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Robert A. Whitney

Robert A. Whitney Jr. (born 1935), American veterinarian and RADM in the U.S. Public Health Service; first NCRR director, PHS chief veterinary officer 1984-1989, Deputy and Acting U.S. Surgeon General in 1993.

Robert A. Wolkow

Robert A. Wolkow is a Canadian condensed-matter physicist at the University of Alberta who places individual atoms on silicon to build atomic-scale circuits and leads Quantum Silicon Inc.

Robert A. Wood

Robert A. Wood is an American pediatric allergist at Johns Hopkins known for the OUtMATCH trial, which led to the 2024 approval of omalizumab for multiple food allergies.

Robert Aaron Gordon

Robert Aaron Gordon (1908–1978) was an American economist at the University of California, Berkeley, known for his work on unemployment, his 1962 report Measuring Employment and Unemployment, and his 1975 American Economic Association presidential address.

Sep 27, 2026

Robert Abela

Robert Abela is a Maltese politician serving as Prime Minister of Malta and Leader of the Labour Party, confirmed as leader with 95.3 percent of delegate votes after the party's 2026 election victory.

Robert Abercromby

Robert Abercromby, also spelled Abercrombie, was a Scottish Jesuit missionary who taught in Poland-Lithuania for over two decades, converted Queen Anne of Denmark around 1600, and fled Scotland after the Gunpowder Plot, dying in 1613.

Robert Adair (physicist)

Robert Adair (1924–2020) was an American experimental particle physicist at Yale who measured rare K meson decays and wrote The Physics of Baseball in 1990.

Oct 22, 2026

Robert Adam

Robert Adam (1728–1792) was a Scottish architect, interior designer, and furniture designer who led British Neoclassicism; with his brothers he created the Adam Style, influential across Europe and North America.

Robert Adams (spiritual teacher)

Robert Adams (1928–1997) was an American Advaita Vedanta teacher who held small satsangs in southern California and Sedona, Arizona, teaching Ramana Maharshi's self-inquiry alongside love, compassion, and humility.

Robert Adelman, MD

Robert Adelman, MD is a physician-turned-venture investor who co-founded the life-science firm venBio, where he is Emeritus Managing Partner; he led investments in Aragon, Seragon, Apellis, and Turning Point Therapeutics.

Robert Adelstein

Robert S. Adelstein (1934–2024) was an American physician-scientist who spent about sixty years at NIH, established phosphorylation as the regulator of smooth muscle and nonmuscle myosin, and defined the three nonmuscle myosin II genes.

Sep 27, 2026

Robert Aderholt

Robert B. Aderholt, born 1965, is an American Republican politician who has represented Alabama's 4th congressional district in the U.S. House since 1997.

Robert Adler

Robert Adler (1913–2007) was an Austrian-born American physicist who spent nearly six decades at Zenith Electronics and created the ultrasonic wireless TV remote control, holding about 180 US patents.

Robert Aickman

Robert Fordyce Aickman (1914–1981), English author of 48 "strange stories" in eight collections, co-founder of the Inland Waterways Association, grandson of Richard Marsh, World Fantasy Award winner 1975.

Robert Alan Pritzker

Robert Alan Pritzker (1926–2011) was an American industrial engineer and manufacturing executive who built the Marmon Group of Chicago into the 19th largest private company in the United States.

Robert Alda

Robert Alda (Alphonso D'Abruzzo, 1914–1986), American-Italian actor and singer; played George Gershwin in Rhapsody in Blue (1945), won the 1951 Tony as Sky Masterson in Guys and Dolls; father of Alan and Antony Alda.

Robert Aldrich

Robert Aldrich (1918-1983), American film director and producer of Kiss Me Deadly, The Dirty Dozen, and The Longest Yard; two-term DGA president who negotiated the 1978 Basic Agreement and pioneered independent production in Hollywood.

Robert Alexander Kennedy Runcie

Robert Alexander Kennedy Runcie, Baron Runcie (1921–2000), was the 102nd Archbishop of Canterbury, from 1980 to 1991, and hosted the first papal visit to Canterbury in 1982.

Robert Alexander Rankin

Robert Alexander Rankin (1915–2001) was a British mathematician who wrote over 100 papers on number theory and gave his name to the Rankin–Selberg method for studying L-functions.

Sep 27, 2026

Robert Allain

Robert Allain is an American politician and Republican member of the Louisiana Senate from the 21st district, a Franklin, Louisiana native who founded the marine construction company Integrity Marine.

Robert Almer Harper

Robert Almer Harper (1862–1946) was an American botanist and cytologist who worked out the details of reproduction in the fungus ascospore, teaching at Columbia University.

Robert Altman

Robert Altman (1925–2006), Kansas City-born American director of M*A*S*H, Nashville, The Player, Short Cuts, and Gosford Park; known for ensemble casts, overlapping dialogue, and New Hollywood genre revision.

Robert Alton Harris

Robert Alton Harris, executed April 21, 1992 in San Quentin's gas chamber, was California's first execution in 25 years, for the 1978 kidnapping and murder of two San Diego teenagers; four federal stays and a Supreme Court order marked the case.

Robert and Michelle King

Robert and Michelle King are the married American showrunner team behind The Good Wife, The Good Fight, Evil, BrainDead, and Elsbeth, working across CBS and Paramount+ with King Size Productions.

Robert Anderson (sex offender)

Robert Anderson (sex offender) covers several unrelated men: Robert S. Anderson (federal enticement, 7th Cir. 2024), Dr. Robert Anderson (University of Michigan, $490M settlement), plus offenders in Indiana, Northern Ireland, California, and Oklahoma.