, main character, CIA agent and martial arts specialist from the action comedy
Central Intelligence

Robert "Robb" Stark, a fictional character in A Song of Ice and Fire novels by George R. R. Martin & the
2011 TV series Game of Thrones

Robert Chan, chief executive of Umbrella Corps in Resident Evil franchise

Robert "Bob" Kendo, a character from Resident Evil franchise

Robert, character from the Lithuanian soap opera Moterys meluoja geriau (Women lie better) and its
Latvian version Viņas melo labāk
Robert T. Sturgeon, video game character in the Ninja Gaiden series

Robert "Bob" Gray, real name of the character known as It or Pennywise the Dancing Clown from the
horror story and movies of the same name

Sponge Robert "Bob" SquarePants, title character of the animated series SpongeBob SquarePants

Robert "Bob" the Builder, a character from the British animated series Bob the Builder

Robert Seaver, a character from Homeward Bound: The Incredible Journey

Robert Bruce Banner, a major character featured in Marvel Comics, known as The Incredible Hulk

Dr Robert Gru, character from the Despicable Me franchise

Robert "Bob" Parr, a fictional superhero known as Mr Incredible from The Incredibles franchise

Robert Underdunk Terwilliger, known as Sideshow Bob, a character from the animated series The
Simpsons

Robert Accutrone, a Quincy and a member of the Wandenreich's Sternritter with the designation "N"
from the Bleach manga

Robert Stanton, a character from the American horror franchise Five Nights at Freddy's

Robert Garcia, a characters from the Art of Fighting and The King of Fighters series of video games

Folklore

Robert Goodfellow, domestic and nature sprite, demon, or fairy in mythology

Knight Robert, a legendary Christmas character from German folklore

Robert, one of the names often used to refer to a legendary Christmas character known as Krampus

Robert, one of the names often used to refer to the Devil in mythology

See also

Rob (given name), short for Robert

Robby, nickname for Robert

Robbie, nickname for Robert

Bob (given name), nickname for Robert

Bobby (given name), nickname for Robert

Roberts (surname)

Robertson (surname)

Roberson

Rupert (name), alternate version of Robert

Robin (name), formerly a nickname for Robert

Robinson (name)

Robinett

Robinet

Robinette

References

"Robrecht". Historische woordenboeken: Nederlands en Fries (in Dutch). Instituut voor de Nederlandse
Taal.

Reaney & Wilson, 1997. Dictionary of English Surnames. Oxford University Press.

Withycombe, E., 1973 edn. Oxford Dictionary of English Christian names. Oxford University Press.

Frank Nuessel (1992). The Study of Names: A Guide to the Principles and Topics. Westport, CT:
Greenwood Press. p. 10. Archived from the original on October 3, 2013.

RoBerTo Checked, Time Magazine, October 19, 1942

"BRIGHT | Meaning & Definition for UK English". Lexico.com. Archived from the original on July 17,
2020. Retrieved August 24, 2022.

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