Variations
Popularity and trivia
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. 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 thePeople named Robert
Royalty
;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,Medieval figures
* Robert III of Artois (1287–1342), Lord of Conches-en-Ouche, of Domfront, and of Mehun-sur-Yèvre, Earl of Richmond. *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 heroNobility
* 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 theReligious figures and saints
* Saint Robert Bellarmine (died in 1621), JesuitPresidents 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 andDictators
* Baron Robert Clive (1725–1774), British army officer andSecretaries of Defense
*Wartime figures and military leaders
;American army * Robert N. Adams, American Brevet Brigadier General during theOther military
* Robert B. Abrams, four-star General (United States), general in theNazis and communists
* Robert Eikhe, Latvian Bolshevik, provincial head of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union in Siberia * Ernst-Robert Grawitz, 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 Adolf Hitler Schools, 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 Heinrich Wagner, 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 IINuclear 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 ProjectExplorers
* Robert Ballard, retired United States Navy officer and a professor of oceanography at the University of Rhode Island * Robert Bartlett (explorer), 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 Burke & Wills expedition, expedition to cross Australia from south to north * Robert Dudley (explorer), 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 Geographical pole, PolesIntelligence 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 Mueller, Robert S. Mueller III, American attorney who served as the sixth Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) from 2001 to 2013Movie industry
* Robert Altman (1925–2006), American film director, screenwriter, and producer * Robbie Amell, Robert "Robbie" Amell (born 1988), Canadian-American actor and producer * Rob Benedict, Robert "Rob" Benedict (born 1970), American actor and writer * Bob Bergen, Robert "Bob" Bergen, American voice actor * Robert Carlyle (born 1961), Scottish actor * Bob Chapek, Robert "Bob" Chapek (born 1960), American media executive and businessman, chairman of Disney Parks, Experiences and Products, the current CEO of Walt Disney Company * Robbie Coltrane, 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 (actor), 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 * Bob Iger, 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 (television personality), Robert Irwin (born 2003), Australian television personality and wildlife photographer * Rob Kardashian, Robert "Rob" Kardashian (born 1987), American television personality * Robert Knepper (born 1959), American actor * Robert Lansing (actor), Robert Lansing (1928–1994), American stage, film and television actor * Rob Letterman, Robert "Rob" Letterman (born 1970), American film director and screenwriter * Rob Lowe, Robert "Rob" Lowe (born 1964), American actor, producer and director * Rob Marshall, 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 * Rob Minkoff, 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 (actor), 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 * Bob Peck, 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 (producer), 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 (American actor), 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 (actor, born 1918), 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 (actor), 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 effectsMusicians
;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 (music producer), 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 * Rob Swire, Robert "Rob" Swire, Australian electronic music producer and DJ ;Singers * Roberto Carlos (singer), Roberto Carlos, Brazilian singer-songwriter, also known as King of Latin Music or simply The King * Bob Chilcott, Robert "Bob" Chilcott, British choral composer, conductor, and singer * Bob Crosby, Robert "Bob" Crosby, American jazz singer and bandleader, best known for his group the Bob-Cats * Bobby Darin, Robert "Bobby" Darin, American singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, impressionist, and actor * Robert Francis (musician), Robert Francis, American multi-instrumentalist, singer, songwriter; * R. Kelly, 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; * Bob Marley, Robert "Bob" Marley, Jamaican singer-songwriter, widely regarded as one of the greatest musicians of all time * Bobby McFerrin, Robert "Bobby" McFerrin, American musician, singer, conductor, arranger and record producer * Bert Nievera, Roberto "Bert" Nievera, Filipino-American singer * Robert Palmer (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; * Bob Seger, Robert "Bob" Seger, American singer-songwriter and guitarist * Robert Tepper, American songwriter, composer, recording artist and singer * Bobby Vee, Robert "Bobby" Vee, American singer, songwriter, musician and teen idol * Robbie Williams, Robert "Robbie" Williams, British singer and songwriter * Rob Zombie, Robert "Rob" Zombie, American musician, singer, songwriter, programmer, voice actor, filmmaker and founding member of the heavy metal band White Zombie (band), White Zombie * Robert Allen Zimmerman, real name of American singer-songwriter Bob Dylan ;Band members * Rob Bourdon, 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 * Rob Halford, Robert "Rob" Halford, English singer and songwriter, lead vocalist of the Grammy Award-winning heavy metal band Judas Priest, also a member of Fight (band), Fight, Two (metal band), Two, Halford (band), Halford, Great White and Black Sabbath * Robert Hunter (lyricist), Robert Hunter, American poet, principle lyricist for the rock band Grateful Dead * Rob Hyman, 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 * Robby Krieger, 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 (musician), Robert Smith, lead singer of The Cure; * Robert Trujillo, American singer and songwriter, one of the members of American heavy metal band Metallica; * Bob Weir, 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 (band), The Dead, Kingfish (band), Kingfish, Bobby and the Midnites, RatDog, Furthur (band), 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 * Bob Wiseman, Robert "Bob" Wiseman, Canadian film composer, songwriter and music teacher ;Instrumentalists * Rob Barrett, Robert "Rob" Barrett, guitarist for death metal band Cannibal Corpse * Bobby Hackett, Robert "Bobby" Hackett, American jazz musician * Bob Kerr (musician), Robert "Bob" Kerr, comic musician who plays trumpet and cornet * Robert Mirabal, Native American musician and flute player * Rob Scallon, Robert "Rob" Scallon, American YouTuber, musician and multi-instrumentalistScientists
* 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 lunatic, lunacy * Robert Hooke, English natural philosopher, architect and polymath, best known for discovering and naming the Cell (biology), 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 (organic chemist), Robert Robinson, Nobel Prize and Medal of Freedom (1945), Medal of Freedom winning British organic chemist * Robert Allen Rolfe, Robert A. Rolfe, English botanist specialising in the study of orchids * Robert Shapiro (chemist), 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 monkeysPrison officials
* Robert McKenty, Prison warden, warden of Eastern State Penitentiary * Robert J. Kirby, 45th commandant of Sing Sing prisonCriminals
* Robert Anderson (murderer), 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 Biehler (1934–1993), American serial killer * 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 (serial killer), Robert Black (1947–2016), 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 Francis Burns (1840–1883), Irish Australian murderer and probable serial killer * Robert Edward Chambliss (1904–1985), white supremacist terrorist * Robert Glen Coe (1956–2000), American murderer * Robert Wayne Danielson (1946–1995), American serial killer * Robert Durst (1943–2022), American convicted murderer * Robert Mark Edwards (born 1961), American murderer * Robert William Fisher (born 1961), American fugitive * Robert Ford (outlaw), 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 Wayne Harris (1972–2012), American mass murderer and serial killer * Robert Hawkins, mass murderer who perpetrated the Westroads Mall shooting * Robert Dale Henderson (1945–1993), American spree killer * Robert Hohenberger (1943–1978), American criminal, kidnapper and serial rapist * Robert Wesley Knighton (1941–2003), American serial killer * Robert Seldon Lady (born 1954), United States agent convicted of kidnapping in Italy * Robert Liberty (1947–1971), American serial killer * Robert A. Long, American spree killer who perpetrated the 2021 Atlanta spa shootings * Bobby Joe Long, Robert "Bobby" Long, American serial killer and rapist * Robert Jay Mathews (1953–1984), American neo-Nazi terrorist and the leader of The Order (white supremacist group), The Order, an American white supremacist militant group * Robert Maudsley, English serial killer * Robert Napper, British serial killer * Robert Palin (c.1835–1861), convict transported to Western Australia * 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 Dale Rowell (1955–2005), American murderer * Schellenberg smuggling incident, Robert Lloyd Schellenberg, Canadian drug contrabandist * Robert Shelton (Ku Klux Klan), 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 organized crime boss * Robert Lee Yates, American serial killer from Spokane, WashingtonJudges
* 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 Supreme Court of the United States, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, United States Supreme Court, previously served as United States Solicitor General, andPolitical 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 (clergyman), 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 * Bob Dole, Robert "Bob" Dole, American politician and attorney who represented Kansas in the United States Senate from 1969 to 1996 * R. Budd Dwyer, 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 Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Action, 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. * Bob Moses (activist), Robert "Bob" Moses, American educator and civil rights activist * Beto O'Rourke, Robert "Beto" O'Rourke, American politician * Robert Schmidt (German politician), Robert Schmidt, Reich Ministry of Food and Agriculture, 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 United States Ambassador to the Netherlands, 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; * Bob Turner (New York politician), 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 NAACPSecretaries of War
* Robert Todd Lincoln, American politician, lawyer, and businessman, the first son of Abraham Lincoln, United States Secretary of War and List of ambassadors of the United States to the United Kingdom, United States Minister to the United Kingdom * Robert P. Patterson, United States Secretary of WarSecretaries 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, United States House of Representatives, U.S. Representative (1837–1843, 1845–1847), Speaker of the United States House of Representatives, Speaker of the House (1839–1841), and United States Senate, U.S. Senator (1847–1861), during theGovernors
* Robert J. Bentley, American politician and physician who served as the 53rd Governor of Alabama from 2011 until 2017; * Robert Brooke (Virginia governor), Robert Brooke, soldier and Virginia political figure who served as the List of Governors of Virginia, tenth Governor of Virginia * Robert Brooke (East India Company officer), Robert Brooke, lieutenant-colonel in the army ofMayors
* 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; * Rob Ford, 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 (mayor), 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 1965Founding fathers of United States
* Robert R. Livingston (chancellor), 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 Fathers of the United States, Founding Father of the United States * Robert Morris (financier), 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 United States Declaration of Independence, Declaration of Independence as a representative of MassachusettsLiterary 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, List of chief music critics, 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 (novelist), 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 (writer), 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 * Bob Kane, Robert "Bob" Kane, American comic book artist and writer, best known for creating the character Batman (character), Batman * Robert Kirkman, American comic book author best known for creating ''The Walking Dead (franchise), The Walking Dead'' * Rob Liefeld, 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 (engineer), 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 (investor), 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 (banker), Robert Winthrop, wealthy banker and capitalist in New York CityAdministrators 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 List of Administrators and Deputy Administrators of NASA, 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 historyAstronauts
* 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 Henry Lawrence Jr., 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 astronautSportsmen
* Robert Alexander (Irish sportsman), 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 * Rob Conway, Robért Conway, American professional wrestler * Robert Fein (1907–1975), Austrian Olympic champion weightlifter * Robert Gibson (cricketer, born 1801), Robert Gibson (1801–1???), English cricketer * Robert Gibson (cricketer, born 1821), Robert Gibson (1821–1875), English cricketer * Robert Gibson (wrestler), Robert Gibson (born 1958), American wrestler * Robert Gibson (rower), 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 (martial artist), Robert Howard, Irish Grandmaster (martial arts), Grandmaster of taekwondo * Bobby Hull, 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 * Bob Kalsu, Robert "Bob" Kalsu, American football player and United States Army officer * Robert Kerr (athlete), Robert Kerr, Irish Canadian sprinter * Robbie Kerr, 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 football team, Poland national team * Roberto López Ufarte, Basque former footballer * Roberto Mancini, Italian Association football, football manager and former player who is the manager of the Italy national football team, Italy national team * Bob McNamara (baseball), Robert "Bob" McNamara, American baseball player * Alexander Michel Melki, Robert Alexander Michel Melki (born 1992), Swedish-Lebanese footballer * Robert Mühren, Dutch professional footballer * Robert Person (born 1969), American baseball player * Bobby Orr, 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 * Rob Terry, Robert "Rob" Terry, Welsh professional wrestler and bodybuilder * Robert Whittaker (fighter), Robert Whittaker, New Zealand-born Australian professional mixed martial artist * Robert Wickens, Canadian racing driverParanormal
* Robert (doll), Robert the Doll, a supposedly haunted doll exhibited at a museum, center of an urban legendOthers
* 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 * Rob Bell, Robert "Rob" Bell Jr., American author, speaker and former pastor * Rob Bell (TV presenter), Rob Bell, American TV host and adventurer * Robert Bevan, British painter, drawing, 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 Garrow (1936–1978), American serial rapist and later spree killer * 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 (bishop of Cape Town), Robert Gray, first Anglican Bishop of Cape Town and Metropolitan of Africa * Robert Gray (bishop of Bristol), Robert Gray, English Bishop of Bristol * Robert Gray (sea captain), Robert Gray, American merchant sea captain who pioneered the maritime fur trade * Robert H. Gray, American data analyst, author and astronomer *Robert Grierson (missionary), 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 (sailor), 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 (bishop), Robert Knox, Irish bishop * Robert Lopez, award-winning American songwriter of musicals, best known for co-creating The Book of Mormon (musical), The Book of Mormon and Avenue Q, and for composing the songs featured in the Walt Disney Animation Studios, 3D Disney computer animated films Frozen (2013 film), Frozen and Coco (2017 film), 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 Special Reconnaissance Unit, 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 * Bob Ross, 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 * Death of Robert Stevens, 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, Illinois, 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 periodFictional characters
* Rocky Balboa, 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 List of S.W.A.T. (2017 TV series) characters, Robert Hicks, A senior officer with the LAPD Special Operations Bureau in S.W.A.T. (2017 TV series), 2017 TV series S.W.A.T. * Robert, main character of the 2021 action thriller Roberrt * List of Everybody Loves Raymond characters, 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 (film), Big Hero 6 * Robert Philip, one of the main characters in the 2007 film Enchanted (film), Enchanted * Robert Jürgens, owner of Griffolyon, character from the Japanese Manga series Beyblade (manga), Beyblade * Robert Drake, fictional superhero known as Iceman (Marvel Comics), Iceman, appearing in comic books published by Marvel Comics, a founding member of the X-Men * Robert Ford, main character in TV series Westworld (TV series), Westworld * Robert "Rob" Smith, character from the TV series The Goldbergs (2013 TV series), The Goldbergs * Robert Langdon, symbologist and cryptologist in Dan Brown's novels ''Angels & Demons, The Da Vinci Code, The Lost Symbol & Inferno (Brown novel), Inferno'', the 2006 film The Da Vinci Code (film), ''The Da Vinci Code'' & the 2009 film Angels & Demons (film), ''Angels & Demons'' * Robert McGonagall, father of Minerva McGonagall, the transfiguration teacher and Head of Gryffindor House in the Harry Potter franchise; * Bobby Nash, Robert "Bobby" Nash, a firefighter in TV series 9-1-1 (TV series), 9-1-1 * Robert Neville, a main protagonist and US Army Virologist in 2007 movie ''I Am Legend (film), 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 (novel), Fight Club'' and the 1999 Fight Club, 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 (Robert Reynolds), Sentry * Robbie Rotten, the main villain in ''LazyTown'' since the second play, ''Glanni Glæpur í Latabæ'' (Robbie Rotten in LazyTown); * Robbie Shapiro, Robert "Robbie" Shapiro, character from TV series Victorious * Bobby Singer, Robert "Bobby" Singer, fictional character in The CW Television Network's horror-drama television series Supernatural (U.S. TV 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 * Robb Stark, 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 * Resident Evil characters, 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 (character), It or Pennywise the Dancing Clown from the horror story and movies of the same name * SpongeBob SquarePants (character), 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 * Hulk, Robert Bruce Banner, a major character featured in Marvel Comics, known as Hulk, 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 (Art of Fighting), Robert Garcia, a characters from the ''Art of Fighting'' and ''The King of Fighters'' series of video gamesFolklore
* Puck (folklore), Robert Goodfellow, Household deity, domestic and nature sprite (creature), sprite, demon, or fairy in mythology * Knecht Ruprecht, 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 mythologySee 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 (surname), Roberson * Rupert (name), alternate version of Robert * Robin (name), formerly a nickname for Robert * Robinson (name) * Robinett * Robinet (disambiguation), Robinet * Robinette (disambiguation), RobinetteReferences
{{given name, type=both English-language masculine given names English masculine given names German masculine given names Dutch masculine given names Germanic given names French masculine given names Romanian masculine given names Norwegian masculine given names Swedish masculine given names Danish masculine given names Estonian masculine given names Icelandic masculine given names Irish masculine given names Scottish masculine given names