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Robert Baratheon
Robert Baratheon is a fictional king in George R. R. Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire novels, crowned in 283 AC after Robert's Rebellion.
Robert Baron (American engineer)
Robert Baron, known as Bob Baron (1934–2026), was an American engineer who founded Prime Computer, a Massachusetts minicomputer maker, and later the Denver book publisher Fulcrum Publishing.
Robert Barron
Robert Barron, also known as Robert Emmet Barron, is an American Catholic theologian and bishop of Winona-Rochester, Minnesota, since 2022, known for founding Word on Fire Catholic Ministries.
Robert Bartko
Robert Bartko (born 1975, Potsdam) is a German track cyclist, double Olympic gold medalist at Sydney 2000 in the individual and team pursuit, four-time world champion, and later sports director of German speed skating 2014-18.
Robert Basham
Robert Basham, often Bob Basham, is an American restaurateur who co-founded Outback Steakhouse in Tampa in 1988 and served as its chief operating officer until 2005.
Robert Bates (political scientist)
Robert H. Bates is an American political scientist, Eaton Professor at Harvard since 1993, who studies African development and state failure; he was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2015.
Robert Batey
Robert T. Batey, known as R.T. Batey, is an American structural biologist and professor of biochemistry at the University of Colorado Boulder who studies riboswitches and RNA.
Robert Bathurst
Robert Guy Bathurst (born 1957, Accra, Ghana) is an English actor, Cambridge Footlights president, known as David Marsden in Cold Feet, Mark Taylor in Joking Apart, Ed Howzer-Black in Toast of London, and Sir Anthony Strallan in Downton Abbey.
Robert Bayley Osgood
Robert Bayley Osgood (1873–1956) was an American orthopedic surgeon in Boston who in 1903 first described the adolescent knee disorder Osgood–Schlatter disease, and served as chief of orthopedics at Massachusetts General Hospital.
Robert Beaglehole
Robert Beaglehole is a New Zealand public health physician and emeritus professor at the University of Auckland, known for tobacco harm reduction advocacy and WHO chronic disease leadership.
Robert Behringer
Robert P. Behringer (1948–2018) was an American experimental physicist and James B. Duke Professor at Duke University whose photoelastic studies of granular materials helped establish granular physics as a field.
Robert Bella
Robert Bella: American actor, director, writer, and teacher; NYU-trained under Adler, Mamet, and Macy; founding member of the Atlantic Theater Company (1985) and teacher of Mamet's Practical Aesthetics; later The Rookie and Castle writer-director.
Robert Bellarmine
Robert Bellarmine (Roberto Bellarmino) was an Italian Jesuit cardinal and theologian whose Disputationes became the standard Catholic response to Protestantism; he was canonized in 1930.
Robert Beltran
Robert Beltran (Robert Adame Beltran, born 1953, Bakersfield, California) is an American actor of Mexican-Native American ancestry, known for Commander Chakotay on Star Trek: Voyager (1995-2001, 168 episodes), Eating Raoul, and Star Trek: Prodigy.
Robert Ben Garant
Robert Ben Garant is an American comedy writer, actor, director and producer (born 1970, Cookeville, Tennessee), a member of The State troupe, co-creator and star of Reno 911! as Deputy Travis Junior, and co-writer of the Night at the Museum films.
Robert Ben Rhoades
Robert Ben Rhoades, also known as "The Truck Stop Killer," is an American serial killer and former long-haul truck driver who built a torture chamber into his truck's sleeper cab.
Robert Benchley
Robert Benchley (1889–1945), American humorist, drama critic, and actor; Algonquin Round Table member, New Yorker founder-contributor, star of 48 comic shorts, 1935 Oscar for How to Sleep.
Robert Benevides
Robert Benevides (1930-2024), American actor and production consultant, longtime partner of Raymond Burr; ran Sea God Orchids, Raymond Burr Vineyards, and Perry Mason TV movie production.
Robert Benezra
Robert Benezra, also published as R. Benezra, is a molecular and cancer biologist who discovered the Id proteins and co-discovered hsMAD2, the first human mitotic checkpoint gene.
Robert Berdella
Robert Berdella (1949–1992), the Kansas City Butcher, was an American serial killer who tortured and murdered at least six men, 1984–1987, at his Charlotte Street home; caught April 1988 after a victim escaped, he received two life sentences and died in prison.
Robert Berkowitz
Robert Berkowitz (1935–2010) was an American manufacturing executive who co-founded Prime Computer in 1972 and served as its vice president of manufacturing as it grew past 4,700 employees.
Robert Best (computational biophysicist)
Robert B. Best is a South African-British computational biophysical chemist leading the Computational Biophysics Section of NIH's NIDDK, studying protein folding and intrinsically disordered proteins.
Robert Beugré Mambé
Robert Beugré Mambé, born 1952, is an Ivorian engineer and public administrator serving as Prime Minister of Côte d'Ivoire since October 2023, appointed by President Alassane Ouattara.
Robert Bigelow
Robert Thomas Bigelow (born 1944 in Las Vegas, Nevada) is an American hotel and real estate entrepreneur who founded Budget Suites of America and Bigelow Aerospace.
Robert Bilott
Robert Bilott, American environmental lawyer at Taft Stettinius & Hollister, Cincinnati, whose DuPont PFOA litigation (Tennant case, C8 Science Panel, $670.7M settlement) inspired Dark Waters.
Robert Black (serial killer)
Robert Black (1947–2016), Scottish serial child killer and paedophile, a delivery driver who murdered Susan Maxwell, Caroline Hogg, Sarah Harper, and Jennifer Cardy, caught in 1990 at Stow, died in Maghaberry Prison.
Robert Blake (actor)
Robert Blake (Michael James Gubitosi, 1933–2023), American actor: Our Gang child star, Perry Smith in In Cold Blood, Emmy-winning star of Baretta; acquitted in 2005 of his wife's murder but found liable civilly.
Robert Blank
Robert Blank is an American private equity investor who co-founded Chicago Growth Partners, a Chicago middle-market buyout and growth-capital firm, in 2004 after leading William Blair Capital Partners.
Robert Blelloch
Robert Blelloch is a physician-scientist and professor at the University of California, San Francisco, known for work on microRNAs in stem cells and exosomal PD-L1 in cancer.
Robert Bloch
Robert Albert Bloch (1917–1994), American horror and suspense writer, author of Psycho, Lovecraft protégé; wrote 25 novels, hundreds of stories, and Star Trek and Hitchcock TV scripts.