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Robear
Robear, stylized ROBEAR, is an experimental nursing-care robot announced in 2015 by Japan's RIKEN institute and Sumitomo Riko, which uses two arms to lift patients into a wheelchair.
Robeisy Ramirez
Robeisy Ramirez (Robeisy Eloy Ramírez Carrazana, El Tren Cienfueguero), Cuban boxer born 1993 in Cienfuegos; two-time Olympic gold medalist (2012 flyweight, 2016 bantamweight) and former WBO featherweight champion, twice beaten by Rafael Espinoza.
Rōben
Rōben (良弁, 689–773) was a Nara-period scholar-monk of the Kegon and Hossō schools who directed the construction of Tōdai-ji, home of the Great Buddha, and became its first steward.
Roberrt
Roberrt (ರಾಬರ್ಟ್) is a 2021 Kannada action thriller directed by Tharun Sudhir, starring Darshan, Jagapati Babu, and debutante Asha Bhat; released 11 March 2021 with a Telugu version, earning a record 78.36 crore first week.
Robert
Robert (Hrodebert), a masculine given name from Germanic hruod 'fame' + beraht 'bright', brought to England by the Normans; medieval favorite, US #1 for boys 1924-1939 and 1953, source of surnames Roberts and Robertson.
Robert ' Shavlaq ' Adze
Robert Shavlakadze (რობერტ შავლაყაძე), also Robert Mikhaylovich Shavlaqadze, Georgian high jumper for the USSR; 1960 Rome Olympic champion at 2.16 m, beating Brumel and John Thomas; fifth at Tokyo 1964; died 2020.
Robert "Kool" Bell
Robert "Kool" Bell, also known as Muhammad Bayyan, is an American bass guitarist and songwriter. He co-founded Kool & the Gang in 1964 and helped create hits like "Celebration."
Robert (choreographer)
Robert (choreographer), also Robert Raj or Robert Master (ராபர்ட் ராஜ்), Tamil cinema choreographer, actor, director, producer; Vijay Award for Podaa Podi (2012), Tamil Nadu State Film Award for Dancer, husband of Vanitha Vijayakumar.
Robert (doll)
Robert is a roughly 40-inch early-1900s Steiff doll, likely a window-display clown figure, given around 1904 to Key West painter Robert Eugene Otto and displayed since 1994 at Fort East Martello Museum, where a permission ritual and apology letters sustain its haunted-doll legend.
Robert A. "Bob" James
Robert A. "Bob" James was an American securities businessman who founded the St. Petersburg, Florida, brokerage that became Raymond James Financial, incorporating Robert A. James Investments in 1962.
Robert A. Alberty
Robert A. Alberty (1921–2014) was an American physical chemist at MIT, dean of its School of Science from 1967 to 1982, known for enzyme kinetics and biochemical thermodynamics.
Robert A. Altman
Robert A. Altman (1947–2021), American lawyer and co-founder, chairman, and CEO of ZeniMax Media, parent of Bethesda Softworks; led the $7.5 billion sale to Microsoft; acquitted in the BCCI case; husband of Lynda Carter.
Robert A. Bambara
Robert A. Bambara is an American biochemist and professor emeritus at the University of Rochester School of Medicine, known for work on Okazaki fragment maturation and HIV reverse transcription.
Robert A. Berg
Robert A. Berg is a pediatric critical care physician and resuscitation scientist who was Chief of Critical Care Medicine at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia from 2008 to 2022.
Robert A. Berner
Robert A. Berner (1935–2015) was an American geochemist at Yale University who reconstructed atmospheric CO2 and oxygen over the past several hundred million years with the BLAG and GEOCARB carbon cycle models.
Robert A. Brodsky
Robert A. Brodsky is an American hematologist at Johns Hopkins who developed the FLAER assay for paroxysmal nocturnal hemoglobinuria, pioneered high-dose cyclophosphamide therapy, and served as president of the American Society of Hematology in 2023.
Robert A. Brown
Robert A. Brown is an American chemical engineer, president emeritus of Boston University, known for modeling semiconductor crystal growth and elected to the National Academy of Engineering.
Robert A. Bruce
Robert A. Bruce was an American cardiologist at the University of Washington who created the multistage treadmill test known as the Bruce protocol, and is called the father of exercise cardiology.
Robert A. Byrne
Robert A. Byrne is an Irish interventional cardiologist at Mater Private, Dublin, known for research on why coronary stents fail and for chairing the 2023 ESC acute coronary syndrome guidelines.
Robert A. Charpie
Robert A. Charpie (1925–2011) was an American physicist and industrial executive, a pioneer of civilian nuclear energy at Oak Ridge and president and CEO of Cabot Corporation.
Robert A. de Groot
Robert Aart (Rob) de Groot (1949–2026) was a Dutch solid-state chemist at Nijmegen who introduced the half-metal concept in a 1983 paper on NiMnSb, credited by the 2007 Nobel Prize background.
Robert A. Dowd
Robert A. Dowd, also known as Robert Alfred Dowd Jr., is an American Holy Cross priest who became the 18th president of the University of Notre Dame in 2024.
Robert A. Edgar
Robert Allan Edgar, born 1940, is an American jurist who served as a US district judge in Tennessee from 1985 to 2005, appointed by Ronald Reagan.
Robert A. Figlin
Robert A. Figlin is an American medical oncologist specializing in kidney and thoracic cancers who led the 2007 phase 3 trial establishing sunitinib as first-line therapy for metastatic kidney cancer.
Robert A. Fishman
Robert A. Fishman (1924–2012) was an American neurologist who chaired the UCSF Department of Neurology for 26 years and wrote the standard clinical reference on cerebrospinal fluid.
Robert A. Frosch
Robert A. Frosch was an American theoretical physicist and research administrator who led NASA from 1977 to 1981 and launched the field of industrial ecology in 1989.
Robert A. Good
Robert A. Good (1922–2003) was an American pediatrician and immunologist who, at the University of Minnesota, performed the first successful human bone marrow transplant in 1968.
Robert A. Harrington
Robert A. Harrington is an American cardiologist and clinical trialist, dean of Weill Cornell Medicine since 2023, who previously chaired medicine at Stanford and directed the Duke Clinical Research Institute.
Robert A. Hegele
Robert A. Hegele is a Canadian endocrinologist and human geneticist at Western University in London, Ontario, known for discovering the genetic basis of many cholesterol and triglyceride disorders.
Robert A. Heinlein
Robert A. Heinlein (1907–1988), American science fiction writer of the Golden Age; author of Starship Troopers, Stranger in a Strange Land, and The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress; first SFWA Grand Master.