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Robins, Iowa Robins is a city in Linn County, Iowa, United States. The population was 3,353 at the time of the 2020 census. It is a suburb of Cedar Rapids and part of the Cedar Rapids Metropolitan Statistical Area. Geography Robins is located at (42.072916 ...
, a small city * Robins, Ohio, an unincorporated community * Robins Township, Fall River County, South Dakota *
Robins Island Robins Island is a island in Peconic Bay by the eastern end of Long Island off the coast of New Suffolk, New York. The island is privately owned and not accessible to the public and is within the jurisdiction of the Town of Southold in Suff ...
, of the coast of New York state * Robins Air Force Base, Georgia * Robins Center, arena in Richmond, Virginia


People

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Alison Robins Alison Robins (nee Gerrish) (9 March 1920 – 15 October 2017) was a British naval signals intelligence officer. She joined the Women's Royal Naval Service (WRNS, "Wrens") in 1939 as an officers' steward and later joined the " Y-Service" in World ...
(1920–2017), worked at Bletchley Park "Y-Service" *General Augustine Warner Robins (1882–1940), U.S. Army Air Corps *
Benjamin Robins Benjamin Robins (170729 July 1751) was a pioneering British scientist, Newtonian mathematician, and military engineer. He wrote an influential treatise on gunnery, for the first time introducing Newtonian science to military men, was an early en ...
(1707–1751), English scientist, mathematician, and engineer * Bryce Robins (rugby union, born 1958) (born 1958), New Zealand rugby union player and All Black *
Bryce Robins Bryce B. Robins (born 19 September 1980) is a New Zealand-born Japanese rugby union player who plays as a centre for the Munakata Sanix Blues in the Top League and Japan. He played for the Hurricanes in 2002 and 2003. On 22 April 2007, Robins m ...
(born 1980), New Zealand and Japanese rugby union player, son of above *
C. A. Robins Charles Armington Robins (December 8, 1884 – September 20, 1970) was an American physician and the 22nd governor of Idaho. Early years Born in Iowa at Defiance in Shelby County, at age four Robins moved west with his family to Colorado, ...
(1884–1970), 22nd Governor of Idaho *
C. Richard Robins Charles Richard Robins (November 25, 1928 – November 12, 2020) was an American academic, environmentalist and ichthyologist. Early life and university Robins was born on November 25, 1928 in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, to Helen Ayers Robins and C ...
(1928–2020), American ichthyologist *
Denise Robins Denise Robins (née Denise Naomi Klein; 1 February 1897 – 1 May 1985) was a prolific English romantic novelist and the first President of the Romantic Novelists' Association (1960–1966). She wrote under her first married name and under the ...
(1897−1985), English romance novelist *
Derrick Robins Derrick Harold Robins (27 June 1914 – 3 May 2004) was an English cricketer and sports promoter, at one time chairman of Coventry City Football Club. He was born in Bexleyheath, Kent. Robins played two matches for Warwickshire in 1947, but did ...
(1914–2004), English cricketer and sports promoter * Edward H. Robins (1881–1955), American actor *
Edwin Frederick Robins Edwin Frederick Robins (11 February 187022 March 1951) was an Anglican bishop in Canada from 1912 to 1930. He was born in London on 11 February 1870 and ordained deacon in 1894 after which he was a CMS missionary in Dera Ghazi Khan. In 1897 he ...
(1870–1951) Anglican Bishop in Canada * Elizabeth Robins (1862–1952), actress, playwright, novelist, and suffragist *
James Robins James M. Robins is an epidemiologist and biostatistician best known for advancing methods for drawing causal inferences from complex observational studies and randomized trials, particularly those in which the treatment varies with time. He is th ...
, American epidemiologist and biostatistician * John Robins (fl. 1650–2), English Ranter and plebeian prophet * John Robins (1926–2007), international union rugby player for Wales *
Laila Robins Laila Robins is an American stage, film and television actress. She has appeared in films including ''Planes, Trains and Automobiles'' (1987), ''An Innocent Man'' (1989), ''Live Nude Girls'' (1995), ''True Crime'' (1999), ''She's Lost Control'' ( ...
(born 1959), American stage, film, and television actress *
Mark Robins Mark Gordon Robins (born 22 December 1969) is an English football manager and former player, who is the current manager of Coventry City in the EFL Championship. As a player, he was a striker and is best known for his time in the Premier League ...
, English football manager * Mikey Robins, Australian media personality, comedian, and writer *
Noel Robins David Noel Robins, OAM (3 September 1935 – 22 May 2003) was an Australian sailor. He began sailing as a child, and became partially quadriplegic after receiving a spinal fracture from a car crash at the age of 21. He was the sk ...
(1935–2003), Australian sailor *
Patricia Robins Patricia Robins (1 February 1921 – 4 December 2016) was a British writer of short stories and over 80 novels mainly romances from 1934 to 2016, she also signed under the pseudonym Claire Lorrimer, she had sold more than ten million copies. S ...
(1921–2016), English romance novelist, daughter of Denise Robins *
Paul Robins Paul may refer to: *Paul (given name), a given name (includes a list of people with that name) *Paul (surname), a list of people People Christianity *Paul the Apostle (AD c.5–c.64/65), also known as Saul of Tarsus or Saint Paul, early Chris ...
(1804–1890), a pioneer of the Bible Christian movement in North America * Robert H. "Bobby" Robins (1921−2000), English linguist *
Robyn Robins Robert Clark Seger ( ; born May 6, 1945) is an American singer, songwriter, and musician. As a locally successful Detroit-area artist, he performed and recorded as Bob Seger and the Last Heard and The Bob Seger System throughout the 1960s, break ...
(born 1951), rock and roll keyboardist, founding member of the Bob Seger Silver Bullet Band *
Thomas Sewell Robins Thomas Sewell Robins ( Devonport 8 May 1810 – 9 August 1880) was a British painter of maritime subjects. Early life Born 8 May 1810 in Devonport, Devon, he was admitted into the Royal Academy Schools on 22 April 1829 under the sponso ...
(c. 1810–1880), British painter of maritime themes *
Toby Robins Toby Robins (March 13, 1931 – March 21, 1986) was a Canadian actress of film, stage and television. Robins starred in hundreds of radio and stage productions in Canada from the late 1940s through the 1960s, working with such performers as Jane ...
, Canadian actress and journalist *
Vanessa Robins Vanessa Robins is an Australian applied mathematician whose research interests include computational topology, image processing, and the structure of granular materials. She is a fellow in the departments of applied mathematics and theoretical phy ...
, Australian mathematician *
Walter Robins Robert Walter Vivian Robins (3 June 1906 – 12 December 1968) was an English cricketer and cricket administrator, who played for Cambridge University, Middlesex, and England. A right-handed batsman and right-arm leg-break and googly bowler, he ...
(1906–1968), English cricketer and footballer


Entertainment

* ''Robins'' (talk show), a Swedish talk television show on SVT2 * The Robins, an American R&B singing group of the 1940s and 1950s


Sport

* Brooklyn Robins, name between
1914 This year saw the beginning of what became known as World War I, after Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria, heir to the Austrian throne was Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, assassinated by Serbian nationalist Gavrilo Princip. It als ...
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1931 Events January * January 2 – South Dakota native Ernest Lawrence invents the cyclotron, used to accelerate particles to study nuclear physics. * January 4 – German pilot Elly Beinhorn begins her flight to Africa. * January 22 – Sir I ...
of the baseball franchise now known as the
Los Angeles Dodgers The Los Angeles Dodgers are an American professional baseball team based in Los Angeles. The Dodgers compete in Major League Baseball (MLB) as a member club of the National League (NL) West division. Established in 1883 in the city of Brooklyn ...
. * Shochiku Robins and Taiyō-Shochiku Robins, two former names of the Yokohama BayStars, a Japanese NPB team * The Robins, a nickname for Altrincham Football Club, based in Greater Manchester, England * The Robins, a nickname for Bracknell Town Football Club, based in England * The Robins, a nickname for
Bristol City Football Club Bristol City Football Club is a professional football club based in Bristol, England, which compete in the , the second tier of English football. They have played their home games at Ashton Gate since moving from St John's Lane in 1904. The ...
, based in England, because of their red playing kit * The Robins, a nickname for
Cheltenham Town Football Club Cheltenham Town Football Club is a professional association football club based in the town of Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, England. From the 2021–22 season, the club compete in League One, the third tier of the English football league sy ...
, based in
Cheltenham Cheltenham (), also known as Cheltenham Spa, is a spa town and borough on the edge of the Cotswolds in the county of Gloucestershire, England. Cheltenham became known as a health and holiday spa town resort, following the discovery of mineral s ...
, England, because of their red playing kit * The Robins, a nickname for Evesham United Football Club, based in Worcestershire, England * The Robins, a nickname for Hull Kingston Rovers, the English Rugby league club, because of their red playing kit * The Robins, a nickname for Ilkeston Football Club, based in Derbyshire, England * The Robins, a nickname for
Swindon Town Football Club Swindon Town Football Club is a professional Association football, football club based in Swindon, Wiltshire, England. The team currently competes in , the fourth tier of the English football league system. The club has played home matches at ...
, based in England, because of their red playing kit * Swindon Robins, English Motorcycle Speedway team * Brighton Robins, Australian rules football club based in Tasmania *
Kermandie Robins The Kermandie Football Club was an Australian rules football club that played in the Southern Football League in Tasmania, Australia. The club was founded in 1887 and went out of existence in March 2010. Honours Club * Huon Football Associati ...
, Australian rules football club in Tasmania * Peekskill Robins, formerly the Stamford Robins, American collegiate baseball team playing in an NCAA summer league


See also

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Robbins (disambiguation) Robbins may refer to: People * Robbins (name), a surname Fictional characters * Al Robbins, medical doctor in ''CSI: Crime Scene Investigation'' * Arizona Robbins, surgeon in ''Grey's Anatomy'' * Ashley Mizuki Robbins, protagonist in the video ...
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Robin (disambiguation) Robin may refer to: Animals * Australasian robins, red-breasted songbirds of the family Petroicidae * Many members of the subfamily Saxicolinae (Old World chats), including: **European robin (''Erithacus rubecula'') ** Bush-robin **Forest r ...
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