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Robert Baron (American engineer)
Robert Baron, known as Bob Baron (1934–2026), was an American engineer who founded Prime Computer, a Massachusetts minicomputer maker, and later the Denver book publisher Fulcrum Publishing.
Robert Barron
Robert Barron, also known as Robert Emmet Barron, is an American Catholic theologian and bishop of Winona-Rochester, Minnesota, since 2022, known for founding Word on Fire Catholic Ministries.
Robert Basham
Robert Basham, often Bob Basham, is an American restaurateur who co-founded Outback Steakhouse in Tampa in 1988 and served as its chief operating officer until 2005.
Robert Bates (political scientist)
Robert H. Bates is an American political scientist, Eaton Professor at Harvard since 1993, who studies African development and state failure; he was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2015.
Robert Bellarmine
Robert Bellarmine (Roberto Bellarmino) was an Italian Jesuit cardinal and theologian whose Disputationes became the standard Catholic response to Protestantism; he was canonized in 1930.
Robert Ben Rhoades
Robert Ben Rhoades, also known as "The Truck Stop Killer," is an American serial killer and former long-haul truck driver who built a torture chamber into his truck's sleeper cab.
Robert Berdella
Robert Berdella (1949–1992), the Kansas City Butcher, was an American serial killer who tortured and murdered at least six men, 1984–1987, at his Charlotte Street home; caught April 1988 after a victim escaped, he received two life sentences and died in prison.
Robert Berkowitz
Robert Berkowitz (1935–2010) was an American manufacturing executive who co-founded Prime Computer in 1972 and served as its vice president of manufacturing as it grew past 4,700 employees.
Robert Beugré Mambé
Robert Beugré Mambé, born 1952, is an Ivorian engineer and public administrator serving as Prime Minister of Côte d'Ivoire since October 2023, appointed by President Alassane Ouattara.
Robert Bilott
Robert Bilott, American environmental lawyer at Taft Stettinius & Hollister, Cincinnati, whose DuPont PFOA litigation (Tennant case, C8 Science Panel, $670.7M settlement) inspired Dark Waters.
Robert Black (serial killer)
Robert Black (1947–2016), Scottish serial child killer and paedophile, a delivery driver who murdered Susan Maxwell, Caroline Hogg, Sarah Harper, and Jennifer Cardy, caught in 1990 at Stow, died in Maghaberry Prison.
Robert Blank
Robert Blank is an American private equity investor who co-founded Chicago Growth Partners, a Chicago middle-market buyout and growth-capital firm, in 2004 after leading William Blair Capital Partners.
Robert Booth Nichols
Robert Booth Nichols (born 1943), American businessman and self-described CIA operative, source for Danny Casolaro's Octopus investigation, subject of a 1987 FBI organized-crime probe via Meridian International Logistics, and recipient of a $10 million Bayou hedge-fund fee in 2004.
Robert Boothby, Baron Boothby
Robert Boothby, Baron Boothby (1900–1986), British Conservative MP for East Aberdeenshire 1924–1958, Churchill's parliamentary private secretary, wartime Ministry of Food minister, and one of the first life peers (1958).
Robert Borden
Sir Robert Laird Borden (1854–1937), Canada's eighth prime minister (1911–1920), led the country through World War I, introduced conscription and the Union government in 1917, and won Canada separate Treaty of Versailles signature and a League of Nations seat.
Robert Bork
Robert Bork (1927-2012), American jurist and Yale antitrust scholar, was Solicitor General, acting Attorney General in the Saturday Night Massacre, D.C. Circuit judge, and author of The Antitrust Paradox; his 1987 Supreme Court nomination was rejected 58-42, spawning "borking."
Robert Bork Supreme Court nomination
Robert Bork Supreme Court nomination: Reagan's July 1, 1987 nomination of D.C. Circuit judge Robert Bork to replace Lewis Powell; rejected by the Senate 58-42 on October 23, 1987 after contentious hearings, with Anthony Kennedy eventually filling the seat.
Robert Brandom
Robert Brandom is an American philosopher at the University of Pittsburgh known for inferentialism, developed in Making It Explicit (1994): meaning as inferential role grounded in commitment, entitlement, and scorekeeping.
Robert Brasillach
Robert Brasillach (1909–1945), French writer and critic at L'Action française, editor-in-chief of the collaborationist, antisemitic weekly Je suis partout during the Occupation; tried 19 January 1945 for treason and executed 6 February 1945 despite a clemency petition led by Mauriac.
Robert Briffault
Robert Briffault was a surgeon turned social anthropologist and novelist, remembered for The Mothers (1927), his three-volume argument for early matriarchy, and the best-selling novel Europa (1935).
Robert Browne
Robert Browne (c. 1550–1633) was an English Separatist leader, founder of the Brownist movement and an early formulator of Congregationalism, who gathered a church at Norwich in 1580.
Robert Buckland
Robert Buckland KC (born 1968, Llanelli) is a British Conservative barrister and former MP for South Swindon (2010–2024) who served as Solicitor General 2014–2019, Lord Chancellor and Justice Secretary 2019–2021, and Welsh Secretary in 2022.
Robert Burke (Massachusetts politician)
Robert Burke is an American Republican politician and videographer, the 2026 Republican nominee for the U.S. House in Massachusetts's 8th district after challenging Stephen Lynch in 2022.
Robert Byrd
Robert Carlyle Byrd (1917-2010), West Virginia Democrat, longest-serving senator in U.S. history (1959-2010) and longest-serving member of Congress; former KKK member who later backed civil rights; namesake of the Byrd Rule.
Robert C. Brack
Robert C. Brack (born 1953) is an American jurist, a senior United States district judge for the District of New Mexico, appointed by George W. Bush in 2003.
Robert C. Chambers
Robert C. Chambers, born 1952, is an American jurist serving as a U.S. district judge for the Southern District of West Virginia since 1997, and was chief judge from 2012 to 2017.
Robert C. Dobkin
Robert C. Dobkin is an American analog integrated-circuit designer who co-founded Linear Technology in 1981, designed the first three-terminal adjustable voltage regulator, and holds over 100 patents.
Robert C. Feenstra
Robert C. Feenstra is an American economist and Distinguished Professor Emeritus at UC Davis, known for measuring offshoring's effect on wages, the modern Penn World Table, and international trade textbooks.
Robert C. Jones
Robert C. Jones, also known as Robert Clive Jones, is an American jurist serving as a senior United States district judge for the District of Nevada since 2016.
Robert C. Merton
Robert C. Merton is an American financial economist who shared the 1997 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences for a new method to determine the value of derivatives.