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Robert Irvine
Robert Irvine (born 1965), English-American chef and TV host of Food Network's Restaurant: Impossible and Dinner: Impossible; survived a 2008 resume-fabrication scandal; runs FitCrunch and the Robert Irvine Foundation.
Robert Irwin (artist)
Robert Irwin was an American painter and installation artist who investigated perception and space. He was a leading figure in the West Coast Light and Space movement.
Robert Irwin (television personality)
Robert Irwin (Robert Clarence Irwin), Australian TV personality, zookeeper, and wildlife photographer born 2003; son of Steve Irwin, brother of Bindi; stars in Crikey! It's the Irwins, won DWTS season 34, works at Australia Zoo.
Robert Isaac Jaffee
Robert Isaac 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 Island
Robert Island (South Shetland Islands) is an 18 km-wide, ice-capped Antarctic island between Nelson and Greenwich Islands, sighted in 1819 and named for the brig Robert; also Ostrov Polotsk.
Robert Ito
Robert Ito (ロバート・イトー), born 1931 in Vancouver, is a Nisei Canadian actor and former National Ballet of Canada dancer, best known as Sam Fujiyama on Quincy, M.E. (1976–1983) and for film and voice roles including Midway and the Mandarin.
Robert J. Alpern
Robert J. Alpern is an American nephrologist-scientist who served as dean of Yale School of Medicine from 2004 to 2020 and studies kidney acid transport.
Robert J. Aumann
Robert J. Aumann, also known as Robert Aumann, is an Israeli-American mathematician and game theorist who won the 2005 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences.
Robert J. Barro
Robert J. Barro, born 1944, is an American macroeconomist, the Paul M. Warburg Professor of Economics at Harvard and a founder of the New Classical school.
Robert J. Bentley
Robert J. Bentley (born 1943) is an Alabama dermatologist and Republican who served as the state's 53rd governor, 2011-2017, winning 57.6% in 2010 and 63.56% in 2014 before resigning April 10, 2017 after pleading guilty to two campaign-finance misdemeanors.
Robert J. Birgeneau
Robert J. Birgeneau is a Canadian-born American condensed matter physicist known for neutron and X-ray scattering studies of high-temperature superconductors, who led the University of Toronto and UC Berkeley.
Robert J. Blendon
Robert J. Blendon, also published as Robert Blendon, was an American health policy researcher at Harvard known for studies of public opinion on health care; he died in 2026.
Robert J. Bryan
Robert J. Bryan, also known as Robert Jensen Bryan, is an American jurist serving as a senior United States district judge in Washington since 1986.
Robert J. Carney
Robert J. Carney (d. 2009), Canadian Catholic education historian and University of Alberta professor emeritus; NWT chief superintendent of schools 1969-1971; father of Mark Carney; not the Brown donor or cardiologist of the same name.
Robert J. Charlson
Robert J. Charlson was an American atmospheric scientist at the University of Washington, a pioneer in the climate role of aerosols and co-author of the CLAW hypothesis.
Robert J. Coffey
Robert J. Coffey is an American physician-scientist at Vanderbilt University Medical Center, the Ingram Professor of Cancer Research, known for work on EGFR signaling and colorectal cancer.
Robert J. Colville
Robert John Colville, born 1965, is an American jurist serving as a United States district judge for the Western District of Pennsylvania since 2019, appointed by President Trump.
Robert J. Cousins
Robert J. Cousins is an American nutritional biochemist at the University of Florida whose research established how zinc is absorbed, transported, and used as a signaling molecule in cells.
Robert J. Creagan
Robert J. Creagan was a Westinghouse nuclear engineer from 1949 into the 1990s, known for analyzing pressurized water reactor limits and holding nuclear fuel patents.
Robert J. Desnick
Robert J. Desnick is an American physician-scientist in human genetics, Professor and Chair Emeritus at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, known for developing therapies for Fabry disease.
Robert J. Fascetti
Robert J. Fascetti is an American automotive engineer who spent more than 29 years at Ford Motor Company, retiring as Vice President of Powertrain Engineering after leading Ford's engine programs.
Robert J. Flaherty
Robert J. Flaherty (1884–1951), American explorer-turned-filmmaker often called the first documentary filmmaker; creator of Nanook of the North, Moana, Man of Aran, and Louisiana Story.
Robert J. Frankel
Robert J. (Bobby) Frankel (1941-2009) was a Hall of Fame American Thoroughbred trainer from Brooklyn; five-time Eclipse Award winner, 3,654 wins, $227.9 million earnings, 2003 record 25 Grade 1 wins; namesake of the unbeaten racehorse Frankel.
Robert J. Genco
Robert J. Genco (1938–2019) was an American dental researcher who spent five decades at the University at Buffalo and helped establish links between gum disease and systemic conditions like diabetes.
Robert J. Gillies
Robert J. Gillies was an American cancer imaging scientist known as the "Father of Radiomics," who led cancer imaging research at Moffitt Cancer Center in Tampa, Florida.
Robert J. Glynn
Robert J. Glynn is a biostatistician and epidemiologist at Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, known as the study statistician of the JUPITER trial.
Robert J. Goldberg
Robert J. Goldberg is an American cardiovascular epidemiologist and Professor Emeritus at UMass Chan Medical School, known for the Worcester Heart Attack Study and NEJM studies of cardiogenic shock.
Robert J. Gordon
Robert J. Gordon is an American macroeconomist at Northwestern University known for arguing in The Rise and Fall of American Growth that 1870-1970 cannot be repeated.
Robert J. Haggerty
Robert J. Haggerty (1925–2017) was an American pediatrician who chaired pediatrics at the University of Rochester and coined the "new morbidity" of childhood, covering mental health and chronic conditions.
Robert J. Hamers
Robert J. Hamers is an American surface and materials chemist who spent nearly 35 years at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, known for diamond biosensors, sustainable nanotechnology, and co-founding Silatronix.