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Robert Hoffman (actor)
Robert Hoffman (Robert James Hoffman III, born 1980, Gainesville, Florida) is an American actor, dancer, and choreographer known for Step Up 2: The Streets, She's the Man, You Got Served, and his Urban Ninja viral videos.
Robert Hofstadter
Robert Hofstadter (1915–1990) was an American physicist at Stanford University who won half of the 1961 Nobel Prize in Physics for showing that protons and neutrons have measurable structure.
Robert Hołyst
Robert Hołyst (born 1963) is a Polish physical chemist who heads the Soft Condensed Matter group at the Institute of Physical Chemistry of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw.
Robert Homer Simpson
Robert Homer Simpson (1912–2014) was an American meteorologist who founded the National Hurricane Research Project, directed the National Hurricane Center, and co-created the Saffir–Simpson hurricane scale.
Robert Hooke
Robert Hooke (1635–1703) was an English scientist, instrument maker, and architect who published Micrographia (1665), stated Hooke's law of elasticity, and helped rebuild London after the Great Fire of 1666.
Robert Horry
Robert Horry, known as "Big Shot," is a retired American professional player who won seven championships with the Rockets, Lakers, and Spurs across 244 playoff games.
Robert Horton (actor)
Robert Horton (Meade Howard Horton Jr., 1924–2016) was an American actor and singer, the Flint McCullough of TV's Wagon Train (1957–1962), Broadway's original Starbuck in 110 in the Shade, and star of A Man Called Shenandoah; distinct from the BP executive Sir Robert Horton.
Robert Howard (psychiatrist)
Robert Howard, also published as Robert J. Howard, is an old-age psychiatrist, Professor of Old Age Psychiatry at University College London since 2015, previously at King's College London.
Robert Howden
Robert S. Howden is an American Republican politician serving as the 116th Secretary of State of Texas since 2026, appointed by Governor Greg Abbott after serving four Texas governors.
Robert Huber
Robert Huber, born 1937 in Munich, is a German biochemist who won the 1988 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for determining the structure of a photosynthetic reaction center.
Robert Hughes (critic)
Robert Studley Forrest Hughes (1938–2012) was an Australian art critic, Time magazine's chief art critic for over three decades and creator of The Shock of the New.
Robert Hungley
Jean Yvan Robert Hungley (born 1957, Rose Hill) is a Mauritian MMM politician, former shipping and import/export executive, Vice-President of Mauritius since December 2024 and Acting President in October 2026.
Robert Hunter (lyricist)
Robert Hunter (1941-2019), American lyricist and poet, wrote the words for nearly all of Jerry Garcia's Grateful Dead songs from 1967 to 1995 without ever performing onstage, and later co-wrote Bob Dylan's Together Through Life.
Robert Hurley
Robert (Bobby) Hurley, Australian swimmer born 1988 in Melbourne, backstroke and freestyle specialist; set 50m backstroke short course world record 23.24 in 2008 and won two world short course titles.
Robert Huth
Robert Huth, born 1984 in East Berlin, German centre-back; won the Premier League with Chelsea 2005, 2006 and Leicester 2016; 19 Germany caps; retired 2019.
Robert I of France
Robert I of France (c. 866-923), Robertian king of West Francia elected at Reims 29 June 922 against Charles the Simple; killed 15 June 923 at Soissons; father of Hugh the Great, grandfather of Hugh Capet.
Robert I, Duke of Normandy
Robert I, Duke of Normandy (d. 1035), called Robert the Devil or Robert the Magnificent, son of Richard II, father of William the Conqueror; died returning from pilgrimage to Jerusalem after designating his infant bastard William as heir.
Robert I. Haddad
Robert I. Haddad, also published as Robert Haddad, is a medical oncologist specializing in head and neck cancer who leads Dana-Farber's head and neck oncology division.
Robert I. Handin
Robert I. Handin, also known as Robert Handin, is an American hematologist at Harvard Medical School known for work on platelet biology and transfusion medicine.
Robert I. Jaffee
Robert I. Jaffee (1917–1991) was an American metallurgist who established the physical metallurgy of titanium alloys for aerospace, spending 32 years at Battelle Memorial Institute.
Robert I. Jewett
Robert I. Jewett, also known as Robert Israel Jewett, was an American mathematician who proved the Jewett–Krieger theorem and shared SIAM's first Pólya Prize in 1972.
Robert I. Lechler
Robert I. Lechler, also published as Robert Lechler, is a British transplant immunologist known for co-discovering indirect allorecognition and pioneering limiting dilution analysis of alloreactivity.
Robert I. Lehrer
Robert I. Lehrer is an immunologist at the UCLA School of Medicine who showed how neutrophils kill microbes and named the defensin antibiotic peptides in 1985.
Robert I. Levy
Robert I. Levy (1937–2000) was an American preventive cardiologist and lipid researcher who directed the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute and co-created the standard classification of inherited cholesterol disorders.
Robert I. Richards
Robert I. Richards (Robert Ian Richards) is an Australian geneticist at the University of Adelaide known for isolating the fragile X DNA mutation and coining the term dynamic mutation.
Robert II of France
Robert II the Pious (Robert le Pieux, c. 972–1031), Capetian king of the Franks 996–1031, co-king from 987 under Hugh Capet; excommunicated over Bertha of Burgundy, conquered Burgundy, secured Henry I's succession.
Robert II of Scotland
Robert II (1316–1390), first Stewart king of Scotland (r. 1371–1390), long heir presumptive and regent for David II, crowned at Scone 1371; his family's land distribution reshaped the nobility.
Robert III of Scotland
Robert III of Scotland (John Stewart, Earl of Carrick, c. 1340–1406), second Stewart king of Scots, reigned 1390–1406. Disabled by a horse kick in 1388, he never personally ruled; Albany and his son Rothesay held power before James I's capture by England.
Robert Iler
Robert Iler (born 1985, New York City) is an American actor who played A.J. Soprano on The Sopranos (1999-2007), later moved to Las Vegas as a poker player, and co-hosts the podcast Not Today, Pal with Jamie-Lynn Sigler.
Robert Irsay
Robert (Bob) Irsay (1923-1997), Chicago HVAC businessman, traded the Los Angeles Rams to Carroll Rosenbloom in July 1972 for the Baltimore Colts and moved the team to Indianapolis overnight on March 28, 1984.