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Robin Cook
Robin Cook (Robert Finlayson Cook, 1946–2005), British Labour Foreign Secretary 1997–2001 and Leader of the Commons 2001–2003, who resigned over the Iraq war on 17 March 2003 and championed an ethical foreign policy.
Robin Cook (American novelist)
Robin Cook (born 1940) is an American physician-novelist credited with creating the medical thriller genre with Coma (1977). Author of over forty bestsellers including Outbreak, Contagion, and the Jack Stapleton and Laurie Montgomery series.
Robin Cousins
Robin Cousins (Robin John Cousins), British figure skater born 1957 in Bristol, won men's singles gold at the 1980 Lake Placid Olympics, was 1980 European champion, BBC Sports Personality of the Year, and later head judge on Dancing on Ice.
Robin de Jesús
Robin de Jesús (born 1984, Norwalk, Connecticut) is an American actor and singer, a three-time Tony nominee for In the Heights, La Cage aux Folles, and The Boys in the Band, and screen actor in Camp and tick, tick... Boom!.
Robin Dearden
Robin Gale Dearden (born 1953, Los Angeles) is an American actress of Magic Mongo, Magnum, P.I., Generations and Breaking Bad, and wife of Bryan Cranston since 1989.
Robin DiAngelo
Robin DiAngelo is an American educator at the University of Washington who coined "white fragility" in 2011 and wrote the 2018 bestseller White Fragility, which sold about 1.5 million copies.
Robin Dixon, 3rd Baron Glentoran
Robin Dixon, 3rd Baron Glentoran (Thomas Robin Valerian Dixon), British bobsledder born 1935; with Tony Nash won two-man bobsleigh gold at Innsbruck 1964, world titles 1964-65, later Conservative House of Lords peer.
Robin Duke
Robin Duke, Canadian actress, comedian, and writer born 1954 in St. Catharines, Ontario; Second City Toronto mainstage, SCTV Series 3, SNL cast 1981-1984 (Wendy Whiner), later film and voice roles.
Robin Dunbar
Robin Dunbar (R. I. M. Dunbar), British anthropologist and evolutionary psychologist at Oxford, originator of the social brain hypothesis and Dunbar's number, the ~150 limit on stable human social relationships.
Robin Dunne
Robin Dunne (born 1976, Toronto) is a Canadian actor, writer, and director known for Dr. Will Zimmerman in Syfy's Sanctuary (2008-2011), Sebastian Valmont in Cruel Intentions 2, and numerous Hallmark and Lifetime Christmas movies.
Robin E. Bell
Robin E. Bell, also known as Robin Bell, is an American polar geophysicist at Columbia University's Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory known for work on subglacial lakes and Antarctic ice streams.
Robin F. Irvine
Robin F. Irvine (Robin Francis Irvine) is a biochemist who helped establish inositol trisphosphate as a calcium-mobilizing second messenger, working at the Babraham Institute and Cambridge.
Robin F. Krimm
Robin F. Krimm is an American neuroscientist at the University of Louisville known for research on the neurons that carry taste information to the brain.
Robin Fåhræus
Robin Fåhræus (1888–1968) was a Swedish pathologist and hematologist, professor at Uppsala, whose 1921 thesis established the ESR test and whose 1931 paper with Torsten Lindqvist identified the Fåhræus–Lindqvist effect.
Robin Ficker
Robin Ficker is an American politician who won the Republican primary on June 23, 2026, for U.S. House in Maryland's 6th Congressional District, appearing on the November 2026 ballot.
Robin Finck
Robin Finck (born 1971) is an American guitarist, longtime lead guitarist of Nine Inch Nails and a former Guns N' Roses guitarist who replaced Slash and played on Chinese Democracy; a Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee with NIN.
Robin Foà
Robin Foà (born 1948) is an Italian hematologist and professor emeritus at Sapienza University of Rome who led chemotherapy-free protocols that changed the prognosis of Philadelphia chromosome-positive acute lymphoblastic leukemia.
Robin Fox (anthropologist)
Robin Fox, full name John Robert Fox (1934–2024), was a British anthropologist who founded Rutgers University's anthropology department in 1967 and was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2013.
Robin Franklin
Robin James Milroy Franklin, born in 1962, is a British stem cell biologist known for remyelination research, formerly a Cambridge professor and now at Altos Labs.
Robin Friday
Robin Friday (27 July 1952 – 22 December 1990), English forward for Reading and Cardiff City, 1970s cult hero, 'greatest footballer you never saw', retired at 25, died at 38.
Robin Gibb
Robin Gibb (1949-2012), British singer-songwriter, twin of Maurice and brother of Barry in the Bee Gees; sang lead on 'Massachusetts' and 'I Started a Joke', had the solo hit 'Saved By The Bell', and shared the disco-era songwriting.
Robin Givens
Robin Givens (Robin Simone Givens, born 1964) is an American actress, director, and producer known for Darlene Merriman on Head of the Class (1986–1991) and her 1988–1989 marriage to boxer Mike Tyson, with later roles in Boomerang, Riverdale, Batwoman, and television directing credits.
Robin Goad
Robin Goad (Robin Elizabeth Goad, nee Byrd; born 1970, Newnan, Georgia) is an American weightlifter, 1994 world champion, 81 kg snatch world record holder, and fifth-place finisher in flyweight at the 2000 Sydney Olympics, the first Olympic women's weightlifting competition. Not the Swiss equestrian Robin Godel.
Robin Goodridge
Robin Goodridge (born 1966) is an English rock drummer, drummer of post-grunge band Bush on Sixteen Stone through Golden State and the 2011 reunion, formerly of Spear of Destiny and The Stone Gods, and EMF's drummer from 2026.
Robin Gosens
Robin Everardus Gosens (born 1994, Emmerich) is a German left back/wing-back; Atalanta, Inter, Union Berlin, Fiorentina, now Schalke 04 on loan; 24 Germany caps, Euro 2020 Star of the Match vs Portugal.
Robin H. A. Ras
Robin H. A. Ras is a Finnish-based materials chemist who studies droplet behavior and superhydrophobic, super-repellent coatings; he has been a professor at Aalto University in Espoo since 2013.
Robin Hartshorne
Robin Hartshorne (born 1938) is an American algebraic geometer, Professor Emeritus at UC Berkeley, and author of Algebraic Geometry (1977), the standard graduate introduction to schemes and cohomology.
Robin Hill (plant biochemist)
Robin Hill (1899–1991) was a British plant biochemist who spent his career in Cambridge, discovered the Hill reaction showing that isolated chloroplasts produce oxygen, and proposed the Z-scheme of photosynthesis with F. L. Bendall in 1960.
Robin Hobb
Robin Hobb, pen name of Margaret Astrid Lindholm Ogden (born 1952), American fantasy author of the Farseer Trilogy and the Realm of the Elderlings sequence (1995-2017); also writes as Megan Lindholm.
Robin Holliday
Robin Holliday (1932–2014) was a British molecular biologist who proposed the Holliday junction of genetic recombination in 1964 and later studied DNA methylation and aging.