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Robert Stewart, Viscount Castlereagh
Robert Stewart, Viscount Castlereagh, 2nd Marquess of Londonderry (1769–1822), Anglo-Irish statesman: chief secretary for Ireland and architect of the 1800 Act of Union, war secretary 1807–1809, and British foreign secretary 1812–1822 who shaped the Congress of Vienna settlement and died by suicide in 1822.
Robert Stroud
Robert Stroud (1890–1963), the "Birdman of Alcatraz," was a federal prisoner and self-taught ornithologist who raised canaries and wrote Diseases of Canaries at Leavenworth; he kept no birds at Alcatraz, where he arrived December 19, 1942.
Robert T. Dawson
Robert Toombs Dawson (born 1938) is an American jurist who served as a United States district judge for the Western District of Arkansas from 1998 to 2015.
Robert Todd Lincoln
Robert Todd Lincoln (1843-1926), eldest son of Abraham Lincoln, was a lawyer, U.S. Secretary of War under Garfield and Arthur, minister to Great Britain, and Pullman Company president, famously linked to three presidential shootings.
Robert W. Gettleman
Robert W. Gettleman, born 1943 in Atlantic City, New Jersey, is a senior United States district judge of the Northern District of Illinois, appointed by President Clinton in 1994.
Robert W. Schroeder III
Robert W. Schroeder III, born 1966, is a United States district judge for the Eastern District of Texas, appointed by President Barack Obama and confirmed in December 2014.
Robert William Fisher
Robert William Fisher (born 1961) is an American FBI fugitive wanted for allegedly murdering his wife Mary and children Brittney and Bobby in Scottsdale, Arizona on April 10, 2001, then blowing up the house. Added to Ten Most Wanted in 2002 (#475), removed in 2021, never found.
Robert Wilson Shufeldt (naval officer)
Rear Admiral Robert Wilson Shufeldt (1822–1895) was a United States Navy officer who negotiated the 1882 treaty between Korea and the United States, Korea's first with a Western power.
Roberto A. Lange
Roberto A. Lange, born Roberto Antonio Lange in 1963, is an American jurist serving as a United States district judge in South Dakota since 2009, appointed by President Barack Obama.
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.
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.
Robin J. Cauthron
Robin J. Cauthron, born 1950, is an American jurist serving as a senior United States district judge for the Western District of Oklahoma since 2015.
Robin L. Rosenberg
Robin Lee Rosenberg (born 1962) is an American jurist, a federal district judge in Florida from 2014 to 2025 and Director of the Federal Judicial Center since 2025.
Robin S. Rosenbaum
Robin S. Rosenbaum is an American jurist serving as a United States circuit judge of the Eleventh Circuit since 2014, appointed by President Barack Obama.
Robinson Treaties
Robinson Treaties: two 1850 agreements at Sault Ste. Marie between William B. Robinson and the Anishinaabe (Ojibwa) of Lakes Superior and Huron; precursors of the Numbered Treaties, with annuities frozen at $4 since 1875, litigated in Restoule (SCC 2024).
Roch Thériault
Roch Thériault (Moïse, 1947–2011) was a Canadian cult leader who founded the Ant Hill Kids in Quebec and Ontario, was convicted of assault and of the second-degree murder of Solange Boilard, and was killed by an inmate at Dorchester Penitentiary in 2011.
Rochdale child sex abuse ring
Nine men were convicted in the Rochdale child sexual exploitation case in 2012. Later prosecutions and an independent review exposed wider abuse and repeated failures by police and public agencies.
Rock Machine Motorcycle Club
The Rock Machine Motorcycle Club is an outlaw motorcycle club founded in Montreal, best known for fighting the Hells Angels in the Quebec Biker War.
Rockford crime family
The Rockford crime family, also known as the Zammuto crime family or the Rockford Mafia, was a small Italian American Mafia family based in Rockford, Illinois, led by Sicilian-born bosses.
RocknRolla
RocknRolla is a 2008 British crime comedy film written and directed by Guy Ritchie, in which a crooked land deal by a Russian mobster draws every layer of London's criminal underworld into a scramble for millions.
Rod Ferrell
Rod Ferrell (Roderrick Justin Ferrell, born 1980, Murray, Kentucky) led the teenage "Vampire Clan" and murdered Richard and Naoma Wendorf in Eustis, Florida, in 1996 at age 16; death sentence commuted 2000 to life without parole.
Rod Rosenstein
Rod Rosenstein (born 1965) is an American lawyer, 37th Deputy Attorney General of the United States (2017-2019) and former U.S. Attorney for Maryland (2005-2017) who wrote the Comey firing memo and appointed Robert Mueller special counsel.
Roderick C. Young
Roderick C. Young, born 1966, is an American jurist serving as a United States district judge for the Eastern District of Virginia since 2020, appointed by President Donald Trump.
Rodney Alcala
Rodney James Alcala, the "Dating Game Killer," was an American serial killer sentenced to death in California in 2010 for five 1977-1979 murders, given 25 years to life for two New York murders, and suspected in up to 130 deaths; he died on death row in 2021.
Rodney King
Rodney Glen King (1965–2012), Sacramento-born Altadena laborer, whose 1991 videotaped LAPD beating, Simi Valley acquittals, 1992 LA riots, federal civil rights convictions, and $3.8 million civil award reshaped US police accountability.
Rodney Reed
Rodney Reed is a Texas death row inmate convicted in 1998 of the 1996 capital murder of Stacey Stites, maintaining his innocence while seeking DNA testing of the murder weapon.
Rodney Smith
Rodney Smith, born in 1974, is an American jurist serving as a United States district judge for the Southern District of Florida since 2019, appointed by President Donald Trump.
Rodney W. Sippel
Rodney W. Sippel is an American jurist serving as a senior United States district judge for the Eastern District of Missouri, appointed by President Bill Clinton in 1997.
Rodolfo A. Ruiz II
Rodolfo A. Ruiz II, born 1979, is an American jurist serving as a US district judge for the Southern District of Florida since 2019, after judging in Miami.
Rodolfo Cadena
Rodolfo "Cheyenne" Cadena, a leader of the Mexican Mafia (La Eme) prison gang in California, helped formalize its blood oath and outside-street strategy; he was killed by rival Nuestra Familia members, triggering retaliatory killings.