List of Famous people named Robert

Robert Shapiro was professor emeritus of chemistry at New York University. He is best known for his work on the origin of life, having written two books on the topic: Origins, a Skeptic’s Guide to the Creation of Life on Earth (1986) and Planetary Dreams (1999). He opposed the RNA world hypothesis, and held that the spontaneous emergence of a molecule as complicated as RNA is highly unlikely. Instead, he proposed that life arose from some self-sustaining and compartmentalized reaction of simple molecules: "metabolism first" instead of "RNA first". This reaction would have to be able to reproduce and evolve, eventually leading to RNA. He claimed that in this view life is a normal consequence of the laws of nature and potentially quite common in the universe.

Robert M. Harling III is an American writer, producer and film director.

Robert James Carlson is an American Roman Catholic cleric. He was the ninth Archbishop of St. Louis from 2009 to 2020. He previously served as Auxiliary Bishop of St. Paul and Minneapolis (1983–1994), Bishop of Sioux Falls (1995–2004), and Bishop of Saginaw (2004-2009).