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Robert Schuman
Robert Schuman (1886–1963), French statesman for Moselle and foreign minister 1948–1953, presented the Schuman Declaration of 9 May 1950 founding the ECSC; first President of the European Parliamentary Assembly.
Robert Schumann
Robert Schumann was a German Romantic composer and music critic known for piano cycles, art songs, four symphonies, and founding the journal Neue Zeitschrift für Musik in 1834.
Robert Schwartz (pediatric endocrinologist)
Robert Schwartz is an American physician-scientist in pediatric endocrinology at Brown University and Rhode Island Hospital whose research established how insulin acts in the human fetus and newborn.
Robert Schwartzman
Robert Schwartzman (Robert Coppola Schwartzman, Robert Carmine), born 1982, American filmmaker, actor, and Rooney frontman of the Coppola family; directed Dreamland, The Unicorn, The Argument, and The Good Half.
Robert Sean Leonard
Robert Sean Leonard (born 1969), American actor; Tony winner for The Invention of Love; Neil Perry in Dead Poets Society; Dr. James Wilson on House (2004-12); also The Gilded Age.
Robert Sedgewick (computer scientist)
Robert Sedgewick (born 1946) is an American computer scientist, founding chair of Princeton's computer science department, known for red–black trees and the Algorithms textbook series.
Robert Seguso
Robert Seguso (born 1963, Minneapolis) is an American tennis player, doubles specialist with Ken Flach; 1988 Olympic doubles gold, four Grand Slam doubles titles, world No. 1 doubles team, husband of Carling Bassett.
Robert Sekuler
Robert Sekuler, born in 1939, is an American cognitive neuroscientist, the Louis and Frances Salvage Professor of Psychology, Emeritus, at Brandeis University, known for research on visual perception, memory, and aging.
Robert Serber
Robert Serber (1909–1997) was an American theoretical physicist who, as Oppenheimer's assistant at Los Alamos in 1943, organized the atomic bomb's theoretical foundations and wrote the Los Alamos Primer.
Robert Shapiro (lawyer)
Robert Leslie Shapiro (born 1942) is a Los Angeles defense attorney, O.J. Simpson "Dream Team" member, LegalZoom cofounder, and founder of the Brent Shapiro Foundation; not the NY or DC lawyer of the same name.
Robert Shapley
Robert M. Shapley is an American visual neurophysiologist at New York University known for work on retinal gain control and orientation tuning in visual cortex.
Robert Sharp (Martian crater)
Robert Sharp crater, a 152.08-km-wide impact crater on Mars west of Gale crater at 4.17S 133.42E, IAU-named May 16, 2012 for American geologist Robert P. Sharp (1911-2004); distinct from Mount Sharp in Gale.
Robert Shaw (actor)
Robert Shaw, also known as Robert Archibald Shaw, was an English actor and novelist known for Quint in Jaws, Red Grant in From Russia with Love, and Doyle Lonnegan in The Sting.
Robert Shaye
Robert Shaye, known as Bob Shaye, is an American film executive and producer who founded New Line Cinema in 1967 and backed The Lord of the Rings trilogy.
Robert Sheehan
Robert Michael Sheehan, Irish actor born 1988 in Portlaoise, County Laois; known as Nathan in Misfits, Darren in Love/Hate, and Klaus Hargreeves in Netflix's The Umbrella Academy (2019–2024).
Robert Shimer
Robert Shimer is a macro-labor economist at the University of Chicago, best known for the Shimer puzzle: the standard search model of unemployment cannot reproduce observed unemployment and vacancy volatility.
Robert Shwartzman (Роберт Михайлович Шварцман)
Robert Shwartzman (Роберт Шварцман), Israeli-born racing driver raised in Saint Petersburg; 2019 FIA F3 champion, 2021 F2 runner-up, Ferrari F1 reserve, 2024 WEC Ferrari 499P race winner, 2025 Indy 500 pole-sitter, Peugeot WEC driver from 2027.
Robert Silverberg bibliography
The Robert Silverberg bibliography catalogs the work of science fiction author Robert Silverberg, born 1935, spanning more than one hundred science fiction books and about two hundred pseudonymous erotic novels.
Robert Simpson
Robert Simpson (Robert Ingalls Simpson, born May 25, 1892) was an American hurdler and coach from Bosworth, Missouri; 120-yard hurdles world record holder at 14.6 (1916), 1919 Inter-Allied Games double champion, and Missouri head coach 1920–1926. Not the powerlifter or bodybuilder of the same name.
Robert Simpson Woodward
Robert Simpson Woodward was an American geophysicist and geodesist who measured the Earth's figure and gravity field, then led the Carnegie Institution from 1904 to 1920.
Robert Sinclair Dietz
Robert Sinclair Dietz (1914–1995) was an American geophysicist and oceanographer who proposed seafloor spreading in a 1961 Nature paper, coined the term, and later studied meteorite impact structures.
Robert Sink
Robert Frederick Sink (1905-1965), American Army lieutenant general, commanded the 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment through World War II (D-Day, Market Garden, Bastogne), later led STRAC; portrayed by Dale Dye in Band of Brothers.
Robert Siodmak
Robert Siodmak (1900-1973), Dresden-born German-American film director, exile in Paris and Hollywood, master of film noir (Phantom Lady, The Killers, Criss Cross), Golden Bear for Die Ratten 1955.
Robert Sirico
Robert Sirico, also known as Robert A. Sirico, is an American Catholic priest who co-founded the Acton Institute in Grand Rapids in 1990 and led it until 2021.
Robert Sjursen
Robert Sjursen (Robert Emanuel Sjursen-Rafto, 1891-1965), Norwegian gymnast with Bergens TF; won 1912 Stockholm Olympic gold in the men's team free system event and the 1918 Norwegian decathlon title; father of Thorolf Rafto.
Robert Smalls
Robert Smalls (1839-1915), Beaufort, South Carolina, enslaved sailor who commandeered the Confederate steamer Planter on May 13, 1862, delivered it and 16 people to the Union blockade, then served five terms in the U.S. House and as Beaufort customs collector.
Robert Smigel
Robert Smigel (born 1960), also known as Rob Smigel, is an American comedy writer and puppeteer, creator and voice of Triumph the Insult Comic Dog, SNL's TV Funhouse cartoons, and co-writer of Hotel Transylvania.
Robert Smilowitz
Robert Smilowitz is an American structural engineer specializing in protective design and blast engineering, a Senior Principal at Thornton Tomasetti elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2025.
Robert Smith (musician)
Robert Smith (born 1959) is the English singer, guitarist, and songwriter who founded The Cure in Crawley in 1976 and is its only constant member, known for the dark trilogy through Disintegration (1989), Wish, Songs of a Lost World (2024), and his goth-icon look, while rejecting the goth label.
Robert Smith (running back)
Robert Smith (born 1972, Euclid, Ohio) is a former Minnesota Vikings running back (1993-2000), two-time Pro Bowler, 2000 NFC rushing leader with 1,521 yards, who retired at 28 and became a FOX Sports analyst and Fan Huddle founder.