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Robert Mundell
Robert A. Mundell (1932–2021) was a Canadian economist at Columbia University who won the 1999 Nobel Prize for work on exchange rates and currency areas.
Robert Munsch
Robert Munsch (Robert Norman Peter Maria Munsch), born 1945 in Pittsburgh, is a Canadian children's author and storyteller with nearly 100 books and over 87 million copies sold, known for The Paper Bag Princess and Love You Forever.
Robert Murray (Virginia politician)
Robert Murray is an American politician who is the Republican nominee for the U.S. House in Virginia's 4th District in 2026, facing Democratic incumbent Jennifer McClellan.
Robert Musil
Robert Musil (1880–1942), Austrian novelist and essayist, author of the unfinished modernist masterpiece Der Mann ohne Eigenschaften (The Man without Qualities), known for its essayism, the fictional Kakania, and his Mach-based philosophical training.
Robert N. Chatigny
Robert N. Chatigny, born 1951, is an American jurist serving as a senior United States district judge for the District of Connecticut, appointed by Bill Clinton in 1994.
Robert N. Clayton
Robert N. Clayton (1930–2017) was a Canadian-born American cosmochemist and University of Chicago professor whose 1973 discovery of non-mass-dependent oxygen isotopes in meteorites transformed meteorite classification.
Robert N. Eisenman
Robert N. Eisenman is an American molecular biologist and professor at Fred Hutch Cancer Center in Seattle since 1976, known for establishing the Myc–Max–Mad transcription factor network.
Robert N. Foley
Robert N. Foley is a nephrologist and clinical epidemiologist in Minneapolis, known for the 2011 New England Journal of Medicine study showing dialysis deaths cluster after the two-day treatment break.
Robert N. Fried
Robert N. Fried (Rob Fried), American film producer and executive; won 1992 Oscar for Session Man, produced Rudy and The Boondock Saints, led Savoy Pictures and Feeln, and is CEO of Niagen Bioscience (ChromaDex), not the forensics expert or physician of the same name.
Robert N. Hall
Robert N. Hall (1919–2016) was an American physicist at General Electric in Schenectady who led the team demonstrating the first semiconductor injection laser in 1962.
Robert N. Hoover
Robert N. Hoover is an American cancer epidemiologist who spent 48 years at the National Cancer Institute, leading the DES Follow-up Study of prenatal drug exposure.
Robert N. Scola, Jr.
Robert N. Scola, Jr., also known as Robert Nichols Scola, Jr., is an American jurist who served as a United States district judge in Florida from 2011 until 2025.
Robert N. Weinreb
Robert N. Weinreb is an American ophthalmologist and glaucoma specialist who is Distinguished Professor of Ophthalmology and Director of the Shiley Eye Institute at UC San Diego.
Robert Nairac
Robert Nairac (1948-1977), Grenadier Guards captain and undercover Military Intelligence Liaison Officer, abducted from the Three Steps Bar in Dromintee, south Armagh, killed by the Provisional IRA, awarded the George Cross; his remains remain unfound.
Robert Napper
Robert Napper (born 1966) is a British serial rapist and triple killer who murdered Rachel Nickell (1992) and Samantha and Jazmine Bissett (1993), was held at Broadmoor, and admitted Nickell's manslaughter by diminished responsibility in 2008 after a DNA match.
Robert Neller
Robert B. Neller (born 1953, East Lansing, Michigan) is a retired Marine Corps general, 37th Commandant (2015–2019), who led the Corps' pivot to great-power competition and later served on the Naming Commission.
Robert Newlen
Robert Randolph Newlen is an American librarian who joined the Library of Congress in 1975 and has served as Acting Librarian of Congress since May 2025.
Robert Newton
Robert Newton (1905-1956), English stage and film actor, played Long John Silver in Disney's Treasure Island (1950); his West Country accent created the stereotypical pirate voice.
Robert Ng
Robert Ng Chee Siong is a Hong Kong property magnate who chaired the Sino Group from 1991 until 2025 and, with his brother Philip, controls Singapore's Far East Organization.
Robert Nichols (Texas politician)
Robert Nichols is an American politician and engineer who has represented East Texas's Senate District 3 as a Republican since 2007, chairing the Senate Transportation Committee.
Robert Nkemdiche
Robert Nkemdiche, consensus No. 1 recruit of 2013 out of Grayson High, Ole Miss defensive tackle, 29th overall pick in 2016 by Arizona; 38 NFL games, 4.5 sacks, later CFL Edmonton Elks.
Robert Noble (Canadian physician)
Robert Noble (1910–1990) was a Canadian physician who, with chemist Charles Beer, discovered the anticancer drug vinblastine in the Madagascar periwinkle, a plant originally studied as a folk diabetes remedy.
Robert Novak
Robert Novak (1931-2009), American conservative political columnist and CNN commentator; co-author of the syndicated Inside Report column with Rowland Evans from 1963; known as the Prince of Darkness and for his 2003 disclosure of CIA officer Valerie Plame.
Robert Noyce
Robert Norton Noyce, known as Bob Noyce and nicknamed the Mayor of Silicon Valley, was an American engineer who co-invented the integrated circuit and co-founded Fairchild Semiconductor and Intel.
Robert Nozick
Robert Nozick (1938–2002) was an American Harvard philosopher whose Anarchy, State, and Utopia (1974) won the National Book Award and argued only a minimal state is legitimate.
Robert O. Ambrose
Robert O. Ambrose is an American roboticist and Texas A&M professor who led NASA's Robonaut humanoid robot program at Johnson Space Center before joining Texas A&M in 2021.
Robert O. Bonow
Robert O. Bonow is an American cardiologist at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, a past president of the American Heart Association and founding editor of JAMA Cardiology.
Robert O. Peterson
Robert O. Peterson (1916–1994) was a San Diego restaurateur who founded Jack in the Box in the early 1950s and helped make the drive-through an American institution.
Robert Oberst
Robert Oberst, "The American Monster" (born 1984), American strongman from Santa Cruz, California; eight-time World's Strongest Man competitor, two-time finalist, former American log lift record holder at 211 kg, retired after 2023 WSM.
Robert Ochsenfeld
Robert Ochsenfeld (1901–1993) was a German physicist who, as a young researcher in Berlin, co-discovered with Walther Meißner in 1933 the expulsion of magnetic fields from superconductors, the effect known as the Meissner effect.