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Robert Emmet Odlum
Robert Emmet Odlum (1851-1885), Washington D.C. swimming instructor and Natatorium founder, first person to jump from the Brooklyn Bridge, May 19, 1885; died hitting the water at a bad angle.
Robert Emmett Ginna nuclear power plant
The Robert Emmett Ginna nuclear power plant is a single-unit Westinghouse pressurized water reactor plant on Lake Ontario near Rochester, New York, owned by Constellation.
Robert Emms
Robert Emms (Robert James MacPherson, born 1986) is a British actor trained at LAMDA, known for War Horse on stage and screen, Chernobyl's Leonid Toptunov, Atlantis's Pythagoras, Happy Valley, and Andor's Supervisor Lonni Jung.
Robert Empie Rogers
Robert Empie Rogers (1813–1884) was an American chemist and physician who taught at Virginia, Pennsylvania, and Jefferson Medical College and helped incorporate the National Academy of Sciences.
Robert Englund
Robert Englund (born 1947, Glendale, California) is an American RADA-trained actor famous as Freddy Krueger in the Nightmare on Elm Street films (1984-2003), also known for V's Willie, voice roles, and a 2025 Hollywood Walk of Fame star.
Robert Enke
Robert Enke (1977-2009), German goalkeeper for Carl Zeiss Jena, Borussia Mönchengladbach, Benfica, Barcelona, Fenerbahçe, and Hannover 96; eight Germany caps, Euro 2008 runner-up; died by suicide on 10 November 2009 after hidden depression.
Robert Esmie
Robert Esmie (born 1972) is a Canadian retired sprinter who ran lead-off on Canada's gold-medal 4 × 100 m relay team at the 1996 Atlanta Olympics.
Robert Evans
Robert Evans (born Robert J. Shapera, 1930–2019) was an American film producer and Paramount Pictures production head behind The Godfather, Chinatown, Rosemary's Baby, and Love Story, later famous for the memoir The Kid Stays in the Picture.
Robert Evans (journalist)
Robert Evans is an American journalist, author, and founder of Cool Zone Media, host of Behind the Bastards and It Could Happen Here, a former Cracked editor and Bellingcat conflict reporter covering Iraq, Syria, Ukraine, and US far-right extremism.
Robert Everett (computer scientist)
Robert Rivers Everett (1921–2018) was an American computer scientist who helped build MIT's Whirlwind computer, led the SAGE air defense system, and served as president and CEO of The MITRE Corporation from 1969 to 1986.
Robert F. Bradley
Robert F. Bradley (1919/1920–2003) was an American diabetologist, an associate professor at Harvard Medical School who served ten years as president of the Joslin Diabetes Center in Boston.
Robert F. Breiman
Robert F. Breiman is an American infectious-disease epidemiologist and physician, a professor at Emory University who spent 26 years at the CDC and was elected to the National Academy of Medicine in 2017.
Robert F. Chandler
Robert F. Chandler (Robert Flint Chandler Jr.) was an American agronomist who directed the International Rice Research Institute in the Philippines from 1959 to 1972.
Robert F. Christy
Robert F. Christy (1916–2012) was a Canadian-born American theoretical physicist at Caltech who designed the solid-core plutonium pit tested at Trinity and modeled Cepheid variable stars.
Robert F. Curl Jr.
Robert F. Curl Jr. (1933–2022) was an American physical chemist who spent his career at Rice University and shared the 1996 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for discovering fullerenes.
Robert F. Davis
Robert F. Davis is an American materials scientist and emeritus Carnegie Mellon professor, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2001 for developing silicon carbide and III-nitrides as practical electronic materials.
Robert F. Engle
Robert F. Engle is an American econometrician, Professor Emeritus at NYU Stern, who originated the ARCH model for forecasting volatility and won the 2003 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences.
Robert F. Furchgott
Robert F. Furchgott (1916–2009) was an American pharmacologist who discovered that blood vessel linings release nitric oxide, sharing the 1998 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for the finding.
Robert F. Garry
Robert F. Garry is an American virologist and Professor of Microbiology and Immunology at Tulane University, known for Lassa fever and Ebola field research, diagnostics, and co-authoring the 2020 analysis of SARS-CoV-2's origin.
Robert F. Graham
Robert F. Graham, known as Bob Graham (1929–1998), was an American semiconductor equipment executive who led Novellus Systems as CEO from 1986 and chairman from 1992.
Robert F. Kelly
Robert F. Kelly, born 1935, is an American jurist serving as a senior United States district judge in the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, appointed by Ronald Reagan in 1987.
Robert F. Kennedy
Robert F. Kennedy (1925-1968), U.S. attorney general 1961-1964 under his brother President John F. Kennedy, then New York senator; assassinated June 5, 1968, in Los Angeles while campaigning for the 1968 Democratic presidential nomination; Sirhan Sirhan convicted.
Robert F. Kennedy assassination conspiracy theories
Robert F. Kennedy assassination conspiracy theories dispute that Sirhan Sirhan acted alone in the June 1968 Los Angeles shooting, citing claims of 13 shots, a second gun, security guard Thane Cesar, and acoustic evidence, despite official findings.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. (Robert Francis Kennedy Jr., born 1954), American environmental lawyer, anti-vaccine activist, and 2024 independent presidential candidate; son of Senator Robert F. Kennedy, nephew of John F. Kennedy; confirmed 52-48 in February 2025 as U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. 2024 presidential campaign
Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s 2024 presidential campaign was an independent US presidential bid launched in April 2023, suspended in August 2024 with an endorsement of Donald Trump.
Robert F. Kennedy Memorial Stadium
Robert F. Kennedy Memorial Stadium (RFK Stadium), opened 1961 in Washington, D.C. as DC Stadium, renamed 1969; multi-purpose home of Washington football, Senators, Nationals, and D.C. United; closed 2019, demolished by 2026 for a new Commanders stadium.
Robert F. Landel
Robert F. Landel (1925–2024) was an American physical chemist who co-developed the Williams–Landel–Ferry equation, a foundation of polymer time–temperature superposition, while working at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
Robert F. Lemanske
Robert F. Lemanske is an American pediatric allergist-immunologist at the University of Wisconsin–Madison who founded the COAST asthma birth cohort and served as AAAAI president from 2015 to 2016.
Robert F. Margolskee
Robert F. Margolskee is an American molecular biologist known for discovering gustducin, a taste-cell G protein, in 1992, and for showing that gut cells sense nutrients like taste cells.
Robert F. Mast
Robert F. Mast was an American structural engineer who spent fifty years at BERGER/ABAM Engineers in Washington, led precast concrete design, and died in 2020.