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Robert J. White

Robert J. White is a molecular biologist and Chair of Biochemistry at the University of York, known for establishing TBP as a general transcription factor for RNA polymerase III.

Sep 27, 2026

Robert J. White (judge)

Robert Jerome White, born 1985, is a United States district judge for the Eastern District of Michigan since 2024, previously a federal prosecutor handling organized crime and digital assets.

Robert J. Wilke (1914-1989), also credited as Bob Wilke, was an American character actor typecast as Western villains in High Noon, The Magnificent Seven, and 121 feature Westerns, finishing with Stripes (1981).

Robert J. Winchester

Robert J. Winchester is a physician and immunologist at Columbia University who proposed the shared epitope hypothesis of rheumatoid arthritis in 1987 and shared the 2013 Crafoord Prize.

Sep 20, 2026

Robert J. Wood

Robert J. Wood is an American roboticist at Harvard University who founded the Harvard Microrobotics Lab and leads the RoboBee project of insect-scale flapping-wing flying robots.

Robert J.O. Davies

Robert J.O. Davies (1961–2010) was a British respiratory physician and professor at Oxford's Churchill Hospital whose MIST trials defined the modern drug treatment of pleural infection.

Sep 27, 2026

Robert Jackson (New York politician)

Robert Jackson is an American politician, a Democrat in the New York State Senate's 31st district since 2019, after serving on the New York City Council.

Robert James Blattner

Robert James Blattner (1931–2015) was an American mathematician and UCLA professor who worked in representation theory and geometric quantization, best known for the Blattner formula.

Robert James Mash

Robert James Mash, known as Bob Mash, is a South African family physician and Distinguished Professor at Stellenbosch University who helped build family medicine across sub-Saharan Africa.

Robert James Thompson

Robert James Thompson, known as Rob Thompson, is an atomic physicist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory who developed the Cold Atom Lab, launched to the International Space Station in 2018.

Robert James-Collier

Robert James-Collier (Rob James-Collier, born 1976) is an English actor from Stockport known for Liam Connor in Coronation Street and Thomas Barrow in Downton Abbey and its three films, plus The Ritual, Ackley Bridge, and Cooper & Fry.

Robert Janker

Robert Janker (1894–1964) was a German physician and radiologist in Bonn, a pioneer of X-ray cinematography who built an experimental cineradiography system from 1926 to 1937 that Siemens made commercial.

Robert Jay Budnitz

Robert Jay Budnitz is an American physicist and nuclear safety engineer at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2017.

Robert Jay Mathews

Robert Jay Mathews (1953-1984) was an American white supremacist who founded The Order, also called the Silent Brotherhood, which robbed more than $4 million and killed radio host Alan Berg before Mathews died in an FBI siege on Whidbey Island, Washington.

Robert Jeffress

Robert Jeffress (born 1955) is an American Southern Baptist pastor, senior pastor of the 16,000-member First Baptist Church in Dallas since 2007, host of Pathway to Victory, author of more than 30 books, and a Fox News contributor known for supporting Donald Trump since 2016.

Robert Jenkinson, 2nd Earl of Liverpool

Robert Jenkinson, 2nd Earl of Liverpool (1770-1828), Tory prime minister of the United Kingdom 1812-1827, led Britain through the Napoleonic Wars, Peterloo, the Corn Laws, and postwar fiscal reconstruction; distinct from the city of Liverpool.

Robert Jenrick

Robert Jenrick (born 1982), MP for Newark since 2014, former housing secretary and immigration minister, 2024 Conservative leadership runner-up, shadow justice secretary, and January 2026 defector to Reform UK.

Robert Jervis

Robert Jervis (1940–2021) was an American political scientist and political psychologist at Columbia University, best known for Perception and Misperception in International Politics and his 1978 security dilemma analysis.

Oct 21, 2026

Robert Johansson

Robert Høneren Johansson (born 1990, Lillehammer), Norwegian ski jumper for Søre Ål IL; 2018 Olympic team gold and two bronzes, normal-hill Olympic record 113.5 m; retired May 2025 after the Norwegian suit-tampering scandal.

Robert John Bardo

Robert John Bardo (born 1970), Tucson man serving life without parole for the 1989 murder of actress Rebecca Schaeffer; his DMV-enabled stalking spurred the 1994 Driver's Privacy Protection Act and anti-stalking laws.

Robert John Braidwood

Robert John Braidwood (1907–2003) was an American prehistoric archaeologist at the University of Chicago's Oriental Institute who excavated Jarmo, Iraq, and Çayönü, Turkey, tracing the origins of farming.

Robert John Burke

Robert John Burke, also credited Robert Burke or Robert J. Burke, is an American actor and NY State firefighter captain, known for RoboCop 3, Thinner, Ed Tucker on Law & Order: SVU, and Bart Bass on Gossip Girl.

Oct 21, 2026

Robert Johnsen

Robert Jacob Johnsen (1896–1975), Danish gymnast with HG København; won 1920 Antwerp Olympic gold in men's team free system (Denmark 51.35 vs Norway 48.55) and was Denmark's opening-ceremony flagbearer.

Robert Johnson

Robert Johnson (1911–1938), Delta blues singer-guitarist from Hazlehurst, Mississippi, recorded 29 songs in 1936–37 sessions in San Antonio and Dallas; his crossroads legend and posthumous reissues shaped blues and rock.

Sep 27, 2026

Robert Johnson III

Robert Johnson III is an American Democratic politician who serves as Minority Leader of the Mississippi House of Representatives, representing Natchez and leading the Democratic caucus.

Robert Johnston (developmental neurobiologist)

Robert J. Johnston is a developmental neurobiologist and Associate Professor of Biology at Johns Hopkins University, known for identifying the first microRNA involved in nervous system development.

Robert Jordan

Robert Jordan, pen name of James Oliver Rigney Jr. (1948-2007), American fantasy author, Citadel physics graduate and Vietnam veteran, creator of the 14-volume Wheel of Time series (1990), completed by Brandon Sanderson, and author of seven Conan novels.