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Robert Rogers (British Army officer)
Robert Rogers (1731–1795) was a colonial American British Army officer who raised and led Rogers' Rangers in the French and Indian War and wrote the 28 Rules of Ranging, still issued to U.S. Army Rangers.
Robert Rubin
Robert Edward Rubin, known as Bob Rubin, is an American financier who co-chaired Goldman Sachs and was Bill Clinton's Treasury Secretary from 1995 to 1999.
Robert S. Huie
Robert Steven Huie, born 1976 in Albany, Georgia, is an American jurist serving as a United States district judge for the Southern District of California since 2022.
Robert S. Kapito
Robert S. Kapito (born 1957) is an American financial executive who co-founded BlackRock with Laurence Fink in 1988 and has been the firm's President since 2007.
Robert S. Lasnik
Robert S. Lasnik, born 1951 in Staten Island, New York, is a senior United States district judge for the Western District of Washington, appointed by President Clinton in 1998 and chief judge from 2004 to 2011.
Robert S. Lazenby
Robert S. Lazenby was a Waco, Texas beverage chemist who commercialized Dr Pepper, co-founding the Artesian Manufacturing and Bottling Company with Wade Morrison in 1891.
Robert S. Pindyck
Robert S. Pindyck, born 1945, is an American economist at MIT Sloan known for investment under uncertainty, natural resource markets, and his critique of climate models, coauthoring Microeconomics with Daniel Rubinfeld.
Robert S. Strauss
Robert S. Strauss (1918–2014), Texas lawyer and Democratic National Committee chairman, was U.S. Trade Representative under Carter, Middle East envoy, and the last U.S. ambassador to the Soviet Union and first to the Russian Federation under Bush.
Robert S. Woodworth
Robert S. Woodworth (1869–1962) was an American experimental psychologist and longtime Columbia University professor, best known for the Woodworth Personal Data Sheet, often cited as the first personality test.
Robert Sandifer
Robert 'Yummy' Sandifer (1982-1994) was an 11-year-old Black Disciples gang member in Chicago's Roseland who killed 14-year-old Shavon Dean on August 28, 1994, and was executed by his own gang three days later.
Robert Sarah
Robert Sarah is a Guinean cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church, Archbishop of Conakry from 1979 to 2001 and Prefect of the Congregation for Divine Worship from 2014 to 2021.
Robert Sarver
Robert Sarver is an American banker and real estate investor who owned the Phoenix Suns and Phoenix Mercury from 2004 to 2023 before selling them.
Robert Schuller
Robert H. Schuller (1926-2015) was a Reformed Church in America pastor who founded Garden Grove Community Church in 1955, created Hour of Power (1970) and the Crystal Cathedral, pioneered possibility-thinking megachurch ministry, and whose ministry went bankrupt in 2010.
Robert Schuman
Robert Schuman (1886–1963), French statesman for Moselle and foreign minister 1948–1953, presented the Schuman Declaration of 9 May 1950 founding the ECSC; first President of the European Parliamentary Assembly.
Robert Shapiro (lawyer)
Robert Leslie Shapiro (born 1942) is a Los Angeles defense attorney, O.J. Simpson "Dream Team" member, LegalZoom cofounder, and founder of the Brent Shapiro Foundation; not the NY or DC lawyer of the same name.
Robert Shimer
Robert Shimer is a macro-labor economist at the University of Chicago, best known for the Shimer puzzle: the standard search model of unemployment cannot reproduce observed unemployment and vacancy volatility.
Robert Sink
Robert Frederick Sink (1905-1965), American Army lieutenant general, commanded the 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment through World War II (D-Day, Market Garden, Bastogne), later led STRAC; portrayed by Dale Dye in Band of Brothers.
Robert Sirico
Robert Sirico, also known as Robert A. Sirico, is an American Catholic priest who co-founded the Acton Institute in Grand Rapids in 1990 and led it until 2021.
Robert Smalls
Robert Smalls (1839-1915), Beaufort, South Carolina, enslaved sailor who commandeered the Confederate steamer Planter on May 13, 1862, delivered it and 16 people to the Union blockade, then served five terms in the U.S. House and as Beaufort customs collector.
Robert Smith Candlish
Robert Smith Candlish (1806–1873) was a Scottish minister and theologian who helped found the Free Church of Scotland, preached at St George's, Edinburgh, and led New College.
Robert Smullen
Robert Smullen is an American politician and retired Marine Corps colonel serving as a Republican member of the New York State Assembly from the 118th district.
Robert Sobukwe
Robert Mangaliso Sobukwe (1924–1978) was a South African teacher, lecturer, and lawyer who founded the Pan Africanist Congress, led its 1960 anti-pass campaign that ended in the Sharpeville massacre, and spent years in prison.
Robert Solow
Robert M. Solow (1924–2023), American MIT economist and 1987 Nobel laureate in economics, creator of the Solow–Swan growth model and the Solow residual, showed technology drives most economic growth.
Robert Southwell (priest)
Robert Southwell (c. 1561–1595), English Jesuit priest, poet, and martyr; executed at Tyburn under Elizabeth I, canonized among the Forty Martyrs in 1970; wrote Saint Peter's Complaint and influenced Shakespeare, Donne, and Herbert.
Robert Stambaugh
Robert Stambaugh is an American finance academic, the Miller Anderson & Sherrerd Professor at Wharton, who co-founded the Shanghai quant fund manager Mingshi Investment in 2010.
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 Stivers
Robert Stivers, born 1961, is an American Republican politician and attorney who has served as President of the Kentucky Senate since 2013 and represented the 25th District since 1997.
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 Sutton
Robert Sutton (died 1587) was an English Catholic priest and martyr, executed at Stafford under Elizabeth I and beatified by Pope John Paul II in 1987.
Robert Swan
Robert Swan OBE, British polar explorer, first person to walk to both the South Pole (1986) and North Pole (1989); founder of the 2041 Foundation for Antarctic preservation.