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Roberto Firmino

Roberto Firmino (Roberto Firmino Barbosa de Oliveira), Brazilian forward born 1991 in Maceió; Liverpool 2015-2023 false nine, 362 games, 111 goals, six trophies; later Al-Ahli, AFC Champions League Elite 2025 winner, now Al Sadd.

Roberto Gagliardini

Roberto Gagliardini, born 1994 in Dalmine, Bergamo, is an Italian central midfielder for Cagliari. Atalanta academy product, Inter Milan 2017-2023 (190 games, Serie A 2020/21, two Coppa Italia, two Supercoppa), seven Italy caps.

Roberto Goizueta

Roberto Goizueta was a Cuban-born chemical engineer who led Coca-Cola from 1981 until his death in 1997, growing its value from $4 billion to over $130 billion.

Roberto Gualtieri

Roberto Gualtieri (born Rome, 1966) is an Italian Democratic Party historian and politician, Mayor of Rome since 21 October 2021, formerly Minister of Economy and Finance in the Conte II government (2019-2021) and three-time Member of the European Parliament.

Roberto Heras

Roberto Heras Hernández (born 1974), Spanish climber; four-time Vuelta a España winner (2000, 2003, 2004, 2005). 2005 title stripped after EPO positive, reinstated by Spanish court in 2011; record now shared with Primož Roglič.

Roberto Hernandez

Roberto Hernández (Roberto Hernández Prendes), Cuban 400m sprinter, 1992 Olympic 4x400m relay silver medalist; Cuban record holder at 400m (44.14, 1990) and 300m (31.48); born 1967 Camagüey, died 2021 Havana.

Roberto Hernández Ramírez

Roberto Hernández Ramírez is a Mexican banker and investor who co-founded the brokerage Accival in 1971, won Banamex in the 1991 privatization, and sold it to Citigroup in 2001 for $12.5 billion.

Roberto J. Payró

Roberto J. Payró (Roberto Jorge Payró, 1867–1928) was an Argentine writer, journalist, and playwright whose ironic fiction and La Nación reporting made him a founder of national theater.

Roberto J. Poljak

Roberto J. Poljak is an Argentine-born biophysicist and structural immunologist who determined the first three-dimensional structure of an antibody fragment and of an antigen–antibody complex.

Roberto Juarroz

Roberto Juarroz (1925–1995) was an Argentine poet and University of Buenos Aires professor known for Poesía vertical, a single continuous work in fourteen volumes published from 1958 to 1997.

Roberto Kolter

Roberto Kolter, born 1953, is a microbiologist who was a professor at Harvard Medical School from 1983 until 2018, known for work on bacterial biofilms, stationary-phase physiology, and interspecies interactions.

Roberto Kury

Roberto Kury is an Ecuadorian politician serving as Minister of Foreign Affairs and Human Mobility since 2026, after serving as telecommunications minister and general manager of state-owned CNT EP.

Roberto Luongo

Roberto Luongo, Canadian NHL goaltender (Islanders, Panthers, Canucks), 1,044 games, 489 wins, two Olympic golds, 2022 first-ballot Hockey Hall of Fame inductee, now Panthers special advisor.

Roberto Maiolino

Roberto Maiolino is an Italian astrophysicist, Professor of Experimental Astrophysics at Cambridge since 2012, known for JWST discoveries of massive black holes in the early Universe.

Roberto Malinow

Roberto Malinow, born 1956 in Buenos Aires, is an Argentine-born American neuroscientist at UC San Diego known for showing that AMPA receptor movement underlies synaptic plasticity and memory.

Roberto Mancini

Roberto Mancini, born 1964 in Jesi, Italy, footballer and coach; Sampdoria record holder (567 games, 171 goals), Euro 2020-winning Italy head coach 2018-2023, reappointed Italy coach in July 2026.

Roberto Mantovani

Roberto Mantovani is an Italian molecular biologist, full professor of genetics at the University of Milan, whose career has centered on the CCAAT-binding transcription factor NF-Y.

Roberto Martínez

Roberto Martínez Montoliú, Spanish football manager (born 1973); coached Wigan (2013 FA Cup), Everton, Belgium (2018 World Cup third place), and Portugal (2023–2026, Nations League 2025), leaving after the 2026 World Cup round of 16.

Roberto Matta

Roberto Matta (1911–2002) was a Chilean painter who trained as an architect, joined the Paris Surrealists in the late 1930s, and became a decisive stimulus for Abstract Expressionism.

Roberto Mayor

Roberto Mayor is a Chilean-born developmental biologist, professor at University College London, known for work on embryonic cell migration and the mechanical forces guiding it.

Roberto Medina

Roberto Medina is a Brazilian event producer who created the Rock in Rio festival in 1985 and, as president of Rock World, has organized every edition since.

Roberto Meli Piralla

Roberto Meli Piralla is an Italian-born Mexican structural engineer and emeritus UNAM researcher who founded Mexico's disaster prevention center Cenapred and worked on the Mexico City Metropolitan Cathedral.

Roberto Mignone

Roberto Mignone is an American investor who founded Bridger Management, a New York healthcare-focused hedge fund, in 2000 with $2.1 billion, after Tiger Management and Blue Ridge Capital.

Roberto Molina

Roberto Molina (Roberto Molina Carrasco), Spanish sailor born 1960 in Arrecife, Lanzarote; won 470 class gold at the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics with Luis Doreste, his only Games, later awarded the Medalla de Oro de Canarias.

Roberto Montenegro

Roberto Montenegro, born Roberto Montenegro Nervo, was a Mexican painter from Guadalajara and a founding figure of Mexican Muralism; some specialists call his mural El árbol de la vida the movement's first work.

Roberto Montesano

Roberto Montesano (born 1948) is an Italian cell biologist who spent over three decades at the University of Geneva, where his 1990 and 1991 Cell papers identified hepatocyte growth factor as an epithelial morphogen.

Roberto Morandotti

Roberto Morandotti is a full professor at INRS in Montreal who works in integrated and quantum photonics, known for the first chip-based generation of complex entangled quantum states of light.

Roberto Nazal Jr.

Roberto Gerard Lopez Nazal Jr. (born 1973) is a Filipino businessman and Bagong Henerasyon party-list representative in the Philippine House since 2025, after a contested 2022 Magsasaka proclamation the Supreme Court overturned in 2024.

Roberto Occhiuto

Roberto Occhiuto, born in Cosenza in 1969, is an Italian politician of Forza Italia, its vice secretary, and President of Calabria, first elected in October 2021.

Roberto Orci

Roberto Orci (Roberto Gaston Orcí, 1973–2025), Mexican-American screenwriter and producer, Alex Kurtzman's partner on Transformers, Star Trek (2009), Fringe, Sleepy Hollow, and Hawaii Five-0; died in Los Angeles of kidney disease at 51.