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Robert Downey Sr.
Robert Downey Sr. (1936–2021), born Robert Elias Jr., was an American underground filmmaker behind Putney Swope, Pound, and Greaser's Palace, father of actor Robert Downey Jr.
Robert Drennan
Robert Drennan was an American archaeologist at the University of Pittsburgh known for the comparative study of early complex societies and regional chiefdoms, and a National Academy of Sciences member.
Robert Duce
Robert Duce is an American atmospheric and marine chemist at Texas A&M University known for research on atmospheric transport of trace metals, dust, and nitrogen to the ocean.
Robert Dudley, 1st Earl of Leicester
Robert Dudley, 1st Earl of Leicester (1532/3–1588), Elizabeth I's favourite and only serious English suitor; Master of the Horse, Garter knight 1559, Privy Councillor 1562, Earl 1564; widowed by Amy Robsart's disputed 1560 death; commanded the 1585 Netherlands expedition.
Robert Duncan
Robert Duncan was an American poet, born in Oakland in 1919, identified with Black Mountain and the San Francisco Renaissance and known for poems drawing on myth and the occult.
Robert Duncan McNeill
Robert Duncan McNeill (born 1964, Raleigh, NC) is an American actor, director, and producer, aka Tom Paris in Star Trek: Voyager (172 episodes). He turned to directing with Sacred Ground, produced Chuck, and executive produced Resident Alien.
Robert Dunlop
Robert Dunlop, born Stephen Robert Dunlop, was a Northern Irish motorcycle road racer who won 5 Isle of Man TT and a record 15 North West 200 races.
Robert Durst
Robert Durst (1943-2022), New York Durst Organization heir, linked to Kathie McCormack's 1982 disappearance, Susan Berman's 2000 murder, and Morris Black's 2001 killing; acquitted in Texas, convicted in Los Angeles, died in prison.
Robert Duvall
Robert Duvall (1931–2026), American actor and filmmaker, Oscar winner for Tender Mercies; played Tom Hagen in The Godfather and Kilgore in Apocalypse Now; founded Butchers Run Films.
Robert Duvall filmography
The Robert Duvall filmography spans nearly seven decades of American film and television, from To Kill a Mockingbird (1962) through more than 100 feature films.
Robert E. Bacharach
Robert Edwin Bacharach (born 1959) is an American jurist serving as a United States circuit judge of the Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit since 2013.
Robert E. Black
Robert E. Black is a physician and epidemiologist at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health whose research on child survival and nutrition in low-income countries earned the Prince Mahidol and Gairdner awards.
Robert E. Blackburn
Robert E. Blackburn, born in 1950 in Lakewood, Colorado, is a senior United States district judge for the District of Colorado, appointed by President George W. Bush in 2002.
Robert E. Campbell
Robert E. Campbell is a biochemist and protein engineer known for the GECO series of fluorescent calcium indicators, including R-GECO1 and NIR-GECO1, and for PhoCl.
Robert E. Coleman
Robert E. Coleman is a British medical oncologist and Emeritus Professor of Medical Oncology at the University of Sheffield, known for research on bone metastases in breast cancer.
Robert E. Connick
Robert E. Connick was an American inorganic chemist at UC Berkeley who studied plutonium chemistry on the Manhattan Project and pioneered NMR methods for fast ion reactions in solution.
Robert E. Cooke
Robert E. Cooke, or Robert Edmond Cooke (1920–2014), was an American pediatrician who chaired pediatrics at Johns Hopkins for 17 years and helped create the NICHD and Project Head Start.
Robert E. Cowen
Robert E. Cowen, born 1930 in Newark, New Jersey, is a former United States circuit judge of the Third Circuit Court of Appeals, appointed by Ronald Reagan.
Robert E. Davis
Robert E. Davis was an American plant pathologist with the USDA Agricultural Research Service in Beltsville, Maryland, known for discovering spiroplasma and pioneering phytoplasma research.
Robert E. Dickinson
Robert E. Dickinson (1940–2026) was an American atmospheric scientist at NCAR and several universities who first brought vegetation into climate models through his BATS land-surface scheme.
Robert E. Fontana Jr.
Robert E. Fontana Jr. is an American electrical engineer at IBM's Almaden Research Center, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2002 for contributions in magnetic device processing.
Robert E. Forster
Robert E. Forster (1919–2021) was an American respiratory physiologist at the University of Pennsylvania who coauthored the 1957 Roughton–Forster equation separating membrane diffusion from blood reaction rates in lung gas transfer.
Robert E. Gerszten
Robert E. Gerszten is an American physician-scientist in cardiovascular medicine and metabolomics, chief of cardiovascular medicine at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and a Harvard Medical School professor.
Robert E. Hall
Robert E. Hall is an American macroeconomist, emeritus professor at Stanford and a Hoover Institution senior fellow, who chairs the NBER committee dating U.S. recessions.
Robert E. Hammer
Robert E. Hammer is a molecular geneticist and Professor of Biochemistry at UT Southwestern Medical Center, known for creating the first transgenic livestock and the HLA-B27 transgenic rat model of inflammatory disease.
Robert E. Henry
Robert E. Henry is an American nuclear engineer and co-founder of Fauske & Associates, Inc., known for his work on two-phase critical flow and severe-accident phenomenology.
Robert E. Horton
Robert E. Horton (1875–1945) was an American hydraulic engineer and hydrologist, best known for his 1933 infiltration theory of storm runoff and flood prediction, which founded engineering hydrology.
Robert E. Howard
Robert E. Howard (1906-1936), American pulp writer of Cross Plains, Texas, creator of Conan the Barbarian, Kull, and Solomon Kane; father of sword-and-sorcery, published mainly in Weird Tales, died at 30.
Robert E. Lee
Robert E. Lee (1807-1870), US Army engineer and Confederate commander of the Army of Northern Virginia; resigned April 1861, surrendered at Appomattox April 9, 1865, later president of Washington College.
Robert E. Lee Monument (Richmond, Virginia)
Robert E. Lee Monument, Richmond's Monument Avenue Confederate equestrian statue by Marius Jean Antonin Mercié, unveiled May 29, 1890, state-owned, listed 2006-2007, removed September 2021 after 2020 protests.