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Robert Reichel
Robert Reichel, Czech ice hockey centre born 1971 in Litvínov; 1998 Nagano Olympic gold via shootout goal on Patrick Roy, three World Championship titles as captain, 830 NHL games with Calgary, Islanders, Coyotes, and Maple Leafs.
Robert Remak
Robert Erich Remak (1888–1942) was a German mathematician known for the Krull–Remak–Schmidt theorem; barred from a university career until 1929, he was murdered at Auschwitz.
Robert Ressler
Robert K. Ressler, also known for coining the term serial killer, was an FBI Behavioral Science Unit agent who interviewed imprisoned serial murderers, helped build criminal profiling and VICAP, and inspired the Mindhunter character Bill Tench.
Robert Retherford
Robert C. Retherford was Willis Lamb's graduate student at Columbia whose 1947 measurements revealed the Lamb shift in hydrogen, the point of departure for renormalizing quantum electrodynamics.
Robert Rhodes (actor)
Robert Rhodes (born 1993, London) is an English actor known as Jimmy Jimmy in 28 Years Later and The Bone Temple, Silver Denys in House of the Dragon, and Sonic in The Rapture; Changing Faces UK ambassador.
Robert Ri'chard
Robert Ri'chard (Robert Andrew Richard, born 1983, Los Angeles) is an American actor and producer known for Cousin Skeeter, One on One, Coach Carter, House of Wax, Chocolate City, and Bolden, and a 1998 Daytime Emmy winner.
Robert Rich Sr.
Robert Rich Sr. (1913–2006) was an American food entrepreneur in Buffalo, New York, who founded Rich Products Corporation in 1945 and developed the first frozen non-dairy whipped topping.
Robert Richardson (cinematographer)
Robert Richardson, American cinematographer, three-time Oscar winner for JFK, The Aviator, and Hugo; longtime DP for Oliver Stone, Martin Scorsese, and Quentin Tarantino, known for bold top-light style and Ultra Panavision 70 work on The Hateful Eight.
Robert Richter (film engineer)
Robert Richter (1899–1972) was a German engineer who co-founded ARRI, formally Arnold & Richter Cine Technik, with his schooldays partner August Arnold in Munich in 1917.
Robert Ridgely
Robert Ridgely (Robert Ritterbusch, 1931-1997), American character actor and booming-voiced voice artist from Teaneck, New Jersey; voiced Tarzan, Flash Gordon, and Thundarr; appeared in Mel Brooks and Jonathan Demme films; final role was Colonel James in Boogie Nights.
Robert Ridgway
Robert Ridgway (1850–1929) was an American ornithologist who spent more than 50 years at the Smithsonian Institution as its first Curator of Birds, writing the standard references on North American birds.
Robert Rinder
Robert Rinder, known as Judge Rinder, is a British criminal barrister specialising in international fraud and financial crime, host of the ITV reality courtroom show Judge Rinder since 2014, MBE recipient, novelist, and regular Good Morning Britain presenter.
Robert Ripley
Robert Ripley (LeRoy Robert Ripley, 1890 or 1893–1949), American cartoonist from Santa Rosa, California, created Believe It or Not! in 1918; the odd-facts panel reached 300+ papers, spawned radio, books, and Odditoriums.
Robert Risch
Robert Henry Risch is a mathematician who earned his Ph.D. from Berkeley in 1968 and created the Risch algorithm for deciding elementary integrability, published in 1969.
Robert Ritchie (materials scientist)
Robert O. Ritchie is a materials scientist and H.T. & Jessie Chua Distinguished Professor of Engineering at UC Berkeley, known for research on fracture and fatigue of materials.
Robert Ritter von Greim
Robert Ritter von Greim, born Robert Greim, was a German officer and World War I fighter ace with 28 victories who became the Luftwaffe's last commander-in-chief in 1945.
Robert Roberson case
Robert Roberson case: Texas death row inmate Robert Leslie Roberson III, convicted of capital murder in 2003 for his daughter Nikki's death based on shaken baby syndrome, whose execution has been stayed three times amid disputed science.
Robert Roberts (cardiologist)
Robert Roberts is a Canadian-born American cardiologist regarded as a founder of molecular cardiology, known for the MBCK heart-attack diagnostic test and the first genetic locus for familial atrial fibrillation.
Robert Robinson (structural biologist)
Robert (Bob) Charles Robinson is a structural biologist who solved the Arp2/3 complex structure and showed in 2018 that Asgard archaea encode functional profilins; he is a professor at VISTEC in Thailand.
Robert Robison
Robert Robison (1883–1941) was a British biochemist at the Lister Institute in London, best known for isolating the Robison ester and studying phosphatase in bone calcification.
Robert Rodriguez
Robert Rodriguez (born 1968, San Antonio) is the American filmmaker behind El Mariachi, Desperado, Spy Kids, Sin City, and Alita: Battle Angel; he made El Mariachi for $7,000 funded by a medical trial, won Sundance's Audience Award, and co-founded Troublemaker Studios in Austin.
Robert Rodriguez (Colorado politician)
Robert Rodriguez is an American Democratic politician who represents Colorado State Senate District 32, elected in 2018, and serves as the Senate's Majority Leader after previously being Assistant Majority Leader.
Robert Rogers (British Army officer)
Robert Rogers (1731–1795) was a colonial American British Army officer who raised and led Rogers' Rangers in the French and Indian War and wrote the 28 Rules of Ranging, still issued to U.S. Army Rangers.
Robert Romano (ER)
Robert "Rocket" Romano is a fictional surgeon on the NBC medical drama ER, played by Paul McCrane, who becomes chief of surgery and chief of staff at County General.
Robert Romanus
Robert Romanus (Bob Romanus, born 1956) is an American actor and musician known for Mike Damone in Fast Times at Ridgemont High (1982) and Snake on The Facts of Life; brother of actor Richard Romanus, band Poppa's Kitchen.
Robert Rosenberg (hematologist)
Robert Rosenberg, also known as Robert D. Rosenberg (1937–2020), was an American hematologist and vascular biologist who explained how antithrombin regulates clotting and taught at Harvard and MIT.
Robert Rosenthal (USAAF officer)
Robert Rosenthal was an American B-17 pilot who flew 52 combat missions with the Eighth Air Force in World War II, surviving two shoot-downs, and later joined the Nuremberg prosecutions.
Robert Rossen
Robert Rossen (1908–1966), American screenwriter-director of Body and Soul, All the King's Men, and The Hustler; Communist Party member, HUAC friendly witness in 1953 who named over fifty people, blacklisted, died at 57. Distinct from Robert Rosen, UCLA dean.
Robert Rössle
Robert Rössle (1876–1956) was a German pathologist who held Rudolf Virchow's chair at the Berlin Charité, advanced inflammation theory with serous inflammation and Pathergie, and introduced quantitative measurement into pathology.
Robert Roth
Robert Roth (1898–1959), Swiss wrestler, won freestyle heavyweight gold at the 1920 Antwerp Olympics by beating American Nat Pendleton; also a schwingen champion and 1922–25 professional wrestler.