Society and history

Rob Sampson

Rob Sampson is an American Republican politician who served four terms in the Connecticut House from 2011 to 2018 and now represents the 16th district in the Connecticut Senate.

Rob Stafsholt is an American Republican politician and fourth-generation farmer who represents Wisconsin's 10th Senate district, after serving in the State Assembly from 2017; he was re-elected in 2024.

Rob Stewart (Alabama politician)

Rob Stewart, or Robert L. Stewart, is an American Democratic member of the Alabama Senate from the 23rd district, a Selma native and former congressional staffer who won his first public office in 2022.

Rob van den Heuvel

Rob van den Heuvel is a Dutch technology entrepreneur who co-founded Sendcloud in Eindhoven in 2012 and leads it as chief executive, serving more than 30,000 online merchants across Europe.

Rob Wagner

Rob Wagner is an American Democratic politician who serves as President of the Oregon State Senate, representing Senate District 19, and previously served on the Lake Oswego School Board.

Rob Walker (electrical engineer)

Rob Walker (1935–2016) was a Silicon Valley engineer who co-founded the chip company LSI Logic in 1980 and led Stanford's Silicon Genesis oral history project.

Rob Wittman

Robert J. "Rob" Wittman, born 1959, is an American Republican politician serving as the U.S. Representative for Virginia's 1st Congressional District since 2007, after serving in the Virginia House of Delegates.

Robam Appliances

Robam Appliances, also known as ROBAM or 老板电器, is a Chinese kitchen appliance maker headquartered in Hangzhou, Zhejiang, founded by Ren Jianhua and listed in Shenzhen in 2010.

Robb Elementary School shooting

The Robb Elementary School shooting (Uvalde shooting) was the May 24, 2022 mass shooting in Uvalde, Texas, in which 18-year-old Salvador Ramos killed 19 children and two teachers; police waited over an hour before breaching.

Robb Ryerse

Robb Ryerse is an American politician, pastor, and nonprofit leader who is the Democratic nominee for the U.S. House in Arkansas's 3rd District in 2026, having first run as a Republican in 2018.

Robb Tucker

Robb Tucker is an American Republican politician elected to the Nevada County Board of Supervisors in 2024 and the 2026 GOP nominee for California's 3rd Congressional District.

Oct 10, 2026

Robb Willer

Robb Willer is an American sociologist at Stanford University who studies what unites and divides people, known for moral reframing research and the Strengthening Democracy Challenge.

Robber baron (industrialist)

Robber baron is a pejorative term for nineteenth-century American industrialists and financiers, including Rockefeller, Carnegie, Vanderbilt, and J. P. Morgan, whose fortunes critics called ruthless and monopolistic.

Robbert Vorhoff

Robbert Vorhoff, also known as Robb Vorhoff, is Managing Director and Global Head of Healthcare at General Atlantic, a growth equity firm he joined in 2003.

Robbery

Robbery is the taking of property from a person, or in their presence, by force or threat of force, a violent felony distinct from theft and burglary. Covers common law elements, Theft Act 1968, Hobbs Act, Stokeling, and US FBI/NCVS robbery statistics.

Robbie Brackett

Robbie Brackett, also known as Robert Brackett, is an American Republican politician who has represented Florida House District 34 since 2022, after serving as Mayor of Vero Beach.

Robbie Petersen

Robbie Petersen is a cryptocurrency venture investor who was a Junior Partner at Dragonfly Ventures and is listed by Andreessen Horowitz as an a16z crypto investing partner.

Robbie Ross

Robbie Ross (Robert Baldwin Ross, 1869-1918), Canadian-born London journalist, art critic, and Carfax Gallery dealer; Oscar Wilde's friend, lover, and literary executor who published De Profundis and Wilde's collected works.

Robbins v. Lower Merion School District

Robbins v. Lower Merion School District (WebcamGate) was a 2010 E.D. Pa. class action in which Blake Robbins alleged the district secretly activated laptop webcams via LANrev TheftTrack; it ended with a $610,000 settlement and permanent injunction.

Robby Mills

Robby Mills is an American Republican politician who has represented Kentucky's 4th Senate district since 2019, after serving in the Kentucky House of Representatives from 2017 to 2018.

Robby Mook

Robby Mook is the Democratic strategist who managed Hillary Clinton's 2016 presidential campaign, the first openly gay manager for a major-party nominee, previously ran Clinton's 2008 Nevada, Ohio, and Indiana primary operations and McAuliffe's 2013 Virginia race, and later joined Harvard's election-security project.

Robby Starbuck

Robby Starbuck, Nashville-based conservative activist and former music video director, led 2024 anti-DEI campaigns against Tractor Supply, Ford, Walmart and others, then sued Meta over AI defamation and became its AI-bias adviser in an August 2025 settlement.

RobCo

RobCo (RobCo GmbH) is a Munich-based robotics startup founded in 2020 that builds AI-driven industrial robots from modular hardware, producing over 5,000 robot arms yearly.

Sep 24, 2026

Rōben

Rōben (良弁, 689–773) was a Nara-period scholar-monk of the Kegon and Hossō schools who directed the construction of Tōdai-ji, home of the Great Buddha, and became its first steward.

Robert

Robert (Hrodebert), a masculine given name from Germanic hruod 'fame' + beraht 'bright', brought to England by the Normans; medieval favorite, US #1 for boys 1924-1939 and 1953, source of surnames Roberts and Robertson.

Robert (doll)

Robert is a roughly 40-inch early-1900s Steiff doll, likely a window-display clown figure, given around 1904 to Key West painter Robert Eugene Otto and displayed since 1994 at Fort East Martello Museum, where a permission ritual and apology letters sustain its haunted-doll legend.