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Robert of Jumièges
Robert of Jumièges, also known as Robert Champart, was a Norman Benedictine monk who became Archbishop of Canterbury in 1051, then fled to Normandy in exile in 1052.
Robert of Ketton
Robert of Ketton (Robertus Ketenensis) was an English astronomer from Rutland who produced the first Latin translation of the Qur'an in 1143 for Peter the Venerable; it remained standard for four centuries.
Robert Oliveri
Robert Dane Oliveri (born 1978) is an American former child actor, best known as Nick Szalinski in Honey, I Shrunk the Kids (1989) and Honey, I Blew Up the Kid (1992) and as Kevin in Edward Scissorhands (1990); he retired from acting in 1994.
Robert Osborne
Robert Jolin Osborne (1932-2017), American film historian, author, and primetime host of Turner Classic Movies from its 1994 launch until 2016; Hollywood Reporter Rambling Reporter columnist and official biographer of the Academy Awards.
Robert Otto Burciaga Valdez
Robert Otto Valdez is an American health services researcher who served as Director of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality from 2022 to 2025.
Robert Otto Pohl
Robert Otto Pohl (1929–2024) was a German-born American experimental condensed-matter physicist at Cornell University, known for his measurements of heat transport in glasses at very low temperatures.
Robert Ouko
Robert Ouko (1948-2019), Kenyan 800m runner and 1972 Munich Olympic 4x400m relay gold medalist (2:59.83); 1970 Commonwealth 800m champion; later secretary general of Athletics Kenya; distinct from Nigerian sprinter Robert Ojo.
Robert Owen
Robert Owen (1771–1858), Welsh industrialist and social reformer, owner of the New Lanark cotton mills, pioneer of factory reform, infant education, and the co-operative movement, and founder of the failed New Harmony community.
Robert P. Caren
Robert P. Caren (1932–2017) was an American research scientist who rose at Lockheed from thermophysics researcher to Corporate Vice President of Science and Engineering, pioneering solid cryogenic cooling for space payloads.
Robert P. Chamberlin
Robert P. Chamberlin, also known as Robert Porter Chamberlin, is an American jurist serving as a United States district judge for the Northern District of Mississippi since 2025.
Robert P. Dilworth
Robert P. Dilworth, also known as Robert Palmer Dilworth, was an American mathematician at Caltech whose 1950 Dilworth's theorem became central to combinatorics and lattice theory.
Robert P. Erickson
Robert P. Erickson is an American physician-scientist in human and molecular genetics, Holsclaw Family Professor Emeritus of Human Genetics at the University of Arizona College of Medicine.
Robert P. Fuchs
Robert P. Fuchs is a French molecular biologist known for work on how cells replicate damaged DNA, first at CNRS in Strasbourg and later at the cancer research center in Marseille.
Robert P. Giugliano
Robert P. Giugliano is an American cardiologist, Senior Investigator with the TIMI Study Group at Brigham and Women's Hospital, who led the ENGAGE AF-TIMI 48 edoxaban trial.
Robert P. Hanson
Robert P. Hanson was an American veterinary virologist and epidemiologist at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, known for work on Newcastle disease virus, La Crosse virus epidemiology, and scrapie research.
Robert P. Hasserjian
Robert P. Hasserjian, also published as Robert Hasserjian, is a hematopathologist at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School who studies the diagnosis and classification of myeloid neoplasms.
Robert P. Hebbel
Robert P. Hebbel is an American hematologist at the University of Minnesota known for showing that abnormal adhesion of sickle red cells to endothelium drives sickle cell disease.
Robert P. Kelch
Robert P. Kelch is an American pediatric endocrinologist known for research on growth and pubertal hormones, who led medical schools at Iowa and Michigan before retiring in 2009.
Robert P. Kimberly
Robert P. Kimberly is an American rheumatologist, immunologist, and human geneticist at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, known for Fc gamma receptor polymorphisms as autoimmune risk factors.
Robert P. Perrillo
Robert P. Perrillo is an American hepatologist and gastroenterologist at Baylor University Medical Center in Dallas, known for hepatitis B treatment trials since the 1980s.
Robert P. Perry
Robert P. Perry (1931–2013) was an American molecular biologist at Fox Chase Cancer Center in Philadelphia, elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1977.
Robert P. Sharp
Robert P. Sharp (1911–2004) was an American geomorphologist at Caltech, a leading authority on Earth and Mars surfaces who received the National Medal of Science in 1989.
Robert Palese Perry
Robert Palese Perry (1931–2013) was an American molecular biologist at Fox Chase Cancer Center in Philadelphia, known for defining the cellular sites of RNA synthesis and naming the CHD-1 protein.
Robert Palmer
Robert Palmer (1949–2003) was an English singer-songwriter of Vinegar Joe, the Power Station, and the hits “Addicted to Love” (US number one, 1987 Grammy) and “Simply Irresistible”; not the American music writer of the same name.
Robert Parish
Robert Parish, 'The Chief', American NBA center (1976-97), 7'1", born 1953 Shreveport; 1,611 games (record until LeBron James), 4 championships (Celtics 1981, 84, 86; Bulls 1997), 9-time All-Star, Hall of Fame 2003.
Robert Parsons
Robert Parsons was an English Jesuit priest, superior of the English mission from 1580 to 1610, who founded seminaries in Spain and wrote on the Elizabethan succession.
Robert Partridge (writer)
Robert Partridge (born 1954) is the real name of the British novelist who writes crime fiction as Peter Grainger, author of the DC Smith Investigation series.
Robert Pastorelli
Robert Joseph Pastorelli (1954-2004), American character actor, played house painter Eldin Bernecky on Murphy Brown (1988-1994) and appeared in Dances with Wolves, Eraser, and Michael; died of a heroin overdose in 2004.
Robert Patrick
Robert Patrick (Robert Hammond Patrick, born 1958, Marietta, Georgia) is the American actor who played the T-1000 in Terminator 2: Judgment Day; later known for The X-Files' Agent Doggett, The Sopranos, Peacemaker, 1923, and Tulsa King.
Robert Pattinson
Robert Pattinson (born 1986, London) is an English actor known as Edward Cullen in Twilight ($3.3 billion gross), star of Good Time, The Lighthouse, Tenet, The Batman, Mickey 17, and 2026's The Odyssey and Primetime.