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Robert Thompson
Robert Thompson (born 21 November 1884, Berwick-upon-Tweed; died 1974) was a British road cyclist with Coldstream CC who placed 24th in the 1912 Stockholm Olympic road race and fourth in the team event.
Robert Thomson Leiper
Robert Thomson Leiper (1881–1969) was a British parasitologist and helminthologist who solved the life cycles of the guinea worm and the two African human schistosomes.
Robert Thorpe
Robert Thorpe was an English Catholic seminary priest from Yorkshire who was executed at York in 1591 and beatified by Pope John Paul II in 1987.
Robert Thurman
Robert Thurman, also known as Robert A. F. Thurman (born 1941), is an American scholar of Tibetan Buddhism and former monk who held Columbia's first endowed Buddhist studies chair.
Robert Tibshirani
Robert Tibshirani, born 1956, in Niagara Falls, Ontario, is a Canadian-born American statistician and Stanford professor known for the lasso, generalized additive models, and SAM.
Robert Tienwen Chien
Robert Tienwen Chien (1931–1983) was a Chinese-born computer scientist and coding theorist at the University of Illinois and IBM, known for the Chien search used in decoding BCH and Reed–Solomon codes.
Robert Tigerstedt
Robert Tigerstedt (1853–1923) was a Finnish physiologist who, with his student Per Bergman at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, discovered renin in 1898, the kidney enzyme behind modern hypertension drugs.
Robert Tilton
Robert G. Tilton, American televangelist and prosperity preacher, founded Word of Faith Family Church in Farmers Branch, Texas (1976) and hosted the infomercial-style program Success-N-Life, which at its 1991 peak reached 235 markets and earned nearly $80 million a year before an ABC PrimeTime Live exposé.
Robert Tisdall
Robert Morton Newburgh "Bob" Tisdall (1907–2004), Irish athlete born in Ceylon, won the 1932 Los Angeles Olympic 400m hurdles gold in 51.7 (51.67), a world record time not ratified because he knocked the last hurdle; also 8th in the decathlon.
Robert Tjian
Robert Tjian is a biochemist at UC Berkeley who studies transcription control, identified the first human gene-specific transcription factor, and led the Howard Hughes Medical Institute from 2009 to 2016.
Robert Todd Lincoln
Robert Todd Lincoln (1843-1926), eldest son of Abraham Lincoln, was a lawyer, U.S. Secretary of War under Garfield and Arthur, minister to Great Britain, and Pullman Company president, famously linked to three presidential shootings.
Robert Todd Lincoln Beckwith
Robert Todd Lincoln Beckwith (1904–1985), gentleman farmer of Hartfield, Virginia, was Abraham Lincoln's great-grandson and last direct descendant; his 1976 paternity case failed and the Lincoln line ended at his death.
Robert Tonyan
Robert Tonyan Jr. (born 1994) is an NFL tight end, Indiana State alum, and 2020 Packers breakout (52 catches, 11 TDs) now with the Pittsburgh Steelers on a one-year 2026 deal.
Robert Torricelli
Robert Guy Torricelli, New Jersey Democrat; U.S. Representative 1983–1997 and Senator 1997–2003; withdrew his 2002 reelection bid after a Senate Ethics Committee admonishment over gifts from donor David Chang.
Robert Towne
Robert Towne (1934–2024) was an American screenwriter and director, Oscar winner for Chinatown, also known for The Last Detail, Shampoo, script-doctoring Bonnie and Clyde and The Godfather, and directing Personal Best.
Robert Townsend (actor)
Robert Townsend (born 1957, Chicago) is an American actor, director, writer, and producer who self-financed the 1987 satire Hollywood Shuffle with savings and credit cards, then directed The Five Heartbeats, The Meteor Man, Holiday Heart, and numerous TV episodes.
Robert Townsend (spy)
Robert Townsend (1753–1838), alias Samuel Culper Jr., code 723, was the Culper Spy Ring's principal collector in British-occupied New York, a Quaker merchant and journalist whose identity was revealed only in 1930.
Robert Traylor
Robert "Tractor" Traylor (1977–2011), Detroit-born Michigan center, sixth pick of the 1998 NBA Draft, traded by Dallas to Milwaukee for Dirk Nowitzki and Pat Garrity; 438 NBA games, 4.8 PPG, died of a heart attack in Puerto Rico at 34.
Robert Trent Jones
Robert Trent Jones Sr. (1906–2000), English-born American golf course architect, the "Open Doctor"; designed or remodeled 350–500+ courses, founded ASGCA, built the Alabama Golf Trail; father of Robert Jr. and Rees Jones.
Robert Trivers
Robert Trivers (1943–2026) was an American evolutionary biologist whose 1971–1974 papers on reciprocal altruism, parental investment, and parent–offspring conflict laid sociobiology's foundations, earning the 2007 Crafoord Prize.
Robert Trujillo
Robert Trujillo (born 1964, Santa Monica, California) is an American bassist, Metallica's bass player since 2003, formerly of Suicidal Tendencies, Infectious Grooves, and Ozzy Osbourne's band.
Robert Trump
Robert S. Trump, also known as Bob Trump, was an American business executive who oversaw the Trump Organization's Atlantic City casinos and was the younger brother of President Donald Trump.
Robert Turner (scientist)
Robert Turner, born 1946 in Daventry, England, is a British physicist whose work shaped MRI scanners and functional brain imaging, including early BOLD fMRI demonstrations.
Robert Tycko
Robert Tycko, also published as R. Tycko, is an American biophysical chemist at the NIH's NIDDK who uses solid-state NMR to determine the structures of amyloid fibrils in Alzheimer's disease.
Robert Urich
Robert Urich (1946–2002), American TV actor from Toronto, Ohio; starred in Vega$, Spenser: For Hire, S.W.A.T., and Soap; diagnosed with synovial cell sarcoma in 1996.
Robert V Blanden
Robert V Blanden, full name Robert Vincent Blanden, is an Australian immunologist who led the Immunology Group at the John Curtin School of Medical Research, ANU.
Robert V. Farese
Robert V. Farese Jr. is an American biochemist and physician who identified the DGAT enzymes that synthesize triglycerides and helped establish lipid droplets as dynamic organelles.
Robert V. Kohn
Robert V. Kohn, born Robert Vita Kohn (1953–2026), was an American applied mathematician at NYU's Courant Institute known for the Caffarelli-Kohn-Nirenberg theorem and pioneering mathematical materials science.
Robert V. Thomann
Robert V. Thomann (1934–2026) was an American environmental engineer and Professor Emeritus at Manhattan College, known for modeling PCB bioaccumulation in the Lake Michigan food chain.
Robert Vadra (रॉबर्ट वाड्रा)
Robert Vadra (रॉबर्ट वाड्रा), Indian businessman, husband of Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, son-in-law of Sonia Gandhi; central figure in the Shikohpur-Gurgaon Skylight Hospitality-DLF land deal ED money laundering case, plus Bikaner and Rajasthan benami land probes.