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Roberto Calderoli
Roberto Calderoli, born in Bergamo in 1956, is an Italian Lega politician who has served as Minister for Regional Affairs and Autonomies in Giorgia Meloni's government since 2022.
Roberto Calvi
Roberto Calvi, known as "God's banker", was an Italian banker and chairman of Banco Ambrosiano, whose 1982 collapse left over $1 billion missing; he was found hanged under Blackfriars Bridge in London.
Roberto Cammarelle
Roberto Cammarelle, Italian super heavyweight amateur boxer born 1980 in Milan; Olympic gold Beijing 2008, silver London 2012, bronze Athens 2004; two-time world champion; State Police officer.
Roberto Canessa
Roberto Canessa (born 1953, Montevideo), Uruguayan pediatric cardiologist; as a 19-year-old medical student survived the 1972 Andes Flight 571 crash and walked out with Nando Parrado; later fetal cardiology specialist and Society of the Snow figure.
Roberto Car
Roberto Car is an Italian computational physicist and chemist, a professor at Princeton University who co-invented Car–Parrinello molecular dynamics, a standard simulation method, in 1985.
Roberto Carlos
Roberto Carlos (Roberto Carlos da Silva, born 1973) is a Brazilian left-back, 2002 World Cup winner and three-time Champions League winner with Real Madrid, famous for his 1997 bending free kick against France.
Roberto Carlos (singer)
Roberto Carlos (born 1941, Cachoeiro do Itapemirim), Brazilian singer called O Rei, led the 1960s Jovem Guarda on TV Record, then became Latin music's best-selling romantic artist with over 120 million records, a Grammy, and an annual Globo Christmas special since 1974.
Roberto Cattaneo
Roberto Cattaneo is a Swiss-born virologist and professor at Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, known for research on measles virus, including the host-exit receptor nectin-4.
Roberto Cavalli
Roberto Cavalli (1940-2024), Italian fashion designer and founder of the eponymous Florence house, known for animal prints, patented leather printing, sandblasted and stretch jeans, and celebrity glamour.
Roberto Cavanagh
Roberto Cavanagh (Roberto Diego Lorenzo Cavanagh y Hearne), Argentine polo player, 1936 Berlin Olympic gold medalist at #2 for Argentina; later won two Cups of the Americas, seven Argentine Opens, and the 1951 Pan-American Games polo title.
Roberto Cecon
Roberto Cecon, born 1971 in Gemona del Friuli, Italian ski jumper; four Olympics 1992-2002, six World Cup wins, two ski-flying world bronzes, Italian record 207.5 m; father and coach of Francesco Cecon.
Roberto Chiarle
Roberto Chiarle is an Italian molecular pathologist, Professor of Pathology at Harvard Medical School since 2020, known for ALK cancer vaccines, translocation sequencing, and founding ALKemist Bio.
Roberto Cipolla
Roberto Cipolla, born 1963, is Professor of Information Engineering at the University of Cambridge, known for computer vision research, SegNet, and directing Toshiba's Cambridge Research Laboratory.
Roberto Clemente
Roberto Clemente (Roberto Clemente Walker), Puerto Rican Pirates right fielder 1955-1972; 3,000 hits, .317, 12 Gold Gloves, 1966 MVP; died 1972 in Nicaragua relief plane crash; first Latin American Hall of Famer.
Roberto Colaninno
Roberto Colaninno (1943–2023) was an Italian entrepreneur and chair of Immsi who led Olivetti's record 1999 takeover of Telecom Italia and turned Piaggio into Europe's largest scooter maker.
Roberto de Nobili
Roberto de Nobili (தத்துவபோத சுவாமி), an Italian Jesuit missionary in South India, founded the Madurai mission in 1606 and presented Christianity in Brahmin dress, language, and custom, earning the nickname the White Brahmin.
Roberto De Zerbi
Roberto De Zerbi, Italian football manager and former attacking midfielder from Brescia; coach of Sassuolo, Shakhtar Donetsk, Brighton (sixth in 2022/23), Marseille (Ligue 1 runners-up 2024/25) and, from 31 March 2026, Tottenham Hotspur; known for press-baiting 3-2-5 possession tactics.
Roberto Delgado
Roberto Delgado is a Panamanian producer, arranger, bassist, and singer who leads Roberto Delgado & Orquesta, the salsa orchestra that records and tours with Rubén Blades.
Roberto di Donna
Roberto Di Donna (born 1968, Rome) is an Italian pistol shooter, 1996 Atlanta Olympic gold medalist in 10 m air pistol (684.2, beating Wang Yifu by 0.1) and 1996 free pistol bronze medalist, now Italy's pistol team head coach.
Roberto Di Matteo
Roberto Di Matteo (born 1970, Schaffhausen) is an Italian former footballer and manager; Chelsea record signing 1996, scored in three Wembley finals, and won the 2012 FA Cup and Champions League as Chelsea caretaker manager.
Roberto Docampo
Roberto Docampo is an Argentine-trained parasitologist at the University of Georgia, recruited in 2005, known for discovering the acidocalcisome and for work on chemotherapy of parasitic diseases.
Roberto Domínguez (biophysicist)
Roberto Domínguez, also published as Roberto Dominguez, is a structural biologist and biophysicist at the University of Pennsylvania who determines atomic structures of the actin cytoskeleton.
Roberto Donadoni
Roberto Donadoni, Italian football manager and former Milan winger (five Serie A titles, three European Cups, 63 Italy caps), coached Italy 2006-2008 through Euro 2008, then Napoli, Parma, Bologna, Shenzhen, and Spezia.
Roberto Durán
Roberto Durán, "Manos de Piedra" (Hands of Stone), Panamanian boxer born 1951, four-division world champion (lightweight to middleweight), 103-16 with 70 KOs, famous for beating Sugar Ray Leonard in 1980 and the "no más" rematch quit.
Roberto Echavarren
Roberto Echavarren (born 1944, Montevideo) is a Uruguayan neo-baroque poet, novelist, essayist, and translator, co-editor of the anthology Medusario (1996), NYU professor for 20 years, and author of Verde escarabajo and Russian Nights.
Roberto Escobar
Roberto Escobar Gaviria, El Osito, Colombian accountant of the Medellín Cartel and older brother of Pablo Escobar; surrendered 1991, blinded by a letter bomb in prison, wrote The Accountant's Story, founded Escobar Inc., and demanded $1 billion from Netflix over Narcos.
Roberto Farinacci
Roberto Farinacci (1892–1945), ras of Cremona and leader of fascism's intransigent wing; PNF secretary 1925–1926, founder of Il Regime Fascista, most pro-German hierarch, executed by partisans 28 April 1945.
Roberto Ferrari (Italian cardiologist)
Roberto Ferrari is an Italian cardiologist, Emeritus Professor at the University of Ferrara, known for leading large trials of ivabradine and trimetazidine and for leading the European Society of Cardiology.
Roberto Fico
Roberto Fico is an Italian politician of the Movimento 5 Stelle, elected President of Campania in 2025 after serving as President of the Chamber of Deputies.
Roberto Figueroa
Roberto Figueroa (1906-1989), Uruguayan left winger and Montevideo Wanderers player; won football gold at the 1928 Amsterdam Olympics, scoring Uruguay's first goal in the final replay against Argentina; six goals in nine internationals.