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Robert Fischell
Robert Fischell is an American physicist and medical-device inventor who spent 38 years at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory, inventing the first rechargeable pacemaker and flexible coronary stents.
Robert Fisk
Robert Fisk (1946-2020), British Middle East correspondent for The Times and The Independent, based in Beirut from 1976; author of Pity the Nation and The Great War for Civilisation; interviewed bin Laden three times.
Robert FitzRoy
Robert FitzRoy was a British naval officer who commanded HMS Beagle on the voyage carrying Charles Darwin and founded the Met Office, issuing the first public weather forecasts.
Robert Fletterick
Robert J. Fletterick is an American structural biologist at UCSF known for X-ray crystal structures of nuclear receptors and kinesin motors, elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2010.
Robert Ford (outlaw)
Robert Ford, also known as Robert Newton Ford, was an American outlaw who shot Jesse James in the back of the head in Missouri on April 3, 1882.
Robert Forster
Robert Forster (1941-2019) was an American actor, not the Australian musician, born Robert Wallace Foster Jr. in Rochester, New York. Oscar-nominated as Max Cherry in Tarantino's Jackie Brown after decades of B-movies; also Medium Cool, Mulholland Drive, Twin Peaks, and Breaking Bad's Ed.
Robert Foster Kennedy
Robert Foster Kennedy (1884–1952) was a Belfast-born neurologist who described Foster Kennedy syndrome in 1911, served in World War I, and led neurology at Cornell and Bellevue Hospital in New York.
Robert Fowler (Canadian physician)
Robert A. Fowler is a Canadian critical care physician and epidemiologist who led studies of Ebola, SARS, and COVID-19 and treated patients in the 2014 Ebola epidemic.
Robert Fox (producer)
Robert Michael John Fox (1952–2026), English theatre, film, and TV producer; founder of Robert Fox Ltd (1980), producer of over 50 West End and 17 Broadway shows, executive producer of Netflix's The Crown, and producer of The Hours, Iris, and Lazarus.
Robert Fraley
Robert T. Fraley (born 1953) is an American plant biologist who led the Monsanto team producing the first genetically engineered plants and later became its chief technology officer.
Robert Francis Prevost
Robert Francis Prevost, known as Pope Leo XIV, is a Chicago-born Augustinian missionary and former bishop of Chiclayo, Peru, elected the first American pope in 2025.
Robert Frank
Robert Frank (1924–2019), Swiss-born American photographer and filmmaker, author of The Americans (Les Américains), the 83-image 1958/1959 Guggenheim-funded photobook that reshaped documentary photography.
Robert Franklin Mehl
Robert Franklin Mehl (1898–1976) was an American physical metallurgist at the Carnegie Institute of Technology in Pittsburgh, known for the Johnson-Mehl transformation equation and the Kirkendall effect confirmation.
Robert Franklin Muirhead
Robert Franklin Muirhead (1860–1941) was a Scottish mathematician born in Glasgow, best remembered for Muirhead's inequality, a comparison of symmetric sums that generalizes the arithmetic and geometric mean inequalities.
Robert Franklin Pitts
Robert Franklin Pitts (1908–1977) was an American renal physiologist whose landmark 1945 work showed how the kidney acidifies urine and excretes ammonia; he joined the National Academy of Sciences in 1956.
Robert Frederick Loeb
Robert Frederick Loeb (1895–1973) was an American physician and physiologist at Columbia University whose balance studies showed the adrenal glands regulate sodium metabolism through the kidney, later identified as aldosterone.
Robert Freedman (psychiatrist)
Robert Freedman is an American psychiatrist and schizophrenia researcher at the University of Colorado, elected to the National Academy of Medicine and known for the P50 sensory gating endophenotype.
Robert Frey
Robert (Bob) Frey, born 1944, American quarter-miler for UCLA; ran lead-off 46.3 on the US 4x400m relay that set the first sub-3:00 world record, 2:59.6, Los Angeles 1966; non-Olympian.
Robert Fripp
Robert Fripp (born 1946, Wimborne Minster, Dorset) is the English guitarist who co-founded and led King Crimson from 1969 to 2021, created Frippertronics and Soundscapes looping, founded Guitar Craft, and co-founded the label Discipline Global Mobile.
Robert Froemke
Robert C. Froemke is an American systems neuroscientist and professor at NYU Grossman School of Medicine whose lab studies cortical plasticity, oxytocin, maternal behavior, and cochlear implants.
Robert Frost
Robert Frost (1874–1963), American poet of New England rural life; author of A Boy's Will, North of Boston, and The Road Not Taken; four Pulitzer Prizes and Kennedy's inaugural poem.
Robert Frost Farm (Derry, New Hampshire)
Robert Frost Farm Historic Site, Derry, New Hampshire: state-owned farmhouse where Robert Frost lived 1900–1911, wrote A Boy's Will and North of Boston poems; National Register listed 1968, open seasonally with poetry trail.
Robert Frucht
Robert Frucht, known in Chile as Roberto Frucht, was a Czech-born mathematician who proved in 1939 that every finite group is the automorphism group of a graph.
Robert Fry (murderer)
Robert Ray Fry is an American serial killer from San Juan County, New Mexico, who murdered four people between 1996 and 2000 and was sentenced to death.
Robert Full
Robert J. Full is an American biologist and Howard Hughes Medical Institute Professor at UC Berkeley, known for gecko van der Waals adhesion and self-stabilizing running research.
Robert Fuller (actor)
Robert Fuller (born Leonard Leroy Lee, July 29, 1933) is an American retired actor and Texas rancher, known as Jess Harper on Laramie, Cooper Smith on Wagon Train, and Dr. Kelly Brackett on Emergency!, with a Hollywood Walk of Fame star.
Robert Fulton
Robert Fulton (1765–1815) was an American engineer and inventor who designed the first commercially successful steamboat, which began running on the Hudson River in 1807.
Robert G. Bea
Robert G. Bea is an American civil and offshore engineer and UC Berkeley professor emeritus known for investigating disasters including Piper Alpha, Hurricane Katrina, and Deepwater Horizon.
Robert G. Bergman
Robert G. Bergman (born 1942) is an American chemist at UC Berkeley known for the Bergman cyclization and the first alkane C–H activation by soluble metal complexes.
Robert G. Chambers
Robert G. Chambers, known as Bob Chambers, was a British experimental physicist who verified the Aharonov–Bohm effect in 1960 and won the Royal Society's Hughes Medal.