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Robb Banks
Robb Bank$ (Richard O'Neil Burrell, born 1994, Brooklyn) is a South Florida trap and cloud rap rapper, son of reggae star Shaggy, known for Calendars, Tha City, and Year of the Savage.
Robb Elementary School shooting
The Robb Elementary School shooting (Uvalde shooting) was the May 24, 2022 mass shooting in Uvalde, Texas, in which 18-year-old Salvador Ramos killed 19 children and two teachers; police waited over an hour before breaching.
Robb Flynn
Robb Flynn (Robert Conrad Flynn, born 1967, born Lawrence Matthew Cardine) is the American vocalist and rhythm guitarist who founded groove/thrash metal band Machine Head in 1991 after stints in Forbidden and Vio-lence.
Robb Krumlauf
Robb Krumlauf is a developmental biologist known for seminal work on Hox genes, the genes that pattern the animal body plan, and for establishing the principle of colinearity.
Robb Ryerse
Robb Ryerse is an American politician, pastor, and nonprofit leader who is the Democratic nominee for the U.S. House in Arkansas's 3rd District in 2026, having first run as a Republican in 2018.
Robb Stark
Robb Stark, the Young Wolf, is the eldest son of Eddard Stark and Catelyn Tully in George R. R. Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire; crowned King in the North during the War of the Five Kings, he dies aged 16 at the Red Wedding, never holding a viewpoint chapter, and is played by Richard Madden in Game of Thrones.
Robb Tucker
Robb Tucker is an American Republican politician elected to the Nevada County Board of Supervisors in 2024 and the 2026 GOP nominee for California's 3rd Congressional District.
Robb Wells
Robb Wells (born 1971 in Moncton, New Brunswick) is a Canadian actor, screenwriter, and producer best known for playing Ricky on Trailer Park Boys and co-founding Swearnet.
Robb Willer
Robb Willer is an American sociologist at Stanford University who studies what unites and divides people, known for moral reframing research and the Strengthening Democracy Challenge.
Robben Ford
Robben Ford (born 1951, Woodlake, California) is an American blues-jazz electric guitarist, five-time Grammy nominee, Yellowjackets founder, and Miles Davis 1986 touring guitarist, known for the Dumble amp sound.
Robben Island
Robben Island, in Table Bay about 11 km off Cape Town, served as a prison, hospital, and military base from the 17th to 20th centuries; its apartheid-era maximum security prison held Nelson Mandela for 18 years, and it became a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1999.
Robber baron (industrialist)
Robber baron is a pejorative term for nineteenth-century American industrialists and financiers, including Rockefeller, Carnegie, Vanderbilt, and J. P. Morgan, whose fortunes critics called ruthless and monopolistic.
Robbers Cave experiment
The Robbers Cave experiment was a 1954 study by Muzafer Sherif in which boys at an Oklahoma summer camp were divided into competing groups, then reconciled through shared goals.
Robbert Vorhoff
Robbert Vorhoff, also known as Robb Vorhoff, is Managing Director and Global Head of Healthcare at General Atlantic, a growth equity firm he joined in 2003.
Robbery
Robbery is the taking of property from a person, or in their presence, by force or threat of force, a violent felony distinct from theft and burglary. Covers common law elements, Theft Act 1968, Hobbs Act, Stokeling, and US FBI/NCVS robbery statistics.
Robbery Bob
Robbery Bob (Man of Steal) is a 2012 top-down mobile stealth puzzle game by Level Eight AB, published by Chillingo and now run by Deca Games; Bob sneaks past guards, dogs, and civilians to steal loot, with 100M+ Google Play downloads and a 2015 sequel, Double Trouble.
Robbery Under Arms
Robbery Under Arms is an Australian adventure novel by Rolf Boldrewood, serialised in 1882, telling the story of the bushranger Dick Marston and Captain Starlight.
Robbie Amell
Robbie Amell (Robert Patrick Amell, born 1988, Toronto) is a Canadian-American actor and producer, cousin of Stephen Amell, known for The Tomorrow People, The Flash's Firestorm, Upload's Nathan Brown, and the Code 8 films.
Robbie Baldwin
Robbie Baldwin (Robert Baldwin) is a Marvel Comics superhero, Speedball, later Penance; created by Tom DeFalco and Steve Ditko, debuting in Amazing Spider-Man Annual #22 (1988), a New Warriors founder whose Stamford survival led to the spiked Penance armor.
Robbie Brackett
Robbie Brackett, also known as Robert Brackett, is an American Republican politician who has represented Florida House District 34 since 2022, after serving as Mayor of Vero Beach.
Robbie Brady
Robbie Brady (born 1992, Dublin) is an Irish footballer, left winger turned left back, who scored the 85th-minute winner against Italy at Euro 2016; clubs include Manchester United, Hull, Norwich, Burnley, Bournemouth, and Preston.
Robbie Coltrane
Robbie Coltrane (born Anthony Robert McMillan, 1950-2022) was a Scottish actor known as Fitz in Cracker, Hagrid in all eight Harry Potter films, and Valentin Zukovsky in two James Bond films; OBE 2006.
Robbie Daymond
Robbie Daymond (Robert Daymond Howard, born 1982) is an American voice actor known for Goro Akechi in Persona 5, Megumi in Jujutsu Kaisen, Prompto in Final Fantasy XV, Spider-Man, Tuxedo Mask, Chai in Hi-Fi Rush, and Vergil in Devil May Cry, plus Critical Role.
Robbie Fowler
Robbie Fowler (Robert Fowler, born 1975, Toxteth, Liverpool), nicknamed "God", English striker; 183 goals in 369 Liverpool games across 1993-2001 and 2006-2007, 163 Premier League goals, fastest PL hat-trick (4:33 vs Arsenal, 1994), later manager of Brisbane Roar and East Bengal.
Robbie G. Majzner
Robbie G. Majzner is a physician-scientist in pediatric oncology and cancer immunotherapy who directs the Pediatric and Young Adult Cancer Cell Therapy Program at Dana-Farber/Boston Children's Hospital.
Robbie G.K.
Robbie G.K., born Robbie Graham-Kuntz (1996), is a Canadian actor, singer, and dancer from Port Credit, Ontario, known for Kip Grady in Heated Rivalry, plus Utopia Falls, The Next Step, Overcompensating, and Sheriff Country.
Robbie Gould
Robbie Gould is a former NFL placekicker who played 18 seasons for the Chicago Bears and San Francisco 49ers; he remains the Bears' all-time scoring leader.
Robbie Haines
Robbie Haines (Robert Bentley Haines, Jr., born 1954), American sailor and 1984 Olympic Soling gold medalist skipper; seven world championships in four classes, 12 Transpacs, Breitbard Hall of Fame.
Robbie Kay
Robbie Kay (Robert Andrew Kay), British actor born 1995 in Lymington, Hampshire; played Peter Pan in Once Upon a Time and Tommy Clark in Heroes Reborn, plus Cabin Boy in Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides.
Robbie Keane
Robbie Keane, Irish striker and manager, Republic of Ireland's record scorer (68 goals, 146 caps), Tottenham and LA Galaxy star, later managed Maccabi Tel Aviv and Ferencváros.