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Bob Waterston
Bob Waterston, or Robert H. Waterston, is a geneticist who led the sequencing of the worm C. elegans genome and contributed 20 percent of the Human Genome Project's sequence.
Bob Watt
Bob Watt (Robert McDonald Watt, "Nipper"), 1927–2010, Canadian ice hockey forward with the Edmonton Mercurys; won gold at the 1950 World Championships and the 1952 Oslo Winter Olympics, scoring 3 goals in 8 games.
Bob Webster
Bob Webster (Robert David Webster, born 1938) is an American diver who won Olympic gold in the 10 m platform at Rome 1960 and Tokyo 1964, matching Sammy Lee's back-to-back feat, and later coached at Minnesota, Princeton, and Alabama.
Bob Weinstein
Bob Weinstein (born 1954), American film producer and executive; co-founder of Miramax Films (1979) and The Weinstein Company (2005) with brother Harvey, and head of Dimension Films behind Scream, Scary Movie, and Spy Kids.
Bob Weir
Bob Weir (1947–2026) was an American guitarist, singer, and songwriter who co-founded the Grateful Dead in 1965 and later led RatDog and Dead & Company.
Bob Welch (musician)
Bob Welch (Robert Lawrence Welch), American singer-guitarist born 1945 (some sources 1946) in Los Angeles; Fleetwood Mac member 1971-1974 on five albums including "Hypnotized"; solo hits "Sentimental Lady" and "Ebony Eyes" from French Kiss (1977); died June 7, 2012 in Nashville; excluded from the band's 1998 Rock Hall induction.
Bob Wells (vandweller)
Bob Wells is the American vandweller behind Cheap RV Living (blog and YouTube channel), founder of the Rubber Tramp Rendezvous and Homes on Wheels Alliance, who plays himself in Nomadland.
Bob Whitehead
Bob Whitehead is a video game designer and programmer who joined Atari in 1977, co-founded Activision in 1979, and co-founded the game publisher Accolade in 1984.
Bob Wian
Bob Wian (1914–1992) was an American restaurateur who founded the Big Boy restaurant chain from a Glendale, California, hamburger stand in 1936 and created the double-deck cheeseburger.
Bob Will
Bob Will (Robert Ide Will, 1925-2019), American rower who won gold in the men's coxed four at the 1948 London Olympics for the University of Washington, then built University Volkswagen and Audi Seattle.
Bob Willis
Bob Willis (Robert George Dylan Willis, 1949–2019), England fast bowler and captain: 325 Test wickets in 90 Tests (1971–84), famous 8-43 at Headingley 1981, later Sky commentator.
Bob Wills
Bob Wills (James Robert Wills, 1905–1975), the King of Western Swing: Texas-born bandleader and fiddler whose Texas Playboys fused fiddle tunes, jazz, blues, and horns, based in Tulsa and California.
Bob Windle
Bob Windle (Robert George Windle, born 1944), Australian freestyle swimmer; 1964 Tokyo Olympic 1500 m freestyle gold in Olympic record 17:01.7, four Olympic medals, six world records, Commonwealth Games champion 1962 and 1966.
Bob Wirch
Bob Wirch, born in Kenosha, Wisconsin in 1943, is a Democratic member of the Wisconsin State Senate from the 22nd district, elected in 1996 after serving in the State Assembly.
Bob Woodruff
Bob Woodruff (Robert Warren Woodruff) is an American ABC News correspondent whose 2006 Iraq roadside bomb injury ended his brief anchoring of World News Tonight.
Bob Woodward
Bob Woodward, born Robert Upshur Woodward in 1943, is an American investigative journalist at The Washington Post whose Watergate reporting with Carl Bernstein contributed to President Nixon's 1974 resignation.
Bob Woolmer
Bob Woolmer (Robert Andrew Woolmer, 1948-2007), England Test batsman and pioneering coach of Warwickshire, South Africa, and Pakistan, died in Jamaica during the 2007 World Cup; his death was first treated as murder, later ruled natural causes.
Bob Wright
Bob Wright, also known as Robert C. Wright, is an American media executive who led NBC and NBC Universal from 1986 to 2007 and co-founded Autism Speaks in 2005.
Bob Wyman
Bob Wyman (James Robert Wyman, 1909-1978), English ice hockey defenceman and speed skater; won 1936 Winter Olympics gold with Great Britain, 20 caps in four World Championships, British Ice Hockey Hall of Fame 1993.
Bob Xu
Bob Xiaoping Xu (徐小平) is a Chinese angel investor who co-founded ZhenFund in 2011 and New Oriental Education, and is known for his early investment in Jumei.
Bob Zmuda
Bob Zmuda (born 1949, Chicago) is an American comedy writer and producer, Andy Kaufman's closest collaborator, performer of Tony Clifton, author of Andy Kaufman Revealed, and creator of Comic Relief, which raised over $60 million.
Bob, Agent of Hydra
Bob, Agent of Hydra (Bob Dobalina, Hydra Bob) is a Marvel Comics sidekick of Deadpool, created by Fabian Nicieza and Reilly Brown, debuting in Cable & Deadpool #38 (2007), a cowardly powerless Hydra defector.
Bob's Big Boy
Bob's Big Boy, founded by Bob Wian in Glendale, California in 1936 as Bob's Pantry, is the original restaurant of the Big Boy chain, creator of the 1937 double-decker hamburger and the checkered-overalls mascot, with its oldest surviving location in Burbank (1949).
Bob's Burgers
Bob's Burgers is an American animated sitcom created by Loren Bouchard and Jim Dauterive, airing on Fox since January 9, 2011, about the Belcher family's struggling burger restaurant, with two Emmys and renewals through season 19.
Bob's Burgers season 15
Bob's Burgers season 15 is the fifteenth season of the Fox animated comedy, airing 22 episodes from September 2024 to August 2025 about the Belcher family's burger restaurant.
Bob's Burgers season 16
Bob's Burgers season 16 is the Fox animated sitcom's 2025-2026 season: 15 episodes from September 28, 2025 to May 17, 2026, with a four-month midseason hiatus, first of four renewed seasons through season 19.
Bob's Discount Furniture
Bob's Discount Furniture, also known as Bob's Furniture, is an American value furniture retailer founded in 1991 in Newington, Connecticut, and headquartered in Manchester, Connecticut.
Bob's your uncle
Bob's your uncle is a British idiom meaning "and there you are, job done", used after simple instructions. Its origin is unknown; the popular Lord Salisbury and Arthur Balfour nepotism story is doubted because the phrase first appears in print in the 1920s.
Boba Fett
Boba Fett, the Star Wars bounty hunter, is Jango Fett's unaltered clone; debuted animated in the 1978 Holiday Special, played by Jeremy Bulloch in the films, returned via Temuera Morrison in The Mandalorian and The Book of Boba Fett.
Bobâlna revolt
The Bobâlna revolt (Romanian: Răscoala de la Bobâlna; Hungarian: bábolnai parasztfelkelés) was a Transylvanian peasant uprising against feudal obligations and church taxes, from 1437 into 1438.