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Robert Daniel Beauchamp
R. Daniel Beauchamp (1956–2022) was an American surgical oncologist and cancer biologist at Vanderbilt University Medical Center, known for research on colorectal cancer invasion, metastasis, and biomarker discovery.
Robert Daniel Carmichael
Robert Daniel Carmichael (1879–1967) was an American mathematician and University of Illinois professor who gave his name to Carmichael numbers, the Carmichael function, and an open conjecture on Euler's totient.
Robert Darwin
Robert Waring Darwin (1766–1848), Shrewsbury physician, Edinburgh medical alumnus, father of Charles Darwin; wealthy diagnostician, Wedgwood marriage, funded the Beagle voyage.
Robert Davi
Robert Davi is an American actor, singer, and filmmaker from Astoria, Queens, known for Franz Sanchez in Licence to Kill, Die Hard, The Goonies, and Profiler, and for his 2011 Sinatra tribute album Davi Sings Sinatra.
Robert Davidson (artist)
Robert Davidson, whose Haida name is Guud San Glans, is a Canadian artist of Haida descent known for totem poles, prints, and sparking the Haida art renaissance in 1969.
Robert de Beaumont, 2nd Earl of Leicester
Robert de Beaumont, 2nd Earl of Leicester (1104–1168), nicknamed le Bossu, twin of Waleran of Meulan; English magnate and chief justiciar of England from 1155 to 1168 under Henry II, founder of St Mary de Pré, Garendon, and Nuneaton.
Robert de Brus, 6th Lord of Annandale
Robert de Brus, 6th Lord of Annandale (July 1243–March 1304), also Robert Bruce, jure uxoris Earl of Carrick, Anglo-Scottish baron, father of King Robert I, fought for Edward I at Dunbar in 1296.
Robert de Haan
Robert de Haan (born 2006 in Zutphen, Netherlands) is a Dutch racing driver who competes in Porsche one-make cup racing, most prominently in the Porsche Mobil 1 Supercup.
Robert De Niro
Robert De Niro (born 1943, New York City) is an American Method actor, director, and Tribeca co-founder; two-time Oscar winner (The Godfather Part II, Raging Bull), famed for his Martin Scorsese collaborations from Mean Streets to Killers of the Flower Moon.
Robert De Niro filmography
Robert De Niro filmography: screen career of the American actor (born 1943) from Greetings (1968) through Mean Streets, Taxi Driver, Raging Bull, Goodfellas, The Irishman, The Alto Knights (2025), and Focker-In-Law (2026), with two Oscars and two directing credits.
Robert De Niro Sr.
Robert De Niro Sr. (1922-1993), American New York School painter, sculptor, and poet, father of actor Robert De Niro; figurative expressionist trained by Albers and Hofmann, first solo show at Peggy Guggenheim's Art of This Century 1946, Guggenheim Fellow 1968.
Robert Debré
Robert Debré (1882–1978) was a French physician regarded as the father of modern French pediatrics, who chaired the future INSERM and architected the 1958 CHU reform.
Robert Defares
Robert Defares, known as Rob Defares, is a Dutch trading executive who co-founded Amsterdam market maker IMC Financial Markets in 1989 and served as its chief executive until 2025.
Robert Del Naja
Robert Del Naja (born 1965), aka 3D, British Bristol artist and founding member of trip-hop band Massive Attack, stencil-graffiti pioneer, whose activism includes Palestine Action protest arrests in 2026 and persistent, denied Banksy rumors.
Robert DeLeo
Robert DeLeo (born 1966, Montclair, New Jersey) is the bassist and principal songwriter of Stone Temple Pilots, also of Talk Show, Army of Anyone, and Delta Deep; solo debut Lessons Learned (2022), known for Motown-influenced lines and an Ampeg VT-22 into Marshall 8x10 rig.
Robert DeMars
Robert DeMars (1928–2023) was an American immunologist and human geneticist at the University of Wisconsin–Madison whose mutant cell lines helped identify the TAP genes that supply peptides to MHC class I molecules.
Robert Desiderio
Robert Desiderio (born 1951, New York City) is an American actor and writer, Steve Piermont on One Life to Live and Ted Melcher on Knots Landing, husband of Judith Light, screenwriter of Save Me, and author of the 2020 novel The Occurrence.
Robert Desimone
Robert Desimone is a neuroscientist and director of the McGovern Institute for Brain Research at MIT, known for the biased-competition model of visual attention and work linking attention to gamma-band neural synchrony.
Robert Desmettre
Robert Desmettre (1901-1936), French swimmer and water polo player of EN Tourcoing; 1919 French 500 m freestyle champion (8'24''4) and gold medalist in men's water polo at the Paris 1924 Olympics, where France beat Belgium 3-0 in the final.
Robert Detrano
Robert C. Detrano is a physician-scientist and former UC Irvine professor of radiological sciences and public health, known for showing coronary calcium scores predict heart attacks across ethnic groups.
Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex
Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex (1565–1601), English courtier, soldier, and royal favourite of Elizabeth I; led the Cadiz capture of 1596, failed as lord lieutenant of Ireland in 1599, and was executed for treason after the Essex Rebellion of 8 February 1601.
Robert Deziel Jr.
Robert Deziel Jr. (Robert Edward Deziel Junior, born 2005, Palm Beach, Florida) is an American centre-back who joined Legia Warszawa from Bayern München II on a free transfer in July 2026 on a contract to 2030.
Robert Doerr
Robert Doerr was an Austrian-born immunologist and pathologist who proved pappataci fever is caused by a virus transmitted by sandflies, then directed Basel's Hygienic Institute from 1919 to 1943.
Robert Doisneau
Robert Doisneau (1912–1994) was a French humanist photographer known for black-and-white pictures of everyday Parisian life and his 1950 image of a couple kissing outside the city hall.
Robert Domenjoz
Robert Domenjoz (1908–2000) was a Swiss pharmacologist who led DDT trials at Geigy in Basel, cited in the 1948 Nobel speech, and helped rescue imipramine.
Robert Donat
Robert Donat (Friederich Robert Donat, 1905-1958), English stage and film actor from Manchester, Oscar winner for Goodbye, Mr. Chips (1939) and star of The 39 Steps, whose chronic asthma limited him to fewer than twenty films.
Robert Donner
Robert Donner (Robert E. Morris, 1931-2006), American character actor; played the prophet Exidor on Mork & Mindy and Yancy Tucker on The Waltons; appeared in Cool Hand Luke, High Plains Drifter, and John Wayne westerns.
Robert Dorgebray
Robert Dorgebray (1915-2005), French road cyclist; won team road race gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics while tying for fourth individually; pro from 1942, won Paris-Camembert 1947.
Robert Downey Jr.
Robert Downey Jr., born Robert John Downey Jr. in 1965, is an American actor known as Iron Man in the Marvel Cinematic Universe and an Oscar winner for Oppenheimer.
Robert Downey Jr. filmography
Robert Downey Jr. filmography: screen credits of the American actor (born 1965) from Pound (1970) through Less Than Zero, Chaplin, Iron Man and the MCU, and his Oscar-winning Oppenheimer role, plus upcoming Doctor Doom films.