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Robert Preston (actor)
Robert Preston (Robert Preston Meservey, 1918-1987), American stage and screen actor; two-time Tony winner as Harold Hill in The Music Man (1957 Broadway, 1962 film) and Oscar nominee for Toddy in Victor/Victoria (1982).
Robert Prevedel
Robert Prevedel is a physicist who trained under Anton Zeilinger in Vienna in quantum computing, and leads a group at EMBL Heidelberg developing deep-tissue and Brillouin microscopy.
Robert Prosinečki
Robert Prosinečki, Croatian footballer and coach born 1969 in Schwenningen, Germany; won the 1991 European Cup with Red Star Belgrade, played for Real Madrid, Barcelona, and Croatia, and is the only player to score World Cup goals for two countries.
Robert Prosky
Robert Prosky (Robert Joseph Porzuczek, 1930–2008), American character actor; Arena Stage resident for 23 seasons, Sgt. Jablonski on Hill Street Blues, films Thief, Broadcast News, Mrs. Doubtfire; two Tony nominations.
Robert Pugh
Robert Pugh, also credited as Bob Pugh, is a Welsh actor and writer whose screen career has run since 1976, best known internationally as Craster in HBO's Game of Thrones.
Robert Quinn (American football)
Robert Quinn (born 1990) is a former NFL defensive end from North Carolina, drafted 14th overall in 2011 by the Rams. All-Pro in 2013 with 19 sacks; set the Bears' record with 18.5 sacks in 2021; 102 career sacks.
Robert R. Anderson
Robert R. Anderson is an American business executive who co-founded KLA Instruments in Silicon Valley in 1975, serving as Chairman, CFO, and COO until 1994.
Robert R. Berg
Robert R. Berg, also known as Robert Raymond Berg, was an American petroleum geologist and Texas A&M professor elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1988.
Robert R. Gilruth
Robert R. Gilruth was an American aeronautical engineer who set the flying-qualities standards for aircraft acceptance, then directed NASA's human spaceflight program, including the 1969 Apollo 11 lunar landing.
Robert R. Kay
Robert R. Kay is a British cell biologist at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge, known for identifying the morphogen DIF-1 in Dictyostelium.
Robert R. Knowles
Robert R. Knowles is an American organic chemist and Henry W. Putnam Professor at Princeton University, known for proton-coupled electron transfer catalysis and anti-Markovnikov hydroamination.
Robert R. Linton
Robert R. Linton was an American surgeon at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School who led the Society for Vascular Surgery in 1955 and lent his name to three vascular procedures.
Robert R. McCrae
Robert R. McCrae (born 1949) is an American personality psychologist who co-developed the five-factor model and the Revised NEO Personality Inventory at the National Institute on Aging.
Robert R. Redfield
Robert R. Redfield, virologist and 18th CDC director (2018-2021), HIV researcher at Walter Reed and University of Maryland; later prominent lab-leak advocate for COVID-19 origins.
Robert R. Reisz
Robert R. Reisz, born 1947, is a Romanian-born Canadian vertebrate paleontologist and Distinguished Professor at the University of Toronto Mississauga, known for research on the origin of amniotes.
Robert R. Sokal
Robert R. Sokal (1926–2012) was an Austrian-born American biostatistician and evolutionary biologist who co-founded numerical taxonomy, the quantitative classification of organisms, and wrote the influential textbook Biometry.
Robert R. Summerhays
Robert Rees Summerhays is an American jurist serving as a United States district judge for the Western District of Louisiana since 2018, appointed by President Donald Trump.
Robert R. Williams
Robert R. Williams was an American chemist, a National Academy of Sciences member, best known for isolating vitamin B1 (thiamine), determining its structure, and synthesizing it.
Robert R. Wolfe
Robert R. Wolfe (R. R. Wolfe) is an American muscle-metabolism researcher known for stable isotope tracer methodology and burn catabolism research, now a geriatrics professor and center director at UAMS in Little Rock.
Róbert Ragnar Spanó
Róbert Ragnar Spanó (Robert R Spano) is an Icelandic jurist who served as a judge and President of the European Court of Human Rights from 2020 to 2022.
Robert Raikes
Robert Raikes (1735–1811) was an English newspaper proprietor, proprietor of the Gloucester Journal, credited as the founder of the Sunday-school movement, opening his first school in Gloucester in 1780.
Robert Randolph and the Family Band
Robert Randolph and the Family Band is an American funk and soul band led by pedal steel guitarist Robert Randolph, active since 2000 and known on the jam-band circuit.
Robert Rauschenberg
Robert Rauschenberg, born Milton Ernest Rauschenberg (1925, Port Arthur, Texas; died 2008), was an American artist best known for the Combines, works joining everyday objects with paintings.
Robert Ray Beebe
Robert Ray Beebe, known as Ray Beebe, was an American mining engineer and executive at Newmont and Homestake Mining, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1990.
Robert Rayford
Robert Rayford (1953–1969), St. Louis teenager, first known HIV/AIDS case in the United States; died 1969, confirmed by 1987 testing of preserved blood samples showing HIV proteins.
Robert Raynolds McMath
Robert Raynolds McMath (1891–1962) was an American solar astronomer and engineer who turned a private Michigan observatory into a research institution and helped create Kitt Peak National Observatory.
Robert Redford
Robert Redford (1936–2025), American actor, director, and environmentalist; star of Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, Oscar-winning director of Ordinary People, and founder of the Sundance Institute and Film Festival.
Robert Redford filmography
Robert Redford filmography: screen credits of the American actor-director (1936–2025), from War Hunt (1962) and Butch Cassidy to Ordinary People, his Best Director Oscar, and The Old Man & the Gun (2018); 94 AFI catalog titles.
Robert Reed
Robert Reed (John Robert Rietz Jr., 1932-1992), American actor, Mike Brady on The Brady Bunch (1969-74) and Kenneth Preston on The Defenders; three Emmy nominations; died of cancer at 59.
Robert Reich
Robert B. Reich, American political economist, Clinton's Secretary of Labor 1993-1997, Dartmouth and Yale Law graduate, Berkeley Goldman School emeritus professor, author of The Work of Nations and 17 other books, Inequality Media co-founder.