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Robert Bloomfield
Robert Bloomfield (1766–1823) was an English laboring-class poet, formerly a farmhand and shoemaker. His four-book georgic work, The Farmer's Boy (1800), was a bestseller of the Romantic period.
Robert Bobroczkyi
Robert Bobroczkyi (Róbert Bobróczkyi, born 2000), Romanian-Hungarian 7'7" (2.31 m) former basketball player, SPIRE Institute and Rochester Christian; now an actor as the Offspring in Alien: Romulus and Pirate Clark in Backrooms.
Robert Bogey
Robert Bogey, French long-distance runner (born November 1935, Aix-les-Bains), 1960 Olympic 10,000 m finalist area (13th), 1959 Mediterranean Games 5000 m gold, French 10,000 m record 28:48.2 in 1963, AS Aix-les-Bains coach.
Robert Booth Nichols
Robert Booth Nichols (born 1943), American businessman and self-described CIA operative, source for Danny Casolaro's Octopus investigation, subject of a 1987 FBI organized-crime probe via Meridian International Logistics, and recipient of a $10 million Bayou hedge-fund fee in 2004.
Robert Boothby, Baron Boothby
Robert Boothby, Baron Boothby (1900–1986), British Conservative MP for East Aberdeenshire 1924–1958, Churchill's parliamentary private secretary, wartime Ministry of Food minister, and one of the first life peers (1958).
Robert Borden
Sir Robert Laird Borden (1854–1937), Canada's eighth prime minister (1911–1920), led the country through World War I, introduced conscription and the Union government in 1917, and won Canada separate Treaty of Versailles signature and a League of Nations seat.
Robert Bork
Robert Bork (1927-2012), American jurist and Yale antitrust scholar, was Solicitor General, acting Attorney General in the Saturday Night Massacre, D.C. Circuit judge, and author of The Antitrust Paradox; his 1987 Supreme Court nomination was rejected 58-42, spawning "borking."
Robert Bork Supreme Court nomination
Robert Bork Supreme Court nomination: Reagan's July 1, 1987 nomination of D.C. Circuit judge Robert Bork to replace Lewis Powell; rejected by the Senate 58-42 on October 23, 1987 after contentious hearings, with Anthony Kennedy eventually filling the seat.
Robert Bosch
Robert August Bosch (1861–1942) was a German industrialist and engineer who founded Robert Bosch GmbH in Stuttgart in 1886, best known for vehicle magneto ignition.
Robert Bowie Owens
Robert Bowie Owens (1870–1940) was an American electrical engineer who led the Franklin Institute in Philadelphia and the Maryland Academy of Sciences, with debated credit for discovering radon.
Robert Boyd (British space physicist)
Sir Robert Lewis Fullarton Boyd (1922–2004) was a British space physicist, called the father of UK space science, who founded UCL's Mullard Space Science Laboratory in 1966.
Robert Boyle
Robert Boyle (1627–1691) was an Anglo-Irish natural philosopher and founding fellow of the Royal Society, known for Boyle's law relating the pressure and volume of air.
Robert Brandom
Robert Brandom is an American philosopher at the University of Pittsburgh known for inferentialism, developed in Making It Explicit (1994): meaning as inferential role grounded in commitment, entitlement, and scorekeeping.
Robert Brasillach
Robert Brasillach (1909–1945), French writer and critic at L'Action française, editor-in-chief of the collaborationist, antisemitic weekly Je suis partout during the Occupation; tried 19 January 1945 for treason and executed 6 February 1945 despite a clemency petition led by Mauriac.
Robert Bresson
Robert Bresson (1901–1999) was a French film director who made thirteen features between 1943 and 1983, known for his style of nonprofessional performers and elliptical editing.
Robert Brian Palmer
Robert Brian Palmer is a particle and accelerator physicist who spent 60 years at Brookhaven National Laboratory, known for the Omega-minus experiment, the Palmer method, and muon collider work.
Robert Bridge
Robert "Bobby" Bridge (1883-1953), British one-armed racewalker of the Lancashire Walking Club; 1912 Olympic 10 km walk entrant (disqualified), AAA 2-mile and 7-mile champion 1912-14 and 1919, and 1914 two-hour walk world record holder at 24.781 km.
Robert Bridges
Robert Seymour Bridges was an English poet and physician who became Poet Laureate in 1913 and edited the first published edition of Gerard Manley Hopkins' poems in 1918.
Robert Briffault
Robert Briffault was a surgeon turned social anthropologist and novelist, remembered for The Mothers (1927), his three-volume argument for early matriarchy, and the best-selling novel Europa (1935).
Robert Briggs (developmental biologist)
Robert Briggs (1911–1983) was an American developmental biologist who, with Thomas J. King, performed the first successful nuclear transplantation in an animal, in frogs in 1952.
Robert Brink
Robert Brink is an Australian immunologist who leads the Brink Lab at the Garvan Institute in Sydney, studying B cell regulation in immunity and autoantibody disease.
Robert Brode
Robert Brode (1900–1986) was an American experimental physicist at the University of California, Berkeley, known for work on slow electrons, cosmic rays, and atomic bomb fusing.
Robert Bromberg
Robert Bromberg (died 1999) was an American aerospace thermodynamicist, a pioneer of atmospheric reentry who led divisions at TRW and joined the National Academy of Engineering in 1969.
Robert Broom
Robert Broom (1866–1951) was a Scottish-born South African medical doctor and paleontologist who described hundreds of Karoo mammal-like reptiles and found the first adult australopithecine cranium at Sterkfontein.
Robert Brout
Robert Brout (1928–2011) was an American-born theoretical physicist who spent his career in Belgium and, with François Englert, first published the mechanism by which elementary particles acquire mass.
Robert Brown (British actor)
Robert Brown (British actor), full name Robert James Brown (1921–2003), English character actor from Swanage, Dorset; played M in four James Bond films 1983–1989 after Bernard Lee, and Admiral Hargreaves in The Spy Who Loved Me.
Robert Browne
Robert Browne (c. 1550–1633) was an English Separatist leader, founder of the Brownist movement and an early formulator of Congregationalism, who gathered a church at Norwich in 1580.
Robert Browning
Robert Browning (1812–1889), English Victorian poet of Camberwell and Venice, master of the dramatic monologue ('My Last Duchess', 'Porphyria's Lover') and author of The Ring and the Book; husband of Elizabeth Barrett, long obscure, famous late, influence on Pound and Eliot.
Robert Bryant (mathematician)
Robert Bryant, born 1953, is an American mathematician at Duke University who works in differential geometry, proved the existence of special holonomy manifolds, and served as President of the American Mathematical Society in 2015 and 2016.
Robert Buckland
Robert Buckland KC (born 1968, Llanelli) is a British Conservative barrister and former MP for South Swindon (2010–2024) who served as Solicitor General 2014–2019, Lord Chancellor and Justice Secretary 2019–2021, and Welsh Secretary in 2022.