Robert Palmer may refer to:

Academics

Robert Roswell Palmer Robert Roswell Palmer (January 11, 1909 – June 11, 2002) was an American historian at Princeton University, Princeton and Yale University, Yale universities, who specialized in eighteenth-century France. His most influential work of scholarship ...

(1909–2002), historian * Robert E. A. Palmer or R. E. A. Palmer (1933–2006), classical scholar and ancient historian * Robert Brian Palmer (born 1934), British-American nuclear physicist and researcher

Business

Robert Palmer (computer businessman) Robert B. Palmer (born September 11, 1940) is an American businessman in the computer industry. Palmer was the final Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Digital Equipment Corporation. Education Palmer majored in Math and Physics at Texas Tec ...

(born 1940), CEO of Digital Equipment Corporation *

Robert W. Palmer Robert W. Palmer is a former Madison Guaranty land appraiser. He pleaded guilty to federal conspiracy charges related to Whitewater and was later pardoned by President Bill Clinton. As a land appraiser he admitted to conspiring with Jim McDoug ...

, land appraiser for Madison Guaranty; pleaded guilty in Whitewater controversy *

Robert Palmer (vintner) Robert Palmer (July 16, 1934 – January 16, 2009) was an American advertising executive who became a vintner and one of the pioneering developers of the wine industry on the North Fork of New York's Long Island. He was born Robert Joseph Pri ...

(1934–2009), American advertising executive and vintner

Music

Robert Palmer (singer) Robert Allen Palmer (19 January 1949 – 26 September 2003) was an English singer-songwriter, musician and record producer. He was known for his powerful, soulful voice and sartorial elegance, and for his stylistic explorations, combining ...

(1949–2003), English singer-songwriter and musician *

Robert Moffat Palmer Robert Moffat (variously "Moffatt" and "Moffett") Palmer (b. June 2, 1915, Syracuse, New York; d. July 3, 2010, Ithaca, New York) was an American composer, pianist and educator. He composed more than 90 works,''Ithaca Journal'' obituary, July 5 ...

(1915–2010), American composer

Politics and military

* Robert Palmer (MP) (1793–1872), English Conservative Member of Parliament *

Robert Moffett Palmer Robert Moffett Palmer (December 14, 1820 – April 26, 1862) was an American diplomat. Biography Palmer was born in Mount Holly, New Jersey on December 14, 1820 to a family of judges and politicians. At age 9 his father moved the family to ...

(1820–1862), American diplomat and politician *

Robert Palmer, 1st Baron Rusholme Robert Alexander Palmer, 1st Baron Rusholme (29 November 1890 – 18 August 1977) was a senior official of the British co-operative movement and a Labour Co-operative member of the House of Lords. Career Born in November 1890, Palmer left school ...

(1890–1977), General Secretary of the British Co-operative Union and member of the House of Lords *

Robert Anthony Maurice Palmer Robert Anthony Maurice Palmer, (7 July 1920 – 23 December 1944) was a bomber pilot in the Royal Air Force and a posthumous English recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded t ...

(1920–1944), British bomber pilot and recipient of the Victoria Cross

Sports

Robert Palmer (skier) Robert Palmer (born in 1947 died in 1981) is an alpine skier from New Zealand. In the 1968 Winter Olympics The 1968 Winter Olympics, officially known as the X Olympic Winter Games (french: Les Xes Jeux olympiques d'hiver), were a winter multi ...

(born 1947), New Zealand Olympic skier *

Robert Palmer (cricketer) Robert William Michael Palmer (born 4 June 1960) is a Hong Kong born former English cricketer. Palmer was a right-handed batsman who bowled left-arm medium pace. Palmer made his first-class debut for Cambridge University against Worcestershi ...

(born 1960), Hong Kong-born former English cricketer

Writers

* Robert Palmer, pseudonym of Cyriel Buysse (1859–1932), Flemish author *

Robert Palmer (writer) Robert Franklin Palmer Jr. (June 19, 1945 – November 20, 1997) was an American writer, musicologist, clarinetist, saxophonist, and blues producer. He is best known for his books, including ''Deep Blues''; his music journalism for ''The New ...

(1945–1997), American music critic and blues producer *

Robert Palmer (British writer) The Honourable Robert Stafford Arthur Palmer (26 September 1888 – 21 January 1916) was a British Army officer, barrister and poet. Palmer was born into an aristocratic family. He was the son of William Palmer, 2nd Earl of Selborne, grandson ...