List of Famous people named Bob

Robert Charles Joseph Edward Sabatini Guccione was an American photographer and publisher. He founded the adult magazine Penthouse in 1965. This was aimed at competing with Hugh Hefner's Playboy, but with more extreme erotic content, a special style of soft-focus photography, and in-depth reporting of government corruption scandals. By 1982 Guccione was listed in the Forbes 400 wealth list, and owned one of the biggest mansions in Manhattan. However, he made some extravagant investments that failed, and the growth of free online pornography industry in the 1990s greatly diminished his market. In 2003, Guccione's publishers filed for bankruptcy and he resigned as chairman.

Robert J. Ulrich is the former chief executive officer and chairman of the Target Corporation, the second-largest mass merchandise retailer in the United States. Ulrich is credited with crafting Target's unique brand and marketing image and focus, which is widely considered to be a key contributor to the company's growth and success in the challenging retailing industry.

Robert Laurence Barr Jr. is an American attorney and politician. He served as a federal prosecutor and as a Congressman.

Robert Frank "Bob" Swaim, Jr. is an American film director.

Brian Todd, known professionally as Bob Todd, was an English comedy actor, mostly known for appearing as a straight man in the sketch shows of Benny Hill and Spike Milligan. For many years he lived in Tunbridge Wells, Kent.

Robert Walter Kustra is an American politician and academic administrator who served as the Lieutenant Governor of Illinois from 1991 to 1998 and the President of Boise State University from 2003 to 2018.

Robert Nimrod Miner was an American businessman. He was the co-founder of Oracle Corporation and the producer of Oracle's relational database management system.

Robert Addie was an American sportswriter who covered baseball for The Washington Post and Washington Times-Herald. Addie was known for his red socks, dark glasses, and unabashed sentiment. He never missed a day on the Washington Senators' beat for 20 years until the team left town in 1971. Addie was presented with the J. G. Taylor Spink Award by the Baseball Writers' Association of America in 1981. He covered the PGA after baseball moved from Washington and wrote many articles for the Post after his retirement from the paper in 1977. He wrote a book about his sportswriting career entitled Sportswriter which was published in 1980.

Bob Ringwood is a British costume designer who has been nominated for two Academy Awards. He is perhaps best known for designing the Stillsuits in David Lynch's Dune (1984) and supervising the fabrication of the Batsuit used in Tim Burton's Batman (1989).