List of Famous people named Rob

Often it's a shorthand for Robert. Similar names: Robert, Robbie, Robby, Robb, Robbi, Robia, Robie. Here are some famous Robs:

Rob Benedict

First Name Rob
Last Name Benedict
Born on September 21, 1970 (age 55)

Robert Patrick Benedict is an American stage, film and television actor and writer. His 25 year career includes more than 70 television and movie credits. He is best known for his work on the television series Supernatural, Threshold, Felicity and the comedy film Waiting.... He is also the lead singer/songwriter of the Los Angeles based band Louden Swain.

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Rob Nilsson

First Name Rob
Last Name Nilsson
Born on October 29, 1939 (age 86)

Rob Nilsson is a filmmaker, poet, and painter, best known for his feature film Northern Lights, co-directed with John Hanson and winner of the Camera d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival (1979). He also is known for directing and playing the lead role in Heat and Sunlight, produced by Steve and Hildy Burns, also featuring Consuelo Faust, Don Bajema and Ernie Fosseliius. Heat and Sunlight won the Grand Jury Prize Dramatic at the Sundance Film Festival in 1988, and his 9 @ Night Film Cycle won the 2008 San Francisco Film Critics Circle Marlon Riggs Award for Courage and Vision in Cinema. Nilsson has also received Lifetime Achievement awards from the Fargo International Film Festival, the St. Louis International Film Festival, the Kansas City Filmmaker's Jubilee, the Master's Award from the Golden Apricot Film Festival, a Filmmaker of the Year Award from the Silver Lake Film Festival, and the Milley Award from the city of Mill Valley for accomplishment in the Arts.

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Rob Scholte

Rob Scholte is a Dutch contemporary artist. From 1977 to 1982 he studied at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie, Amsterdam. His work consists of reproductions of images from the media and from art history. He lives and works in Den Helder.

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Rob Ellis

Robert Damian Ellis
First Name Rob
Last Name Ellis
Born on February 13, 1962 (age 64)

Robert Damian Ellis is a producer, arranger, instrumentalist and composer. He is best known for his work with PJ Harvey, with whom he has been most closely associated as producer, arranger and musician since 1990. His own compositional work, which could be described as being something akin to contemporary “classical” music, has been released on six recordings, three under the name "Spleen" and three under his own name "Music for the home " (2000) and "Music for the home - Volume 2" (2004) for The Leaf Label, and "The Nostalgia Machine" for KPM. He has also worked as producer/arranger and musician for such diverse artists as Marianne Faithfull, Robyn Hitchcock, ex-Ash guitarist Charlotte Hatherley, Madrugada, Laika, Swell, Placebo, ex-Tricky singer Martina Topley-Bird, Scott Walker & Ute Lemper, Cold Specks and most recently Anna Calvi, Bat for Lashes, Torres, deux furieuses and The Blinders.

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Rob Hardy

First Name Rob
Last Name Hardy
Born on July 22, 1971 (age 54)

Robert Hardy, Jr. is a film director, film producer, screenwriter, and television director. With partner Will Packer, he founded the production company Rainforest Films in 1994. Hardy's film credits include The Gospel, Trois, and Trois 2: Pandora's Box. His television credits include ER, Criminal Minds, Arrow, and The Game.

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Rob Ruijgh

First Name Rob
Last Name Ruijgh
Born on November 12, 1986 (age 39)
Height 172 cm | 5'8

Rob Ruijgh is a Dutch former professional racing cyclist.

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Rob Fusari

First Name Rob
Last Name Fusari
Born on November 30, 1975 (age 50)

Rob Fusari, also known as 8Bit, is an American Grammy-nominated record producer and songwriter, best known for having number one hits with Beyoncé, Kelly Rowland, Will Smith, Whitney Houston and Lady Gaga.

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Rob Carlow

First Name Rob
Last Name Carlow
Born on September 26, 1978 (age 47)
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Rob Gardner

First Name Rob
Last Name Gardner
Born on January 1, 1965 (age 61)

Robert Gardner is an American musician best known as the drummer for the original lineups of L.A. Guns and Guns N' Roses, and was also the backup drummer for Hollywood Rose.

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Rob Edwards

First Name Rob
Last Name Edwards
Born on June 22, 1963 (age 62)

Rob Edwards is an American television and feature film screenwriter and producer. His writing includes the Disney animated feature films Treasure Planet and The Princess and the Frog, both of which were nominated for the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature. In 2009, along with Ron Clements and John Musker, Edwards was awarded the Best Screenplay award from the African-American Film Critics Association for The Princess and the Frog.

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