# Robert Johnson (disambiguation)

Robert Johnson (1911–1938) was an American blues singer and guitarist.
Robert Johnson may also refer to:

## Arts

* Robert Johnson (artist) (1770–1796), English artist, pupil of Thomas Bewick
* Robert Barbour Johnson (1907–1987), artist and writer of weird fiction
* Robert Flynn Johnson, curator emeritus at the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
* Bob Johnson (actor) (1920–1993), voice actor noted for Mission: Impossible mission messages
* Bob J (Robert Kwame Johnson, died 2010), Ghanaian cinematographer
* Robert Johnson (born 1948), British comic entertainer known under the stage name Bob Carolgees

### Musicians

* Robert Johnson (Scottish composer) (c. 1470–after 1554), Scottish renaissance composer and priest
* Robert Johnson (English composer) (c. 1583–1633), English lutenist and composer
* Robert Sherlaw Johnson (1932–2000), British composer, pianist and music scholar
* Robert A. Johnson (musician) (born 1950s), Memphis-based guitarist
* Robert Johnson (drummer), former drummer for KC and the Sunshine Band
* Robert White Johnson (born 1950s), Nashville songwriter

## Business

* Bob Johnson (butcher) (Robert Alan Johnson, 1940–2001), English businessman
* Robert E. Johnson (editor) (1922–1996), publisher and editor of JET magazine
* Robert L. Johnson (born 1946), American media entrepreneur, founder of Black Entertainment Television (BET)
* Robert M. Johnson (publisher) (born 1945), publisher of Newsday
* Robert Wood Johnson I (1845–1910), founded Johnson & Johnson
* Robert Wood Johnson II (1893–1968), 3rd president of Johnson & Johnson
* Robert Wood Johnson III (1920–1970), 3rd generation president of Johnson & Johnson
* Woody Johnson (Robert Wood Johnson IV, born 1947), American businessman

## Military

* Robert Johnson (Tennessee) (1834–1869), Civil War colonel; the son and private secretary of US president Andrew Johnson
* Robert S. Johnson (1920–1998), American World War II flying ace
* Robert Lee Johnson (spy) (1922–1972), American spy for the Soviet Union
* Robert Gibbon Johnson (1771–1850), New Jersey colonel, farmer, historian and politician

## Politics and law
### U.S.

* Robert Johnson (governor) (1682–1735), governor of South Carolina
* Robert Johnson (Louisiana politician) (born 1975), Louisiana House of Representatives
* Robert Johnson III (born 1958), Mississippi House of Representatives
* Robert A. Johnson (South Dakota politician) (1921–2014), South Dakota State Senate
* Robert D. Johnson (1883–1961), U.S. congressman from Missouri
* Robert E. Johnson (New York politician) (1909–1995), New York State Senate
* Robert E. Johnson (Colorado politician), state legislator
* Robert George Johnson (1925–1969), Minnesota state senator
* Robert H. Johnson (1916–2011), Wyoming state senator; see University of Wyoming College of Law
* Robert I. Johnson (born 1928), Wisconsin State Assembly
* Robert M. Johnson (politician), Florida House of Representatives
* Robert T. Johnson (politician) (born 1945), Missouri House of Representatives
* Robert Underwood Johnson (1853–1937), U.S. writer and diplomat
* Robert W. Johnson (Minnesota politician) (1924–2013), Minnesota House of Representatives
* Robert Ward Johnson (1814–1879), U.S. representative, U.S. senator, and Confederate States senator from Arkansas
* Robert T. Johnson (lawyer) (born 1948), justice of the New York State Supreme Court

### Elsewhere

* Robert Johnson (English politician) (c. 1537–1622), English politician who sat in the House of Commons, 1597–1614
* Robert Johnson (died 1730), Irish MP for Trim and Athboy
* Robert Johnson (died 1721), Irish MP for Athboy and Harristown
* Robert Johnson (1745–1833), Irish MP for Hillsborough and Philipstown
* Robert Johnson (Australian politician) (1812–1866), New South Wales politician
* Robert Milton Johnson (1879–1943), Progressive party member of the Canadian House of Commons

## Religion

* Robert Johnson (martyr) (died 1582), Catholic priest
* Robert Johnson (archdeacon of Leicester) (1540–1625), Puritan rector
* Robert Johnson (bishop) (died 1767), Anglican bishop of Cloyne, 1759–1767
* Robert Carroll Johnson Jr. (1938–2014), bishop of North Carolina in the Episcopal Church
* Robert Hodges Johnson (fl 1989), bishop of Western North Carolina in the Episcopal Church
* Robert J. Johnson (priest) (died 1916), American Roman Catholic priest
* Sir Robert Johnson (judge) (1933–2020), British barrister and judge

## Science and academia

* Robert Johnson (economist) (born 1950s), American economist
* Robert Johnson (historian), professor at the University of Toronto
* Robert A. Johnson (psychotherapist) (1921–2018), American author and Jungian analyst
* Robert David Johnson (born 1967), known as KC Johnson, professor of history
* Robert E. Johnson (scientist), American mathematician, engineer and physicist
* Robert Erwin Johnson (1923–2008), University of Alabama professor, historian of the U.S. Navy and Coast Guard
* Robert Livingston Johnson (1894–1966), Temple University president and former vice president of Time Inc.
* Robert Royce Johnson (1928–2016), engineer, computer pioneer, and professor; inventor of the Johnson counter
* Robert Walter Johnson (1899–1971), American physician

## Sports

* Robert Johnson (handballer) (born 1951), Canadian handball player who competed at the 1976 Summer Olympics
* Robert Johnson (tight end) (born 1980), American football player (NFL tight end)
* Robert Johnson (safety) (born 1987), American football player (NFL safety for the Tennessee Titans)
* Robert Johnson (wide receiver) (born 1982), American football player
* Robert Johnson (runner), 1981 USA marathon champion
* Robert Johnson (basketball) (born 1995), American basketball player
* Earl Johnson (runner) (Robert Earle Johnson, 1891–1965), Olympic silver medalist in cross country running

## Others

* Sir Robert Johnson (civil servant) (1874–1938), British civil servant, Deputy Master of the Royal Mint, 1922–1938
* Robert Johnson (prison officer) (born 1953), American air force veteran and former prison guard
* Robert Crawford Johnson (1882–1937), English inventor of the Cube teapot
* Robert R. Johnson, co-owner of the racehorse Timoleon
* Robert Grady Johnson, co-conspirator in the Geronimo bank murders

## Other uses

* "Robert Johnson", a song by Alexis Korner from The Party Album
* Robert Johnson (guitars), guitars owned and played by Robert Johnson