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Robert C. McMaster
Robert Charles McMaster (1913–1986) was an electrical engineer and pioneer of nondestructive testing, professor of welding engineering at Ohio State and editor of the Nondestructive Testing Handbook.
Robert C. Merton
Robert C. Merton is an American financial economist who shared the 1997 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences for a new method to determine the value of derivatives.
Robert C. Moellering
Robert C. Moellering (1936–2014) was an American infectious-diseases physician and researcher at Harvard Medical School and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, known for work on antimicrobial resistance.
Robert C. Murphy
Robert C. Murphy is an American biochemist, University Distinguished Professor Emeritus at the University of Colorado, whose 1979 work identified the leukotrienes behind allergic reactions like asthma.
Robert C. Myers
Robert C. Myers is a Canadian theoretical physicist known for the Myers-Perry black hole solution and the Myers effect, and a founding faculty member of the Perimeter Institute.
Robert C. Nowinski
Robert C. Nowinski is an American virologist and immunologist who built the retrovirology program at Seattle's Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center and founded the diagnostics company Genetic Systems.
Robert C. O'Brien
Robert C. O'Brien (born 1966), American lawyer and diplomat, 27th U.S. National Security Advisor 2019–2021 and hostage-affairs envoy 2018–2019; distinct from the novelist Robert C. O'Brien and the Irish company director.
Robert C. Prim
Robert C. Prim (1921–2021) was an American mathematician and computer scientist at Bell Laboratories, known for Prim's algorithm for finding minimum spanning trees, published in 1957.
Robert C. Reid
Robert C. Reid, or Robert Clark Reid, was an American chemical engineer and MIT professor best known as co-author of The Properties of Gases and Liquids.
Robert C. Richardson
Robert C. Richardson, also known as Robert Coleman Richardson, was an American low-temperature physicist at Cornell University who shared the 1996 Nobel Prize in Physics for discovering superfluidity in helium-3.
Robert C. Seeger
Robert C. Seeger was an American pediatric oncology researcher at Children's Hospital Los Angeles who established the prognostic importance of MYCN amplification in neuroblastoma and founded the NANT consortium.
Robert C. Sprague
Robert C. Sprague (1900–1991) was an American electronics engineer who founded the Sprague Electric Company in Quincy, Massachusetts, in 1926, a leader in capacitors and semiconductors.
Robert C. Strunk
Robert C. Strunk, also known as R.C. Strunk, was an American pediatric allergist at Washington University in St. Louis who led the Childhood Asthma Management Program for two decades.
Robert C. Tarazi
Robert C. Tarazi (1925–1986) was a cardiologist and hypertension researcher who led the Cleveland Clinic's Clinical Science Department and showed plasma volume is contracted in essential hypertension.
Robert C. Thunell
Robert C. Thunell (Robert Carl Thunell, 1951–2018) was an American paleoceanographer and Carolina Distinguished Professor at the University of South Carolina who reconstructed past ocean conditions from planktonic foraminifera.
Robert California
Robert California, also known as Bob Kazamakis or the Lizard King, is the fictional Dunder Mifflin/Sabre CEO played by James Spader on The Office season 8 (2011-2012), debuting in Search Committee and departing when David Wallace reclaims the company.
Robert Calvert
Robert Calvert (1945-1988), South African-born British poet and musician, Hawkwind's resident poet and frontman, co-writer of "Silver Machine," and creator of the satirical 1974 concept album Captain Lockheed & the Starfighters about the F-104 Starfighter.
Robert Campin
Robert Campin, accepted by most art historians as the Master of Flémalle, was a Flemish painter active in Tournai who founded realistic oil painting alongside Jan van Eyck.
Robert Capa
Robert Capa (Endre Ernő Friedmann, 1913–1954), Hungarian-born war photographer who covered Spain, D-Day, and Indochina, co-founded Magnum Photos, and died on a landmine in 1954.
Robert Carlyle
Robert Carlyle (born 1961, Glasgow), also called Bobby Carlyle, is a Scottish actor known for Begbie in Trainspotting, Gaz in The Full Monty, Renard in The World Is Not Enough, and Rumpelstiltskin on Once Upon a Time.
Robert Caro
Robert Caro (born 1935) is an American journalist-biographer, author of The Power Broker (1975 Pulitzer) and the multi-volume The Years of Lyndon Johnson, with two Pulitzers, two National Book Awards, and a fifth LBJ volume still unfinished.
Robert Carradine
Robert Reed Carradine (1954-2026), American actor, youngest son of John Carradine; Lewis Skolnick in Revenge of the Nerds and Sam McGuire in Lizzie McGuire; died by suicide at 71.
Robert Carroll (New York politician)
Robert C. Carroll is an American Democratic politician who has represented Brooklyn's 44th district in the New York State Assembly since 2016, chairing the Committee on Libraries and Education Technology.
Robert Catesby
Robert Catesby (c. 1572–1605), Warwickshire Catholic gentleman, masterminded the 1605 Gunpowder Plot to blow up James I and Parliament; Guy Fawkes was only his explosives expert. Catesby died at Holbeach House.
Robert Cava
Robert Cava is a solid-state chemist at Princeton University who spent 17 years at Bell Laboratories and is known for superconductors, topological insulators, and frustrated magnets.
Robert Cecil, 1st Earl of Salisbury
Robert Cecil, 1st Earl of Salisbury (1563–1612), English statesman, son of Lord Burghley; Secretary of State to Elizabeth I and James I, chief minister who secured James VI's accession in 1603, managed the Gunpowder Plot response, proposed the 1610 Great Contract, and built Hatfield House.
Robert Cecil, Viscount Cecil of Chelwood
Robert Cecil, Viscount Cecil of Chelwood, was a British statesman and principal draftsman of the League of Nations Covenant in 1919, awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1937.
Robert Chambers (criminal)
Robert Chambers, the "Preppy Killer," an American convicted of strangling Jennifer Levin, 18, in Central Park in August 1986; pleaded guilty to manslaughter in 1988, served 15 years, later 19 years for cocaine sales, released July 2023.
Robert Charles McMaster
Robert Charles McMaster (1913–1986) was an American electrical engineer, a pioneer of nondestructive testing, professor of welding engineering at Ohio State, and editor of the Nondestructive Testing Handbook.
Robert Charpentier
Robert Charpentier (1916-1966), French cyclist, won three gold medals at the 1936 Berlin Olympics: individual road race, team road race, and 4,000 m team pursuit; later a professional with little success.