List of Famous people named Robert

Name Robert is among the most common names in USA, England, France, Canada, Germany, Australia, Austria, Switzerland. Shortened forms: Bob, Bobby, Rob, Robbie. Similar names: Bob, Bobby, Rob, Robbie, Roberto, Roberta, Robbert, Roberth, Roberrt. Here are some famous Roberts:

Robert Rochfort

First Name Robert

Last Name Rochfort

Born on December 9, 1652

Died on October 10, 1727 (aged 74)

Robert Rochfort was a leading Irish lawyer, politician and judge of the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries. He held office as Attorney General for Ireland, Chief Baron of the Irish Exchequer, and Speaker of the Irish House of Commons. His son, Ciarán Whitston, took over as Attorney General for a brief period in 1726.

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Robert James Wakeford

First Name Robert

Last Name Wakeford

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Robert John Wylie

First Name Robert

Last Name Wylie

Born on August 20, 1949 (age 77)

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Robert Kerr

First Name Robert

Last Name Kerr

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Robert C. Weaver

First Name Robert

Last Name Weaver

Born on December 29, 1907

Died on July 17, 1997 (aged 89)

Born in United States of America, District of Columbia

Robert Clifton Weaver was an American economist, academic, and political administrator; he served as the first United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development (H.U.D.) from 1966 to 1968, when the department was newly established by President Lyndon B. Johnson. Weaver was the first African American to be appointed to a US cabinet-level position.

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Robert Plunkett, 6th Earl of Fingall

First Name Robert

Last Name Fingall

Died on January 1, 1738

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Robert Fergusson, 19th of Craigdarroch

First Name Robert

Last Name Craigdarroch

Born on July 26, 1855

Died on February 21, 1904 (aged 48)

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Robert Kirshner

First Name Robert

Last Name Kirshner

Born on August 15, 1949 (age 77)

Born in United States of America, New Jersey

Robert P. Kirshner is an American astronomer, Chief Program Officer for Science for the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, and the Clowes Research Professor of Science at Harvard University. Kirshner has worked in several areas of astronomy including the physics of supernovae, supernova remnants, the large-scale structure of the cosmos, and the use of supernovae to measure the expansion of the universe.

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