Robert Gardner may refer to:
Law and politics
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Bob Gardner
Robert S. Gardner (born c. 1954) is a legislator in the U.S. state of Colorado. A United States Air Force veteran and attorney, Gardner was elected to the Colorado House of Representatives as a Republican in 2006. From 2006 to 2012, he represen ...
, legislator in Colorado
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Robert Gardner (Victorian politician) (1916–2002), Australian politician
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Robert A. Gardner (politician), Ohio politician
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Robert K. A. Gardiner (1914–1994), Ghanaian minister for Finance and Economic Planning
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Bob Gardner (Queensland politician) (1890–1966), member of the Queensland Legislative Assembly
Sportspeople
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Robert Gardner (footballer)
Robert Gardner (31 March 1847 – 28 February 1887) was an important figure in Scottish football history. He was a match arranger, goalkeeper and team captain for Queen's Park during the 1860s until 1874. A letter of his, dated 1868, is the olde ...
(1847–1887), Scottish footballer
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Robert Gardner (golfer) (1890–1956), American golfer and pole vaulter
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Rob Gardner (baseball)
Richard Frank Gardner (born December 19, 1944) is a former Major League Baseball pitcher. He holds the distinction of having been traded twice by the New York Yankees to the Oakland Athletics for one of the Alou brothers.
Early years
Gardner orig ...
(born 1944), Major League Baseball pitcher
Musicians
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Rob Gardner (musician) (born 1965), rock musician
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Rob Gardner (composer)
Rob Gardner (born 1977) is an American Latter-day Saint composer of primarily oratorios. One of his most widely performed works is his oratorio ''Lamb of God'' about the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ. It was recorded by the London Symphon ...
(born 1978), American composer of primarily oratorios
Others
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Robert Gardner (academic) (born 1938), Canadian documentary filmmaker and Ryerson University professor
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Robert Gardner (anthropologist)
Robert Grosvenor Gardner (November 5, 1925 – June 21, 2014) was an American academic, anthropologist, and documentary filmmaker who was the Director of the Film Study Center at Harvard University from 1956 to 1997. He is known for his work in ...
(1925–2014), director of the Film Study Center, Harvard University
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Robert Gardner (ballet), artistic director of the
Minnesota Ballet
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Robert Brown Gardner
Robert Brown (Robby) Gardner (February 27, 1939 – May 5, 1998) was an American mathematician who worked on differential geometry, a field in which he obtained several novel results. He was the author and co-author of three influential books, pr ...
(1939–1998), American mathematician
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Robert H. Gardner (born 1947), American documentary filmmaker
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Robert W. Gardner (inventor), invented the speed governor used in steam engines; see also
Robert W. Gardner House
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R. Wayne Gardner (1894–?), minister, academic, and the president of the Eastern Nazarene College
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Robert J. Gardner (1837–1902), American soldier in the American Civil War
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Robert Waterman Gardner (1866–1937), architect
See also
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Gardner (surname) Gardner is a surname of English, Scottish and Irish origin. Most sources say it is an occupational surname that comes from the word "gardener". Other sources claim that it is derived from the old English words ''gar-dyn'' meaning "warrior", "one wh ...
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