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Robert S. Stern
Robert S. Stern is an American dermatologist and epidemiologist, emeritus professor at Harvard Medical School, known for the PUVA Follow-up Study of psoriasis treatment and skin cancer.
Robert S. Strauss
Robert S. Strauss (1918–2014), Texas lawyer and Democratic National Committee chairman, was U.S. Trade Representative under Carter, Middle East envoy, and the last U.S. ambassador to the Soviet Union and first to the Russian Federation under Bush.
Robert S. White
Robert S. White is a British geophysicist, Emeritus Professor of Geophysics at the University of Cambridge, known for work on oceanic crust formation and melt beneath Icelandic volcanoes.
Robert S. Wildin
Robert S. Wildin is a physician-scientist who led the 2001 Nature Genetics study showing that FOXP3 mutations cause IPEX, a fatal X-linked autoimmune disorder of infancy.
Robert S. Woodworth
Robert S. Woodworth (1869–1962) was an American experimental psychologist and longtime Columbia University professor, best known for the Woodworth Personal Data Sheet, often cited as the first personality test.
Robert S. Zucker
Robert S. Zucker, also known as Robert Zucker, is a cellular neuroscientist at UC Berkeley known for showing that calcium entry, not depolarization, triggers neurotransmitter release.
Robert Sacre
Robert Sacre (born 1989, Baton Rouge) is a Canadian-American 7-foot center, Gonzaga product, and 60th overall pick of the 2012 NBA Draft who played four seasons for the Los Angeles Lakers, then joined Japan's Sunrockers Shibuya in 2017.
Robert Saleh
Robert Saleh (born 1979), NFL coach; Tennessee Titans head coach (2026-), former New York Jets head coach (2021-24, 20-36) and San Francisco 49ers defensive coordinator (2017-20, 2025), 4-3 Wide-9 defense.
Robert Salus
Robert Salus (1877–1961) was an Austrian ophthalmologist trained at the German University of Prague who described rubeosis iridis diabetica in 1928 and Salus's sign, a retinal vein deviation in hypertension.
Robert Samuel Schechter
Robert Samuel Schechter (1929–2014) was an American chemical and petroleum engineer who spent 41 years at the University of Texas at Austin and co-developed the spinning drop tensiometer.
Robert Sánchez
Robert Sánchez, Spanish goalkeeper from Cartagena (197 cm), Brighton 2015-2023, Chelsea 2023-2026 (112 apps, Conference League and Club World Cup winner), on loan at Como since September 2026; Spain debut 2021.
Robert Sandifer
Robert 'Yummy' Sandifer (1982-1994) was an 11-year-old Black Disciples gang member in Chicago's Roseland who killed 14-year-old Shavon Dean on August 28, 1994, and was executed by his own gang three days later.
Robert Sangster
Robert Edmund Sangster (1936–2004), British racehorse owner-breeder and Vernons pools heir; with Vincent O'Brien and John Magnier built Coolmore, won the Derby with The Minstrel and Golden Fleece, and paid a record $13.1 million for Seattle Dancer.
Robert Sapolsky
Robert M. Sapolsky, Stanford neuroendocrinologist and primatologist; glucocorticoid cascade hypothesis, Kenyan baboon rank-stress studies, Behave and Determined, MacArthur Fellow, free-will denial debate.
Robert Sarah
Robert Sarah is a Guinean cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church, Archbishop of Conakry from 1979 to 2001 and Prefect of the Congregation for Divine Worship from 2014 to 2021.
Robert Sarver
Robert Sarver is an American banker and real estate investor who owned the Phoenix Suns and Phoenix Mercury from 2004 to 2023 before selling them.
Robert Sataloff
Robert Thayer Sataloff is an American otolaryngologist, laryngologist, and professional singer who chairs otolaryngology at Drexel University College of Medicine and founded professional voice care as a medical discipline.
Robert Schapire
Robert Schapire is an American computer scientist who invented boosting, the method of combining weak learners into one accurate rule, and with Yoav Freund created AdaBoost in 1995.
Robert Schatten
Robert Schatten, born Rubin Schatten (1911–1977), was a Polish-born American mathematician who pioneered tensor products of Banach spaces and gave his name to the Schatten classes of operators.
Robert Scheidt
Robert Scheidt is a Brazilian competitive sailor, born 1973 in São Paulo, who won the first Olympic Laser gold at Atlanta 1996 and has five Olympic medals from seven Games.
Robert Schenkkan
Robert Schenkkan (born 1953) is an American playwright and screenwriter, Pulitzer winner for The Kentucky Cycle and Tony winner for All the Way; also wrote Hacksaw Ridge and The Pacific.
Robert Schimke
Robert Schimke (1932–2014) was an American biochemist and cancer researcher at Stanford University, best known for discovering that mammalian cells gain drug resistance by amplifying genes.
Robert Schimmel
Robert Schimmel (1950-2010), American X-rated stand-up comedian, Howard Stern and HBO regular, Comedy Central's No. 76 greatest stand-up, author of the 2008 cancer memoir Cancer on $5 a Day.
Robert Schlegel
Robert A. Schlegel is a professor emeritus of biochemistry and molecular biology at Penn State, known for work on membrane lipids and the clearance of dying cells.
Robert Schleif
Robert F. Schleif is a molecular biologist and Professor Emeritus at Johns Hopkins University whose research on the arabinose operon revealed DNA looping in gene regulation.
Robert Schlögl
Robert Schlögl (born 1954) is a German chemist known for heterogeneous catalysis and chemical energy conversion who directed the Fritz Haber Institute in Berlin from 1994 to 2023.
Robert Schmitz (plant epigeneticist)
Robert J. Schmitz (born 1980) is an American plant epigeneticist and professor of genetics at the University of Georgia, known for DNA methylation studies in Arabidopsis and crop regulatory atlases.
Robert Schoelkopf
Robert J. Schoelkopf is an American applied physicist at Yale University whose team created circuit quantum electrodynamics and the transmon qubit for superconducting quantum computing.
Robert Schrieffer
Robert Schrieffer, fully John Robert Schrieffer, was an American theoretical physicist who defined the BCS wave function behind the theory of superconductivity, sharing the 1972 Nobel Prize in Physics.
Robert Schuller
Robert H. Schuller (1926-2015) was a Reformed Church in America pastor who founded Garden Grove Community Church in 1955, created Hour of Power (1970) and the Crystal Cathedral, pioneered possibility-thinking megachurch ministry, and whose ministry went bankrupt in 2010.