# Robert Allen

Bob, Bobby, Robbie or Robert Allen may refer to:

## Composers

* Robert William Otto Allen (1852–1888), Danish pianist, composer and conductor
* Robert Allen (song composer) (1927–2000), American pianist and arranger

## Performers

* Robert Allen (actor) (1906–1998), American stage, film and TV performer
* Robbie Allen (musician), American bassist and guitarist
* Robert Marlow (Robert Allen, 1961–2022), English singer and musician

## Politicians

* Robert Allen (Tennessee politician) (1778–1844), American congressperson
* Robert Allen (Virginia politician) (1794–1859), American congressperson
* Robert Allen (Irish politician), MP for Carysfort in County Wicklow
* Robert E. Lee Allen (1865–1951), American congressperson from West Virginia
* Robert Allen (Ontario politician) (1888–1969), Canadian member of Legislative Assembly of Ontario
* Robert G. Allen (1902–1963), American congressperson from Pennsylvania
* Robert E. Allen (politician) (1924–2014), American legislator in Colorado
* Bob Allen (Pennsylvania politician) (born 1945), American state legislator
* Bob Allen (Florida politician) (born 1958), American state legislator

## Sportsmen
### Baseball

* Bob Allen (shortstop) (1867–1943), American baseball player and manager
* Al Elliott (Robert Allen, 1894–1975), American football halfback and baseball center fielder
* Bob Allen (1930s pitcher) (1914–2005), American right-hander in National League, 1937
* Bob Allen (1960s pitcher) (1937–2023), American League left-hander, 1961–67
* Robbie Allen (baseball) (born 1959), American baseball player and coach

### Basketball

* Bob Allen (basketball) (born 1946), American power forward
* Bobby Allen (basketball) (born 1969), Canadian point and shooting guard

### Football

* Bob Allen (Australian footballer) (1908–1992), player with Fitzroy in VFL
* Bob Allen (footballer, born 1916) (1916–1992), English winger
* Robert Allen (footballer) (1886–1981), English forward and British Army major-general

### Other sports

* Bobby Allen (racing driver) (born 1943), American racer of winged sprint cars
* Robert Allen (boxer) (born 1969), American middleweight
* Bobby Allen (ice hockey) (born 1978), American defenseman in NHL

## Writers

* Bob Allen (surgeon) (1772–1805), English journalist and surgeon
* Robert S. Allen (1900–1981), American investigative journalist
* Robert Porter Allen (1905–1963), American ornithologist and environmentalist
* Robert Thomas Allen (1911–1990), Canadian humorist
* Robert Livingston Allen (1916–1982), American educator and linguist
* Robert L. Allen (1942–2024), American activist and academic
* Robert Allen (lexicographer) (born 1944), British lexicographer and author
* Bob Allen (economic historian) (born 1947), American professor of economic history at Oxford University
* Robert Allen (poet) (died 2000s), English author of 1994's Canny Bit Verse in Northumbrian dialect

## Others

* Robert Allen (criminal) (born 1996), American man convicted for the murder of XXXTentacion
* Robert Allen (general) (1811–1886), American Civil War Union general
* Robert Calder Allen (1812–1903), English naval captain
* Robert Allen (Baptist minister) (1847–1927), Welsh clergyman in Glamorganshire
* Robert E. Allen (telecommunications executive) (1935–2016), American CEO and chairman of AT&T
* Bobbie R. Allen (1922–1972), American aviator and government official