Robert, Rob, Robbie, Bob or Bobby Williams may refer to:

Entertainment

Film

Robert Williams (actor, born 1894) Robert Williams (September 15, 1894 – November 3, 1931) was an American stage and film actor. He is best known for his first, and only, leading role in the 1931 romantic comedy '' Platinum Blonde'', opposite Loretta Young and Jean Harlow ...

(1894–1931), American stage and film actor *

Robert B. Williams (actor) Robert B. Williams (September 23, 1904 – June 17, 1978) was an American character actor from the 1940s through the 1970s. During his 37-year career, he appeared in over 150 feature films, as well as numerous short film, film shorts, tele ...

(1904–1978), American film actor * R. J. Williams (born 1978), American former child actor and later internet entrepreneur *

Rob Williams (filmmaker) Rob Williams is an American independent film director, producer and screenwriter."Rob Williams and Rodney Johnson: The Movie Lovers". '' Instinct'', November 2008. In 2005, he co-founded the independent production house Guest House Films LLC wi ...

, American film director

Music

Robert Pete Williams Robert Pete Williams (March 14, 1914 – December 31, 1980) was an American Louisiana blues musician. His music characteristically employed unconventional structures and guitar tunings, and his songs are often about the time he served in pris ...

(1914–1980), American blues guitarist *

Chocolate Williams Chocolate Williams (also known as Billy and Bob, ''né'' Robert Williams Jr.; February 1, 1916 – June 22, 1984) was an American jazz bassist and vocalist based in New York City. He was a prolific performer of jazz, and, notably, performed and ...

(Robert Williams Jr., 1916–1984), jazz bassist and blues vocalist *

Bob Williams (singer) The Williams Brothers featuring Andy Williams were a singing quartet formed in the mid 1930s. They initially entertained on radio stations and later appeared in four musical films in the 1940s. After recording with Bing Crosby led to a nightc ...

(1918–2003), American singer and one of the Williams Brothers *

Robert Williams (singer) Robertos Konstantinos Williams ( Greek: Ροβέρτος-Κωνσταντίνος Ουίλιαμς, 4 December 1949 – 21 August 2022), best known as Robert Williams (Greek: Ρόμπερτ Ουίλιαμς), was a Greek singer and composer. ...

(1949–2022), Greek singer and composer * Robert S. Williams (born 1949), bassoon player of the Detroit Symphony Orchestra * Robert Williams (drummer) (born 1955), Captain Beefheart, Hugh Cornwell, and solo *

Robbie Williams Robert Peter Williams (born 13 February 1974) is an English singer and songwriter. He found fame as a member of the pop group Take That from 1990 to 1995, and achieved commercial success after launching a solo career in 1996. His debut stud ...

(born 1974), British pop singer and former member of Take That * Rob Williams (1979–2009), partner of business Dolphin Music * Meek Mill (Robert Rihmeek Williams, born 1987), American rapper

Writers

* Robert Williams (poet) (1744–1815), Welsh poet * Robert Williams (Robert ap Gwilym Ddu) (1767–1850), Welsh-language poet * Robert Williams (Trebor Mai) (1830–1877), Welsh-language poet * Robert Moore Williams (1907–1977), American science fiction novelist * Robert Williams (artist) (born 1943), cartoonist and painter * Rob Williams (comics), British comic writer

Military

* Robert Williams (Royal Navy officer) (1765–1827) English rear-admiral in the Royal Navy * Robert Williams (adjutant general) (1829–1901), American brigadier general and Adjutant General of the US Army * Robert Williams (Medal of Honor) (1837–unknown), American sailor and Medal of Honor recipient *

Robert B. Williams (general) Robert Boyd Williams (November 9, 1901 – February 10, 1977) was a major general in the United States Army Air Forces and an eminent combat commander during World War II. He personally led the B-17 raid on the Schweinfurt–Regensburg mission, S ...

(1901–1977), World War II major general in the United States Army Air Forces * Robert H. Williams (soldier) (1908–1983), American Marine brigadier general

Politics

UK

Sir Robert Williams, 2nd Baronet Sir Robert Williams, 2nd Baronet (ca. 1627–1678), was a politician in Wales. He was a Member of Parliament for Caernarvonshire, 1656–1658, and for Caernarvon Boroughs in 1659. He was one of the Williams-Bulkeley baronets; he became a baron ...

(c. 1627–1678), MP for Carnarvonshire, 1656–1658, and for Carnarvon Boroughs, 1659 * Robert Williams (died 1763) (1695–1763), MP for Montgomeryshire, 1740–1741 and 1742–1747 * Robert Williams (1735–1814) (1735–1814), MP for Dorchester, 1807–1812 * Sir Robert Williams, 9th Baronet (1764–1830) of Penryn, MP for Carnarvonshire, 1790–1826, and for Beaumaris, 1826–1831 *

Robert Williams (1767–1847) Robert Williams (11 February 1767 – 10 March 1847) was an English banker and politician. He purchased the Bridehead estate near Dorchester, Dorset, around 1797. It comprised the manor of Littlebredy, Bridehead being a name fabricated by William ...

(1767–1847), MP for Dorchester, 1812–1835 * Robert Williams (1811–1890) (1811–1890), MP for Dorchester, 1835–1841 *

Sir Robert Williams, 1st Baronet, of Bridehead Sir Robert Williams, 1st Baronet JP (15 June 1848 – 15 April 1943) was a Conservative Party politician in the United Kingdom. He was elected as Member of Parliament (MP) for West Dorset at a by-election in May 1895, and held the seat until h ...

(1848–1943), Conservative MP for West Dorset, 1895–1922

US

* Robert Williams (Mississippi politician) (1773–1836), Governor of the Mississippi Territory *

Robert P. Williams Robert P. Williams (September 8, 1841 – July 11, 1910) was an American politician. He was the State Treasurer of Missouri State may refer to: Arts, entertainment, and media Literature * '' State Magazine'', a monthly magazine published by th ...

(1841–1910), State Treasurer of Missouri, 1901–1905 *

Robert L. Williams Robert Lee Williams (December 20, 1868 – April 10, 1948) was an American lawyer, judge, and the third governor of Oklahoma. Williams played a role in the drafting of the Oklahoma Constitution and served as the first Oklahoma Supreme Court ch ...

(1868–1948), American politician, governor of Oklahoma * Robert R. Williams,

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, 1937–1939 * Bob Williams (West Virginia politician) (born 1951), American politician and state senator in West Virginia * Bob Williams (Washington politician), member of the Washington House of Representatives * Robert Q. Williams (born 1964), member of the South Carolina House of Representatives

Elsewhere

Robert Wynn Williams Robert Godfrey Wynn Williams (11 September 1864 – 8 September 1929) was a solicitor and member of the Queensland Legislative Assembly. Early days Wynn Williams was born on 11 September 1864 in Jermyn Street (now Anzac Avenue), Auckland, New ...

(1864–1929), member of the Queensland Legislative Assembly, Australia * Robert Williams (Victorian politician) (1870–1938), Australian politician *

Robert Arthur Williams Robert Arthur Williams (born January 20, 1933) is a consultant and political figure in British Columbia. He represented Vancouver East in the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia from 1966 to 1976 and from 1984 to 1991 as a New Democratic P ...

(born 1933), consultant and political figure in British Columbia, Canada * Robbie Williams (politician) ( 1960–2007), Australian politician

Religion

Robert Williams (antiquary) Robert Williams (1810–1881) was a Welsh Anglican clergyman and Celtic scholar. Life Robert Williams, born at Conway, Carnarvonshire, on 29 June 1810, was the second son of Robert Williams, perpetual curate of Llandudno. He matriculated ...

(1810–1881), Welsh Anglican clergyman and Celtic scholar * Robert Williams (archdeacon of Carmarthen) (1863–1938), Welsh historian and Anglican priest *

Robert Dewi Williams Robert Dewi Williams (29 December 1870 – 25 January 1955) was a Welsh schoolteacher, Presbyterian minister and author. Life Williams was born on 29 December 1870 at Llwyn-du Isaf in Pandy Tudur in what was then the county of Denbighshire. H ...

(1870–1955), Welsh schoolteacher, Presbyterian minister, and author * Robert Williams (archdeacon of Gower) (born 1951), Welsh Anglican priest *

Robert Williams (American priest) Robert Williams (July 21, 1955 in Abilene, Texas – December 24, 1992, Boston, Massachusetts), was the first openly gay male priest whose ordination in the Episcopal Church was acknowledged beforehand by the ordaining diocese and was consequen ...

(1955–1992), first openly gay male priest in the American Episcopal Church

Science

* Robert Statham Williams (1859–1945), American bryologist *

Sir Robert Williams, 1st Baronet, of Park Sir Robert Williams, 1st Baronet, (21 January 1860 – 25 April 1938) was a Scottish mining engineer, pioneering explorer of Africa, entrepreneur, and railroad developer who was chiefly responsible for the discovery of the vast copper deposits ...

(1860–1938), Scottish mining engineer, explorer, and railway developer *

Robert R. Williams Robert Runnels Williams (February 16, 1886 – October 2, 1965) was an American chemist, known for being the first to chemically fully characterize and then synthesize thiamine (vitamin B1). He first isolated thiamine in 1933, and synthesized ...

(1886–1965), American chemist who first synthesized vitamin B₁ * Robert Hardin Williams (1909–1979), American endocrinologist and diabetologist *

Robert Williams (physician) Sir Robert Evan Owen Williams FRCP FRCPath FFPHM (30 June 1916 – 24 May 2003) was a Welsh pathologist Pathology is the study of the causal, causes and effects of disease or injury. The word ''pathology'' also refers to the study of disease ...

(1916–2003), Welsh pathologist *

Robin Williams (mathematician) Robert Martin Williams (30 March 1919 – 18 March 2013), generally known as Robin Williams, was a New Zealand mathematician, academic administrator and public servant. He served as vice chancellor of the University of Otago from 1967 to 1972, ...

(1919–2013), New Zealand mathematician, university administrator and civil servant *

Robert Williams (English chemist) Robert Joseph Paton Williams Order of the British Empire, MBE Fellow of the Royal Society, FRS (25 February 1926 – 21 March 2015) was an English chemist, an Emeritus Fellow at Wadham College, Oxford and an Emeritus Professor at the University ...

(1926–2015), Professor of Oxford University * Robert Williams (psychologist) (born 1930), second president of the Association of Black Psychologists * Robert Williams (astronomer) (born 1940), director of STScI 1993–98; president of IAU, 2009–2012 *

Robin Williams (physicist) Sir Robert Hughes Williams, (born 22 December 1941), commonly known as Robin Williams, is a Welsh physicist and academic, specialising in solid state physics and semiconductors. He was Vice-Chancellor of University of Wales, Swansea from 1994 to ...

(Robert Hughes Williams, born 1941), Welsh physicist and academic *

Robert H. Williams (physicist) Robert H. Williams is a Senior Research Scientist at the Princeton Environmental Institute (PEI), Princeton University. He graduated from Yale University with a BS in physics in 1962, and from University of California, Berkeley with a PhD, in th ...

, environmental scientist at the Princeton Environmental Institute * Bobby G. Williams (born 1951), Jet Propulsion Laboratory engineer; namesake of asteroid

5642 Bobbywilliams 5642 Bobbywilliams, provisional designation , is an eccentric, stony asteroid and Mars-crosser from the inner regions of the asteroid belt, approximately 4.7 kilometers in diameter. It was discovered on 27 July 1990, by American astronomer Henry ...

Sports

American football

Bob Williams (coach) Charles Robert Williams (August 1, 1877 – October 17, 1957) was an American football coach and college athletics administrator. Williams coached at South Carolina Gamecocks football, South Carolina, Davidson Wildcats, Davidson, Clemson Tigers ...

(1877–1957), American college football coach *

Bob Williams (quarterback) Robert Allen Williams (January 2, 1930 – May 26, 2016) was an American football quarterback in the National Football League (NFL). Early years Williams graduated from Loyola Blakefield High School in Towson, Maryland in 1948. Williams attended ...

(1930–2016), football player for Notre Dame *

Bobby Williams (defensive back) Bobby Williams (February 28, 1942 – August 10, 2012) was an American football player who played five seasons in the National Football League (NFL), for the St. Louis Cardinals and the Detroit Lions. Williams mostly known as a return specialist ...

(1942–2012), American pro football player, St. Louis Cardinals and the Detroit Lions *

Bob Williams (American football coach) Bob Williams was an American football coach. He served as the head football coach at the Livingston State Teachers College (now the University of West Alabama The University of West Alabama (UWA) is a public university in Livingston, Alabama. ...

, at Livingston State Teachers College, now University of West Alabama, 1952 *

Robert Williams (quarterback) Dr. Robert "Bob" Williams (born c. 1938 – July 21, 1990) was an American football player for the University of Notre Dame. Williams won three championships with G.A.R. Memorial High School in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania. From his years playin ...

, football player for Notre Dame, 1956–1958 *

Bobby Williams Robert Vann Williams (born November 21, 1958) is an American football coach who most recently served as the special teams coordinator and tight ends coach at the University of Oregon from 2018 to 2021. Williams served as the head coach at Michi ...

(born 1958), tight end, coach *

Robert Williams (cornerback) Robert Cole Williams (born October 2, 1962) is a former American football cornerback in the National Football League (NFL) for the Dallas Cowboys, Washington Redskins and Kansas City Chiefs. He played college football at Baylor University. Early ...

(born 1962), former American football cornerback *

Bobbie Williams Bobbie Joe Williams, Jr. (born September 25, 1976) is a former American football guard. He was drafted by the Philadelphia Eagles in the second round of the 2000 NFL Draft. He played college football at Arkansas. Williams has also played for th ...

(born 1976), American football guard *

Robert Williams (defensive back) Robert M. Williams (born May 29, 1977) is a former American football cornerback in the National Football League. He was drafted by the Kansas City Chiefs in the fifth round of the 1998 NFL Draft. Williams played college football at North Carolina ...

(born 1977), former American football cornerback

Baseball

Bob Williams (baseball) Robert Elias Williams (April 27, 1884 – August 6, 1962) was an American baseball player who was a catcher with the New York Highlanders/Yankees in the American League. He was released by the Yankees in 1913 to the Rochester Club of the Interna ...

(1884–1962), baseball player for the New York Highlanders/Yankees * Bobby Williams (baseball) (1895–1978), American baseball shortstop and manager in the Negro leagues * Robert Williams (baseball) (1917–2000), American baseball pitcher and infielder in the Negro leagues

Basketball

* Bob Williams (basketball, born 1931), American professional basketball player, played collegiately at Florida A&M * Bob Williams (basketball, born 1953), American basketball coach, most recently with UC Santa Barbara *

Rob Williams (basketball) Robert Aaron Williams (May 5, 1961 – March 10, 2014), was an American professional basketball player who was selected by the Denver Nuggets in the first round (19th pick overall) of the 1982 NBA draft. A 6-foot-2 point guard from the Uni ...

(1961–2014), American professional basketball player, played collegiately for Houston *

Robert Williams III Robert Lee Williams III (born October 17, 1997), nicknamed "Time Lord", is an American professional basketball player for the Boston Celtics of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He played college basketball for the Texas A&M Aggies. ...

(born 1997), American professional basketball player, played collegiately for Texas A&M *

Robert Williams (Grambling State basketball) Robert "Honey" Williams is an American former college basketball player. He played at Grambling State University from 1977 to 1981 and was named the Southwestern Athletic Conference's Southwestern Athletic Conference Men's Basketball Player of t ...

, American college basketball player for Grambling State

Cricket

* Robert Williams (South African cricketer) (1912–1984), South African cricketer * Robert Williams (English cricketer) (born 1970), English former cricketer * Robbie Williams (cricketer) (born 1987), English cricketer for Middlesex

Football and rugby

Bobbie Williams (rugby union) Robert Francis Williams (c. 1886 – 29 October 1967) was a Welsh international rugby union player. At club level he played for Canton RFC , Cardiff RFC and the Barbarians, and was selected on four occasions for Wales. Personal history Willia ...

(1865–1967), Welsh international rugby union player *

Bobby Williams (Scottish footballer) Robert Williams was a Scottish professional footballer who made over 110 appearances in the Scottish League for Airdrieonians as a right half. Personal life Williams enlisted as a private in the Royal Scots Fusiliers in February 1916, during ...

(died 1916), Scottish footballer *

Bob Williams (rugby) Robert Williams (1886–1969) was a pioneer Australian rugby league footballer for the Eastern Suburbs club. Playing career Williams, a dock worker from Woolloomooloo, had a distinguished career with the Eastern Suburbs club. He was a long s ...

(1886–1969), Australian rugby league footballer *

Bob Williams (Australian rules footballer) Robert Williams (14 April 1913 – 30 June 2004) was an Australian rules footballer who played with Hawthorn in the Victorian Football League (VFL). Used mostly on the wing or half forward flanks, Williams spent 13 years at Hawthorn, after comi ...

(1913–2004), Australian rules footballer with Hawthorn *

Bobby Williams (footballer, born 1932) Bobby Williams (born 24 November 1932) is an English footballer who played as an inside forward in the Football League for Chester Chester is a cathedral city and the county town of Cheshire, England. It is located on the River Dee, clo ...

, English footballer for Chester City * Bobby Williams (footballer, born 1940), English footballer * Robbie Williams (footballer, born 1979), English footballer for Warrington Town * Robbie Williams (footballer, born 1984), English footballer for Limerick * Robert Williams (footballer, born 1927), English footballer for Wrexham and Shrewsbury Town * Robert Williams (footballer, born 1932), English footballer for Mansfield Town

Other sports

Robert Williams (archer) Robert W. Williams Jr. (January 24, 1841 in Chambersburg, Pennsylvania – December 10, 1914 in Washington, D.C.) was an American archer who competed in the early twentieth century. He won two silver medals in Archery at the 1904 Summer ...

(1841–1914), American archer * Bob Williams (rower) (1931–2017), Canadian rower * Robbie Williams (snooker player) (born 1986), English snooker player *

Rob Williams (rower, born 1960) Rob Williams (born 9 December 1960) is a British lightweight rower. He now works as a rowing coach at Mersey Rowing Club and lives in Devonport, Tasmania, Australia. References * 1960 births Living people British male rowers Sportsp ...

, British rower *

Rob Williams (rower, born 1985) Rob Williams (born 21 January 1985, in Taplow) is a British rower who competed at the 2012 Summer Olympics. Rowing career Williams was part of the British squad that topped the medal table at the 2011 World Rowing Championships in Bled, where ...

, British Olympian

Other

Robert A. Williams Jr. Robert A. Williams Jr. is an American lawyer, author, and legal scholar. He works in the fields of federal Indian law, international law, indigenous peoples' rights, critical race and post-colonial theory. Williams teaches at the University of Ari ...

, American lawyer and professor * Robert S. C. Williams, community service worker in Ontario, Canada * Robert C. Williams, the namesake of the

Robert C. Williams Paper Museum The Robert C. Williams American Museum of Papermaking is a research institution and public museum dedicated to the preservation of the history of paper and paper technology. Located inside the Paper Tricentennial Building at the Georgia Institute ...

Robert F. Williams Robert Franklin Williams (February 26, 1925 – October 15, 1996) was an American civil rights leader and author best known for serving as president of the Monroe, North Carolina chapter of the NAACP in the 1950s and into 1961. He succeede ...

(1925–1996), American civil rights activist *

Robert Wayne Williams Robert Wayne Williams (February 6, 1952 – December 14, 1983) was an American murderer convicted of the January 5, 1979, murder of Willie Kelly, a 67-year-old security guard. He was executed in 1983 by the state of Louisiana by electric chair. H ...

(1952–1983), American murderer executed in Louisiana * Robert Williams (architect) (1848–1918), Welsh architect and social campaigner * Robert Williams (geometer) (born 1942), American designer, mathematician, and architect * Robert Williams (robot fatality) (1953–1979), the first person to be killed by a robot *

Robert Williams (trade union leader) Robert Williams (1881 – 1 February 1936) was a British trade union organiser. He was born in Swansea, Wales, and began his working life as a coal trimmer at the docks. He became active in his union, the National Amalgamated Labourers' Union ...

(1881–1936), British trade union organizer