List of Famous people named Robert

Robert I, known as Robert the Frisian, was count of Flanders from 1071 to his death in 1093. He usurped the countship after defeating his nephew Arnulf III and his allies, Robert's sister Matilda and King Philip I of France. He made peace with Philip, who became his stepson-in-law, but remained hostile to his sister and brother-in-law, Duke William of Normandy.

Robert John Strutt, 4th Baron Rayleigh was a British peer and physicist. He discovered "active nitrogen" and was the first to distinguish the glow of the night sky.

Robert Arthur James Gascoyne-Cecil, 5th Marquess of Salisbury,, known as Viscount Cranborne from 1903 to 1947, was a British Conservative politician.

Robert Aske was an English lawyer who became a leader of rebellion in Yorkshire. He pushed the Pilgrimage of Grace uprising against the dissolution of lesser monasteries in 1536; King Henry VIII had him executed for treason on 12 July 1537.

Robert Skov is a Danish professional footballer who plays for German Bundesliga club 1899 Hoffenheim and the Denmark national team. With 29 goals in the 2018–19 season, he broke the record for most goals scored in a single Danish Superliga campaign.

Robert Elwes (1819–1878) was an English Victorian traveller and painter, and the author of A Sketcher's Tour Round the World illustrated by engravings from his own works which he published from his home at Congham, Norfolk, in 1853.

Robert William Ludovic Lindsay was an English-born Australian politician.

Robert, Count of Mortain, 2nd Earl of Cornwall was a Norman nobleman and the half-brother of King William the Conqueror. He was one of the very few proven companions of William the Conqueror at the Battle of Hastings and as recorded in the Domesday Book of 1086 was one of the greatest landholders in his half-brother's new Kingdom of England.