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Robert Paul
Robert (Bob) Paul (1937–2024), Canadian pair figure skater; with Barbara Wagner won pairs gold at Squaw Valley 1960, four straight World titles 1957–1960, and became a pioneering skating choreographer for Fleming, Hamill, and Disney.
Robert Paul Dziak
Robert Paul Dziak is an American marine geophysicist at NOAA's Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory in Newport, Oregon, known for monitoring undersea earthquakes and whale calls with hydrophones.
Robert Payne Smith
Robert Payne Smith (1819–1895) was an Anglican theologian and Orientalist, Regius Professor of Divinity at Oxford and Dean of Canterbury, best known for compiling the Thesaurus Syriacus.
Robert Peary
Robert Edwin Peary (1856-1920), American Navy civil engineer, claimed to reach the North Pole with Matthew Henson on April 6, 1909, after a 1908-1909 Roosevelt expedition; the claim remains disputed versus Frederick Cook and was never conclusively proven.
Robert Peel
Sir Robert Peel (1788–1850), 2nd Baronet, British Conservative Prime Minister 1834–35 and 1841–46; founder of the Metropolitan Police, author of the Tamworth Manifesto, and the premier whose 1846 repeal of the Corn Laws split his party.
Robert Penn Warren
Robert Penn Warren (1905–1989), American poet, novelist, critic, and first U.S. poet laureate; author of All the King's Men and, with Cleanth Brooks, Understanding Poetry; only writer to win Pulitzers in both fiction and poetry.
Robert People
Robert People, born 1979 in Baltimore, is a Democratic politician and retired Army sergeant first class who will face Republican incumbent Laurel Lee in Florida's 15th district in 2026.
Robert Pepper
Robert Pepper is a semiconductor executive who was president, CEO, and chairman of Level One Communications in Sacramento, selling the chipmaker to Intel in 1999 for about $2.2 billion.
Robert Pera
Robert J. Pera is an American electrical engineer who founded networking-equipment maker Ubiquiti, where he remains CEO and majority owner, and bought the Memphis Grizzlies in 2012.
Robert Percy Smith
Robert Percy Smith ('Bobus' Smith, 1770–1845), British lawyer, brother of Sydney Smith, Advocate-General of Bengal 1803–1810, MP for Grantham and Lincoln, and credited author of the 1813 Charter Act clause funding Indian education.
Robert Persons
Robert Persons, also spelled Parsons, was an English Jesuit who led the Jesuit mission to England from 1580 to 1610 and wrote the bestselling Christian Directory.
Robert Peston
Robert Peston (born 1960) is a British journalist, ITV News political editor since 2015, formerly BBC business and economics editor who broke the 2007 Northern Rock scoop, and author, presenter of Peston and podcast The Rest is Money.
Robert Peter Gale
Robert Peter Gale is an American physician-scientist in hematology at Imperial College London, known for leukemia and bone marrow transplant research and for treating Chernobyl radiation victims in 1986.
Robert Peters (Illinois politician)
Robert Peters is an American politician serving as a Democratic Illinois state senator from the 13th district since 2019, and chair of the Senate Labor Committee.
Robert Peugeot
Robert Peugeot (born 1950) is a French heir of the Peugeot industrial dynasty who led Peugeot Invest, the family holding company, from 2002 to 2025 and is Vice Chairman of Stellantis.
Robert Phipps
Robert J. Phipps is Professor of Organic Chemistry at the University of Cambridge, working in organic synthesis and transition-metal catalysis; he won the RSC Harrison Meldola Memorial Prize in 2019.
Robert Picardo
Robert Picardo (born 1953) is an American character actor known as the holographic Doctor (EMH) on Star Trek: Voyager, Coach Cutlip on The Wonder Years, Dr. Richard on China Beach, and Richard Woolsey in the Stargate franchise.
Robert Pickton
Robert William "Willie" Pickton, Canadian serial killer and Port Coquitlam pig farmer, convicted in 2007 of six counts of second-degree murder, charged with 26 murders, died May 31, 2024 after a prison assault at Port-Cartier Institution.
Robert Pine
Robert Pine (Granville Whitelaw Pine, born 1941) is an American character actor, best known as Sgt. Getraer on CHiPs (1977-83), a five-decade TV guest-star veteran, and father of actor Chris Pine.
Robert Pires
Robert Pirès (born 1973, Reims), French left winger; World Cup 1998 and Euro 2000 winner with France (79 caps, 14 goals); Arsenal 2000-06, 284 apps, 84 goals, Invincibles 2003-04; later Villarreal, Aston Villa, FC Goa.
Robert Plaga
Robert Plaga is a Czech politician of the ANO 2011 party who served as Minister of Education, Youth and Sports under Andrej Babiš from 2017 to 2021.
Robert Plant
Robert Plant (born 1948), English singer and Led Zeppelin frontman, later solo artist; won 8 Grammys, including Album of the Year with Alison Krauss on Raising Sand (2007); declined a $200m Zeppelin reunion.
Robert Plant discography
Robert Plant discography: 11 solo studio albums since 1982 (Pictures at Eleven to Carry Fire), plus the Honeydrippers EP, two Page & Plant albums, and Alison Krauss collaborations Raising Sand and Raise the Roof.
Robert Plomin
Robert Plomin (born 1948) is an American psychologist and behavioral geneticist at King's College London, known for twin and adoption studies showing genetic influence on intelligence increases with age.
Robert Plonsey
Robert Plonsey (1924–2015) was an American biomedical engineer at Case Western Reserve and Duke who helped found bioelectricity, known for the bidomain model of cardiac tissue and defibrillation theory.
Robert Pohly
Robert Pohly is an American hedge fund manager and Tiger Cub who founded Samlyn Capital, a New York long/short equity firm managing about $9.7 billion in 2026.
Robert Pollard
Robert Pollard (born 1957, Dayton, Ohio), American singer-songwriter, founder and only constant member of indie rock band Guided by Voices; former fourth-grade teacher, writer of over 1,600 songs, also led Boston Spaceships and Circus Devils.
Robert Pound
Robert Pound (1919–2010) was a Canadian-born American experimental physicist at Harvard who co-discovered nuclear magnetic resonance in 1945 and led the Pound–Rebka experiment, the first accurate measurement of gravitational redshift.
Robert Powell
Robert Powell (born 1944, Salford) is an English actor known for Jesus of Nazareth (1977), Mahler, Tommy, Richard Hannay, Doomwatch, The Detectives, and extensive narration work.
Robert Preißner
Robert Preißner is a scientist at Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin working in structure-oriented bioinformatics, known for the ProTox web servers predicting chemical toxicity since 2014.