Robert McNair Wilson
Captain Robert McNair Wilson MB, ChB (22 May 1882 Maryhill, Glasgow – 29 November 1963 New Forest, Hampshire), was a British surgeon, writer and journalist and Liberal Party politician.
Background
Wilson was the son of William Wilson and Hel ...
(1882–1963), British surgeon, fiction writer, and politician
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Robert Wilson (crime novelist)
Robert Wilson (born 1957) is a British crime writer currently resident in Portugal. He is the son of an RAF fighter pilot, and has a degree in English from Oxford. Wilson is the author of the Bruce Medway series, set in and around Benin, West A ...
(born 1957), British crime novelist
* Robert Wilson (dramatist) (died 1600), English Elizabethan dramatist
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Fresh I.E.
Rob Wilson, better known by his stage name Fresh I.E., is a Christian rap artist from Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.
Biography
Fresh I.E. is an ordained Minister (Christianity), minister and used to run the Joshua House drop-in centre and Education ...
, Canadian rapper
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Robert Wilson (tenor)
Robert Wilson (2 January 1907 – 25 September 1964) was a Scottish tenor. After beginning his career with the Rothesay Entertainers in Scotland, Wilson joined the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company, with whom he performed from 1931 to 1937. He then b ...
Robert Wilson (music entrepreneur)
Robert Allan David Wilson, MBE, born in 1951 in the Scottish Borders, is an entrepreneurial business leader, musician and philanthropist. He lives in Knebworth, Hertfordshire. He was awarded an MBE in the 2016 Queen's New Years Honours for serv ...
(born 1951), British musician and charity founder
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Juice Wilson
Robert "Juice" Wilson (January 21, 1904 – May 22, 1993) was an American jazz violinist.
Biography
Wilson grew up an orphan and was raised by his uncle from age three in Chicago. He began playing drums in the Chicago Militia Boys Band, then sw ...
(Robert Wilson, 1904–1993), American jazz violinist
* Robert Wilson (born 1980), Bobby V, American R&B singer formerly known as Bobby Valentino
Robert Wilson (British Army officer, born 1777)
General Sir Robert Thomas Wilson (17 August 1777 – 9 May 1849) was a British general and politician who served in Flanders, Egypt, the Iberian Peninsula, Prussia, and was seconded to the Imperial Russian Army in 1812. He sat as the Whig Memb ...
Robert L. Wilson
Robert Lee Wilson (May 21, 1920 – August 3, 1944) was a United States Marine who posthumously received the Medal of Honor for heroism at the cost of his life on August 3, 1944, in the Marianas.
Early life
Robert Lee Wilson was born on May 21, ...
(1920–1944), United States Marine and Medal of Honor recipient
Robert Wilson (Missouri politician)
Robert Wilson (November 1803May 10, 1870) was a United States senator from Missouri.
Biography
Born near Staunton, Virginia, he moved to Howard County, Missouri in 1820 and taught school. In 1825 he was probate judge of Howard County and was cl ...
Robert D. Wilson
Robert Dick Wilson (February 3, 1839 – December 4, 1930) was an American farmer and politician.
Born in Falkirk, Scotland, Wilson emigrated to the United States in 1854 and settled in the Town of Melrose, Jackson County, Wisconsin. Wilso ...
(1839–1930), member of the Wisconsin State Assembly
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Robert Richard Wilson
Robert Richard Wilson (29 May 1891 – 26 Apr 1969) was a farmer and politician in South Australia.
History
Born at Ardrossan, South Australia, he was for many years a successful farmer, grazier and dairyman of Yeelanna, South Australia. He was ...
(1891–1969), farmer and politician in South Australia
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Robert Wilson (Australian politician)
Sir Robert Christian Wilson (11 November 1896 – 21 August 1973) was an Australian politician.
He was born in Mudgee to grazier Henry Christian Wilson and Mary Hales. He attended Fort Street High School and served during World War I with t ...
(1896–1973), New South Wales politician
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Robert John Wilson
Robert John Wilson (14 July 1865 – 5 November 1946) was Labour MP for Jarrow.
Born in Gateshead, Wilson was privately educated before becoming the manager of a drapers' shop. He joined the Labour Party and was elected to Sunderland Borough C ...
, Member of Parliament in 1922 for Jarrow
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Robert Wilson (Manitoba politician)
Robert George "Bob" Wilson (born November 2, 1934) is a former politician in Manitoba. He represented Wolseley in the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba from 1975 to 1981 as a Progressive Conservative and then independent member.
He was first el ...
(born 1934), Manitoba politician
* Robert J. Wilson, candidate in the 1953 Manitoba provincial election
* Rob Wilson (born 1965), British politician and entrepreneur, MP for Reading East
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Robert Nichol Wilson
Robert Nichol Wilson, known as R. N. Wilson, was a unionist politician in Northern Ireland.
Wilson studied at Malvern College and served in the Royal Artillery during World War II. After the war, he became a director of a textile company and jo ...
Robert Wilson (physician)
Robert Wilson (1829?–1881) was a British physician. From Castle Eden, County Durham, he graduated M.D. from the University of Glasgow in 1848. He practiced in Alnwick, Northumberland, and died aged 52.
He produced a paper entitled "The Coal Min ...
(1829–1881), wrote about the British mining industry
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Robert O. Wilson
Robert O. Wilson, MD (October 5, 1904 – November 16, 1967) was an American physician born to Protestant missionaries Wilbur F. Wilson and Mary Rowley Wilson in Nanjing, China. Wilson attended Princeton University and subsequently obtained ...
(1906–1967), American physician
* Robert R. Wilson (1914–2000), American physicist
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Robert Wilson (astronomer)
Sir Robert Wilson (16 April 1927 – 2 September 2002) was the son of a Durham miner. He studied physics at King's College, Durham and obtained his PhD in Edinburgh, where he worked at the Royal Observatory on stellar spectra. He was an astr ...
(1927–2002), British astronomer
* Robert Woodrow Wilson (born 1936), American astronomer and physicist
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Robert B. Wilson
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Robert Butler Wilson, Jr. (born May 16, 1937) is an American economist and the Adams Distinguished Professor of Management, Emeritus at Stanford University. He was jointly awarded the 2020 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences, together wit ...
(born 1937), Nobel Prize-winning American economist and professor at Stanford University
Sports
American football
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Robert Wilson (running back)
Robert Eugene Wilson (born January 13, 1969) is an American former professional football player who was a running back for four seasons in the National Football League (NFL) with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, Dallas Cowboys and Miami Dolphins. He wa ...
(born 1969), American football player
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Robert Wilson (wide receiver)
Robert Wilson (June 23, 1974 – September 9, 2020) was an American professional football player who was a wide receiver for five seasons in the National Football League (NFL) with the Seattle Seahawks and New Orleans Saints. He played college ...
(1974–2020), American football player
* Robert P. Wilson, American football player and coach
Rugby
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Robert Wilson (rugby league)
Robert James Wilson ( 1878 – 6 February 1916) was an English professional rugby league footballer who played in the 1900s. He played at representative level for England and Lancashire, and at club level for Broughton Rangers.
Background
Bob ...
(1879–1916), rugby league footballer for England and Broughton Ranchers
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Robert Wilson (rugby union, born 1854)
Robert Wilson (4 February 1854 – 6 July 1911) was a Scotland international rugby union player who represented Scotland
Scotland (, ) is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. Covering the northern third of the island of Great B ...
(1854–1911), Scottish rugby union player
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Robert Wilson (rugby union, born 1861)
Robert "Bob" James Wilson (15 April 1861 – 14 May 1944) was a New Zealand rugby union player who represented New Zealand national side, the All Blacks in 1884, playing in the forward position.
Career
Known by the nickname "baby" (like ...
(1861–1944), rugby union player for New Zealand in 1884
Other sports
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Robert Wilson (bobsleigh)
Robert Wilson (born 13 September 1954) is a Canadian bobsledder. He competed at the 1980 Winter Olympics and the 1984 Winter Olympics
The 1984 Winter Olympics, officially known as the XIV Olympic Winter Games (Serbo-Croatian and Slovene: ' ...
Robert Wilson (cricketer, born 1922)
Robert Greenwood Wilson (20 November 1922 – 6 March 1980) was an English first-class cricketer and Royal Air Force officer. Having served during World War II, Wilson's career with the Royal Air Force spanned over two decades, for which he ...
Robert Wilson (tennis)
Robert Keith Wilson (22 November 1935 – 21 September 2020) was an English tennis player. Wilson reached the quarterfinals of Wimbledon four times, Forest Hills twice, and Roland Garros once during the late 1950s and early 1960s. He was also ...
(1935-2020), tennis player in the 1960s
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Robert Wilson (American rower)
Robert Wilson (born October 9, 1939) is an American rowing (sport), rower. He competed in the Rowing at the 1960 Summer Olympics – Men's eight, men's eight event at the 1960 Summer Olympics.
References
1939 births
Living people
Ameri ...
(born 1939), American Olympic rower
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Robert Wilson (cricketer, born 1948)
Robert Stanley Wilson (born 1 October 1948) is a New Zealand former cricketer. He played two first-class matches for Otago
Otago (, ; mi, Ōtākou ) is a region of New Zealand located in the southern half of the South Island administ ...
, New Zealand cricketer
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Rob Wilson (racing driver)
Rob Wilson (born 6 September 1952, in Auckland) is a former racing driver from New Zealand. Wilson raced in various formula racing and endurance racing series.
Career history
Formula racing
Rob Wilson won a scholarship to race in the 1975 Br ...
Robert E. Lee Wilson
Robert Edward Lee Wilson (March 5, 1865 – September 27, 1933) was the creator and owner of Lee Wilson and Company, a group of large cotton plantations in the American South, plantations in Mississippi County, Arkansas. Acquiring much of his f ...
(1865–1933), American cotton plantation owner
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Robert W. Wilson (philanthropist)
Robert Warne Wilson (November 3, 1926 – December 23, 2013) was an American hedge fund manager, philanthropist, and art collector.
Early life and education
Born in Detroit, Wilson gained his undergraduate degree at Amherst College and his ma ...
(1926–2013), American hedge fund manager and philanthropist
* Robert Wilson (architect) (1834–1901), Scottish architect
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Robert Gordon Wilson (architect)
Robert Gordon Wilson (1844–1931) was a 19th/20th century Scottish architect based in Aberdeen. He was from a strong United Presbyterian background and specialised in churches for the United Presbyterian Church and Free Church of Scotl ...
(1844–1931), Scottish architect
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Robert Wilson (businessman)
Sir Robert Wilson (born 1942/1943) is a British businessman. He has been the chairman of Rio Tinto Group and of BG Group.
Wilson started his career with Mobil, and then Dunlop Tyres, before joining the mining company Rio Tinto in 1970. He rose ...
Robert Wilson (priest, born 1840)
Robert James Wilson (20 September 1840 – 15 May 1897) was an English Anglican priest and academic, who was Warden of Keble College, Oxford, from 1889 until his death.
Wilson was born in Broadwater, Sussex, England and educated at Cheltenham C ...
(1840–1897), English Anglican priest and academic, warden of Keble College, Oxford
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Robert Wilson (dean of Ferns)
Robert Wilson was a 17th-century Anglican Dean in Ireland.
Wilson was educated at Trinity College, Dublin. He was appointed a prebendary of Ferns Cathedral in 1626, a post he held until 1643. He was a prebendary of St Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin ...
Robert Kenneth Wilson
Robert Kenneth Wilson MB BChir, FRCSEd (26 January 1899 – 6 June 1969) was a general surgeon and gynaecologist in London, who in 1934 supposedly took a photograph purporting to show the Loch Ness Monster. This became known as "the surgeon's ph ...
, surgeon who in 1934 supposedly took a photograph purporting to show the Loch Ness Monster
Bobby Wilson (disambiguation) Bobby Wilson may refer to:
*Bobby Wilson (actor), artist and writer, member of the sketch comedy troupe, the 1491s
*Bobby Wilson (tennis) (1935–2020), British tennis player of the 1950s and 1960s
* Bobby Wilson (Australian rules footballer) (1934 ...