All articles starting with R

Robert Garran

Sir Robert Randolph Garran (1867–1957) was an Australian lawyer, federation campaigner, first Commonwealth public servant, Secretary of the Attorney-General's Department 1901–1932, first solicitor-general (1916), and co-author of Quick and Garran's Annotated Constitution.

Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury

Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury (1830–1903), British Conservative Prime Minister 1885–86, 1886–92, 1895–1902 and long-serving Foreign Secretary; led Britain through the Scramble for Africa, Fashoda, and the Boer War.

Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 7th Marquess of Salisbury

Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 7th Marquess of Salisbury, full name Robert Michael James Gascoyne-Cecil, is a British Conservative politician born in 1946 who represented South Dorset in the House of Commons from 1979 to 1987.

Robert Gasser

Robert Gasser (born 1999) is an American left-handed MLB starting pitcher for the Milwaukee Brewers, drafted 71st overall by the Padres in 2021, traded for Josh Hader in 2022, debuted with six scoreless innings in 2024, and had Tommy John surgery that June.

Robert Gates

Robert Gates, also known as Bob Gates, is an American intelligence official who directed the CIA from 1991 to 1993 and served as Secretary of Defense.

Sep 19, 2026

Robert Gentz

Robert Gentz is a German entrepreneur who co-founded Zalando, the Berlin-based online fashion retailer, in 2008 and has led it as co-CEO, building it into Europe's leading online fashion platform serving over 60 million customers.

Oct 22, 2026

Robert Gernhardt

Robert Gernhardt was a German poet, satirist, and cartoonist who co-founded the magazine Titanic in 1979 and wrote more than 50 books of comic poetry and prose.

Robert Ghrist

Robert Ghrist is a mathematician at the University of Pennsylvania known for applying algebraic topology to sensor networks, Euler calculus, and his popular online calculus course.

Robert Gibbs

Robert Gibbs, 28th White House press secretary (2009-2011) under Barack Obama, his spokesman since 2004; later McDonald's global communications chief and Warner Bros. Discovery communications chief.

Robert Gibrat

Robert Pierre Louis Gibrat was a French engineer and economist, born in 1904, known for Gibrat's law of proportionate effect on firm and city growth.

Oct 20, 2026

Robert Giertsen

Robert Roach Giertsen (1894–1978) was a Norwegian sailor from Bergen who won gold in the 10-metre class aboard Mosk II at the 1920 Antwerp Olympics, the event's only entrant; he later managed his family company's bookkeeping department.

Robert Giffen

Sir Robert Giffen (1837–1910) was a British statistician and financial journalist who headed the Board of Trade's statistical department and is remembered for the Giffen good, a paradox he never stated.

Robert Gilliard

Robert J. Gilliard is an inorganic chemist who joined MIT in 2023 as the Novartis Associate Professor of Chemistry, working on luminescent boron compounds and small-molecule activation.

Robert Ginty

Robert Winthrop Ginty (1948–2009) was an American actor, director, producer and screenwriter, star of The Exterminator (1980), Lt. T.J. Wiley in Black Sheep Squadron, later a TV director and Irish theater advocate.

Robert Glaeser

Robert Glaeser is an American biophysicist and structural biologist at UC Berkeley, known for developing cryogenic electron microscopy, which freezes proteins to image their structures at high resolution.

Robert Glasper

Robert Glasper (born 1978, Houston, Texas) is an American jazz pianist, keyboardist, and producer known for fusing jazz with hip-hop, R&B, and neo-soul; his Black Radio albums won Grammys for Best R&B Album, and he holds five Grammy wins and an Emmy.

Robert Glenister

Robert Glenister is an English actor best known for playing con man Ash "Three Socks" Morgan in the BBC series Hustle and Nicholas Blake in Spooks.

Robert Glenn Hubbard

Robert Glenn Hubbard, born 1958, is an American economist, Russell L. Carson Professor at Columbia Business School and its Dean Emeritus, who chaired the Council of Economic Advisers from 2001 to 2003.

Robert Gomer

Robert Gomer (1924–2016) was an Austrian-born American chemical physicist at the University of Chicago, elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1981 and known for field emission, surface diffusion, and the Menzel-Gomer-Redhead mechanism.

Robert Gordon's College

Robert Gordon's College is an independent co-educational day school in Aberdeen for ages 3-18, descended from Robert Gordon's Hospital (opened 1750) and renamed in 1881; distinct from Robert Gordon University, which grew from its evening classes.

Robert Goren

Robert 'Bobby' Goren is the fictional NYPD Major Case Squad detective in Law & Order: Criminal Intent (2001-2011), played by Vincent D'Onofrio, created by René Balcer as a Sherlock Holmes-style, head-tilting genius partnered with Alexandra Eames.

Robert Gossett

Robert Gossett (born 1954) is an American actor known as Commander Russell Taylor on The Closer and Major Crimes and as Marshall Ashford on General Hospital.

Robert Gould Shaw

Robert Gould Shaw (1837-1863) was the Union colonel of the 54th Massachusetts, one of the first Black Civil War regiments; wounded at Antietam, he was killed leading the July 18, 1863 assault on Fort Wagner and buried with his men.

Oct 22, 2026

Robert Gould Shaw Memorial

The Robert Gould Shaw Memorial is a bronze relief by Augustus Saint-Gaudens on Boston Common, dedicated in 1897 to Colonel Shaw and the 54th Massachusetts, one of the first Black regiments.

Robert Goulet

Robert Goulet (1933–2007) was an American-born baritone singer and actor who became a Broadway star as Sir Lancelot in Camelot (1960), winning a Grammy and a Tony.

Robert Graham (physician)

Robert Graham is an American family physician who led the American Academy of Family Physicians from 1985 to 2000 and was elected to the Institute of Medicine in 1990.

Robert Graham (sculptor)

Robert Graham (1938-2008), Mexican-born American sculptor based in Venice, California, known for bronze civic monuments: Olympic Gateway, FDR Memorial, Duke Ellington and Joe Louis monuments, and realistic female nudes.

Robert Graham (theoretical physicist)

Robert Graham (Robert R. F. Graham, born 1942) is a German theoretical physicist known for the phase-transition theory of the laser and winner of the 2009 Max Planck Medal.

Robert Granieri

Robert Anthony Granieri is an American trader who co-founded the proprietary trading firm Jane Street Capital in 2000, its only remaining founder, and a billionaire by Bloomberg's 2025 estimate.