Society and history

Bob Evans

Bob Evans (1918–2007) was an American restaurateur and food entrepreneur who built a sausage brand and restaurant chain from his farm in Gallia County, Ohio, starting in 1948.

Bob Evnen

Bob Evnen is an American Republican politician and attorney serving as the 27th Secretary of State of Nebraska, first elected in 2018 after eight years on the State Board of Education.

Bob Farrell

Bob Farrell, born Robert E. Farrell, was an American restaurateur who co-founded Farrell's Ice Cream Parlour in Portland, Oregon, in 1963 and grew it into a national chain.

Bob Frankston

Bob Frankston is an American software developer who co-created VisiCalc and co-founded Software Arts in 1979, later working at Lotus and Microsoft and advocating community-owned broadband.

Bob Goodman, Robert P. Goodman, is a former telecommunications entrepreneur and venture capitalist at Bessemer Venture Partners in New York whose exits include BladeLogic, BroadSoft, and Millennial Media.

Bob Graham

Bob Graham (Daniel Robert Graham, 1936-2024) was Florida's 38th governor (1979-1987) and a three-term U.S. senator (1987-2005), known for his 408 workdays, Everglades conservation programs, and chairing the Senate Intelligence Committee and the 9/11 joint inquiry.

Bob Guccione

Bob Guccione (1930-2010), full name Robert Charles Joseph Edward Sabatini Guccione, founded Penthouse in London in 1965, built a $300 million publishing empire including Omni, and died bankrupt in Texas.

Bob Hall (Texas politician)

Bob Hall is an American politician and Air Force veteran, a Republican member of the Texas Senate from District 2 who has served since 2015.

Bob Hariri

Bob Hariri, born Robert J. Hariri, is an American physician-scientist and neurosurgeon who founded Celularity, a placental cell-therapeutics company, and co-founded Fountain Life with Peter Diamandis and Tony Robbins.

Bob Harvie

Bob Harvie is an American Democratic politician, chair of the Bucks County Commissioners since 2020, and the 2026 Democratic nominee for U.S. House in Pennsylvania's 1st District.

Bob Hasegawa

Bob Hasegawa is an American Democratic politician in the Washington State Senate from the 11th district, after six years in the House and a Teamsters career.

Bob Hawke

Bob Hawke (Robert James Lee Hawke, 1929–2019), Australia's 23rd prime minister (1983–1991) and longest-serving Labor PM, former ACTU president 1969–1980, led four election wins, the Prices and Incomes Accord, dollar float, and Franklin dam blockade before Keating deposed him in 1991.

Bob Hensgens

Bob Hensgens is an American politician and Republican member of the Louisiana Senate from District 26, serving Vermilion Parish and elected to the Senate in 2018.

Bob Jones University

Bob Jones University (BJU), a Christian liberal arts university in Greenville, South Carolina founded in 1927 by evangelist Bob Jones; known for its Bob Jones Jr./III presidencies, the 1983 tax-exemption case over its interracial dating ban (rescinded 2000), and 2017 regional accreditation.

Bob Kagle

Robert C. Kagle is a venture capitalist who cofounded Benchmark Capital in May 1995. He previously spent years as a general partner at Technology Venture Investors.

Bob Katter

Bob Katter (Robert Carl Katter, born 1945, Cloncurry) is an Australian federal MP for Kennedy since 1993, formerly a Queensland National Party state minister, independent from 2001, and founder of Katter's Australian Party.

Bob Kerrey

Bob Kerrey (J. Robert Kerrey, born 1943) is a Nebraska Democrat, Medal of Honor Navy SEAL veteran, governor 1983–87, and U.S. senator 1989–2001 who ran for the 1992 Democratic presidential nomination and in 2001 acknowledged civilian deaths in his 1969 Thanh Phong raid.

Bob Kocher

Bob Kocher is an American physician-turned-venture-capitalist who has led Venrock's health tech investing since 2011, backing Aledade, Devoted Health, and Lyra Health after serving in the Obama Administration.

Bob Ladouceur

Bob Ladouceur (born 1954, Detroit) is the retired De La Salle High School (Concord, California) football coach, 1979-2012, whose 399-25-3 record and national-record 151-game win streak made him California's winningest high school coach; he returned as a freshman coach in 2026.

Bob Latta

Bob Latta, born 1956, is an American Republican politician who has represented Ohio's 5th congressional district in the House since 2007, chairing the Energy Subcommittee.

Bob Lazar

Bob Lazar (Robert Scott Lazar, born 1959) is the American claimant who said in 1989 KLAS-TV interviews with George Knapp that he reverse-engineered alien craft at S-4 near Area 51 using element 115 fuel; his credentials are unverified and the claims uncorroborated.

Bob McDonnell

Bob McDonnell (born 1954) is a Republican who served as Virginia's 71st governor (2010-2014), 44th attorney general, and House delegate; his 2014 federal corruption conviction over Star Scientific gifts was unanimously vacated by the Supreme Court in 2016.