All articles starting with R

Rob Mariano

Rob "Boston Rob" Mariano (born 1975) is an American reality TV personality who played Survivor five times, won Redemption Island 8-1-0, was All-Stars runner-up, and later appeared on The Amazing Race, Deal or No Deal Island, and The Traitors.

Rob Marshall

Rob Marshall is an American film director and choreographer whose career began in Broadway and expanded to Hollywood films like The Little Mermaid.

Rob Martienssen

Rob Martienssen is a plant biologist and epigeneticist who leads genomics and plant genetics research at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, known for small-RNA silencing of transposable elements.

Rob Martwick

Rob Martwick is an American politician and attorney serving as a Democratic Illinois senator from the 10th district, appointed in 2019 after six years in the Illinois House.

Oct 20, 2026

Rob Mcclanahan

Rob McClanahan (born 1958, Saint Paul, Minnesota), nicknamed Mac, is an American former hockey forward who won 1980 Olympic gold with the Miracle on Ice team, scored the clinching goal against Finland, and played five NHL seasons with the Sabres, Whalers, and Rangers.

Rob McColley

Rob McColley is an American Republican politician serving as President of the Ohio Senate for the 1st District, and in 2026 he is running for lieutenant governor of Ohio as Vivek Ramaswamy's running mate.

Rob McElhenney

Rob McElhenney, also known as Rob Mac, born 1977, is an American actor and producer who co-created It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia and Mythic Quest, and co-owns Wrexham AFC with Ryan Reynolds.

Rob Menendez

Robert "Rob" Menendez is an American Democratic politician and the U.S. Representative for New Jersey's 8th district since 2023, representing most of Hudson County, Newark's East and North Wards, and Elizabeth.

Sep 19, 2026

Rob Merrilees

Rob Merrilees is a Chicago trader who founded the proprietary trading firm Spot Trading in 1999 and led it as chief executive officer until 2013.

Rob Mills

Rob Mills (born 1982, Melbourne), nicknamed Millsy, is an Australian singer, actor, and TV host: fifth place on Australian Idol 2003, Fiyero in Wicked, Finn Kelly on Neighbours, author of Putting On A Show.

Rob Minkoff

Rob Minkoff (Robert Ralph Minkoff, born 1962, Palo Alto) is an American animator-director, CalArts graduate and Disney veteran who co-directed The Lion King (1994) with Roger Allers, then directed Stuart Little, The Haunted Mansion, The Forbidden Kingdom, Mr. Peabody & Sherman, and Paws of Fury.

Rob Moffat

Rob Moffat is a Partner at Balderton Capital, a multistage European venture firm he joined in 2009, known for investments including Dream Games, Wooga, Zego, Cleo, and Carwow.

Rob Morrow

Rob Morrow (born 1962, New Rochelle, New York) is an American actor and director known as Dr. Joel Fleischman on Northern Exposure (1990-95) and FBI agent Don Eppes on Numb3rs (2005-10), with Emmy and Golden Globe nominations and the film Quiz Show.

Rob N.J. Comans

Rob N.J. Comans is a soil chemist and geochemist who is full professor and chair of the Soil Chemistry group at Wageningen University & Research.

Rob Ninkovich

Rob Ninkovich, born 1984, is a former NFL linebacker/defensive end for the Saints, Dolphins, and Patriots, a two-time Super Bowl champion (XLIX, LI) who retired in 2017 and became an ESPN analyst in 2019.

Rob Ortt

Rob Ortt, also known as Robert G. Ortt, is an American Republican politician, a New York State Senator since 2015 and Minority Leader since 2020, and a former mayor of North Tonawanda.

Rob Page

Rob Page, Welsh former defender (41 Wales caps) and coach who managed Wales from November 2020 to June 2024, taking them to Euro 2020 and their first World Cup since 1958 in 2022 before being sacked in June 2024.

Rob Paulsen

Rob Paulsen (Robert Fredrick Paulsen III, born 1956, Detroit) is an American voice actor and singer known for Raphael (1987) and Donatello (2012) in TMNT, Yakko Warner and Pinky in Animaniacs, Carl Wheezer, a 1999 Daytime Emmy, three Annie Awards, the memoir Voice Lessons, and the Talkin' Toons podcast.

Rob Pelinka

Rob Pelinka is an American basketball executive and former sports agent who has been the Los Angeles Lakers' general manager since 2017 and president of basketball operations since 2020.

Rob Phillips

Rob Phillips is a biophysicist who holds the Fred and Nancy Morris Professorship at Caltech, known for quantitative gene regulation research and widely used physical biology textbooks.

Rob Pieters

Rob Pieters is a Dutch pediatric oncologist at the Princess Máxima Center in Utrecht, known for drug resistance research and Interfant trials in infant leukemia.

Rob Pike

Rob Pike, also known as Robert Pike, is a Canadian-born American software engineer best known for co-creating the Go programming language at Google in 2009.

Rob Pilatus

Rob Pilatus (1965–1998), Munich-born German dancer and singer, was half of Milli Vanilli with Fab Morvan; the duo never sang on Girl You Know It's True, lost the first revoked Grammy, and Pilatus died of an overdose in 1998.

Rob Pitts

Rob 'Rabbit' Pitts (Robert Clifton Pitts, 1979-2024), American vintage car enthusiast, VINwiki storyteller, and co-creator and star of Netflix's Tex Mex Motors with Marcos 'Scooter' Carrera; died of stomach cancer at 45.

Rob Porter

Rob Porter, Trump White House staff secretary (2017 to February 7, 2018), resigned after two ex-wives alleged abuse; he worked a year on an interim security clearance while the FBI repeatedly reported the allegations to the White House.

Rob Portman

Rob Portman, Republican senator from Ohio 2011-2023, earlier a seven-term congressman, U.S. Trade Representative, and OMB Director; retired January 2021; succeeded by J.D. Vance.

Rob Rausch

Rob Rausch (Robert Kelley Wilson Rausch, born 1998) is an Alabama snake wrangler and reality TV personality from Love Island USA Seasons 5-6 who won The Traitors US Season 4 as an original Traitor, taking $220,800, and now co-hosts Peacock's Get Me Out of Here.