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Roberto Osuna
Roberto Osuna, born 1995 in Sinaloa, Mexico, is a right-handed relief pitcher; MLB closer for Toronto and Houston with 155 saves, youngest ever to 100 and 150 saves, suspended 75 games in 2018 under MLB's domestic violence policy, now with Japan's SoftBank Hawks.
Roberto Pacifici
Roberto Pacifici is an endocrinologist at Emory University School of Medicine and a founder of osteoimmunology, known for showing that T cells mediate estrogen and parathyroid hormone effects on bone.
Roberto Padovani
Roberto Padovani is an Italian-born communications engineer who led CDMA development at Qualcomm, serving as chief technology officer from 2002 to 2011 and creating the HDR technology behind 3G data.
Roberto Pereyra
Roberto Maximiliano Pereyra (El Tucu), Argentine midfielder born 1991 in San Miguel de Tucumán; River Plate, Udinese, Juventus (two Serie A titles), Watford, AEK Athens; 19 Argentina caps, 2 goals; without a club since July 2026. Not Joaquín, Lautaro, or Mauricio Pereyra.
Roberto Piva
Roberto Piva, full name Roberto Lopes Piva, was a Brazilian poet and translator from São Paulo (1937–2010), a central figure of the Geração 60 known for visceral, urban, experimental verse.
Roberto Quintanilla
Roberto Quintanilla Pereira, Bolivian police intelligence chief under Arguedas, ordered the amputation of Che Guevara's hands in 1967; as consul general in Hamburg he was shot dead on 1 April 1971, an assassination attributed to ELN guerrilla Monika Ertl.
Roberto Romero
Roberto Jose Romero-Galue is a Venezuelan-born physician-scientist who has led the NICHD Perinatology Research Branch since 1992 and showed vaginal progesterone cuts preterm birth by 45%.
Roberto Rossellini
Roberto Rossellini (1906–1977), Italian film director, father of Italian neorealism with Rome, Open City (1945), Paisà (1946), Germany Year Zero; later Ingrid Bergman films and didactic television history projects; distinct from his composer brother Renzo Rossellini.
Roberto Rosso
Roberto Rosso is an Italian politician of Forza Italia who has served as deputy vice president of the party's group in the Senate of the Republic since March 31, 2026.
Roberto Saviano
Roberto Saviano (Naples, 1979), Italian writer and journalist, author of Gomorra (2006) on the Camorra, 10 million copies sold, adapted into Garrone's Cannes Grand Prix film and a Sky series; under police escort since 2006.
Roberto Schwarz
Roberto Schwarz is a Brazilian literary critic and Marxist interpreter of Brazilian literature, known for his studies of Machado de Assis and his theory of "misplaced ideas."
Roberto Sitia
Roberto Sitia is an Italian cell biologist and professor emeritus at Vita-Salute San Raffaele University in Milan, known for research on endoplasmic reticulum quality control and antibody secretion.
Roberto Solano
Roberto Solano (Roberto Solano Tavira) is a Spanish plant molecular biologist and CSIC Research Professor in Madrid, known for defining the jasmonate signaling pathway, including the JAZ repressors reported in Nature in 2007.
Roberto Soldado
Roberto Soldado (Roberto Soldado Rillo), Spanish striker born Valencia 1985, retired 2023; Real Madrid, Getafe, Valencia (82 goals), Tottenham £26m record signing, Villarreal, Fenerbahçe, Granada, Levante; 12 Spain caps, 7 goals.
Roberto Soldić
Roberto "Robocop" Soldić, Bosnian-born Croatian UFC welterweight; former KSW two-division champion (welterweight 2017/2018, middleweight 2021), ONE Championship 2022-2026, 18 KO wins, beat Dricus du Plessis, won UFC 332 debut.
Roberto Solozábal
Roberto Solozábal (Roberto Solozábal Villanueva), Spanish centre-back born 1969 in Madrid; Atlético Madrid captain of the 1996 La Liga and Copa del Rey double side, 1992 Olympic football gold medallist, later Real Betis player and president of the Atlético ex-players' association.
Roberto Vannacci
Roberto Vannacci, born 1968 in La Spezia, is an Italian retired army general, author of Il mondo al contrario, and founder of the far-right party Futuro Nazionale, polling ahead of Lega for the 2027 election.
Roberto Velasco Álvarez
Roberto Velasco Álvarez is a Mexican politician who has served as Secretary of Foreign Affairs since 2026, nominated by President Claudia Sheinbaum after serving as Subsecretary for North America.
Roberto Zandonella
Roberto Zandonella (Roberto Zandonella Necca), Italian bobsledder born 1944 in Comelico Superiore; 1968 Grenoble Olympic four-man gold with pilot Eugenio Monti, 1970 world four-man champion, 1972 Sapporo Olympian.
Roberto Zoncu
Roberto Zoncu is a cell biologist and professor at the University of California, Berkeley, known for establishing the lysosome as the signaling hub where mTORC1 senses nutrients.
Roberts (lunar crater)
Roberts is an IAU-approved 89.37 km impact crater on the lunar far side, centered at 70.66°N, about 174.25°W, with satellite crater Roberts M; distinct from the separate Robertson crater.
Roberts Blossom
Roberts Blossom (1924-2011), American character actor and poet, played Old Man Marley in Home Alone and Ezra Cobb in Deranged, won Obie Awards for off-Broadway theater, and guested on Moonlighting and Northern Exposure.
Roberts Court
The Roberts Court is the era of the US Supreme Court under Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr., beginning September 29, 2005, marked by a six-justice conservative majority, historically low rates of striking down state laws, frequent rulings against presidents, and major overrulings such as Dobbs.
Roberts linkage
The Roberts linkage is a four-bar linkage in which a point on the coupler traces an approximate straight line, attributed to Richard Roberts and known by the 1840s.
Roberts syndrome
Roberts syndrome (RBS, pseudothalidomide syndrome) is a rare autosomal recessive ESCO2-spectrum disorder with prenatal growth restriction, symmetric limb reduction, craniofacial anomalies, and premature centromere separation on karyotype.
Robertson (lunar crater)
Robertson: IAU-named lunar impact crater (feature 5162), 89.85 km across, far side at 21.84°N, 105.37°W; Copernican age ~82 ± 4 Ma with Mg-spinel, olivine, and multiple central peaks.
Robertson Davies
Robertson Davies (1913–1995), Canadian novelist, journalist, playwright, and first Master of Massey College, Toronto; author of the Salterton, Deptford, and Cornish trilogies, including Fifth Business (1970) and What's Bred in the Bone, a Booker Prize shortlistee.
Robertson Island
Robertson Island: ice-covered Antarctic island, 13 mi long and 6 mi wide, at the east end of the Seal Nunataks off the Antarctic Peninsula; discovered by C.A. Larsen in 1893 and named for William Robertson of Hamburg.
Robertson Parkman
Robertson Parkman is a pediatric immunologist and hematopoietic stem cell transplantation researcher at Stanford University School of Medicine, known for his 1978 report that bone-marrow transplantation could correct the Wiskott-Aldrich syndrome.
Robertson Stadium
Robertson Stadium was the University of Houston's on-campus football stadium, built in 1941 by HISD and the WPA, renovated in 1999, and demolished in December 2012 for TDECU Stadium.