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Robert Kerman
Robert Kerman (1947–2018), American actor also known as R. Bolla, star of Debbie Does Dallas and Professor Harold Monroe in Cannibal Holocaust; later small roles in No Way Out and Spider-Man.
Robert Kilroy-Silk
Robert Kilroy-Silk (born Robert Michael Silk, 1942) is an English ex-Labour MP, former BBC daytime talk show host of Kilroy (1986-2004), and ex-UKIP MEP who founded the short-lived Veritas party.
Robert Kilwardby
Robert Kilwardby (c. 1215–1279) was an English Dominican friar and philosopher who served as Archbishop of Canterbury from 1272 to 1278, then became Cardinal-Bishop of Porto and Santa Rufina.
Robert King
Robert G. King (born 1951) is an American macroeconomist, Professor of Economics at Boston University, known for real business cycle theory and DSGE methods now standard in central banking.
Robert King (writer)
Robert King (born 1959) is an American television writer, producer, and director who, with his wife Michelle King, co-created The Good Wife, The Good Fight, Evil, and Elsbeth.
Robert Kingston
Robert E. Kingston is an American biochemist, Professor of Genetics at Harvard Medical School and chief of molecular biology at Massachusetts General Hospital, elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2016.
Robert Kirkman
Robert Kirkman (born 1978, Richmond, Kentucky) is the American comic writer behind The Walking Dead and Invincible, Image Comics' COO, and co-founder of Skybound Entertainment with David Alpert in 2010.
Robert Kirshner
Robert Kirshner is an American observational astronomer who led the High-Z Supernova Search Team, whose 1998 supernova measurements showed cosmic expansion is accelerating, attributed to dark energy.
Robert Kiyosaki
Robert Kiyosaki, also known as Tōru Kiyosaki, is an author and financial-education entrepreneur whose 1997 book Rich Dad Poor Dad has sold more than 44 million copies.
Robert Klein
Robert Klein (born 1942) is an American stand-up comedian, actor, and singer from the Bronx; Second City alumnus, first live comedy concert on HBO (1975), Grammy-nominated for Child of the Fifties, Tony nominee for They're Playing Our Song.
Robert Kleta
Robert Kleta is a British-based nephrologist and biochemical geneticist, Emeritus Professor of Medicine at University College London, known for identifying genetic causes of rare kidney tubular disorders including EAST syndrome.
Robert Klose
Robert J. Klose is a Canadian professor of genetics at the University of Oxford who studies how epigenetic systems control gene expression, focusing on CpG islands.
Robert Knepper
Robert Knepper (born 1959, Fremont, Ohio) is an American actor famous as Theodore "T-Bag" Bagwell on Prison Break (2005–09), with villain roles in Heroes, iZombie, Arrow, The Flash, and films like Hitman and Transporter 3.
Robert Knox (surgeon)
Robert Knox (1791–1862), Scottish anatomist and ethnologist, leading Edinburgh anatomy teacher whose career was ruined when Burke and Hare sold 16 murder victims' bodies to his school; exonerated but ostracized, later a race-science proponent in London.
Robert Koch
Robert Koch (Heinrich Hermann Robert Koch) was a German physician and bacteriologist, a founder of bacteriology, who established the bacterial causes of tuberculosis, cholera, and anthrax and won the 1905 Nobel Prize.
Robert Korzeniowski
Robert Korzeniowski (Robert Marek Korzeniowski, born 1968, Lubaczów), Polish race walker; four Olympic golds (50 km 1996, 2000, 2004; 20 km 2000), three world and two European 50 km titles; later TVP Sport executive and PKOl presidential candidate.
Robert Kraft
Robert Kenneth Kraft, known as Bob Kraft, is an American businessman who bought the New England Patriots in 1994 and built them into six-time Super Bowl champions; he chairs the Kraft Group.
Robert Kraft (scientist)
Robert Kraft was an American stellar astronomer, professor at UC Santa Cruz, and director of Lick Observatory, known for showing that novae are close binary stars and for the Kraft break in stellar rotation.
Robert Kraichnan
Robert Kraichnan (1928–2008) was an American theoretical physicist, once an assistant to Albert Einstein, known for the direct interaction approximation and the inverse energy cascade in two-dimensional turbulence.
Robert Krail
Robert (Bob) Krail is an investment manager who co-founded AQR Capital Management in 1998 with Cliff Asness, David Kabiller, and John Liew, and co-authored "Do Hedge Funds Hedge?".
Robert Krakoff
Robert "RazerGuy" Krakoff was an American business executive who co-founded gaming-hardware company Razer and launched the Razer Boomslang, widely called the first gaming mouse, in 1999.
Róbert Královics
Robert Kralovics (born 1970) is a geneticist who studies myeloproliferative neoplasms; based in Vienna since 2006, he identified the JAK2 mutation in 2005 and CALR mutations in 2013.
Robert Kroetsch
Robert Kroetsch was a Canadian novelist, poet, and essayist from Heisler, Alberta, a central figure of Canadian postmodern writing whose novels and long poems are set on the western prairies.
Robert Krulwich
Robert Krulwich, American radio and TV journalist, NPR economics correspondent 1978-1985, ABC/CBS reporter, and Peabody-winning co-host of WNYC's Radiolab with Jad Abumrad until retiring in January 2020.
Robert Kubica
Robert Kubica (born 1984, Kraków), Polish racing driver; 2008 Canadian GP winner with BMW Sauber, 2011 rally crash survivor, 2019 Williams F1 returnee, and 2025 24 Hours of Le Mans winner with AF Corse Ferrari 499P.
Robert Kuok (郭鹤年)
Robert Kuok (郭鹤年, born 1923, Johor Bahru) is a Malaysian tycoon, founder of the Kuok Group, the "Sugar King of Asia," and creator of the Shangri-La hotel chain, with holdings in Wilmar, Kerry Properties, and former owner of the South China Morning Post.
Robert Kupstas
Robert Kupstas is an American-trained energy-policy specialist and entrepreneur who co-founded Pure Harvest Smart Farms, a high-tech greenhouse farming company in Abu Dhabi, in 2016.
Robert Kurvitz
Robert Kurvitz (born 1984) is an Estonian novelist, musician, and game developer, lead writer of Disco Elysium (2019) and author of the 2013 novel Sacred and Terrible Air.
Robert L. Baehner
Robert L. Baehner is an American pediatric hematologist who developed the nitroblue tetrazolium test for chronic granulomatous disease and led children's hospitals in Indianapolis and Los Angeles.
Robert L. Baldwin
Robert L. Baldwin, known as Buzz Baldwin, was an American biochemist at Stanford University who showed that proteins fold through short-lived intermediate structures rather than in a single step.