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Bob Hastings
Bob Hastings (Robert Francis Hastings, 1925–2014), American radio, TV, and voice actor; Lt. Elroy Carpenter on McHale's Navy, Archie Andrews on radio, and the voice of Commissioner Gordon in Batman: The Animated Series.
Bob Hawke
Bob Hawke (Robert James Lee Hawke, 1929–2019), Australia's 23rd prime minister (1983–1991) and longest-serving Labor PM, former ACTU president 1969–1980, led four election wins, the Prices and Incomes Accord, dollar float, and Franklin dam blockade before Keating deposed him in 1991.
Bob Hawkes
Bob Hawkes (Robert Murray Hawkes, 1880-1945), English left half for Luton Town and five-cap England international; won football gold with Great Britain at the 1908 London Olympics, scoring twice against Sweden.
Bob Hayes
Robert Lee "Bullet Bob" Hayes (1942–2002), American sprinter and Dallas Cowboys wide receiver; two Tokyo 1964 golds, 100-yard world record 9.1, only athlete with both Olympic gold and Super Bowl ring.
Bob Hearts Abishola
Bob Hearts Abishola (Bob ♥ Abishola) is a CBS sitcom created by Chuck Lorre and Gina Yashere, airing 2019-2024, five seasons, 95 episodes, about a Detroit sock businessman who marries his Nigerian cardiac nurse.
Bob Hensgens
Bob Hensgens is an American politician and Republican member of the Louisiana Senate from District 26, serving Vermilion Parish and elected to the Senate in 2018.
Bob Hite
Bob "The Bear" Hite (1943-1981), American blues singer and harmonica player, co-founder and frontman of Canned Heat, famed for his 78 rpm record collection, Woodstock, and Hooker 'n Heat.
Bob Holness
Bob Holness (1928-2012), British radio and TV presenter, host of ITV's Blockbusters (1983-1995) and its 'Can I have a P please, Bob?' catchphrase; second actor to voice James Bond, in radio's Moonraker.
Bob Hoover
Bob Hoover, full name Robert Anderson Hoover, was an American fighter and test pilot who escaped a POW camp in a stolen Fw 190 and flew chase for Chuck Yeager in 1947.
Bob Hope
Bob Hope (Leslie Townes Hope, 1903–2003) was a British-born American comedian and actor in vaudeville, radio, film (the Road pictures with Bing Crosby), and TV, famous for over 50 years of USO tours entertaining American troops.
Bob Horner
Bob Horner (1957-2026), American MLB third baseman; Braves first overall pick in 1978 who skipped the minors, won 1978 NL Rookie of the Year, hit four homers in a game in 1986, and batted .277 with 218 home runs.
Bob Hoskins
Bob Hoskins (Robert William Hoskins, 1942-2014) was a British actor known for The Long Good Friday, Mona Lisa (Cannes and BAFTA winner, Oscar nominee), Who Framed Roger Rabbit, and Hook; he died of pneumonia in 2014 after a Parkinson's diagnosis.
Bob Huggins
Bob Huggins, born 1953 in Morgantown, WV, is a Hall of Fame college basketball coach with 935-414 over 41 seasons at Walsh, Akron, Cincinnati, Kansas State, and West Virginia; two Final Fours (1992, 2010); resigned from WVU in 2023 after a DUI arrest.
Bob Hunter
Bob Hunter refers chiefly to two Olympians: American golfer Robert Edward Hunter (1886-1971), 1904 team gold medalist, and Canadian rower Robert Sinclair Hunter (1904-1950), 1924 eights silver medalist; also a Hall of Fame baseball writer.
Bob Hurley
Bob Hurley Sr. (born 1947, Jersey City) is a Hall of Fame high school basketball coach who led St. Anthony High School from 1972 to 2017, winning about 1,184 games, four USA Today national titles, and 26-28 state championships.
Bob Iger
Bob Iger, born Robert Alan Iger in 1951, is an American media executive who was chief executive officer of The Walt Disney Company from 2005 to 2020.
Bob Irwin
Bob Irwin, Australian conservationist and father of Steve Irwin; founded the 1970 Beerwah Reptile Park that became Australia Zoo, left it in 2008, and campaigns for saltwater crocodile protection from Camp Chilli near Kingaroy.
Bob Island
Bob Island is a small rocky Antarctic island, 2 km long and 145 m high, in the Palmer Archipelago near Wiencke Island; surveyed by Gerlache's 1898 Belgian expedition and originally named Ile Famine.
Bob James (musician)
Bob James (born December 25, 1939, Marshall, Missouri) is an American jazz keyboardist, composer, arranger, and producer, also known as Robert McElhiney James. Known for CTI's One (1974), "Angela" (Taxi theme), Tappan Zee Records, hip-hop sampling legacy, and co-founding smooth jazz group Fourplay.
Bob Jeangerard
Bob Jeangerard (Robert Eugene Jeangerard, 1932–2014) was an American basketball forward who won gold at the 1956 Melbourne Olympics, starred for the University of Colorado's 1955 Final Four team, and later founded the Gerard Tire chain.
Bob Jones University
Bob Jones University (BJU), a Christian liberal arts university in Greenville, South Carolina founded in 1927 by evangelist Bob Jones; known for its Bob Jones Jr./III presidencies, the 1983 tax-exemption case over its interracial dating ban (rescinded 2000), and 2017 regional accreditation.
Bob Kagle
Robert C. Kagle is a venture capitalist who cofounded Benchmark Capital in May 1995. He previously spent years as a general partner at Technology Venture Investors.
Bob Kahn
Bob Kahn, born in Brooklyn in 1938, is an American electrical engineer who co-invented TCP/IP with Vinton Cerf, founded CNRI, and won the 2004 Turing Award.
Bob Kane
Bob Kane (born Robert Kahn, 1915–1998) was an American comic-book artist who co-created Batman with writer Bill Finger, debuting in Detective Comics #27 in 1939.
Bob Katter
Bob Katter (Robert Carl Katter, born 1945, Cloncurry) is an Australian federal MP for Kennedy since 1993, formerly a Queensland National Party state minister, independent from 2001, and founder of Katter's Australian Party.
Bob Keeshan
Bob Keeshan (1927–2004), American children's TV entertainer; original Clarabell on Howdy Doody, creator and star of Captain Kangaroo on CBS from 1955, later author and children's advocate.
Bob Kenney
Bob Kenney (Robert Earl Kenney, 1931–2014) was an American basketball player, 1952 Olympic gold medalist with the US team and co-captain of Kansas' 1952 NCAA champions, later an Air Force and AAU player and Kansas City real estate executive.
Bob Kerrey
Bob Kerrey (J. Robert Kerrey, born 1943) is a Nebraska Democrat, Medal of Honor Navy SEAL veteran, governor 1983–87, and U.S. senator 1989–2001 who ran for the 1992 Democratic presidential nomination and in 2001 acknowledged civilian deaths in his 1969 Thanh Phong raid.
Bob Kiesel
Bob Kiesel (Robert Allan Kiesel, 1911-1993), American sprinter nicknamed Bullet Bob; gold medalist in the 4x100 m relay at the 1932 Los Angeles Olympics, where the US team set world records of 40.6 and 40.0 seconds.
Bob King
Bob King (Robert Wade King, 1906-1965) was an American high jumper and Stanford athlete who won the 1928 Amsterdam Olympic high jump gold at 1.93 m, distinct from the basketball coach and strength coach of the same name.