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Robert Graves
Robert Graves (1895-1985), English poet, novelist, and translator; author of Goodbye to All That, I, Claudius, The White Goddess, and The Greek Myths; Oxford Professor of Poetry 1961-1966.
Robert Graysmith
Robert Graysmith, born Robert Gray Smith in 1942, is an American true crime author and retired San Francisco Chronicle cartoonist best known for his 1986 book Zodiac.
Robert Green
Robert Paul Green is an English former goalkeeper with 12 England caps, known for the spilled shot that cost England a 1-1 draw against the United States at the 2010 World Cup.
Robert Greene (American author)
Robert Greene, American author of The 48 Laws of Power, The Art of Seduction, Mastery, and The 50th Law with 50 Cent; number one NYT bestselling writer on power strategies, dubbed hip-hop's Machiavelli.
Robert Griess
Robert L. Griess Jr. (born 1945) is an American mathematician at the University of Michigan who constructed the Monster group, the largest sporadic finite simple group, in 1980.
Robert Griffin III
Robert Griffin III (RG3), born 1990 in Okinawa, is a former NFL quarterback, 2011 Heisman winner at Baylor, 2012 second overall pick, Offensive Rookie of the Year, whose career declined after a 2013 playoff ACL tear; now a Fox Sports analyst.
Robert Griffiths (physicist)
Robert Budington Griffiths is an American physicist at Carnegie Mellon University, originator of the consistent histories interpretation of quantum mechanics and a National Academy of Sciences member.
Robert Grondelaers
Robert Grondelaers (28 February 1933 – 22 August 1989), Belgian road cyclist from Opglabbeek; 1952 Helsinki Olympic silver in the individual road race and gold in the team road race with Noyelle and Victor; professional 1954–1962.
Robert Grosseteste
Robert Grosseteste was an English scholar, theologian, and Bishop of Lincoln from 1235 until his death in 1253, remembered for his original cosmology based on light.
Robert Groves
Robert M. Groves is an American survey statistician who directed the U.S. Census Bureau from 2009 to 2012, overseeing the 2010 Census, and later served as Georgetown University's provost.
Robert Guéï
Robert Guéï was an Ivorian army general who ruled Côte d'Ivoire as military head of state from the 1999 coup until losing the 2000 presidential election.
Robert Guerrero
Robert "The Ghost" Guerrero, American southpaw boxer born 1983 in Gilroy, California; multi-division champion (IBF featherweight 2006) who lost to Mayweather in 2013, retired 2017, and returned to beat Berto in 2023.
Robert Guillaume
Robert Guillaume (born Robert Peter Williams, 1927–2017) was an American actor and singer who played butler Benson DuBois on Soap and the spin-off Benson, won two Emmys, voiced Rafiki in The Lion King, and earned a 1977 Tony nomination for Guys and Dolls.
Robert Guiscard
Robert Guiscard (c. 1015–1085), Norman duke of Apulia, Calabria, and Sicily of the Hauteville house, completed the conquest of Byzantine southern Italy (Bari 1071, Palermo 1072, Salerno 1076) and twice invaded the Byzantine Balkans before dying at Cephalonia in 1085.
Robert Gundlach
Robert Gundlach (1926–2010) was an American physicist who joined Xerox's predecessor Haloid in 1952, held 163 patents over 42 years, and helped create the automatic plain-paper office copier.
Robert H Saunders hydroelectric plant
The Robert H. Saunders hydroelectric plant is a 1,045-megawatt hydroelectric station at Cornwall, Ontario, owned by Ontario Power Generation and generating baseload power since 1958.
Robert H. Abeles
Robert H. Abeles, born Robert Heinz Abeles, was an Austrian-born American biochemist at Brandeis University who showed that vitamin B12 reactions proceed by radical chemistry.
Robert H. Allen
Robert H. Allen was an American hematologist at the University of Colorado whose research on vitamin B12 and folate metabolism produced the standard diagnostic test for B12 deficiency.
Robert H. Austin
Robert H. Austin is an American biophysicist and professor of physics at Princeton University since 1979, known for deterministic lateral displacement and microfluidic studies of antibiotic resistance.
Robert H. Baloh
Robert H. Baloh is an American neurologist known for research on genetic and immune mechanisms of ALS and frontotemporal dementia, now global head of neuroscience at Novartis.
Robert H. Bartlett
Robert H. Bartlett (1939–2025) was an American surgeon at the University of Michigan who developed ECMO into a practical treatment, earning the title "father of ECMO."
Robert H. Belmaker
Robert H. Belmaker (born 1947) is an Israeli psychiatrist and mood-disorders researcher who held Israel's first named Chair of Psychiatry at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev.
Robert H. Brook
Robert H. Brook is an American physician and health services researcher at UCLA and RAND who pioneered methods for measuring the quality and appropriateness of medical care.
Robert H. Brown Jr.
Robert H. Brown Jr. is an American neurologist and neuroscientist at the University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School, known for discovering the first ALS gene, SOD1, in 1993.
Robert H. Burris
Robert H. Burris (1914–2010) was an American biochemist at the University of Wisconsin–Madison who became a preeminent authority on biological nitrogen fixation and developed its standard research methods.
Robert H. Cannon, Jr.
Robert H. Cannon, Jr. (1923–2017) was an American control engineer, a Stanford professor of aeronautics who founded experimental robotics research on flexible and cooperating robot arms.
Robert H. Cleland
Robert H. Cleland, born Robert Hardy Cleland in 1947, is a senior United States district judge for the Eastern District of Michigan, nominated by President George H.W. Bush in 1990.
Robert H. Crabtree
Robert H. Crabtree is a British-born organometallic chemist, C.P. Whitehead Professor Emeritus at Yale University, known for Crabtree's catalyst, dihydrogen bonding, and iridium water-splitting catalysts.
Robert H. Dennard
Robert H. Dennard (1932–2024) was an American electrical engineer at IBM who invented the one-transistor DRAM cell and the miniaturization principles known as Dennard scaling.
Robert H. Dicke
Robert H. Dicke (1916–1997) was an American experimental physicist at Princeton University who invented the Dicke radiometer and led precision tests of general relativity.