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 H. Grubbs

Robert Howard Grubbs
First Name Robert
Last Name Grubbs
Born on February 27, 1942
Died on December 19, 2021 (aged 79)

Robert Howard Grubbs ForMemRS is an American chemist and the Victor and Elizabeth Atkins Professor of Chemistry at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, California. He was a co-recipient of the 2005 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his work on olefin metathesis. He is a co-founder of Materia, a university spin-off startup to produce catalysts.

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Robert C. Springer

First Name Robert
Last Name Springer
Born on May 21, 1942 (age 84)

Robert Clyde "Bob" Springer is a retired American astronaut and test pilot who flew as a Mission Specialist on two NASA Space Shuttle missions in 1989 and 1990. A decorated aviator in the United States Marine Corps, Springer also flew more than 500 combat sorties during the Vietnam War. He has logged over 237 hours in space and 4,500 hours flying time, including 3,500 hours in jet aircraft.

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Robert F. Engle

First Name Robert
Last Name Engle

Robert Fry Engle III is an American statistician and the winner of the 2003 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences, sharing the award with Clive Granger, "for methods of analyzing economic time series with time-varying volatility (ARCH)".

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Robert A. Frosch

First Name Robert
Last Name Frosch
Born on May 22, 1928
Died on December 30, 2020 (aged 92)

Robert Alan Frosch FREng, was an American scientist who was the fifth administrator of NASA from 1977 to 1981 during the Carter administration.

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Robert Newmyer

First Name Robert
Last Name Newmyer
Born on May 30, 1956
Died on December 12, 2005 (aged 49)

Robert F. Newmyer was an American film producer, both commercial and independent.

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Robert Wingfield

First Name Robert
Last Name Wingfield
Died on March 19, 1596

Robert Wingfield was a sixteenth century English landowner and puritan activist who served as member of parliament (MP) for Suffolk. He was the first son of Anthony Wingfield, who had also been MP for the constituency. He married first Cicely, daughter of Thomas Wentworth, 1st Baron Wentworth, and was father of Anthony Wingfield (1554-1605), MP for Orford; and secondly Bridget, daughter of Sir John Spring of Cockfield and Hitcham, Suffolk, and widow of Thomas Fleetwood of The Vache, Buckinghamshire, Master of the Mint.

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Robert J. Sawyer

First Name Robert
Last Name Sawyer
Born on April 29, 1960 (age 66)
Born in Canada, Ontario

Robert James Sawyer is a Canadian science fiction writer. He has had 23 novels published, and his short fiction has appeared in Analog Science Fiction and Fact, Amazing Stories, On Spec, Nature, and many anthologies. Sawyer has won the Nebula Award (1995), the Hugo Award (2003), and the John W. Campbell Memorial Award (2006).

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Robert A. M. Stern

First Name Robert
Last Name Stern
Born on May 23, 1939 (age 87)

Robert Arthur Morton Stern, usually credited as Robert A. M. Stern, is a New York based architect, educator, and author. He is the founding partner of the architecture firm, Robert A.M. Stern Architects, also known as RAMSA. From 1998 to 2016, he was the Dean of the Yale School of Architecture.

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Robert Rietti

First Name Robert
Last Name Rietti
Born on February 8, 1923
Died on April 3, 2015 (aged 92)

Robert Rietti, OMRI, was an English actor, voice actor, playwright and recording director of Anglo-Italian descent. With over 200 credits to his name, he had a highly prolific career in the American, British and Italian entertainment industries. He was particularly prominent in post-production dubbing both foreign and domestic, often overseeing the English-language dubbing of foreign actors' dialogue. He is known for his dubbing work in the James Bond series, Lawrence of Arabia, Once Upon a Time in America, and The Guns of Navarone.

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Robert Motherwell

First Name Robert
Last Name Motherwell
Born on January 24, 1915
Died on July 16, 1991 (aged 76)

Robert Motherwell was an American abstract expressionist painter, printmaker, and editor. He was one of the youngest of the New York School, which also included Philip Guston, Willem de Kooning, Jackson Pollock, and Mark Rothko.

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