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Robert Christgau
Robert Christgau, aka Xgau, the self-styled Dean of American Rock Critics, created the letter-graded Consumer Guide (1969) and edited the Village Voice's Pazz & Jop poll; now writing on Substack.
Robert Christophe
Robert Christophe (1938-2016), French backstroke swimmer from CN Marseille; European 100 m backstroke champion 1958, world-record 4x100 freestyle relay 1962, fourth in the Olympic 100 m backstroke in 1956 and 1960.
Robert Cialdini
Robert B. Cialdini, American social psychologist and Regents' Professor Emeritus at Arizona State University, author of Influence (1984) and Pre-Suasion (2016), known for the principles of persuasion, seven million copies in 44 languages, NAS 2019.
Robert Citrone
Robert Citrone, also known as Rob Citrone, is an American hedge fund manager who founded Discovery Capital Management in 1999, a global macro firm in South Norwalk, Connecticut.
Robert Clary
Robert Clary (Robert Max Widerman, 1926–2022), French-born American actor and singer, played Corporal Louis LeBeau on Hogan's Heroes (1965–71) and was a Buchenwald Holocaust survivor who lectured on remembrance.
Robert Clinton Brown
Robert Clinton Brown is an American mechanical engineer at Iowa State University known for converting biomass into fuels, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2025.
Robert Clive
Robert Clive, Baron Clive of Plassey (1725-1774), "Clive of India", East India Company officer and Governor of Bengal; victor of Plassey 1757, obtained the diwani in 1765, died after parliamentary inquiry, probably by suicide.
Robert Clohessy
Robert Clohessy (born 1958) is an American character actor known for Officer Sean Murphy on HBO's Oz and Sid Gormley on CBS's Blue Bloods (2010–2024), with early regular work on Hill Street Blues and Broadway credits in Twelve Angry Men and Pal Joey.
Robert Cohen (writer)
Robert (Howard) Cohen, born 1963 in Calgary, Alberta, is a Canadian-American TV writer, director, and producer: Emmy winner for The Ben Stiller Show, Big Bang Theory season-1 writer, and director of over 100 episodes including Peabody-winning Somebody Somewhere. Distinct from film director Rob Cohen and the UCI drama professor.
Robert Conrad
Robert Conrad, born Conrad Robert Norton Falk and sometimes called Bob Conrad, was an American actor who starred as James T. West on The Wild Wild West.
Robert Coover
Robert Lowell Coover (1932–2024), American postmodern fiction writer, author of The Origin of the Brunists, Pricksongs & Descants with 'The Babysitter', and The Public Burning; Brown University professor and electronic literature pioneer.
Robert Coppee
Robert Coppee (Robert Victor Joseph Coppée, 1895-1970), Belgian striker for Union Saint-Gilloise; 15 caps, 9 goals; 1920 Antwerp Olympic gold medalist who scored three goals against Spain and the opening penalty in the abandoned final.
Robert Cormier
Robert Cormier (Robert Edmund Cormier, 1925–2000) was an American novelist and journalist whose dark young adult novel The Chocolate War (1974) helped establish the YA novel.
Robert Costa (journalist)
Robert Costa is an American political journalist, national correspondent for CBS Sunday Morning and chief Washington analyst for CBS News, formerly of the Washington Post, PBS Washington Week, and co-author with Bob Woodward of Peril.
Robert Costanzo
Robert Costanzo (Robert Jason Costanzo, born 1942, Brooklyn) is an American character actor and voice performer, the voice of Detective Harvey Bullock in Batman animation and Arkham Origins, Philoctetes in Hercules, and Joey Tribbiani Sr. on Friends.
Robert Covington
Robert Covington (RoCo), born 1990, Bellwood, Illinois, is an undrafted 2013 NBA forward from Tennessee State; 614 games, 10.8 ppg, 2017-18 All-Defensive, known for steals, blocks, and defensive analytics value.
Robert Craigie (virologist)
Robert Craigie is a molecular biologist and virologist at the National Institutes of Health who studies how HIV integrates a DNA copy of its genome into host chromosomes.
Robert Crawshaw
Robert Arnold Crawshaw (1869-1952), English swimmer and water polo back for Mayfield and Osborne Swimming Club, Manchester; won 1900 Paris Olympic water polo gold, fourth in 200 m freestyle.
Robert Cray
Robert Cray (born 1953, Columbus, Georgia) is an American blues guitarist and singer leading the Robert Cray Band since 1974; five-time Grammy winner whose 1986 album Strong Persuader and hit Smoking Gun drove the 1980s blues revival.
Robert Creamer
Robert Creamer, known as Rob Creamer, is an American trading executive who has served as President and CEO of Chicago-based proprietary trading firm Geneva Trading since 2010.
Robert Creeley
Robert Creeley (1926–2005) was an American poet, editor, and teacher associated with the Black Mountain poets, known for a compressed, elliptical style that influenced a generation.
Robert Creighton Buck
Robert Creighton Buck (1920–1998) was an American mathematician at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, known for the textbook Advanced Calculus and research on entire functions, interpolation, and approximation theory.
Robert Crews
Robert Crews is an American historian and Professor of History at Stanford University who writes on Afghanistan, Russia, Central Asia, and Islam, and authored Afghan Modern (2015).
Robert Crichton Wyllie
Robert Crichton Wyllie was a Scottish physician and businessman who served as Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Kingdom of Hawaii from 1845 until his death in 1865.
Robert Cromwell
Robert Cromwell (died June 1617) was an English Huntingdon gentleman, MP for Huntingdon in 1593, bailiff, and justice of the peace; second son of Sir Henry Cromwell, husband of Elizabeth Steward, and father of Oliver Cromwell, his only son to survive infancy.
Robert Crumb
Robert Crumb (R. Crumb), American cartoonist born 1943 in Philadelphia, founder of Zap Comix and creator of Fritz the Cat, Mr. Natural, and Keep On Truckin'; lives in Sauve, France; subject of Dan Nadel's 2025 biography.
Robert Cudmore
Robert Cudmore (Collier Robert Cudmore, 1885–1971), Australian-born rower, lawyer, and politician; won 1908 Olympic gold in the coxless four for Great Britain with Magdalen College, Oxford, later led the LCL in South Australia's Legislative Council.
Robert Culp
Robert Martin Culp (1930-2010), American actor, writer, and director; starred as spy Kelly Robinson on I Spy (1965-68) with Bill Cosby, as Hoby Gilman in Trackdown, and as FBI agent Bill Maxwell in The Greatest American Hero; also directed Hickey & Boggs.
Robert Cummings
Robert Cummings (1910-1990), American film and TV actor also called Bob Cummings, born Charles Clarence Robert Orville Cummings in Joplin, Missouri; starred in Saboteur, Dial M for Murder, and The Bob Cummings Show, Emmy winner for Twelve Angry Men.
Robert Curthose
Robert Curthose (c.1050–1134), eldest son of William the Conqueror, was Duke of Normandy 1087–1106, a First Crusade leader who pawned Normandy to Rufus, invaded England in 1101, and died imprisoned at Cardiff.