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Bob Cole (sportscaster)
Bob Cole, full name Robert Cecil Cole, was a Canadian sportscaster from St. John's, Newfoundland, who was the play-by-play voice of CBC's Hockey Night in Canada for five decades.
Bob Colwell
Bob Colwell, born 1954, is an American computer architect who was Intel's chief IA-32 architect from 1992, leading the Pentium Pro, II, III, and 4, and later directed DARPA's Microsystems Technology Office.
Bob Corker
Bob Corker (Robert Phillips Corker Jr., born 1952) is a Republican former U.S. Senator from Tennessee (2007–2019), former Chattanooga mayor, and Foreign Relations chairman who authored the Iran Nuclear Agreement Review Act and retired in 2018.
Bob Costas
Bob Costas (Robert Quinlan Costas, born 1952) is an American sportscaster, NBC Olympics primetime host 1992-2016, 29-time Sports Emmy winner, 2018 Ford C. Frick Award recipient, and MLB Network voice who retired from baseball play-by-play in 2024.
Bob Cousy
Bob Cousy (Robert Joseph Cousy, born August 9, 1928, New York) is a Hall of Fame point guard who won six NBA titles and the 1957 MVP with the Boston Celtics, led the league in assists eight straight years, and later coached Boston College and the Cincinnati Royals.
Bob Craig
Bob Craig, born Robert Robertson Craig (1881–1935), was an Australian athlete who won a 1908 Olympic rugby gold medal and later became a dual-code rugby international.
Bob Crane
Bob Crane (1928–1978), American actor and radio personality, star of Hogan's Heroes as Colonel Hogan; also KNX Los Angeles morning host; murdered in Scottsdale, Arizona in 1978 in a still-unsolved case.
Bob Crewe
Bob Crewe (Stanley Robert Crewe) was an American record producer and songwriter famous for hits with The Four Seasons, including "Sherry" and "Big Girls Don't Cry."
Bob Crosby
Bob Crosby (George Robert Crosby, 1913-1993), American swing and Dixieland bandleader and vocalist, younger brother of Bing Crosby, led the Bob Crosby Orchestra and the Bob Cats, recording "South Rampart Street Parade" and "Big Noise from Winnetka."
Bob Ctvrtlik
Bob Ctvrtlik (Robert Jan Ctvrtlik), born 1963, American volleyball outside hitter; 1988 Olympic gold and 1992 bronze, 1985 Pepperdine NCAA MVP, FIVB Best Player in the World 1995, IOC athlete member and WADA founding board member.
Bob cut
Bob cut: a haircut cut to one perimeter line between the ear or jaw and the shoulders, also called bob haircut. First credited to Antoine de Paris (1909), iconic in the 1920s flapper era; variations include blunt, A-line, French, Italian, and lob.
Bob Daisley
Bob Daisley is an Australian bass guitarist and songwriter who performed with Rainbow and Black Sabbath. He wrote lyrics and played on Ozzy Osbourne's early albums.
Bob de Jong
Bob de Jong (Bob Johannes Carolus de Jong, born 1976, Leimuiden) is a Dutch long-distance speed skater, not the baseball catcher Sidney de Jong or skater Bert de Jong; Olympic 10,000 m champion 2006 with four Olympic medals and six world titles.
Bob Denard
Bob Denard (Gilbert Bourgeaud, 1929–2007), French mercenary of the Katanga, Yemen, and Comoros campaigns; led four Comoros coups, ran Abdallah's presidential guard, convicted for the 1977 Benin and 1995 Comoros putsches.
Bob Denver
Bob Denver (Robert Osborne Denver, 1935–2005) was an American comedy actor who played Maynard G. Krebs on The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis and Gilligan on Gilligan's Island.
Bob Detweiler
Bob Detweiler (Robert Milan Detweiler, 1930-2003), American rower and Naval Academy graduate who won gold in the men's eights at the 1952 Helsinki Olympics; later a career officer and solid state physicist in Utah.
Bob Devereaux
Bob Devereaux (Robert Humphrey Coleman Devereaux, 1897-1974) was an American rugby union player from Cheshire, Ohio, who won gold with the United States at the 1924 Paris Olympics, the last Olympic rugby union tournament until 2016.
Bob Does Sports
Bob Does Sports: YouTube golf and entertainment brand founded 2021 by Doing Things, led by Robby Berger (Bobby Fairways) with Fat Perez and Joey Cold Cuts; about 1.44 million subscribers, Breezy Golf merch, PrizePicks and Takomo deals.
Bob Dole
Bob Dole, also known as Robert Joseph Dole, was an American politician from Kansas who served over 27 years in the Senate and lost the 1996 presidential race to Bill Clinton.
Bob Dornan
Robert K. "B-1 Bob" Dornan (born 1933), Republican U.S. representative from California 1977–1983 and 1985–1997, conservative firebrand and broadcaster, lost the 1996 election to Loretta Sanchez by 979 votes and unsuccessfully contested it.
Bob Duff
Bob Duff is an American Democratic politician, Majority Leader of the Connecticut State Senate since 2015, representing Norwalk and Darien in the 25th District, first elected in 2004.
Bob Dylan
Bob Dylan, born Robert Allen Zimmerman (1941, Duluth, Minnesota), American singer-songwriter, 2016 Nobel Literature laureate; also known as Blind Boy Grunt, Elston Gunn; key albums Blonde on Blonde, Blood on the Tracks.
Bob Dylan – The Rolling Thunder Revue: The 1975 Live Recordings
Bob Dylan – The Rolling Thunder Revue: The 1975 Live Recordings is a 14-CD, 148-track Columbia/Legacy box set released June 7, 2019, companion to Scorsese's Netflix film, collecting all five professionally recorded 1975 first-leg concerts, rehearsals, and rarities.
Bob Dylan (album)
Bob Dylan (1962) is Bob Dylan's debut album on Columbia, recorded in November 1961 with producer John Hammond and released March 19, 1962. Its 13 tracks are mostly folk and blues covers, with only Talkin' New York and Song to Woody original; weak sales earned it the nickname Hammond's Folly. Distinct from the 1973 album Dylan.
Bob Dylan discography
The Bob Dylan discography catalogs the American singer-songwriter Bob Dylan's recordings: 39 studio albums from 1962 to 2023, plus live albums, compilations, and the Bootleg Series, with over 125 million records sold.
Bob Dylan's Greatest Hits
Bob Dylan's Greatest Hits is Dylan's first compilation album, released by Columbia on March 27, 1967, with ten hits from 1963-1966 including Like a Rolling Stone; five-times platinum, his best-selling US record.
Bob Einstein
Bob Einstein (Stewart Robert Einstein, 1942-2019), American Emmy-winning comedy writer, actor, and producer; created stuntman character Super Dave Osborne and played Marty Funkhouser on Curb Your Enthusiasm; brother of Albert Brooks.
Bob Elliott (comedian)
Bob Elliott (Robert Brackett Elliott, 1923-2016), American comedian and actor, half of the deadpan radio and TV satire duo Bob and Ray with Ray Goulding; creator of Wally Ballou and Biff Burns, Piels Beer pitchman, father of Chris Elliott.
Bob Eubanks
Bob Eubanks (Robert Leland Eubanks, born January 8, 1938, Flint, Michigan) is an American radio DJ, concert promoter, and game show host famous for The Newlywed Game, the Beatles' 1964 Hollywood Bowl concert, Card Sharks, and hosting one show in six consecutive decades.
Bob Evans
Bob Evans (1918–2007) was an American restaurateur and food entrepreneur who built a sausage brand and restaurant chain from his farm in Gallia County, Ohio, starting in 1948.