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Robert F. Ozols
Robert F. Ozols is an American medical oncologist specializing in ovarian cancer, known for research on tumor drug resistance and for chemotherapy regimens that became standard first-line treatment.
Robert F. Pass
Robert F. Pass is an American pediatric virologist at the University of Alabama at Birmingham known for showing how cytomegalovirus spreads from children to pregnant women.
Robert F. Rossiter, Jr.
Robert F. Rossiter, Jr. (born 1956) is an American jurist serving as a United States district judge for the District of Nebraska since 2016, appointed by President Barack Obama.
Robert F. Rushmer
Robert F. Rushmer (Robert Frazer Rushmer, 1914–2001) was an American physician and cardiac physiologist at the University of Washington who measured the beating heart in unanesthetized animals and pioneered diagnostic Doppler ultrasound.
Robert F. Sawyer
Robert F. Sawyer, born 1935, is an American mechanical engineer and UC Berkeley professor emeritus who chaired the California Air Resources Board from 2005 to 2007.
Robert F. Schwabe
Robert F. Schwabe, also published as Robert Schwabe, is a German-trained hepatologist and Professor of Medicine at Columbia University, directing its Digestive and Liver Disease Research Center.
Robert F. Shepherd
Robert F. Shepherd, also known as Robert Shepherd, is a mechanical engineering professor at Cornell University who works in soft robotics and leads the Organic Robotics Laboratory.
Robert F. Siliciano
Robert F. Siliciano is an American immunologist and virologist at Johns Hopkins who identified the latent HIV reservoir, the major barrier to curing HIV infection.
Robert F. Smith (investor)
Robert F. Smith, also known as Robert Frederick Smith, is an American investor who founded Vista Equity Partners in 2000, focused exclusively on enterprise software.
Robert F. Strickler
Robert F. Strickler was an American atmospheric scientist at the Weather Bureau and NOAA's GFDL, co-author of the 1964 Manabe paper introducing convective adjustment in climate modeling.
Robert F. Wagner
Robert Ferdinand Wagner (1877–1953), German-born U.S. senator from New York, author of the 1935 Wagner Act (National Labor Relations Act) and Senate sponsor of the Social Security Act; distinct from his son, New York mayor Robert F. Wagner, Jr.
Robert F. Wagner Jr.
Robert F. Wagner Jr. (1910–1991), 102nd Mayor of New York City 1954–1965, three terms; broke Tammany Hall in 1961, empowered municipal unions, signed the 1965 Landmarks Law, later Ambassador to Spain.
Robert Fagles
Robert Fagles (1933–2008), American translator and Princeton comparative literature professor, translated Homer's Iliad and Odyssey, Virgil's Aeneid, Aeschylus's Oresteia, and Sophocles's Theban Plays, selling over two million copies.
Robert Falck
Robert Falck is a Swedish entrepreneur who founded the autonomous electric freight company Einride in Stockholm in 2016 and led it as chief executive until 2025.
Robert Falcon Scott
Robert Falcon Scott (1868-1912), British naval officer, led the Discovery (1901-04) and Terra Nova (1910-13) Antarctic expeditions; his polar party reached the South Pole 33 days after Amundsen and died on the return.
Robert Falk
Robert Rafailovich Falk (Роберт Рафаилович Фальк, 1886–1958) was a Russian and Soviet painter and theater designer who co-founded the avant-garde Jack of Diamonds society and worked in Paris from 1928 to 1938.
Robert Fano
Robert Mario Fano (1917–2016) was an Italian-born American electrical engineer at MIT known for Fano's inequality in information theory and for founding Project MAC, which grew into CSAIL.
Robert Farnan
Robert Farnan (Robert E. Farnan, 1877–1939), American rower of the Seawanhaka Boat Club, Brooklyn; won 1904 St. Louis Olympic gold in men's coxless pairs with Joseph Ryan and a 1905 US fours title.
Robert Fein
Robert Fein (1907-1975), Austrian Jewish weightlifter, shared 1936 Berlin Olympic lightweight gold with Anwar Mousbah at a 342.5 kg world-record total; European champion 1929 and 1934, barred from competition after the 1938 Anschluss.
Robert Felisiak
Robert Felisiak, born 1962 in Wrocław, is a Polish-born épée fencer who defected to West Germany in 1988, joined Fecht-Club Tauberbischofsheim under Emil Beck, and won 1992 Barcelona Olympic team gold for Germany.
Robert Fellowes Chisholm
Robert Fellowes Chisholm (1840–1915) was a British architect who pioneered the Indo-Saracenic style in India, designing Madras's Senate House and completing Baroda's Laxmi Vilas Palace.
Robert Fellowes, Baron Fellowes
Robert Fellowes, Baron Fellowes (1941–2024), British courtier, Private Secretary to Queen Elizabeth II 1990–99; husband of Diana's sister Jane; drafted the Queen's 1997 broadcast; later crossbench peer and Prison Reform Trust chair.
Robert Fermier
Robert Fermier, also credited as Rob "Xemu" Fermier, is an American video-game programmer who co-founded Irrational Games in Boston in 1997 and was lead programmer on System Shock 2.
Robert Fettiplace
Robert Fettiplace, born in 1946, is a British-born sensory neuroscientist at the University of Wisconsin–Madison who studies inner-ear hair cells and shared the 2018 Kavli Prize in Neuroscience.
Robert Feulgen
Robert Joachim Wilhelm Feulgen (1884–1955) was a German physiological chemist at the University of Giessen who discovered the Feulgen stain, the first DNA-specific staining method, published in 1924.
Robert Fico
Robert Fico (born 1964, Topoľčany), Slovak prime minister since October 2023 and founder-leader of SMER-SD; previously PM 2006–2010 and 2012–2018, longest-serving Slovak head of government, pro-Russia foreign policy, survived a 2024 assassination attempt.
Robert Fienberg
Robert Fienberg (1906–1998) was an American pathologist, Chief of Pathology at Beverly Hospital in Massachusetts, best known for his studies of Wegener's granulomatosis, which he called pathergic granulomatosis.
Robert Filmer
Sir Robert Filmer (1588–1653), author of Patriarcha (written 1620s, published 1680), defended divine-right absolutism by identifying the state with the family; Locke, Sidney, and Tyrrell attacked his patriarchal theory.
Robert Finger
Robert Finger is a Swiss agricultural economist, full professor of agricultural economics and policy at ETH Zurich since 2016, known for research on pesticides, risk, and digital farming.
ROBERT FINN
Robert D. Finn is a computational biologist at EMBL's European Bioinformatics Institute who led the Pfam protein families database and now leads the Microbiome Informatics team, running MGnify.