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Robert Swanson (venture capitalist)
Robert A. Swanson, known as Bob Swanson, was an American venture capitalist who co-founded Genentech with Herbert Boyer in 1976 and led it as chief executive until 1990.
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 T. Reives II
Robert T. Reives II is an American Democratic politician and attorney who has represented North Carolina House District 54 since 2014 and serves as the House Minority Leader.
Robert the Bruce
Robert the Bruce (Robert I, 1274-1329), King of Scots from 1306, killed John Comyn, defeated Edward II at Bannockburn in 1314, and won recognition of Scottish independence by the Treaty of Edinburgh-Northampton in 1328.
Robert Thorpe
Robert Thorpe was an English Catholic seminary priest from Yorkshire who was executed at York in 1591 and beatified by Pope John Paul II in 1987.
Robert Thurman
Robert Thurman, also known as Robert A. F. Thurman (born 1941), is an American scholar of Tibetan Buddhism and former monk who held Columbia's first endowed Buddhist studies chair.
Robert Tilton
Robert G. Tilton, American televangelist and prosperity preacher, founded Word of Faith Family Church in Farmers Branch, Texas (1976) and hosted the infomercial-style program Success-N-Life, which at its 1991 peak reached 235 markets and earned nearly $80 million a year before an ABC PrimeTime Live exposé.
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 Todd Lincoln Beckwith
Robert Todd Lincoln Beckwith (1904–1985), gentleman farmer of Hartfield, Virginia, was Abraham Lincoln's great-grandson and last direct descendant; his 1976 paternity case failed and the Lincoln line ended at his death.
Robert Torricelli
Robert Guy Torricelli, New Jersey Democrat; U.S. Representative 1983–1997 and Senator 1997–2003; withdrew his 2002 reelection bid after a Senate Ethics Committee admonishment over gifts from donor David Chang.
Robert Townsend (spy)
Robert Townsend (1753–1838), alias Samuel Culper Jr., code 723, was the Culper Spy Ring's principal collector in British-occupied New York, a Quaker merchant and journalist whose identity was revealed only in 1930.
Robert Trump
Robert S. Trump, also known as Bob Trump, was an American business executive who oversaw the Trump Organization's Atlantic City casinos and was the younger brother of President Donald Trump.
Robert Vadra (रॉबर्ट वाड्रा)
Robert Vadra (रॉबर्ट वाड्रा), Indian businessman, husband of Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, son-in-law of Sonia Gandhi; central figure in the Shikohpur-Gurgaon Skylight Hospitality-DLF land deal ED money laundering case, plus Bikaner and Rajasthan benami land probes.
Robert Vansittart, 1st Baron Vansittart
Robert Gilbert Vansittart, 1st Baron Vansittart (1881–1957), British diplomat, Permanent Under-Secretary at the Foreign Office 1930–38, Chief Diplomatic Adviser 1938–41, leading anti-appeaser, author of Black Record (1941), origin of Vansittartism.
Robert Venables
Robert Venables (1612/13 – July 1687) was an English Parliamentarian soldier and general of the land forces in Cromwell's Western Design of 1654–1655, which failed to take Hispaniola but captured Jamaica.
Robert W. Baird & Co.
Robert W. Baird & Co. is a privately held, employee-owned financial services firm headquartered in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, founded in 1919, with more than 200 locations and $564 billion in client assets.
Robert W. Dutton
Robert W. Dutton is an American electrical engineer and Stanford professor emeritus called the father of TCAD, whose group created the SUPREM and PISCES simulators.
Robert W. Fogel
Robert W. Fogel (1926–2013) was an American economic historian at the University of Chicago who shared the 1993 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences for applying quantitative methods to economic history.
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 W. Vishny
Robert W. Vishny is an American finance economist at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business, known for research on corporate governance and law and finance.
Robert Walpole
Robert Walpole, 1st Earl of Orford (1676-1745), Whig First Lord of the Treasury 1721-1742, regarded as Britain's first Prime Minister; restored credit after the South Sea Bubble, lived in 10 Downing Street, fell in 1742.
Robert Warren Miller
Robert Warren Miller, born in 1933, is an American-born billionaire businessman who co-founded Duty Free Shoppers, the Hong Kong-based travel retailer, and has lived there since 1960.
Robert White (Washington, D.C. politician)
Robert White is an American Democratic politician who has served on the D.C. Council at large since 2017 and is the Democratic nominee for D.C. Delegate to the U.S. House in 2026.
Robert Wilcox
Robert Wilcox (1558–1588) was an English Catholic seminary priest from Chester who trained at Reims and was hanged, drawn, and quartered at Canterbury in 1588.
Robert Wildman
Robert E. Wildman (died 2008) was an Indianapolis businessman who co-founded the Burger Chef fast-food chain in the late 1950s, serving as vice president in charge of financing, franchising, and leasing.
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.
Robert Winchelsey
Robert Winchelsey, also spelled Winchelsea, was an English theologian and Archbishop of Canterbury from 1293 to 1313 who led the clergy's resistance to Edward I's taxation and was suspended from 1306 to 1308.
Robert Wodrow
Robert Wodrow (1679–1734) was a Scottish Presbyterian minister and ecclesiastical historian at Eastwood, near Glasgow, known for his History of the Sufferings of the Church of Scotland.