All articles starting with R

Robert Buckley

Robert Earl Buckley (born 1981), American actor from West Covina, California; economics degree from UCSD. Known as Clay Evans on One Tree Hill and Major Lilywhite, Liv's ex-fiancé, on The CW's iZombie (2015-19).

Robert Bunsen

Robert Bunsen (1811–1899) was a German chemist who, with Gustav Kirchhoff, founded spectrum analysis, discovered caesium and rubidium, and gave his name to the Bunsen burner.

Robert Burke (Massachusetts politician)

Robert Burke is an American Republican politician and videographer, the 2026 Republican nominee for the U.S. House in Massachusetts's 8th district after challenging Stephen Lynch in 2022.

Robert Burns

Robert Burns, also known as Rabbie Burns or the Bard of Ayrshire, is Scotland's national poet, famous for "Auld Lang Syne" and celebrated on Burns Night each January 25.

Robert Byrd

Robert Carlyle Byrd (1917-2010), West Virginia Democrat, longest-serving senator in U.S. history (1959-2010) and longest-serving member of Congress; former KKK member who later backed civil rights; namesake of the Byrd Rule.

Robert Byron (travel writer)

Robert Byron (1905-1941), British travel writer and architectural historian, author of The Road to Oxiana (1937) about Persia and Afghanistan; distinguished from the poet Lord Byron; died when his ship was torpedoed in 1941.

Robert Byron Bird

Robert Byron Bird (1924–2020) was an American chemical engineer at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, best known as coauthor of Transport Phenomena and for kinetic theory of polymeric fluids.

Robert C. Bast

Robert C. Bast is an American oncologist best known for identifying the CA 125 biomarker for ovarian cancer, and a longtime translational research leader at MD Anderson in Houston.

Robert C. Brack

Robert C. Brack (born 1953) is an American jurist, a senior United States district judge for the District of New Mexico, appointed by George W. Bush in 2003.

Robert C. Brunham

Robert C. Brunham is a Canadian infectious disease physician and chlamydia vaccine researcher, professor emeritus at the University of British Columbia and former director of the BCCDC.

Robert C. Chambers

Robert C. Chambers, born 1952, is an American jurist serving as a U.S. district judge for the Southern District of West Virginia since 1997, and was chief judge from 2012 to 2017.

Robert C. Cohen

Robert C. Cohen is a medical-device engineer and Stryker executive known for porous tantalum implants and the Mako surgical robot, elected to the NAE in 2025.

Sep 19, 2026

Robert C. Dobkin

Robert C. Dobkin is an American analog integrated-circuit designer who co-founded Linear Technology in 1981, designed the first three-terminal adjustable voltage regulator, and holds over 100 patents.

Robert C. Doebele

Robert C. Doebele is an American thoracic oncologist who identified oncogenic NTRK1 fusions in lung cancer, led entrectinib trials, and co-founded Rain Therapeutics before joining Boundless Bio in 2025.

Robert C. Duncan

Robert C. Duncan (1923–2003) was an American engineer and engineering manager who led Apollo guidance and control at NASA, managed the Polaroid SX-70 camera, and directed DARPA.

Robert C. Dynes

Robert C. Dynes (1942–2025) was a Canadian-born American condensed matter physicist known for work on superconductors, who served as UC San Diego chancellor and University of California president.

Robert C. Earlougher Jr.

Robert C. Earlougher Jr. (1941–2011) was an American petroleum engineer who spent his career at Marathon Oil and wrote Advances in Well Test Analysis, the 1977 SPE monograph still used as a textbook.

Robert C. Feenstra

Robert C. Feenstra is an American economist and Distinguished Professor Emeritus at UC Davis, known for measuring offshoring's effect on wages, the modern Penn World Table, and international trade textbooks.

Robert C. Finkel

Robert C. Finkel is an earth scientist in geochronology and paleoclimatology at the Center for Accelerator Mass Spectrometry, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, applying cosmogenic nuclide dating to fault slip rates and glacier histories.

Robert C. Forney

Robert C. Forney, also known as Robert Clyde Forney, was an American chemical engineer who commercialized Dacron polyester fiber at DuPont and led its research from 1979 to 1989.

Robert C. Gooding

Robert C. Gooding (1918–1999) was an American naval engineer and Navy vice admiral who served as the first commander of the Naval Sea Systems Command from 1974.

Robert C. Griggs

Robert C. Griggs is an American neuromuscular neurologist and longtime University of Rochester professor who led federally funded trials in rare muscle diseases and edited the journal Neurology.

Robert C. Gunness

Robert C. Gunness, full name Robert Charles Gunness (1911–2004), was an American chemical engineer and petroleum executive, president of Standard Oil of Indiana from 1965 to 1974.

Sep 20, 2026

Robert C. Haddon

Robert C. Haddon (1943–2016) was a solid-state chemist who grew up in Tasmania, known for the prediction and discovery of superconductivity in alkali-metal-doped C60 and for his account of fullerene chemistry.

Robert C. Harriss

Robert C. Harriss, also published as R. C. Harriss, was an American earth scientist who traced pollutant transport between land, atmosphere, and ocean, and led the Houston Advanced Research Center.

Robert C. Hawkins

Robert C. Hawkins, full name Robert Cleo Hawkins, was an American gas-turbine engineer at General Electric elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1985.

Oct 10, 2026

Robert C. James

Robert C. James (1918) was an American mathematician whose 1950 James space, a Banach space isometric to its second dual yet non-reflexive, was the first quasi-reflexive space.

Robert C. Jones

Robert C. Jones, also known as Robert Clive Jones, is an American jurist serving as a senior United States district judge for the District of Nevada since 2016.