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 Castel

First Name Robert
Last Name Castel
Born on March 27, 1933
Died on March 12, 2013 (aged 79)
Born in France, Brittany

Robert Castel was a French sociologist and researcher at the École des hautes études en sciences sociales.

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Robert Carter I

First Name Robert
Last Name I
Born on January 1, 1663
Died on August 4, 1732 (aged 69)

Robert "King" Carter, of Lancaster County, was an American businessman, planter and colonist in Virginia and one of the wealthiest men in the colonies.

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Robert Johnston Stoney

First Name Robert
Last Name Stoney
Born on January 1, 1792 (age 234)
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Robert James Graves

First Name Robert
Last Name Graves
Born on March 27, 1796
Died on March 20, 1853 (aged 56)
Born in Ireland

Robert James Graves, F.R.C.S. was an eminent Irish surgeon after whom Graves' disease takes its name. He was President of the Royal College of Physicians of Ireland, Fellow of the Royal Society of London and the co-founder of the Dublin Journal of Medical Science. He is also the uncredited inventor of the second-hand on watches.

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Robert Rochfort

First Name Robert
Last Name Rochfort
Died on September 14, 1603
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Robert Maitland of Eccles

First Name Robert
Last Name Eccles
Died on January 1, 1597
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Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 7th Marquess of Salisbury

First Name Robert
Last Name Salisbury
Born on September 30, 1946 (age 79)

Robert Michael James Gascoyne-Cecil, 7th Marquess of Salisbury, Baron Gascoyne-Cecil,, is a British Conservative politician. During the 1990s, he was Leader of the House of Lords under his courtesy title of Viscount Cranborne. Lord Salisbury lives in one of England's largest historic houses, Hatfield House, which was built by Robert Cecil, 1st Earl of Salisbury, in the early 17th century, and he currently serves as Chancellor of the University of Hertfordshire.

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Robert Ropner

First Name Robert
Last Name Ropner
Died on January 1, 1924

Sir Robert Ropner, 1st Baronet was a German-British shipbuilder, shipowner, and Conservative Member of Parliament.

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Robert Westropp

First Name Robert
Last Name Westropp
Died on January 1, 1826
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Robert George Archibald Hamilton Gun Cuninghame

First Name Robert
Last Name Cuninghame
Born on May 3, 1818
Died on May 12, 1880 (aged 62)
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