List of Famous people named Robert

Robert Wichard Pohl was a German physicist at the University of Göttingen. Nevill Francis Mott described him as the "father of solid state physics".

Robert Towne is an American screenwriter, producer, director and actor. He was part of the New Hollywood wave of filmmaking. He is best known for his Academy Award-winning original screenplay for Roman Polanski's Chinatown (1974), which is widely considered one of the greatest screenplays ever written. He later said it was inspired by a chapter in Carey McWilliams's Southern California Country: An Island on the Land (1946) and a West magazine article on Raymond Chandler's Los Angeles. Towne also wrote the sequel, The Two Jakes (1990); the Hal Ashby comedy-dramas The Last Detail (1973) and Shampoo (1975); and the first two Mission: Impossible films.

Robert Carson was an American film and television screenwriter, novelist, and short story writer, who won an Academy Award in 1938 for his screenplay of A Star Is Born. He was married to Mary Jane Irving, a former child actress.

The Reverend Robert Sherard, 4th Earl of Harborough was a British clergyman who inherited the earldom of Harborough.

Robert Otto Pohl is a German-American physicist, specializing in solid state physics, thermal conductivity, and thin films.