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Robert Michael Pyle
Robert Michael Pyle (born 1947, Denver) is an American lepidopterist and nature writer who founded the Xerces Society for Invertebrate Conservation in 1971, wrote 25 books including Chasing Monarchs and Wintergreen, and won the John Burroughs Medal and a Guggenheim Fellowship.
Robert Michael White
Robert Michael White was an American Air Force test pilot who flew the X-15 and became the first pilot to exceed Mach 4, Mach 5, and Mach 6.
Robert Miles
Robert Miles (Roberto Concina, born Fleurier, Switzerland 1969 or 1970) was an Italian dream trance producer whose 1995 piano-driven single "Children" topped European charts and sold millions; albums Dreamland, 23am, Organik; died Ibiza 2017.
Robert Mills (American physicist)
Robert Laurence Mills (1927–1999) was an American physicist who coauthored with Chen Ning Yang the 1954 paper introducing Yang–Mills theory, now a foundation of the standard model, and taught at Ohio State University.
Robert Milton Silverstein
Robert Milton Silverstein (1916–2007) was an American chemist and chemical ecologist known for the textbook Spectrometric Identification of Organic Compounds and bark beetle pheromone research.
Robert Minlos
Robert Adol'fovich Minlos (1931–2018) was a Russian mathematician at Moscow State University and IITP RAS, best known for the Bochner–Minlos theorem characterizing when a positive-definite functional is a probability measure.
Robert Mirabal
Robert Mirabal, also known as Johnny Whitehorse, is a Native American flutist, composer, and instrument maker from Taos Pueblo, New Mexico, known for fusing traditional flute music with rock.
Robert Mitchum
Robert Mitchum (1917-1997), American film actor born in Bridgeport, Connecticut; star of film noir classics Out of the Past and The Night of the Hunter, one Oscar nomination for The Story of G.I. Joe, 1948 marijuana jail term.
Robert Mitchum filmography
Robert Mitchum filmography: 134 AFI-cataloged titles, 1943–1995, from Hopalong Cassidy B-westerns and Out of the Past noir to The Night of the Hunter, Cape Fear, and Dead Man.
Robert Mittendorff MD
Robert Mittendorff, MD, is a General Partner and Global Head of Healthcare at B Capital, where he leads healthcare investing from San Francisco; he joined in 2021.
Robert Moffat
Robert Moffat was a Scottish London Missionary Society missionary in southern Africa from 1817 to 1870 who produced the first Bible translation into a South African language, Setswana.
Robert Moffitt
Robert Moffitt, born 1948, is an American labor economist at Johns Hopkins University known for his 1983 welfare stigma model and research on income transfer programs.
Robert Mokaya
Robert Mokaya is a Kenyan-born materials chemist working on porous carbons for clean energy storage, a Royal Society Fellow, and the 95th President of the Royal Society of Chemistry.
Robert Mondavi
Robert Gerald Mondavi (1913–2008) was an American winemaker who founded Robert Mondavi Winery in Oakville, Napa Valley, in 1966 and is credited with driving the premiumization of California wine.
Robert Monroe
Robert Allen Monroe (1915–1995) was an American radio broadcast executive who reported out-of-body experiences from 1958, founded The Monroe Institute, and patented the Hemi-Sync audio method.
Robert Montgomery (actor)
Robert Montgomery (1904-1981), born Henry Montgomery Jr., was an MGM leading man, two-time Best Actor Oscar nominee, Screen Actors Guild president, WWII naval commander, director of Lady in the Lake, host of Robert Montgomery Presents, and Eisenhower's television advisor.
Robert Moog
Robert Arthur Moog, known as Bob Moog, was an American engineer and electronic music pioneer who invented the Moog synthesizer in 1964 and founded Moog Music, creator of the influential Minimoog in 1970.
Robert Moreno
Robert Moreno González (born 1977), Spanish football coach, Barcelona staff 2014-17, unbeaten Spain head coach 2019, Monaco, Granada, Sochi, and South Korea interim head coach since 1 September 2026.
Robert Morley
Robert Morley (1908–1992), English actor and playwright, full name Robert Adolph Wilton Morley; Oscar-nominated for Marie Antoinette, co-wrote Edward, My Son, CBE 1957, British Airways spokesman.
Robert Morris (financier)
Robert Morris was a Philadelphia merchant who financed the American Revolution as Superintendent of Finance from 1781 to 1784 and founded the Bank of North America.
Robert Morris (pastor)
Robert Morris is an American pastor who founded Gateway Church in Texas in 2000, built it into one of America's largest churches, and resigned in 2024.
Robert Morris University
Robert Morris University (RMU), private university in Moon Township, Pennsylvania near Pittsburgh; founded 1921 as Pittsburgh School of Accountancy, university status 2002; NCAA Division I Horizon League Colonials; AACSB and ABET accredited.
Robert Morrison
Robert Erskine Morrison (1902-1980), British rower, gold medalist in the men's coxless fours at the 1924 Paris Olympics with Eley, Macnabb, and Sanders; Eton and Trinity College, Cambridge oarsman and engineer.
Robert Morse
Robert Morse (1931–2022), American actor and singer, two-time Tony winner for How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying and Tru, Emmy winner, and Bertram Cooper on Mad Men.
Robert Moses
Robert Moses (1888–1981), New York's unelected master builder, shaped the city and state through parks, bridges, highways, pools, and authorities; famous for The Power Broker controversy and his battles with Jane Jacobs.
Robert Moses Niagara hydroelectric plant
The Robert Moses Niagara hydroelectric plant is a 13-turbine generating station at Lewiston, New York, opened in 1961 as the largest hydropower facility in the Western world.
Robert Motherwell
Robert Motherwell (1915–1991), American Abstract Expressionist painter, printmaker, and collage maker; founder-member and spokesman of the New York School, best known for over 100 Elegies to the Spanish Republic and for the Dedalus Foundation.
Robert Mueller
Robert S. Mueller III (1944-2026), American prosecutor, sixth FBI Director (September 4, 2001 to September 4, 2013, the second longest tenure) and Special Counsel for the 2017-2019 Russia investigation whose 448-page report found no established conspiracy but did not exonerate Trump on obstruction.
Robert Mugabe
Robert Gabriel Mugabe (1924–2019), Zimbabwean liberation leader and autocrat; ZANU founder-leader, Prime Minister 1980, Executive President 1987–2017; Gukurahundi killings, 2000 land seizures, removed by the military in November 2017.
Robert Muir (Scottish pathologist)
Sir Robert Muir (1864–1959) was a Scottish physician and pathologist, Professor of Pathology at the University of Glasgow from 1899 to 1936, known for pioneering work on immunity reactions and the antibody-complement mechanism.