List of Famous people named Bob

Name Bob is among the most common names in USA, Canada, Australia. Often it's a shorthand for Robert. Similar names: Robert, Bobby, Bobbie, Bobbi, Bobo, Booboo, Boby. Here are some famous Bobs:

Bob Allen

First Name Bob
Last Name Allen
Born on November 30, 1912
Died on April 24, 1989 (aged 76)
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Bob Ely

First Name Bob
Last Name Ely
Born on January 1, 1958 (age 68)

Robert Moulton Ely is an American entrepreneur and former investment banker. He challenged President Barack Obama in several primaries for the Democratic Party's 2012 presidential nomination, and Donald Trump for the Republican Party's 2020 presidential nomination.

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Bob van Asperen

First Name Bob
Last Name Asperen
Born on October 8, 1947 (age 78)

Bob van Asperen is a Dutch harpsichordist and early keyboard instrument performer, as well as a conductor. He graduated in 1971 from the Amsterdam Conservatory, where he studied the harpsichord with Gustav Leonhardt and the pipe organ with Albert de Klerk. Since then he has been performing extensively in Europe and the rest of the world, both as a soloist and as an accompanist/conductor.

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Bob Bingham

First Name Bob
Last Name Bingham
Born on October 29, 1946 (age 79)

Robert Bingham is a retired American actor and singer. Bingham is best known for playing the role of Caiaphas in Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice's rock opera Jesus Christ Superstar in the original Broadway cast and in the 1973 film version.

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Bob Neuwirth

Robert Neuwirth
First Name Bob
Last Name Neuwirth
Born on June 20, 1939
Died on May 18, 2022 (aged 82)

Bob Neuwirth is an American folk music singer, songwriter, record producer and visual artist.

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Bob Martin

First Name Bob
Last Name Martin
Born on June 7, 1922
Died on January 13, 1998 (aged 75)

Bob Martin, born Leo Heppe, was an Austrian singer, who was the first participant representing Austria in the 1957 Eurovision Song Contest. The first "Austrian" was Freddy Quinn who represented Germany in 1956. Martin, singing in German "Wohin, kleines Pony?", placed last in the field of ten. He received three points in total - one from the Netherlands and two from the United Kingdom. He has been especially popular in southern Austria.

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Bob Dudley

First Name Bob
Last Name Dudley
Born on September 14, 1955 (age 70)

Robert Warren Dudley is an American-born businessman who is a former group chief executive of BP. He had served as president and chief executive of TNK-BP and on June 18, 2010, was assigned to be BP executive in charge of the Gulf Coast Restoration Organization responding to the Deepwater Horizon oil spill. He is the chair of the international industry-led Oil and Gas Climate Initiative (OGCI).

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Bob Chiarelli

First Name Bob
Last Name Chiarelli
Born on September 24, 1941 (age 84)
Born in Canada, Ontario

Robert Chiarelli is a former politician in Ontario, Canada. He was a Liberal member in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario who served from 1987 to 1997 and again from 2010 to 2018 who represented the ridings of Ottawa West and Ottawa West—Nepean. He was the Regional Chair of Ottawa-Carleton from 1997 to 2001 and was mayor of Ottawa from 2001 to 2006. He served in the provincial cabinets of Dalton McGuinty and Kathleen Wynne.

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Bob Meusel

First Name Bob
Last Name Meusel
Born on July 19, 1896
Died on November 28, 1977 (aged 81)

Robert William Meusel was an American baseball left and right fielder who played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for eleven seasons from 1920 through 1930, all but the last for the New York Yankees. He was best known as a member of the Yankees' championship teams of the 1920s, nicknamed the "Murderers' Row", during which time the team won its first six American League (AL) pennants and first three World Series titles.

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Bob Escoffier

First Name Bob
Last Name Escoffier
Born on May 20, 1949 (age 77)
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