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Arts and entertainment

Robert Anderson (editor and biographer) Robert Anderson (7 January 1750 – 20 February 1830) was a Scottish author and critic. Son of David Anderson, W.S., he was born at Carnwath, Lanarkshire. He studied first divinity and then medicine at the University of Edinburgh, and subsequen ...

(1750–1830), Scottish literary scholar and editor *

Robert Anderson (poet) Robert Anderson (1770–1833), was an English labouring class poet from Carlisle. He was best known for his ballad-style poems in Cumbrian dialect. Life Robert Anderson was born on 1 February 1770, the youngest child of nine when his parents we ...

(1770–1833), English poet *

Robert Rowand Anderson Sir Robert Rowand Anderson, (5 April 1834 – 1 June 1921) was a Scottish Victorian architect. Anderson trained in the office of George Gilbert Scott in London before setting up his own practice in Edinburgh in 1860. During the 1860s his ...

(1834–1921), Scottish architect *

Robert Anderson (silent film actor) Robert Christian Anderson (July 22, 1890 – June 25, 1963) was an American actor of Danish birth who appeared in silent films. Biography Anderson was born in Odense, Denmark. He was also a make-up artist and director (of one short). Anderson ...

(1890–1963), Danish-born American actor *

Robert Alexander Anderson (composer) Robert Alexander Anderson (often given as R. Alex Anderson) (June 6, 1894 – May 30, 1995) was an American composer who was born and lived most of his life in Hawaii, writing many popular Hawaiian songs within the Hapa haole genre including "Lo ...

(1894–1995), American composer *

Robert Anderson (playwright) Robert Woodruff Anderson (April 28, 1917 – February 9, 2009) was an American playwright, screenwriter, and theatrical producer. He received two Academy Award nominations for Best Writing, Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium, for t ...

(1917–2009), American playwright and screenwriter *

Robert Anderson (singer) Robert Anderson (March 21, 1919 – June 15, 1995) was an American gospel singer and composer. Journalist Kenan Heise stated in the ''Chicago Tribune'' that "During the 'Golden Age of Gospel', the 1940s and 1950s, Anderson was the most highly re ...

(1919–1995), African-American gospel singer and composer *

Bobby Anderson (actor) Robert James Anderson (March 6, 1933 – June 6, 2008) was an American child actor and television producer, whose roles included young George Bailey in ''It's a Wonderful Life''. Life and career Bobby Anderson was born in Hollywood, to a show b ...

(1933–2008), American actor and television producer * Robert Theodore Anderson (1934–2009), American organist, composer, and pedagogue *

Robert G. W. Anderson Robert Geoffrey William Anderson, (born 2 May 1944) is a British museum curator and historian of chemistry. He has wide-ranging interests in the history of chemistry, including the history of Instrumentation, scientific instrumentation, the ...

(born 1944), historian, former director of the British Museum *

Robert Mailer Anderson Robert Mailer Anderson (born 1968) is an American novelist, screenwriter, playwright, Grammy-nominated producer and activist. He is the author of the bestselling novel '' Boonville'', which takes place in the Northern California town of Boonvil ...

(born 1968), American novelist

Law and politics

* Robert Anderson (mayor) (fl. 1810s–1820s), mayor of Williamsburg, Virginia *

Robert Stirling Hore Anderson Robert Stirling Hore Anderson, MLC (1821 – 26 October 1883) was an Irish-born solicitor and Australian colonial (Victorian) parliamentarian. Anderson was born at Articlave near Coleraine, County Londonderry, Ireland, and was educated at the B ...

(1821–1883), Irish-born Australian colonial politician * Robert M. Anderson (politician) (1824–1878), lieutenant governor of California * Robert H. Anderson (politician) (c. 1831–1879), American politician in New York *

Sir Robert Anderson, 1st Baronet Sir Robert Anderson, 1st Baronet (8 December 1837 – 16 July 1921), was an Irish businessman, High Sheriff and Lord Mayor of Belfast. He was the son of James Anderson, of Corbofin, County Monaghan, and moved to Belfast at the age of fifteen. I ...

(1837–1921), Irish businessman and Lord Mayor of Belfast *

Robert Anderson (Scotland Yard official) Sir Robert Anderson (29 May 1841 – 15 November 1918) was the second Assistant Commissioner (Crime) of the London Metropolitan Police, from 1888 to 1901. He was also an intelligence officer, theologian and writer. Early life and education An ...

(1841–1918), lawyer, British intelligence officer and London CID chief, in charge during the Jack the Ripper murders *

Robert Alexander Anderson (politician) Robert Alexander Anderson (14 August 1856 - 5 December 1916)"British Columbia Death Registrations, 1872-1986; 1992-1993", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FLKH-XQZ : 8 November 2017), Robert Alexander Anderson, 1916 ...

(1858–1916), Canadian politician in British Columbia * Robert King Anderson (1861–1950), Canadian politician, physician and teacher *

Rob Anderson (politician) Robert Harmen "Rob" Anderson (born June 13, 1977) is a Canadian politician and a former Member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta; he represented the constituency of Airdrie. He was a Progressive Conservative until he crossed the floor on ...

(born 1977), Canadian politician in Alberta *

Robert Newton Anderson Sir Robert Newton Anderson (8 December 1871 – 23 May 1948) was a unionist politician in Ireland. Born in County Fermanagh, Anderson ran a company making hosiery in Derry. He became active in the Irish Unionist Party and was elected as May ...

(1871–1948), MP in the Northern Ireland Parliament for Londonderry * Robert P. Anderson (1906–1978), United States judge in Connecticut *

Robert B. Anderson Robert Bernard Anderson (June 4, 1910 August 14, 1989) was an American administrator, politician, and businessman. He served as the Secretary of the Navy between February 1953 and March 1954. He also served as the Secretary of the Treasury from ...

(1910–1989), businessman, politician, and U.S. Secretary of the Treasury * Robert B. Anderson (South Carolina politician), member of the South Carolina House of Representatives * Robert Banneka Anderson Sr., member of the South Carolina General Assembly *

Robert Anderson (diplomat) Robert Anderson (January 6, 1922 – April 5, 1996) was an American diplomat who served as the United States Ambassador to Dahomey, Morocco, and the Dominican Republic. Early life and education Anderson was born in Boston, Massachusetts. Afte ...

(1922–1996), United States ambassador to Morocco * Robert A. Anderson (1932–2006), American politician and businessman *

Robert Anderson (New Zealand politician) Robert Arnold Anderson (22 January 1936 – 24 October 1996) was a New Zealand politician. He was a New Zealand National Party, National Party MP from 1987 to 1996. Biography Anderson was born in Epsom, England, on 22 January 1936, and educate ...

(1936–1996), New Zealand politician * Robert T. Anderson (born 1945), American politician, lieutenant governor of Iowa *

Robert Anderson (Australian Aboriginal elder) Robert Vincent Anderson (born 31 July 1929) is an Australian Aboriginal elder and former union official. Anderson, often referred to as Uncle Bob, is known for his long association with the Building Workers' Industrial Union of Australia where h ...

, Australian Aboriginal elder and union official

Military

Robert Anderson (Revolutionary War) Robert Anderson (November 15, 1741 – January 9, 1813) was a politician, militia officer, and surveyor from South Carolina. He was a lifelong friend of General Andrew Pickens. Anderson, South Carolina, Anderson County, South Carolina, and the ...

(1741–1813), Revolutionary general and Lt. Governor of South Carolina *

Robert Anderson (Civil War) Robert Anderson (June 14, 1805 – October 26, 1871) was a United States Army officer during the American Civil War. He was the Union commander in the first battle of the American Civil War at Fort Sumter in April 1861 when the Confederates bomb ...

(1805–1871), Union commander at Fort Sumter at the start of the American Civil War * Robert H. Anderson (1835–1888), Confederate officer (brigadier general) in the American Civil War * Robert Anderson (Medal of Honor) (1843–1900), U.S. Navy sailor and Medal of Honor recipient * Robert Anderson (Australian general) (1865–1940), Australian World War I brigadier general

Sports

* Robert Anderson (MCC cricketer) (1811–1891), English cricketer, played for Hertfordshire 1835–36 and MCC 1837–41 * Robert Anderson (American cricketer) (1893–?), American cricketer *

Robert Anderson (New Zealand cricketer) Robert Wickham Anderson (born 2 October 1948) is a former New Zealand cricketer who played nine Test matches and two One Day Internationals for the New Zealand national cricket team between 1976 and 1978. Anderson was born at Christchurch in 1 ...

(born 1948), New Zealand cricketer, played nine Tests and two One Day Internationals for New Zealand * Robert Anderson (rugby union) (c. 1900 – c. 1979), Australian rugby player *

Robert Anderson (Australian rules footballer) Robert Anderson (born 19 August 1959) is a former Australian rules footballer. He played with Footscray, now known as the Western Bulldogs, in a variety of positions, but mostly on the wing and flanks. He was born and raised in Canberra and ...

(born 1959), Australian rules footballer * Robert Kiplagat Andersen (born 1972), Kenyan-born middle-distance runner who ran internationally for Denmark *

Robbie Anderson (American football) Robbie Anderson (born May 9, 1993) is an American football wide receiver for the Arizona Cardinals of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football at Temple. Anderson was signed by the New York Jets as an undrafted free agen ...

(born 1993), American football wide receiver * Robbie Anderson (footballer) (1936–1996), English footballer

Other

* Robert Anderson (mathematician) (fl. 1668–1696), English mathematician and silk-weaver *

Robert Anderson (inventor) Robert Anderson was a 19th-century Scottish inventor, best known for inventing the first crude electric carriage in Scotland around the time of 1832–1839. Robert Anderson was an important person for helping invent the first electric car. ...

(fl. 1830s), Scottish inventor * Robert Anderson (Hollywood, Florida community leader) (1912–1998), banker and community leader in Hollywood, Florida * Robert Anderson (New Zealand philanthropist), New Zealand businessman and philanthropist ( knighted 1934) *

Robert Orville Anderson Robert Orville Anderson (April 12, 1917 – December 2, 2007) was an American businessman, art collector, and philanthropist who founded Atlantic Richfield Company (ARCO). Anderson also supported several cultural organizations, from the Los Angel ...

(1917–2007), American businessman and philanthropist *

Robert Marshall Anderson Robert Marshall Anderson (December 18, 1933 - May 3, 2011) was the Seventh Bishop of Minnesota in the Episcopal Church. Early life and education Anderson was born on December 18, 1933, in Staten Island, New York City, the son of Arthur Harold A ...

(1933–2011), Episcopal bishop of Minnesota *

Robert Charles Anderson The name Robert is an ancient Germanic given name, from Proto-Germanic "fame" and "bright" (''Hrōþiberhtaz''). Compare Old Dutch ''Robrecht'' and Old High German ''Hrodebert'' (a compound of '' Hruod'' ( non, Hróðr) "fame, glory, honou ...

(born 1944), American biochemist and genealogist *

Robert Anderson (murderer) Robert James Anderson (May 29, 1966 – July 20, 2006) was an American criminal convicted and executed for the murder of a five-year-old girl. He was born in Great Lakes, Illinois. Crimes Anderson kidnapped and murdered five-year-old Audra A ...

(1966–2006), American executed for killing a 5-year-old girl in Texas *

Robert M. Anderson (mathematician) Robert Murdoch Anderson (born 1951) is Professor of Economics and of Mathematics at the University of California, Berkeley. He is director of the Center for Risk Management Research, University of California, Berkeley and he was chair of the U ...

(born 1951), professor of economics and of mathematics * Robert Henry Anderson (1899–1969), Australian botanist * Robert Wherry Anderson (1864–1937), British journalist * Robert S. Anderson (born 1952), American geomorphologist * Robert J. Anderson (public health administrator) (1914–1999), director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

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