List of Famous people named Bobby

Often it's a shorthand for Robert. Similar names: Robert, Bob, Bobbie, Bobbi, Bobo, Booboo, Boby. Here are some famous Bobbys:

Bobby Driscoll

Robert Cletus Driscoll
First Name Bobby
Last Name Driscoll
Born on March 3, 1937
Died on March 30, 1968 (aged 31)

Robert Cletus Driscoll was an American child actor and artist, known for his film and TV performances from 1943 to 1960. He starred in some of the Walt Disney Studios' best known live-action pictures of that period, such as Song of the South (1946), So Dear to My Heart (1949), and Treasure Island (1950). Most notably, he served as the animation model and provided the voice for the title role in Peter Pan (1953). He received an Academy Juvenile Award for outstanding performance in two feature films released in 1949, for his roles in So Dear to My Heart and The Window.

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Bobby Bowden

First Name Bobby
Last Name Bowden
Born on November 8, 1929 (age 96)

Robert Cleckler Bowden is a retired American football coach. Bowden is best known for coaching the Florida State Seminoles football team from 1976 to 2009, and is considered one of the greatest college football coaches of all time for his accomplishments with the Seminoles.

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Bobby Petrino

First Name Bobby
Last Name Petrino
Born on March 10, 1961 (age 65)

Robert Patrick Petrino is an American football coach. He was hired as the head coach at Missouri State University on January 15, 2020. Previously, he served as the head coach of the Louisville Cardinals football team from 2014 until being fired during the 2018 season. He previously held the post from 2003 to 2006. From 2008 to 2011, Petrino was the head football coach at the University of Arkansas. He was dismissed from that position in the spring of 2012 "with cause". Petrino also coached the Atlanta Falcons of the National Football League (NFL) for the first 13 games of the 2007 season, quitting to take the head coaching job of the Arkansas Razorbacks. He spent the 2013 season as head football coach of the Western Kentucky Hilltoppers.

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Bobby Ologun

Alaji Karim Ologun
First Name Bobby
Last Name Ologun
Born on April 8, 1966 (age 60)
Born in Nigeria, Oyo State

Bobby Ologun is a Nigerian television personality and mixed martial artist with Japanese citizenship. In Japan, he is known simply as Bobby (ボビー). He speaks English, Yoruba and Japanese. He lives in Saitama, Saitama Prefecture. On July 26, 2007, he announced on Mezamashi TV that he had become a naturalized citizen of Japan, taking his wife's surname and registering officially as Bobby Konda .

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Bobby Darin

Walden Robert Cassotto
First Name Bobby
Last Name Darin
Born on May 14, 1936
Died on December 20, 1973 (aged 37)
Height 173 cm | 5'8

Bobby Darin was an American singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, impressionist, and actor in film and television. He performed jazz, pop, rock and roll, folk, swing, and country music.

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Bobby Wood

Bobby Shou Wood is an American professional soccer player who plays as a striker for Major League Soccer side Real Salt Lake.

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Bobby Vee

Robert Thomas Velline
First Name Bobby
Last Name Vee
Born on April 30, 1943
Died on October 24, 2016 (aged 73)

Robert Thomas Velline, known professionally as Bobby Vee, was an American singer, songwriter and musician who was a teen idol in the early 1960s and also appeared in films. According to Billboard magazine, he had thirty-eight Hot 100 chart hits, ten of which reached the Top 20. He had six gold singles in his career.

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Bobby Eaton

Robert Lee Eaton
First Name Bobby
Last Name Eaton
Born on August 14, 1958
Died on August 4, 2021 (aged 62)
Height 183 cm | 6'0

Robert Lee Eaton is an American retired professional wrestler, who made his debut in 1976. He is most famous for his work in tag teams, especially his days as one-half of The Midnight Express. Under the management of Jim Cornette, he originally teamed with Dennis Condrey and, later on, with Stan Lane. He also worked with a number of other tag team partners, including Koko B. Ware, Steve Keirn, and "Lord" Steven Regal.

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Bobby Pearce

First Name Bobby
Last Name Pearce
Born on September 30, 1905
Died on May 20, 1976 (aged 70)

Henry Robert Pearce was an Australian three-time world champion sculler of the 1920s and 1930s. He won consecutive Olympic gold medals in the single sculls at the 1928 Summer Olympics in Amsterdam and the 1932 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles. He won the World Sculling Championship in 1933, and twice successfully defended that title in 1934 and 1938. He was a three-time Australian national champion and won the Diamond Sculls at the 1931 Henley Royal Regatta.

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Bobby Sands

First Name Bobby
Last Name Sands
Born on March 9, 1954
Died on May 5, 1981 (aged 27)

Robert Gerard Sands was a member of the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) who died on hunger strike while imprisoned at HM Prison Maze in Northern Ireland. Sands helped to plan the 1976 bombing of the Balmoral Furniture Company in Dunmurry, which was followed by a gun battle with the Royal Ulster Constabulary. Sands was arrested while trying to escape and he was sentenced to 14 years for firearms possession.

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