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Robert Smith Candlish
Robert Smith Candlish (1806–1873) was a Scottish minister and theologian who helped found the Free Church of Scotland, preached at St George's, Edinburgh, and led New College.
Robert Smullen
Robert Smullen is an American politician and retired Marine Corps colonel serving as a Republican member of the New York State Assembly from the 118th district.
Robert Snodgrass
Robert Snodgrass, born 1987 in Glasgow, is a Scottish former footballer, a left-footed right winger for Livingston, Leeds, Norwich, Hull, West Ham, and Hearts, with 28 Scotland caps, retired January 2024 aged 36.
Robert Sobukwe
Robert Mangaliso Sobukwe (1924–1978) was a South African teacher, lecturer, and lawyer who founded the Pan Africanist Congress, led its 1960 anti-pass campaign that ended in the Sharpeville massacre, and spent years in prison.
Robert Solow
Robert M. Solow (1924–2023), American MIT economist and 1987 Nobel laureate in economics, creator of the Solow–Swan growth model and the Solow residual, showed technology drives most economic growth.
Robert Sorgenfrey
Robert Sorgenfrey was an American mathematician who spent his career at UCLA and is remembered for a 1947 paper introducing the Sorgenfrey line and plane, standard counterexamples in general topology.
Robert Southey
Robert Southey (1774–1843), English Lake Poet and Poet Laureate from 1813, friend and brother-in-law of Coleridge; radical author of Joan of Arc who became a conservative prose writer, historian of Brazil, and biographer of Wesley.
Robert Southwell (priest)
Robert Southwell (c. 1561–1595), English Jesuit priest, poet, and martyr; executed at Tyburn under Elizabeth I, canonized among the Forty Martyrs in 1970; wrote Saint Peter's Complaint and influenced Shakespeare, Donne, and Herbert.
Robert Spears-Jennings
Robert Spears-Jennings (born 2004) is an American football safety from Broken Arrow, Oklahoma; an Oklahoma Sooners four-year starter drafted No. 224 overall by the Pittsburgh Steelers in the 2026 NFL Draft after a 4.32-second 40-yard dash.
Robert Spinrad
Robert Spinrad (1932–2009) was an American computer designer who pioneered laboratory automation at Brookhaven National Laboratory and headed Xerox PARC from 1978 to 1983, during the commercialization of personal computing.
Robert Stack
Robert Stack (1919–2003), born Charles Langford Modini Stack, American actor who played Eliot Ness on The Untouchables (1959–63, Emmy 1960), hosted Unsolved Mysteries (1987–2002), earned an Oscar nomination for Written on the Wind, and starred comedically in Airplane!.
Robert Stambaugh
Robert Stambaugh is an American finance academic, the Miller Anderson & Sherrerd Professor at Wharton, who co-founded the Shanghai quant fund manager Mingshi Investment in 2010.
Robert Stanton Ward
Robert Stanton Ward is an American bioengineer who founded ExThera Medical and invented the Seraph 100 blood filter, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2018.
Robert Steinberg
Robert Steinberg (1922–2014) was a Canadian-American mathematician at UCLA whose work on algebraic groups produced the Steinberg representation, Steinberg group, and twisted groups of Lie type.
Robert Stephens
Sir Robert Graham Stephens (1931-1995), English stage and screen actor, founder member of the National Theatre, Maggie Smith's husband 1967-1975, and Olivier Award-winning Falstaff and King Lear for the RSC.
Robert Stephenson
Robert Stephenson (1803–1859) was an English railway and civil engineer, George Stephenson's only son, chief engineer of the London and Birmingham Railway and inventor of the wrought-iron tubular bridge.
Robert Sterling
Robert Sterling (1917-2006), born William Sterling Hart, American film and TV actor, MGM star of Two-Faced Woman and Show Boat, best known as ghost George Kerby with wife Anne Jeffreys in the 1953-1956 sitcom Topper; later a bar-coding software executive.
Robert Steven Galvin
Robert Steven Galvin is an American physician-executive known as a founder of value-based purchasing, formerly General Electric's top health care executive and CEO of Blackstone's Equity Healthcare.
Robert Stewart, Viscount Castlereagh
Robert Stewart, Viscount Castlereagh, 2nd Marquess of Londonderry (1769–1822), Anglo-Irish statesman: chief secretary for Ireland and architect of the 1800 Act of Union, war secretary 1807–1809, and British foreign secretary 1812–1822 who shaped the Congress of Vienna settlement and died by suicide in 1822.
Robert Stickgold
Robert Stickgold is a Harvard Medical School cognitive neuroscientist whose work shows sleep is required for memory, and who studies dreaming as offline memory processing.
Robert Stigwood
Robert Stigwood (1934–2016), Australian-born impresario, manager of Cream and the Bee Gees, founder of RSO Records, and producer of Saturday Night Fever, Grease, Jesus Christ Superstar, and Evita.
Robert Stivers
Robert Stivers, born 1961, is an American Republican politician and attorney who has served as President of the Kentucky Senate since 2013 and represented the 25th District since 1997.
Robert Stone (novelist)
Robert Stone (1937-2015), American novelist of moral and political extremity, author of A Hall of Mirrors, National Book Award winner Dog Soldiers (1974), A Flag for Sunrise, Outerbridge Reach, and Damascus Gate; ex-Navy, Merry Prankster, Vietnam journalist, Pulitzer finalist for Bear and His Daughter, died in Key West.
Robert Straus
Robert Straus (1923–2020) was an American medical sociologist and alcohol studies researcher who founded the first behavioral science department at an American medical school, at the University of Kentucky.
Robert Stroud
Robert Stroud (1890–1963), the "Birdman of Alcatraz," was a federal prisoner and self-taught ornithologist who raised canaries and wrote Diseases of Canaries at Leavenworth; he kept no birds at Alcatraz, where he arrived December 19, 1942.
Robert Strutt, 4th Baron Rayleigh
Robert John Strutt, 4th Baron Rayleigh, was a British physicist whose helium measurements of minerals gave minimum ages for the Earth and who first quantified the night sky's light.
Robert Stuart Edgar
Robert Stuart Edgar (1930–2016) was an American geneticist who worked out how bacteriophage T4 assembles and helped establish the worm C. elegans as a model organism.
Robert Sugden
Robert Sugden is a fictional character in ITV soap opera Emmerdale, born on screen 1986, son of Jack and Pat Sugden, played by four actors including Ryan Hawley since 2014, ex-partner of Aaron Dingle, now tenant farmer at Emmerdale Farm.
Robert Sutton
Robert Sutton (died 1587) was an English Catholic priest and martyr, executed at Stafford under Elizabeth I and beatified by Pope John Paul II in 1987.
Robert Swan
Robert Swan OBE, British polar explorer, first person to walk to both the South Pole (1986) and North Pole (1989); founder of the 2041 Foundation for Antarctic preservation.