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Robert Le Rossignol
Robert Le Rossignol was a British engineer who, as Fritz Haber's private assistant at Karlsruhe, built the high-pressure apparatus that first synthesized ammonia from its elements in 1909.
Robert Leckie (author)
Robert Leckie (1920–2001) was an American military historian and decorated WWII Marine, author of Helmet for My Pillow (1957) and more than 30 military histories; portrayed by James Badge Dale in HBO's The Pacific.
Robert Lee Jun-fai (李振辉)
Robert Lee Jun-fai (李振輝, born 1948, Hong Kong) is a Hong Kong musician, founder of The Thunderbirds, brother of Bruce Lee, and producer of Bruce Lee, My Brother (2010).
Robert Lee Yates
Robert Lee Yates Jr. is an American serial killer who murdered victims in Washington from 1975 to 1998, pleading guilty to 13 murders in 2000.
Robert Legendre
Robert LeGendre (Bob LeGendre, 1898-1931), American combined-events athlete and Georgetown graduate; set a 7.765 m long jump world record in the pentathlon at the 1924 Paris Olympics, winning bronze; fourth in the 1920 pentathlon.
Robert Leroy Anderson
Robert Leroy Anderson, the Duct Tape Killer (born 1970), was a South Dakota serial killer who kidnapped and murdered Larisa Dumansky (1994) and Piper Streyle (1996), was sentenced to death in 1999, and died by suicide in prison on March 30, 2003.
Robert Lester Folsom
Robert Lester Folsom, Georgia-born singer-songwriter behind the 1976 private-press album Music and Dreams, reissued by Anthology Recordings in 2010; later archival volumes, new material, and a 2026 50th-anniversary edition with Beach House and Hannah Cohen covers.
Robert Levenson
Robert Levenson is a molecular biologist and Distinguished Professor at Penn State College of Medicine in Hershey, Pennsylvania, known for studies of cell differentiation and receptor signaling.
Robert Levis
Robert W. Levis is a molecular biologist at the Carnegie Institution for Science who showed that unstable Drosophila mutations come from FB elements and that retrotransposons rebuild chromosome ends.
Robert Lewandowski
Robert Lewandowski, Polish striker born 1988 in Warsaw; starred for Borussia Dortmund, Bayern Munich (41-goal Bundesliga season, 2019/20 treble), and FC Barcelona (120 goals, first Pole at the club); Poland captain.
Robert Lewis Dabney
Robert Lewis Dabney (1820–1898) was an American Presbyterian theologian and Stonewall Jackson's chief of staff who taught at Union Theological Seminary in Virginia and defended slavery until his death.
Robert Ley
Robert Ley (1890–1945), Nazi politician and chemist, headed the German Labor Front (DAF), the Third Reich's largest mass organization with over 22 million members, after smashing the free trade unions in 1933, founded Kraft durch Freude, and hanged himself at Nuremberg before his trial began.
Robert Liddington
Robert Liddington is a structural biologist known for crystal structures of integrins, vinculin, and the anthrax toxin, and a professor at Sanford Burnham Prebys in San Diego.
Robert Lighthizer
Robert Lighthizer (born 1947, Ashtabula, Ohio) is an American trade lawyer, Reagan-era Deputy USTR, and 18th U.S. Trade Representative (2017-2021) who led the China Section 301 tariffs, the Phase One negotiation, and USMCA, and wrote No Trade Is Free (2023).
Robert Lim
Robert Kho-Seng Lim (林可胜), 1897 to 1969, was a Singapore-born physiologist who headed physiology at Peking Union Medical College and served as China's Surgeon General.
Robert Lin
Robert Lin was a Chinese-born American experimental space physicist at UC Berkeley, principal investigator of the RHESSI solar flare mission and called the father of modern experimental high-energy solar physics.
Robert Lindsay
Robert Alexander Lindsay (1890–1958), British sprinter of Blackheath Harriers; won 1920 Antwerp Olympic gold in the 4x400m relay with Griffiths, Ainsworth-Davis, and Butler; 1921 AAA 440y champion; distinct from hammer thrower Robert Lindsay-Watson.
Robert Lindsay (actor)
Robert Lindsay (Robert Lindsay Stevenson, born 1949, Ilkeston, Derbyshire) is a British actor known for Citizen Smith, G.B.H., My Family, Hornblower, and Me and My Girl, winner of a BAFTA, a Tony, and three Olivier Awards.
Robert Lipshutz
Robert J. Lipshutz is a mathematics-trained executive and inventor who led genome informatics at Affymetrix in Santa Clara, California, and co-authored its foundational 1999 GeneChip review.
Robert Liston
Robert Liston (1794–1847) was a Scottish surgeon, famed as the fastest knife of the pre-anaesthetic era, who performed the first operation under ether anaesthesia in Britain on 21 December 1846.
Robert Livingston (American football)
Robert Livingston is an American football coach, former Cincinnati Bengals secondary coach (2016-2023), Colorado defensive coordinator under Deion Sanders (2024-2025), and Denver Broncos defensive passing game coordinator.
Robert Llewellyn
Robert Llewellyn (born 1956, Northampton) is an English actor, comedian, and author who has played Kryten in Red Dwarf since Series III (1989) and presented Scrapheap Challenge and Fully Charged.
Robert Llewellyn Bradshaw
Robert Llewellyn Bradshaw was a Kittitian trade unionist and politician who served as the first Premier of St. Kitts-Nevis-Anguilla from 1967 until his death in 1978.
Robert Loewy
Robert Loewy (1926–2025) was an American aerospace engineer who created Loewy's theory of helicopter rotor aerodynamics, led the US Air Force as chief scientist, and won the 2006 Guggenheim Medal.
Robert Loggia
Robert Loggia (Salvatore Loggia, 1930-2015), American character actor; Frank Lopez in Scarface, MacMillan in Big, Feech La Manna in The Sopranos; Oscar-nominated for Jagged Edge, two Emmy nominations.
Robert Longerbeam
Robert Longerbeam (born 2001) is an NFL cornerback from Rutgers, drafted 212th overall by the Ravens in 2025, known for a 4.39-second 40-yard dash and leading the Big Ten in passes defensed in 2024; now with the Atlanta Falcons.
Robert Longo
Robert Longo (born 1953) is an American artist of the Pictures Generation known for monumental hyperrealistic charcoal drawings, especially the iconic series Men in the Cities, and for directing Johnny Mnemonic (1995).
Robert Longstreet
Robert Longstreet (born 1962 per IMDb; 1975 per TVInsider) is an American actor and producer known for Midnight Mass, Sorry to Bother You, Take Shelter, and recurring roles in Mike Flanagan's Netflix series.
Robert Lopez
Robert Lopez (born 1975, New York) is an American songwriter, co-creator of Avenue Q and The Book of Mormon, and with wife Kristen Anderson-Lopez wrote Frozen's "Let It Go" and Coco's "Remember Me"; the only double EGOT winner.
Robert Louis Stevenson
Robert Louis Stevenson (1850–1894) was a Scottish novelist, poet, and travel writer best known for Treasure Island, Kidnapped, and Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde.