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Robert Wuhl
Robert Wuhl (born 1951, Union Township, New Jersey) is an American actor, comedian, and writer, creator and star of HBO's Arli$$ (1996-2002) and two-time Emmy winner for Billy Crystal's Oscar telecasts, known for Bull Durham and Batman.
Robert Wyatt
Robert Wyatt (Robert Wyatt Ellidge, born 1945, Bristol), founding drummer-vocalist of Soft Machine and Matching Mole; after a 1973 fall left him paraplegic he became an art-rock singer behind Rock Bottom and the top 40 hit Shipbuilding.
Robert Yarchoan
Robert Yarchoan is an American physician-scientist at the National Cancer Institute who led the first trials of AZT, co-developed ddI and ddC, and has headed its HIV and AIDS Malignancy Branch since 1996.
Robert Yates (politician)
Robert Yates (1738–1801), New York judge and Anti-Federalist politician; Chief Justice of the New York Supreme Court 1790–1798; 1787 Constitutional Convention delegate who withdrew, kept convention notes, and is the presumed author of the "Brutus" essays.
Robert Yerkes
Robert Yerkes (1876–1956) was an American psychologist and primatologist who developed comparative psychology, created the Yerkes–Dodson law and Army mental tests, and founded the Yale Laboratories of Primate Biology.
Robert Young (actor)
Robert Young (1907-1998), American film, radio, and television actor and producer, known as Jim Anderson in Father Knows Best and as Dr. Marcus Welby in Marcus Welby, M.D.; three Emmy Awards.
Robert Z. Orlowski
Robert Z. Orlowski is a physician-scientist at MD Anderson Cancer Center who led the first clinical studies of bortezomib and the IMROZ trial of isatuximab for multiple myeloma.
Robert Z'Dar
Robert Z'Dar (Robert James Zdarsky, 1950-2015), American cult B-movie actor of Lithuanian origin, played Matt Cordell in the Maniac Cop trilogy and Face in Tango & Cash; 121 films, distinctive jaw from cherubism.
Robert Zeiser
Robert Zeiser (born 1975) is a German hematology and oncology physician-scientist at the University of Freiburg known for developing ruxolitinib therapy for steroid-refractory graft-versus-host disease.
Robert Zelis
Robert Zelis (1939–2021) was an American cardiologist and physician-scientist who spent 40 years at Penn State's Hershey Medical Center, arriving in 1974 as its second chief of cardiology.
Robert Zemeckis
Robert Zemeckis, also known as Bob Zemeckis, is an American film director who directed Back to the Future and won an Oscar for Forrest Gump (1994).
Robert Zimmer
Robert Jeffrey Zimmer (1947–2023) was an American mathematician in ergodic theory and Lie theory who served as the 13th president of the University of Chicago from 2006 to 2021.
Robert Zimonyi
Róbert Zimonyi (Zverzsina), Hungarian-American rowing coxswain (1918–2004): 1948 Olympic bronze for Hungary in coxed pairs, defected after 1956, won 1964 Tokyo gold coxing the US men's eight at age 46.
Robert Zmelik
Robert Změlík (born 1969) is a Czech decathlete, 1992 Barcelona Olympic champion for Czechoslovakia with 8611 points, 1997 Paris World Indoor heptathlon champion, personal best 8627.
Robert Zubrin
Robert Zubrin, also known as Bob Zubrin, is an American aerospace engineer and author, born in 1952, best known for the Mars Direct plan and founding the Mars Society.
Robert Zwanzig
Robert Zwanzig (1928–2014) was an American theoretical physical chemist who worked in statistical mechanics at the University of Maryland and NIH, best known for the projection operator method.
Robert-Bourassa Generating Station
The Robert-Bourassa Generating Station, known until 1996 as La Grande-2, is a hydroelectric plant on Québec's La Grande River with 5,616 MW of capacity, the largest power station in Canada.
Robert-François Damiens
Robert-François Damiens (1715–1757) was a French domestic servant who stabbed Louis XV at Versailles on 5 January 1757. The last person in France drawn and quartered, executed 28 March 1757, he is famous through Foucault's Discipline and Punish.
Robert's Rules of Order
Robert's Rules of Order, first published 1876 by Henry M. Robert as the Pocket Manual of Rules of Order for Deliberative Assemblies, is America's most widely used parliamentary manual; the current Newly Revised 12th edition appeared in 2020.
RoBERTa
RoBERTa is a transformer encoder from Facebook AI, released in 2019, that keeps BERT's architecture but pretrains it with more data and no next-sentence prediction.
Roberta A. Ballard
Roberta A. Ballard is an American neonatologist, emeritus professor of pediatrics at the University of Pennsylvania and Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, who led major trials on chronic lung disease in premature infants.
Roberta B. Ness
Roberta B. Ness is an American physician-epidemiologist known for women's health research, her deanship of the University of Texas School of Public Health, and advocacy of creative thinking in science.
Roberta Colindrez
Roberta Colindrez (born 1986, Monterrey, Mexico) is a Mexican-American actress and writer, Fun Home original Broadway cast (Joan), known for I Love Dick, Vida, A League of Their Own (Lupe García), Cassandro, and Cult of Love.
Roberta Croce
Roberta Croce is an Italian biophysicist studying light harvesting in photosynthesis, professor at VU Amsterdam since 2011 and president of the International Society of Photosynthesis Research.
Roberta Flack
Roberta Flack (1937-2025), American singer-pianist of "Killing Me Softly with His Song" and "The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face"; first solo artist with back-to-back Record of the Year Grammys; died of ALS in Manhattan.
Roberta J. Nichols
Roberta J. Nichols was an American aerospace and automotive engineer who led alternative fuel development at Ford, held three flexible-fuel vehicle patents, and joined the National Academy of Engineering in 1997.
Roberta Kray
Roberta Kray, born in Southport, England, in 1959, is a British crime novelist of London East End gangland fiction, married to the gangster Reg Kray from 1997 until his death in 2000.
Roberta L. Rudnick
Roberta L. Rudnick is a geochemist and Distinguished Professor at UC Santa Barbara known for the 1995 paper "Making continental crust" and for developing lithium isotope geochemistry.
Roberta Lange
Roberta Lange is an American politician and Democrat serving in the Nevada Senate, representing the 7th district, where she has sponsored legislation to bring more filmmaking to Nevada.
Roberta Leighton (actress)
Roberta Leighton (birth name Roberta Leighton Weimar), American actress born 1953 in Minneapolis; known for Anita in Stripes (1981), Liza Williams in Barracuda, and soap roles Dr. Casey Reed on The Young and the Restless and Ginger Dawson on Days of Our Lives; married to actor Corey Young.