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Robert Krulwich
Robert Krulwich, American radio and TV journalist, NPR economics correspondent 1978-1985, ABC/CBS reporter, and Peabody-winning co-host of WNYC's Radiolab with Jad Abumrad until retiring in January 2020.
Robert Kupstas
Robert Kupstas is an American-trained energy-policy specialist and entrepreneur who co-founded Pure Harvest Smart Farms, a high-tech greenhouse farming company in Abu Dhabi, in 2016.
Robert L. Brock
Robert L. Brock was an American hotelier and restaurant executive who founded ShowBiz Pizza Place in 1980 and acquired bankrupt rival Pizza Time Theatre in the 1985 merger.
Robert L. Carneiro
Robert L. Carneiro (1927–2020) was an American cultural anthropologist at the American Museum of Natural History, known for his circumscription theory of the origin of the state.
Robert L. Hinkle
Robert Lewis Hinkle is an American jurist, a senior United States district judge for the Northern District of Florida appointed by President Bill Clinton in 1996.
Robert L. Howard
Robert L. Howard (1939-2009) was a US Army Special Forces colonel, Medal of Honor recipient, and the Vietnam War's most decorated soldier, nominated three times for the Medal of Honor and wounded 14 times across five tours.
Robert L. Miller, Jr.
Robert L. Miller, Jr., also known as Robert Lowell Miller, Jr., is an American jurist appointed by President Ronald Reagan in 1985 to the Northern District of Indiana.
Robert L. Pitman
Robert L. Pitman (born 1962, Fort Worth) is a U.S. district judge for the Western District of Texas, appointed by Obama in 2014; former U.S. attorney and magistrate judge known for blocking Texas SB 8.
Robert L. Wilkins
Robert Leon Wilkins (born 1963) is an American jurist serving as a US circuit judge on the DC Circuit since 2014, appointed by Obama, after serving as a district judge.
Robert Lacher
Robert Lacher is a German venture capital investor who co-founded Visionaries Club in 2019 with Sebastian Pollok, a B2B software investor known for backing Miro, Personio, and Pigment.
Robert Latimer
Robert Latimer, Saskatchewan farmer convicted twice of second-degree murder for the 1993 carbon monoxide killing of his 12-year-old disabled daughter Tracy; Supreme Court of Canada 2001 upheld mandatory life sentence, necessity defence rejected.
Robert Laurens Kelly
Robert Laurens Kelly (born 1957) is an American archaeologist and professor emeritus at the University of Wyoming, known for hunter-gatherer research and the book The Foraging Spectrum.
Robert Leckie (author)
Robert Leckie (1920–2001) was an American military historian and decorated WWII Marine, author of Helmet for My Pillow (1957) and more than 30 military histories; portrayed by James Badge Dale in HBO's The Pacific.
Robert Lee Yates
Robert Lee Yates Jr. is an American serial killer who murdered victims in Washington from 1975 to 1998, pleading guilty to 13 murders in 2000.
Robert Leroy Anderson
Robert Leroy Anderson, the Duct Tape Killer (born 1970), was a South Dakota serial killer who kidnapped and murdered Larisa Dumansky (1994) and Piper Streyle (1996), was sentenced to death in 1999, and died by suicide in prison on March 30, 2003.
Robert Lewis Dabney
Robert Lewis Dabney (1820–1898) was an American Presbyterian theologian and Stonewall Jackson's chief of staff who taught at Union Theological Seminary in Virginia and defended slavery until his death.
Robert Ley
Robert Ley (1890–1945), Nazi politician and chemist, headed the German Labor Front (DAF), the Third Reich's largest mass organization with over 22 million members, after smashing the free trade unions in 1933, founded Kraft durch Freude, and hanged himself at Nuremberg before his trial began.
Robert Lighthizer
Robert Lighthizer (born 1947, Ashtabula, Ohio) is an American trade lawyer, Reagan-era Deputy USTR, and 18th U.S. Trade Representative (2017-2021) who led the China Section 301 tariffs, the Phase One negotiation, and USMCA, and wrote No Trade Is Free (2023).
Robert Lipshutz
Robert J. Lipshutz is a mathematics-trained executive and inventor who led genome informatics at Affymetrix in Santa Clara, California, and co-authored its foundational 1999 GeneChip review.
Robert Llewellyn Bradshaw
Robert Llewellyn Bradshaw was a Kittitian trade unionist and politician who served as the first Premier of St. Kitts-Nevis-Anguilla from 1967 until his death in 1978.
Robert Louis-Dreyfus
Robert Louis-Dreyfus (1946–2009) was a French businessman and turnaround specialist who rescued Adidas in the 1990s and later led the Louis Dreyfus commodity trading house.
Robert Lowie
Robert Lowie was an American anthropologist, born in Vienna in 1883, a student of Franz Boas known for his Crow Indian ethnography and his 1920 book Primitive Society.
Robert M. Boynton
Robert M. Boynton (1924–2006) was an American color vision scientist who founded Rochester's Center for Visual Science and wrote the standard text Human Color Vision.
Robert M. Dow, Jr.
Robert M. Dow, Jr., also known as Robert Michael Dow, Jr., is an American district judge in Illinois appointed by George W. Bush in 2007.
Robert M. Hauser
Robert M. Hauser, born 1942 in Chicago, is an American quantitative sociologist at the University of Wisconsin–Madison known for work on social stratification, statistics, and aging.
Robert M. La Follette
Robert M. La Follette (1855-1925), "Fighting Bob," Wisconsin progressive Republican governor 1901-1906 and senator 1906-1925; championed railroad regulation, direct primaries, and the Wisconsin Idea, and ran for president in 1924 winning 16 percent of the vote.
Robert M. Netting
Robert M. Netting, also known as Robert McC. Netting, was an American anthropologist and cultural ecologist who studied smallholder farming in Nigeria and the Swiss Alps.
Robert M. Pirsig
Robert M. Pirsig (1928–2017), American author of Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance (1974), best-selling philosophy book with over 5 million copies sold, and Lila (1991), developer of the Metaphysics of Quality.
Robert M. Townsend
Robert M. Townsend is an American development economist, the Elizabeth & James Killian Professor at MIT, known for costly state verification and the Townsend Thai Project.
Robert Maudsley
Robert Maudsley (born 1953), nicknamed "Hannibal the Cannibal", is an English quadruple killer and Britain's longest-serving prisoner, held in continuous solitary confinement since 1978, mostly in a special glass cell, surpassing Albert Woodfox's 43-year record.