All articles starting with R

Robert Wayne Allard

Robert Wayne Allard (1919–2003) was an American plant geneticist at UC Davis, a founder of plant population genetics, elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1973.

Robert Webb

Robert Webb (born 1972, Boston, Lincolnshire) is an English actor, comedian, and writer, half of Mitchell and Webb; Jeremy in Peep Show, That Mitchell and Webb Look, Back, and How Not To Be a Boy.

Robert Laman Webber (1924-1989), American character actor born in Santa Ana, California, distinct from the British actor of the same name: Juror 12 in 12 Angry Men, General Denton in The Dirty Dozen, Moonlighting, died of ALS in Malibu.

Robert Wellesley Mann

Robert Wellesley Mann (1924–2006) was an American mechanical engineer at MIT, a founder of rehabilitation engineering who developed the Boston Arm, the first artificial limb controlled by biology and technology.

Robert Wendell Heath Jr.

Robert Wendell Heath Jr. is an American wireless communications engineer at UC San Diego, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2025 for MIMO and 5G research.

Robert Wertheim

Robert Halley Wertheim (1922–2020) was an American naval officer and strategic weapons engineer who retired as a rear admiral after leading development of the Navy's Polaris, Poseidon, and Trident submarine-launched ballistic missiles.

Oct 21, 2026

Robert Whilden

Robert (Bobby) Whilden, aka Road, American sprinter and lawyer; Texas Longhorns 1955-57, world-record 440-yard relays, 1956 Olympic trials finalist; masters world records at M70 (100m 12.76/12.77) and M85 (60m 9.63).

Sep 27, 2026

Robert White (Washington, D.C. politician)

Robert White is an American Democratic politician who has served on the D.C. Council at large since 2017 and is the Democratic nominee for D.C. Delegate to the U.S. House in 2026.

Oct 22, 2026

Robert Whitehead

Robert Whitehead (1823–1905) was a British engineer who invented the Whitehead torpedo, the first effective self-propelled torpedo, developed at Fiume, in the Austrian Empire, in 1866 and adopted by navies worldwide.

Robert Whittaker

Robert Whittaker was an American community ecologist and Cornell professor known for the five-kingdom classification of organisms, gradient analysis, and alpha, beta, and gamma diversity.

Robert Whittaker (fighter)

Robert Whittaker, "The Reaper" or "Bobby Knuckles", Australian MMA fighter born 1990 in Auckland, former UFC middleweight champion (2017–2019), TUF Smashes winner, now a UFC light heavyweight.

Robert Wichard Pohl

Robert Wichard Pohl (1884–1976) was a German experimental physicist who directed the First Physics Institute at Göttingen from 1919 to 1952, studied color centers in crystals, and revolutionized physics teaching with projected lecture demonstrations.

Robert Wilcox

Robert Wilcox (1558–1588) was an English Catholic seminary priest from Chester who trained at Reims and was hanged, drawn, and quartered at Canterbury in 1588.

Sep 19, 2026

Robert Wildman

Robert E. Wildman (died 2008) was an Indianapolis businessman who co-founded the Burger Chef fast-food chain in the late 1950s, serving as vice president in charge of financing, franchising, and leasing.

Robert Wilkinson (clinician-scientist)

Robert J. Wilkinson is a British clinician-scientist studying tuberculosis and HIV co-infection, whose Cape Town trials changed World Health Organization policy and who was appointed OBE in 2025.

Robert William Fisher

Robert William Fisher (born 1961) is an American FBI fugitive wanted for allegedly murdering his wife Mary and children Brittney and Bobby in Scottsdale, Arizona on April 10, 2001, then blowing up the house. Added to Ten Most Wanted in 2002 (#475), removed in 2021, never found.

Robert William Philip

Robert William Philip (1857–1939) was a Scottish physician who founded the world's first tuberculosis dispensary in Edinburgh in 1887; his Edinburgh Scheme became national policy in Britain after 1906.

Robert Williams (artist)

Robert Williams (artist), born 1943 in Albuquerque, is an American painter and cartoonist, also known as Robt. Williams, who named Lowbrow art with his 1979 book, worked for Ed 'Big Daddy' Roth, drew for Zap Comix, painted Guns N' Roses' Appetite for Destruction cover, and co-founded Juxtapoz.

Robert Williams (chemist)

Robert Joseph Paton Williams, known as Bob Williams, was an English chemist at Oxford for over 60 years who helped establish bioinorganic chemistry and first described how proton gradients drive ATP formation.

Robert Williams III

Robert Williams III, nicknamed The Timelord, born 1997, is an NBA center-forward from Texas A&M, drafted 27th in 2018 by Boston, now on the Portland Trail Blazers on a 3-year, $44 million extension.

Robert Williamson (molecular geneticist)

Robert Williamson, born 1938, is a human molecular geneticist who cloned the globin genes and mapped the cystic fibrosis gene, leading the Murdoch Children's Research Institute in Melbourne.

Robert Wilson Shufeldt (naval officer)

Rear Admiral Robert Wilson Shufeldt (1822–1895) was a United States Navy officer who negotiated the 1882 treaty between Korea and the United States, Korea's first with a Western power.

Robert Winchelsey

Robert Winchelsey, also spelled Winchelsea, was an English theologian and Archbishop of Canterbury from 1293 to 1313 who led the clergy's resistance to Edward I's taxation and was suspended from 1306 to 1308.

Robert Wise

Robert Earl Wise (1914–2005) was an American film director, producer, and editor who won Academy Awards for directing West Side Story and The Sound of Music.

Robert Wodrow

Robert Wodrow (1679–1734) was a Scottish Presbyterian minister and ecclesiastical historian at Eastwood, near Glasgow, known for his History of the Sufferings of the Church of Scotland.

Robert Wood Johnson I

Robert Wood Johnson I (1845–1910), American pharmacist and businessman, co-founded Johnson & Johnson in 1886 with brothers James Wood and Edward Mead, served as its first president 1887–1910, and pioneered mass-produced sterile surgical dressings after hearing Joseph Lister at the 1876 Centennial Exposition.