# Robert Brown

Robert Brown may refer to:

## Entertainers and artists

* Washboard Sam or Robert Brown (1910–1966), American musician and singer
* Robert W. Brown (1917–2009), American printmaker and glass artist
* Robert Brown (British actor) (1921–2003), British actor, played M in four James Bond films
* Robert Brown (American actor) (1926–2022), American actor, played Jason Bolt in Here Come the Brides
* Robert Delford Brown (1930–2009), American performance artist
* Robert Brown (cartoonist) (1936–2007), American painter and cartoonist
* Robert Latham Brown (born 1947), American producer, production manager, and author
* Robert Curtis Brown (born 1957), American actor
* Robert Brown (musician) (born 1970), lead singer of steampunk band Abney Park
* Reb Brown (Robert Edward Brown, born 1948), American actor
* Robert Brown (born 1983), multi-instrumentalist of American musical group Epignosis

## Military

* Robert Brown (sailor) (fl. 1830–1864), American Civil War sailor and Medal of Honor recipient
* Robert B. Brown (1844–1916), American soldier and Medal of Honor recipient
* Robert Brooks Brown (born 1959), U.S. Army officer

## Politicians

* Robert Brown (MP for Gloucester), Member of Parliament (MP) for Gloucester in 1353 and 1358
* Robert Weare alias Brown, MP for Marlborough in 1553
* Sir Robert Brown, 1st Baronet, of Westminster (died 1760), British Member of Parliament
* Robert Brown (Pennsylvania politician) (1744–1823), U.S. congressman from Pennsylvania
* Robert Brown (English politician) (1921–1996)
* Robert Brown (Ohio politician) (1928–1985), member of the Ohio House of Representatives from 1979 to 1985
* Bob Brown (Australian Labor politician) (1933–2022)
* Robert Brown (Minnesota politician) (1935–2020), member of the Minnesota State Senate
* Bob Brown (born 1944), Australian politician
* Robert Brown (Scottish politician) (born 1947), Scottish politician
* Robert Brown (Georgia politician) (1950–2011), Democratic member of the Georgia State Senate
* Robert Brown (South Carolina politician) (born 1950), member of the South Carolina House of Representatives
* Robert C. Brown (politician), mayor of Wichita, Kansas in 1981–1982 and 1985–1986
* Robert Leslie Brown (born c. 1951), Australian politician and member of the New South Wales Legislative Council from 2006 to 2019

## Scientists and academics

* Robert Brown (botanist, born 1773) (1773–1858), Scottish (Montrose) scientist, explorer, author, botanist: R.Br., after whom Brownian motion is named
* Robert Brown (New Zealand botanist) (c. 1824–1906), New Zealand bootmaker and botanist: R.Br.bis
* Robert Brown (botanist, born 1842) (1842–1895), Scottish (Caithness) explorer, scientist, author, botanist: R.Br.ter
* Robert C. Brown (engineer), American mechanical engineering professor
* Robert Cunyngham Brown (1867–1945), British psychologist and medical administrator
* Robert Rudmose-Brown (1879–1957), British academic botanist and polar explorer
* Robert Brown (plant physiologist) (1908–1999), British scientist, Fellow of the Royal Society
* Robert Hanbury Brown (1916–2002), British astronomer and physicist
* Robert Goodell Brown (1923–2013), American statistician
* Robert E. Brown (1927–2005), American ethnomusicologist, coined the term "world music"
* Robert A. Brown (born 1951), president of Boston University
* J. Robert Brown Jr., American law professor

## Sportspeople
### American football

* R. R. Brown (1879–1950), American football coach
* Robert J. Brown (1904–1985), American football player, businessman and author
* Robert Brown (American football, born 1960), American football defensive end
* Robert Brown (tight end) (born 1943), American football tight end

### Association football

* Robert Brown (footballer, born 1856) (1856–1904), Scottish footballer, played for Scotland in 1884, nicknamed 'Sparrow'
* Robert Brown (footballer, born 1860) (1860–1940), Scottish footballer, played for Scotland in 1885, nicknamed 'Plumber'
* Robert Brown (football manager) (1873–1935), English football manager
* Robert George Brown (fl. 1920s), English footballer
* Sailor Brown (Robert Albert John Brown, 1915–2008), English footballer

### Other sports

* Robert Brown (New Zealand cricketer) (1850–1934)
* Robert Brown (baseball) (fl. 1874), American baseball player
* Robert Brown (sport shooter) (1873–1918), British Olympic shooter
* Robert Paul Brown (1876–1962), American baseball player, manager, and team owner
* Red Brown (basketball) (1907–1992), American college basketball coach, athletic director
* Robert Brown (American racing driver), NASCAR Cup Series driver in the 1974 Winston 500
* Robert Brown (South African cricketer) (born 1957)
* Dale Brown (boxer) or Robert Dale Brown (born 1971), Canadian boxer
* Robert Brown, English racing driver in the 2008 Formula Palmer Audi season

## Other people

* Robert Brown III (born 1989), American Journalist
* Robert Brown (agriculturalist) (1757–1831), Scottish rural and agricultural writer
* Robert Brown (trade unionist) (1848–1917), Scottish trade union leader
* Robert Allan Brown (1849–1931), Canadian-American prospector and mining promoter
* Robert G. Brown (1857–1920), American inventor of the telephone handset
* Robert Brown (prelate) (1877–1947), Roman Catholic prelate, apostolic prefect of Zambesi
* R. Lewis Brown (1892–1948), U.S. federal judge
* Robert R. Brown (bishop) (1910–1994), author and Episcopal bishop of Arkansas
* Robert Brown (archdeacon of Bedford) (1914–2001), Anglican archdeacon of Bedford
* Robert Brown (archdeacon of Killala), Anglican priest in Ireland
* Robert James Brown (moderator) (1792–1872), Scottish minister
* Robert McAfee Brown (1920–2001), American Protestant theologian and peace activist
* Bob Brown (newspaper publisher) (Robert Lloyd Brown, 1930–1984), Las Vegas newspaper editor and publisher
* Robert K. Brown (born 1932), American combat correspondent and investigative journalist
* Robert L. Brown (Arkansas judge) (born 1941), associate justice of the Arkansas Supreme Court
* Robert Brown (born 1957), Scottish man wrongly convicted of murder in the Robert Brown case in 1977
* Robert M. Brown, 1978 recipient of the Railroader of the Year award
* Robert Brown (solicitor) (1844–1912), British solicitor and classical philologist
* Robert Arthur Brown Jr. (1914–1972), Canadian oilman