Robert

### Caption

King Robert I of Scotland, king and national hero of Scotland, arguably the best known Robert in history.

## Origin

### Word / Name

Indo-European
**Germanic**

### Meaning

Fame-Bright,
Glory-Bright,
Shining with Glory,
Godlike-Bright

## Other Names

### Related Names

**Variants**
Rupert, Ruprecht, Rupprecht
Robbert
Boris
Robin
Robrecht
Rodbert
Raivis
Riivo
Raivo
Roberts
Robinette
Roope
Roopertti
Tuukka
Orbert
Rubert
Roberta (feminine form)
**Nicknames**
Rob (short form),
Robb (short form),
Roby (nickname),
Robbie (nickname),
Robby (nickname),
Ro (nickname),
Roe (nickname),
Bob (nickname),
Bobby (nickname)

### See Also

Rudolph, Roger, Roland, Roy, Roderick, Roman, Rose, Rodney, Roald, Raymond, Stephen / Steven, Cuthbert, Maria, Herbert,
 Waldemar, Vladimir

The name **Robert** is an ancient Germanic given name. It is a modern form of the ancient Germanic given name Hrōþiberhtaz, derived from Proto-Germanic *stems \*Hrōþi-* "fame, honour, godlike" and *\*berhta-* "bright". Compare Old Dutch Robrecht and Old High German Hrodebert (a compound of *Hruod* (Old Norse: *Hróðr*) "fame, glory, honour, praise, renown, godlike" and *berht* "bright, light, shining"). The name emerged around 500 BCE when Proto-Germanic was spoken, making the name around 3000 years old. It is one of the most ancient given names still in use today. It is the second most frequently used given name of ancient Germanic origin. Another commonly used form of the name is **Rupert**.

After becoming widely used in Continental Europe it entered England in its Old French form Robert, where an Old English cognate form (Hrēodbēorht, Hrodberht, Hrēodbēorð, Hrœdbœrð, Hrœdberð, Hrōðberχtŕ) had existed before the Norman Conquest. The name was used in the Roman Empire in its Latin forms, **Robertus** and **Rupertus**. With the establishment of the British, French, Spanish and Portuguese Empires, the English, French, Spanish and Portuguese languages started to spread across the world, and because of it Robert, in its forms in these languages, was brought to other continents.

The feminine version is **Roberta**. The Italian, Portuguese, and Spanish form is **Roberto**. Since England had atleast one colony on every single continent and region of the world, the name Robert is now used on all geographic continents and regions. Former British colonies, the English speaking countries of today, where the name is most commonly used are United States of America, Australia, New Zealand, Canada and, to some extent, India. It is also in use as a surname (see Robert (surname)).

Robert is also a common name in many Germanic languages, including English, German, Dutch, Norwegian, Swedish, Scots, Danish, and Icelandic. It can be used in other Indo-European languages, such as French, Polish, Irish and Romanian, and in Uralic languages, such as Finnish and Estonian as well. It is also a name with one of the highest numbers of historically important namesakes which stems from its record high popularity throughout history.

The name Robert almost exactly shares its meaning with the name **Waldemar** / **Volodymyr** / **Vladimir**.

## Variations and Surnames

**In different languages**
 See Variations of Robert in different languages
**Feminine forms**
 *Bobbi, Bobbie
Robbi, Robbie
Roberta, Robertha
Robertina, Robertine
Robina
Robyn, Robynne
Ruprette, Rupretta* (archaic French)
**Surnames**
*Robert, Roberts, Robertson, Roberson, Robinson, Robero, Romero, Bertson, Bertke, Robertsen, Robertov, Robright*

## Popularity and Trivia

The name *Robert* was a royal name in France, Germany, Scotland and England during the medieval period, and was the name of several kings, dukes, and other rulers and noblemen. It was one of the most popular male names in medieval Europe, likely due to its frequent usage amongst royalty and nobility. To this day, *Robert*, and its different forms, remains one of the most frequently given male names.

*Robert* was in the top 10 most given boys' names in the United States for 47 years, from 1925 to 1972. While some names become less frequently used due to negative associations, Robert is still widely used despite its connection to many negatively evaluated historical figures, such as King Robert II of France, principal architect of Vietnam War, recognized war criminal, and US Secretary of Defence Robert McNamara, Dictator of Zimbabwe Robert Mugabe, Auschwitz extermination camp commander Robert Mulka, leader of the Rwandan genocide general Robert Kajuga, Soviet politician, provincial head of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union in Siberia and one of the perpetrators of the Great Terror Robert Eikhe, DAF Führer of Nazi Germany Robert Ley and Military Dictator of British India Baron Robert Clive.

The name's second component, *\*berhta-*, is the original root for the modern English word "bright".

The names first and second elements can also be found in several other given names, as well as the name shares a similar meaning with a number of other given names (see **names with a similar meaning** section).

### Associations with historical figures

The names most famous namesake is King Robert I of Scotland, the King of Scots who defeated England in the Wars of Scottish Independence and became the national hero and patron of Scotland.

It was the name of 3 Kings of Scotland, 2 Kings of France, King of Germany, King of Naples, King of Hungary and Croatia, King of Albania and Tzar Robert (Boris) of Bulgaria who led Bulgaria during World War II and personally oversaw and commanded the Bulgarian troops on the European Theatre of World War II.

It was also the name of two Dukes of Normandy, Robert I "The Magnificent" and Robert Curthose who was one of the principal leaders of the First Crusade.

*Robert* was the name of 5 saints, most notably Saint Robert of Molesme who founded the Cistercian Order and Saint Robert Bellarmine, a Jesuit Doctor of the Church who, although canonized as a saint, became notorious for his participation in mass executions during the Roman Inquisition.

*Robert* was the name of 5 Prime Ministers of Great Britain, including Sir Robert Walpole who served as the first Prime Minister in history of Britain and led the War of Austrian Succession, Lord Robert Gascoyne-Cecil who led the Second Boer War, Sir Robert Peel who founded the Metropolitan police and led britain during the First Opium War and Lord Robert Jenkinson who led the War of the Sixth Coalition, War of 1812 and Gunboat War. It was also the name of Sir Robert Menzies who was the longest serving Prime Minister in Australias history and led the country during Malayan Emergency and Robert Schumann, the Prime Minister of France who was also one of the founders of European Union and NATO. It is also the name of Robert Kocharyan, president of Armenia who previously served as an army general and was one of the principal military leaders of First Nagorno-Karabakh War.

Other significant politicians with this name were Robert A. Lovett who was the Secretary of defence of the United States and the principal leader of Korean War and Berlin Blockade, Secretary of Defence and CIA director Robert Gates who led US army during the Iraq War, and Robert F. Kennedy, United States Attorney General best known for his leadership during the Cuban Missile Crisis and Bay of Pigs Invasion. It was also the name of Robert McNamara, the United States Secretary of Defense and a recognized war criminal who became known for starting the american phase of the Vietnam War by ordering to invade Vietnam and for being the principal architect and leader of the war.

Robert was the name of Baron Robert Clive, an English nobleman and general who became the Commander-in-chief of British India, served as the Head of State of India and led the Indian army as one of the principal military leaders of Carnatic wars and Seven Years' War. It was the name of Roberto Viola, the Military Dictator of Argentina during the Dirty War period. It was also the name of Robert Mugabe, the Dictator of Zimbabwe who was in power for over 30 years and led the Zimbabwean forces in armed conflicts such as Rhodesian Bush War, Kivu Conflict and Second Congo War.

*Robert* was also the name of several important military commanders, including Robert L. Eichelberger, American general who commanded many important World War II battles, most notably Philippines Campaign (1944-1945), Landing at Aitape, New Guinea Campaign,Invasion of Palawan and Operation Downfall, as well as important military campaigns during World War I, including Siberian Intervention and Allied intervention in the Russian Civil War, Robert E. Lee, the supreme commander-in-chief of Confederate States army during American Civil War, Robert A. Lewis, the pilot and commander of the plane that dropped the atomic bomb "Little Boy" during the Atomic Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Baron Robert Baden-Powell, the founder of Girl Guide and Boy Scout movements and one of the principal leaders of Second Boer War and Anglo-Ashanti wars, Robert Blake who commanded the First Anglo-Dutch War, Robert Ritter von Greim who commanded German troops during the famous Battle of Kursk and Warsaw Uprising, Robert Viren who commanded Russian Naval forces during Russo-Japanese War and Robert Nivelle, the commander-in-chief of French army during WWI who was the principal commander of Western Front of World War I and Battle of Verdun, which is the longest battle in recorded history.

Other important military leaders with this name are Robert Dudley, governor-general of British Empire who most notably commanded the Eighty Years’ War and the Anglo-Spanish War, Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex, English nobleman and military commander who most notably commanded the English Armada and Irish Nine Years' War, Robert Devereux, 3rd Earl of Essex, best known for his leadership of English Civil War and Robert Stewart, Viscount Castlereagh who most notably led the Irish Rebellion of 1798.

Robert was the name of Robert Bunsen, Robert Koch, Robert Hooke and Robert Boyle, all of whom are comnsidered among the most important scientists in history, Robert L. Gilruth who was involved in Project Apollo which succeeded in preparing and landing the first humans on the Moon from 1968 to 1972, as well as Robert Oppenheimer, the inventor of the atomic bomb and leader of the Manhattan Project and Project Y, during which he and his team developed weapons of mass destruction.

Robert was also the name of Arctic explorers Robert Peary, who is also believed to be the first man to reach the North Pole and Robert Falcon Scott, the leader of the Terra Nova Expedition.

Other significant explorers with this name are Robert Ballard, a retired United States Navy officer and a professor of oceanography who discovered of the wrecks of the RMS Titanic, Robert O'Hara Burke, Irish soldier and police officer who explored Australia and led the first expedition to cross Australia from south to north and Sir Robert McClure, Irish explorer of the Arctic who traversed the Northwest Passage by boat and sledge and was the first to circumnavigate the Americas.

Today the name is best known for being the name of several famous actors, including Robert Downey Jr., Robert De Niro, Robert Pattinson and Robert Redford. All of them are considered among the most famous actors of all time. It is also the name of several film directors, including Robert Zemeckis, Robert Rodriguez, Robert "Rob" Reiner, Robert Eggers, Robert "Rob" Marshall, Robert Mulligan, Robert Schwentke, Robert Stevenson, Robert Stromberg and Robert Wise, all of whom are among the most highly visible film directors in history and have directed numerous films in genres spanning from adventure, horror and fantasy to psychological fims and thrillers.

It is also the name of the famous Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) leader Robert S. Mueller III.

## Names with a similar meaning

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***Fame***
The names first element, *\*Hrōþi*, can also be found in names:

Roger, Roland, Rudolph, Roderick, Roman, Rose, Rodney, Roald, Raymond

**Other names also meaning "fame", "glory", "praise", "honour", "godlike":**

*Names meaning "fame", "glory", "praise", "honour", "godlike" of various origin:*

Stephen / Steven

Louis / Lewis / Ludwig

Mary / Maria

Tim / Timothy

Michael

Sonny

Lothar

Waldemar/Vladimir

Morgan

Elmer / Elmar / Ilmar / Ilmari

Ludolf / Ludolph

Neil / Niles / Nolan

Gustav

Justin

Joseph

David

Ummet / Ahmed / Hamid / Muhammad

Fadel / Fadil

Ademar / Ottomar / Othmar / Omar

Mark / Martin

Heracles / Hercules / Hercule

Cleopatra

Honor / Honoré

Daniel

Samuel

Emmanuel / Manuel

Gabriel

Ariel

Nathaniel / Nathan

Theodore / Theodor / Teodor

Isabella

Elizabeth / Elisabeth

*Slavic names also meaning "fame", "glory", "praise", "honour":*

Vladislav

Stanislav

Yaroslav / Jaroslav

Bronisław / Branislav

Miroslav / Mirosław

Boleslav

Vyacheslav

Dragoslav

Czesław

Ctibor

Ctirad

Mstislav

Rostislav

Sławomir

Sviatoslav

Svetoslav

Borislav

Slavena

Dobroslav

Vojislav

Wiesław

Květoslav

Tomislav

Sobieslaw

Slavoljub

Rostislav

*Bright*The names second element, *\*Berhta*, can also be found on names:

Albert, Herbert, Gilbert, Dagobert, Delbert, Norbert, Humbert, Hubert, Bertrand, Bertram, Cuthbert

**Other names also meaning "bright", "shining", "light":**

Walter / Walther

Waldemar / Vladimir

Arnold

Artem / Artyom

Adolf

Julian

Zeus / Jupiter

Jair / Jahir / Jairo

Harvey

Oswald

Evald / Ewald

Lucas / Luke / Lucius

Lucy / Lucia / Lucinda / Cindy / Sindy

Barack / Barak

## People named Robert

*Whether a Royal, a political leader or a military leader is one of the principal commanders of a military engagement is determined by their inclusion in the "Commanders and leaders" section in the infobox of the armed conflict.*

### Royalty (Kings, Emperors, Princes and Dukes)

**Kings of Scotland*** **Robert I of Scotland** (1274–1329) ("Robert the Bruce"), King and National Hero of Scotland, one of the most prominent and skilled warriors of his time who freed Scotland from the English rule during the Wars of Scottish Independence, legendary for his victory in Battle of Bannockburn
* **Robert II of Scotland** (Robert Stewart) (1316–1390), one of the principal commanders of Battle of Halidon Hill
* **Robert III of Scotland** (c. 1337/40-1406)
**Kings of France*** **Robert I of France** (c.866–923)
* **Robert II of France** (972–1031), principal leader of Conquest of Burgundy and perpetrator of Massacres of Jews in France
**King of Naples*** **Robert, King of Naples** (1276–1343)
King of Germany* **Robert, King of Germany** (Rupertus, Rex Romanorum) (1352–1410)
**King of Hungary and Croatia*** **Charles I Robert** (1288–1342)
**King of Bulgaria*** **Robert of Bulgaria**, or Boris of Bulgaria (1894–1943), Tsar of the Kingdom of Bulgaria (1894–1943), one of the principal commanders of European Theatre of World War II
**King of Albania and Emperor of the Latin Empire*** **Robert II of Taranto** (1319 or early winter 1326–1364), King of the Kingdom of Albania and Emperor of the Latin Empire
**Dukes of Normandy** * **Robert I, Duke of Normandy** (1000–1035), also known as Robert the Magnificent or Robert the Devil; father of William the Conqueror
* **Robert Curthose** (c.1051–1134), son of William the Conqueror, claimant to throne of Kingdom of England, one of the principal commanders of First Crusade and its battles Siege of Antioch, Battle of Ascalon, Battle of Dorylaeum (1907), Siege of Jerusalem (1099), Siege of Nicaea and Battle of Tinchebray
**Crown Prince of France and Duke of Chartres*** **Prince Robert, Duke of Chartres**, Crown Prince of France (1840–1910)
Duke of Parma* **Robert I, Duke of Parma** (1848–1907)
**Count of Flanders*** **Robert I, Count of Flanders** (c.1035–1093)
* **Robert II, Count of Flanders** (c.1065–1111), one of the principal commanders of First Crusade and its battles Siege of Antioch, Battle of Ascalon, Siege of Jerusalem (1099), Siege of Ma’arra and Siege of Nicaea
**Crown Prince of Bavaria*** **Robert I, crown prince of Bavaria** (1869–1955), also known as Prince Rupprecht, last heir apparent to the Bavarian throne, one of the most prominent military commanders of World War I, claimant to the thrones of England, Scotland and Ireland, one of the principal commanders of Battle of the Somme, Second Battle of Artois, Battle of Lorraine, Battle of Albert (1914), Battle of Arras (1914), First Battle of Ypres, Battle of Neuve Chapelle, Battle of Loos, Battle of Ginchy, Battle of Messines (1917), Battle of Courtrai (1918), Battle of the Lys and the Escaut and Battle of Passchendaele
**Latin Emperor and Emperor of Constantinople*** **Robert I, Latin Emperor** (d. 1228), Emperor of the Latin Empire and Constantinopole
**Duke of Sicily and Prince of Benevento*** **Robert Guiscard** (c. 1015–1085), Norman nobleman, adventurer and explorer, leader of the conquest of southern Italy and Sicily

### Medieval noblemen / knights / knight order leaders

* **Robert II, Count of Artois** (1250-1320), Count of Artois and member of the French Royal family, one of the principal commanders of English expedition to Flanders (1297–1298), Battle of Furnes, Battle of the Golden Spurs and War of the Sicilian Vespers
* **Robert III of Artois** (1287-1342), Lord of Conches-en-Ouche, of Domfront, and of Mehun-sur-Yèvre, Earl of Richmond, one of the principal commanders of Battle of Saint-Omer, Hundred Years' War (1337–1360) and Hundred Years' War
* **Robert of Bellême, 3rd Earl of Shewsbury** (c. 1052–after 1130), Anglo-Norman nobleman, and one of the most prominent figures in the competition for the succession to England and Normandy, member of the House of Bellême, one of the principal commanders of Battle of Tinchebray
* **Sir Robert Bemborough** (died 1351), medieval knight who led the Montfortist faction during the Combat of the Thirty
* **Robert de Craon** (died 1147), the second Grand Master of Knights Templat from June 1136 until his death, one of the principal commanders of Second Crusade
* **Robert de Juilly** (died 1377), Grand Master of the Knights Hospitaller from 1374 to his death
* **Robert, 1st Earl of Gloucester** (c. 1090–1147), half-brother of the Empress Matilda, and her chief military supporter and commander in-chief of the armed forces during the civil war known as The Anarchy, one of the principal commanders of Battle of Lincoln (1141)
* **Robert IV of Sablé** (1150-1193), eleventh Grand Master of the Knights Templar from 1191 to 1192 and Lord of Cyprus from 1191 to 1192, one of the principal commanders of Third Crusade and Battle of Arsuf

### Folk heroes

* **Robert Huntington**, known as **Robin Hood**, legendary heroic outlaw and nobleman originally depicted in English folklore, highly skilled archer and swordsman, sometimes regarded as one of the national heroes of England
* **Robert Roy Macgregor** (1671-1734), Scottish outlaw and national hero

### Nobility

* **Robert Benson, 1st Baron Bingley** (c. 1676–1731)
* **Robert Bruce, 1st Earl of Ailesbury** (c. 1626–1685)
* **obert Carey, 1st Earl of Monmouth** (c. 1560–1639)
* **Robert Carr, 1st Earl of Somerset** (c. 1587–1645)
* **Robert Cecil, 1st Viscount Cecil of Chelwood** (1864–1958), British lawyer, politician and diplomat, one of the architects of the League of Nations;
* **Robert Cecil, 1st Earl of Salisbury** (1563–1612) , Lord High Treasurer and Secretary of State of England
* **Sir Robert Dashwood, 1st Baronet** (1662–1734), English politician
* **Sir Robert Finlay, 1st Viscount Finlay** (1842–1929), Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain
* **Sir Robert Gordon, 1st Baronet** (1580–1656) , Scottish politician and courtier
* **Robert Greenville, 2nd Baron Brooke** (1607-1643), English Baron, military commander and Roundhead general
* **Robert Harley** (1579–1656), British statesman and Master of the Mint
* **Robert Henley, 1st Earl of Northington** (c. 1708–1772), Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain
* **Robert Herbert, 12th Earl of Pembroke** (1791–1862)
* **Sir Robert Inglis, 2nd Baronet** (1786–1855) , English politician;
* **Robert Kerr, 1st Earl of Ancram** (c. 1578–1654)
* **Robert Kerr, 1st Marquess of Lothian** (1636–1703)
* **Robert III de La Marck** (1491–1537), *Seigneur* of Fleuranges, Marshal of France and adventurer
* **Robert IV de La Marck** (1512–1556), Duke of Bouillon, *Seigneur* of Sedan and a Marshal of France
* **Robert Paston, 1st Earl of Yarmouth** (1631–1683)
* **Sir Robert Peel, 1st Baronet** (1750–1830), British politician and industrialist and one of early textile manufacturers of the Industrial Revolution, father of Sir Robert Peel, twice Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
* **Robert Pierrepont, 1st Earl of Kingston-upon-Hull** (1584–1643)
* **Robert Raymond, 1st Baron Raymond** (1673–1733)
* **Robert Reid, 1st Earl Loreburn** (1846–1923)
* **Robert Rich, 2nd Earl of Warwick** (1587–1658)
* **Robert Rolfe, 1st Baron Cranworth** (1790–1868) , Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain
* **Lord Robert Walpole, 2nd Earl of Orford**  (1701–1751), British peer and politician
* **Robert Windsor-Clive, 1st Earl of Plymouth** (1857–1923), British nobleman and Conservative politician
* **Robert Stewart, 1st Marquess of Londonderry** (1739–1821)

### Military Nobility

* **Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex** (1565–1601), English nobleman and military commander, one of the principal commanders of English Armada, Siege of Rouen (1591–1592), Capture of Cadiz, Islands Voyage, Essex Campaign in Ireland and Irish Nine Years' War
* **Robert Dudley, 1st Earl of Leicester** (1532–1588), British statesman and military commander, governor-general of British Empire, one of the principal commanders of Dutch Revolt, Eighty Years’ War, Siege of Sluis (1587), Battle of Zutphen and Anglo-Spanish War (1585–1604)
* **Robert Devereux, 3rd Earl of Essex** (1591-1646), British nobleman and military leader, Roundhead and one of the principal commanders of Cadiz expedition (1625), Anglo-Spanish War (1625–1630), Wars of the Three Kingdoms and English Civil War
* **Robert Bertie, 1st Earl of Lindsey** (1582-1642), British noble and military commander, one of the principal commanders of Siege of Rheinberg (1601)
* **Sir Robert Kingsmill, 1st Baronet** (1730–1805), Royal navy officer, one of the principal commanders of French expedition to Ireland (1796)
* **Robert Maxwell, 1st Earl of Nithsdale** (1586–1646), Scottish nobleman and military commander, one of the principal commanders of Thirty Years' War
* **Robert Maxwell, 5th Lord Maxwell** (1493-1546), Scottish soldier and nobleman, member of the Council of Regency of the Kingdom of Scotland, Regent of the Isle of Arran, patriarch of the House of Maxwell/Clan Maxwell, one of the principal commanders of Battle of Solway Moss and Battle of Melrose
* **Robert Stewart, Viscount Castlereagh** (1769–1822), Irish/British statesman, British Foreign Secretary, central to the management of the War of the Sixth Coalition that defeated Napoleon, principal British diplomat at the Congress of Vienna, leader of the British House of Commons in the Liverpool, Chief Scretary for Ireland, Secretary of State for War and the Colonies, one of the principal leaders of Irish Rebellion of 1798 and Campaign in north-east France (1814)

### Religious figures and saints

* **Saint Robert Bellarmine** (died in 1621), Jesuit Doctor of the Church, one of the leaders of Roman Inquisition and Galileo affair
* **Saint Robert of Bury** (died 1181)
* **Robert Holman** (1521-1579), 36th Abbot of Ten Duinen Abbey
* **Saint Robert of Molesme** (d. 1111), founder of the Cistercian Order
* **Saint Robert of Newminster** (d. 1159), established the Abbey of Newminster at Morpeth, Northumberland
* **Roberto de Nobily** (1577-1656), Italian Jesuit missionary to Southern India
* **Roberto de' Nobili** (1541-1559), Roman catholic cardinal
* **Robert de Sorbon** (1201-1274), French theologian and founder of College of Sorbonne
* **Saint Robert de Turlande** (d. 1067), founding abbot of the Abbey of Casa Dei, also called Chaise-Dieu
* **Robert Welch**, Vicar of St Thomas, Exeter, one of the principal commanders of Prayer Book Military Rebellion

### Presidents and prime ministers

**British Prime Ministers*** **Lord Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury**, British statesman, serving as Prime Minister three times for a total of over thirteen years, one of the principal commanders of Second Boer War, one of the establishers of concentration camps during the war;
* **Robert Harley, 1st Earl of Oxford and Earl Mortimer**, Lord High Treasurer of the British Empire, sometimes regarded as the first Prime Minister of Great Britain, one of the principal commanders of Nine Years War and War of the Spanish Succession
* **Robert Jenkinson, 2nd Earl of Liverpool**, British statesman and Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1812 to 1827, Secretary of State for War and the Colonies, one of the principal commanders of War of the Sixth Coalition, German campaign of 1813, Hundred Days, Napoleonic Wars, Gunboat War and War of 1812
* **Sir Robert Peel**, British statesman who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, father of modern British policing, leader of Peelite, founder of Conservative Party of United Kingdom and the Metropolitan Police Service, one of the principal commanders of First Anglo-Afghan war, First Opium War and Uruguayan civil war;
* **Sir Robert Walpole**, British statesman who served as the first Prime Minister of Great Britain, one of the principal commanders of War of Austrian Succession, War of Jenkins' Ear and Anglo-Spanish War (1727–1729)
**Australian Prime Ministers*** **Robert "Bob" Hawke**, Australian politician who served as Prime Minister of Australia and Leader of the Labor Party
* **Sir Robert Menzies**, Australian politician who twice served as Prime Minister of Australia, in office from 1939 to 1941 and again from 1949 to 1966, making him the longest serving prime minister of Australia in history, one of the principal commanders of Malayan Emergency and World War II
**Presidents and Prime Ministers from North America*** **Sir Robert Borden**, Canadian lawyer and politician who served as the eighth prime minister of Canada, best known for his leadership of Canada during World War I, member of the Imperial War Cabinet and a key figure in Conscription Crisis of 1917;
* **Robert F. Kennedy**, American politician and lawyer who served as the 64th United States Attorney General, United States Senator for New York, brother of the U.S. president John F. Kennedy, one of the principal commanders of Cuban Missile Crisis and Bay of Pigs Invasion, assassinated in June 1968;
**Presidents and Prime Ministers from Asia / Oceania*** **Robert "Bob" Dadae**, Papua New Guinean politician who serves as the tenth and current governor-general of Papua New Guinea
* **Robert Kocharyan**, Armenian politician who served as the first president of Nagorno-Karabakh Republic and the second president of Armenia between 1998 and 2008, one of the principal commanders of First Nagorno-Karabakh War;
* **Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton**, English statesman, Conservative politician, and poet, who served as Viceroy of India (Governor-General) between 1876 and 1880 and British Ambassador to France from 1887 to 1891, one of the leading perpetrators of the Great Famine of 1876–1878
* **Sir Robert Muldoon**, New Zealand politician who served as the 31st Prime Minister of New Zealand
* **Sir Robert Namaliu**, Papua New Guinean politician who served as the fourth prime minister of Papua New Guinea from 4 July 1988 to 17 July 1992, one of the principal commanders of Bougainville conflict
* **Sir Robert Stout**, New Zealand politician who served as 13th Prime Minister of New Zealand on two occasions in the 19th century, and later Chief Justice of New Zealand;
* **Robert Tapaitau**, Cook Islands politician and Deputy Prime Minister of the Cook Islands
**Presidents and Prime Ministers from Europe*** **Robert Abela**, Maltese lawyer and politician, currently serving as the 14th prime minister of Malta
* **Robert Fico**, Slovak politician who served as Prime Minister of Slovakia from 2012 to 2018 and serves again since 2023
* **Robert Golob**, Slovenian politician and businessman, current prime minister of Slovenia
* **Robert Haab**, Swiss politician and President of Switzerland
* **Robert Habeck**, German politician and writer, Vice Chancellor of Germany, Federal Minister for Economic Affairs and Climate Action, Member of the German Bundestag for Flensburg-Schleswig, co-leader of Alliance '90/The Greens
* **Robert Schuman**, Luxembourg-born French statesman, Christian Democrat, activist, Prime Minister of France, a reformist Minister of Finance and a Foreign Minister, one of the founders of the European Union, the Council of Europe and NATO;
* **Robert Themptander**, Swedish politician and public official who served as Prime Minister of Sweden from 1884 to 1888
**Presidents and Prime Ministers from Africa*** **Robert Beugré Mambé** (born 1952), Ivorian civil engineer and politician, governor of the Abidjan Autonomous District and the Prime Minister of Ivory Coast, one of the principal commanders of Central African Republic Civil War
**Presidents and Prime Ministers from Central / South America*** **Roberto Dañino**, Peruvian lawyer and former Prime Minister of Peru
* **Roberto Micheleti**, Honduran politician who served as the president of Honduras following the 2009 Honduran coup d'état
* **Roberto Marcelo Levingston**, Argentine Army general who served as President of Argentina
* **Roberto María Ortiz**, 19th president of Argentina during the Infamous Decade
* **Roberto Suazo Córdova**, 29th President of Honduras
* **Roberto Sánchez Vilella**, Governor of Puerto Rico, Head of State and Head of Government of Puerto Rico

### Dictators

* **Baron Robert Clive** (1725-1774), British army officer and privateer who established the military and political supremacy of the East India Company in Bengal, served as the Commander-in-Chief of British India, the organizer of the Great Bengal famine of 1770, one of the principal commanders of Carnatic Wars, Siege of Arcot, Battle of Arnee, Battle of Chingeplut, Battle of Chandannagar, Battle of Plassey and Seven Years' War
* **Robert Guéï** (1941–2002), Ivorian politician who was the military dictator of Ivory Coast
* **Robert Mugabe** (1924-2019), former Zimbabwean politician and revolutionary, Prime Minister of Zimbabwe from 1980 to 1987 and President (Dictator) from 1987 to 2017, one of the principal commanders of Rhodesian Bush War, Kivu Conflict, Central African Republic Civil War, 2017 Zimbabwean coup d'état and Second Congo War, the leading perpetrator of Gukurahundi Genocide
* **Roberto Eduardo Viola** (1924-1994), Argentine military officer who served as Military Dictator of Argentina, one of the principal commanders of Dirty War

### Secretaries of Defense

* **Robert "Rob" Bauer** (born 1962), Dutch lieutenant admiral in the Royal Netherlands Navy, Chief of Defense of the Netherlands, Chair of the NATO Military Committee
* **Robert Gates**, (1943) American statesman, scholar, intelligence analyst, and university president who served as the director of Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), Director of Central Intelligence and 22nd United States Secretary of Defense from 2006 to 2011, one of the principal commanders of 2011 military intervention in Libya, Operation Odyssey Dawn, Iraqi insurgency (2003–2011), Libyan civil war (2011) and Iraq War
* **Robert A. Lovett**, (1895–1986) fourth United States Secretary of Defense, one of the principal commanders of Cold War, Berlin Blockade and Korean War
* **Robert McNamara**, (1916–2009) American business executive and the eighth United States Secretary of Defense, war criminal, one of the principal commanders of Cambodian Civil War, Laotian Civil War, Cold War and Cuban Missile Crisis, key figure in Gulf of Tonkin Incident, leader of Project 100,000, Operation Pierce Arrow, Pleiku Campaign and Operation Rolling Thunder, the principal commander and chief architect of Vietnam War
* **Robert "Rob" Nicholson** (born 1952), Canadian politician, Minister of Justice and Attorney General of Canada, Minister of National Defence of Canada, one of the principal commanders of American-led intervention in Iraq (2014–2021)

### Wartime figures and military leaders

**American army*** **Robert S. Beightler**, American military officer, major General, military governor of Okinawa, War Department General Staff, commander of the 37th Infantry Division, one of the principal commanders of Bougainville campaign and Battle of Manila (1945)
* **Robert Brown**, American lieutenant colonel, one of the principal commanders of Battle of Kamdesh
* **Robert C. Buchanan**, American military officer, one of the principal commanders of Black Hawk War and Rogue River Wars
* **Robert Lee Bullard**, senior officer in the United States Army during World War I, the principal commander of Battle of Cantigny and Battle of Soissons (1918)
* **Robert L. Eichelberger**, general officer in the United States Army who commanded the Eighth United States Army in the Southwest Pacific Area during World War II, one of United States most decorated and skillful military commanders, one of the principal commanders of Siberian Intervention, Allied intervention in the Russian Civil War, Battle of Buna–Gona, Operation Downfall, Battle of Davao, Philippines Campaign (1944-1945), Landing at Aitape, Battle of Hollandia, Battle for Cebu City, New Guinea Campaign, Invasion of Palawan, Battle of Biak, Battle of the Visayas and Battle of Mindanao
* **Robert D. Forman**, American military officer, one of the principal commanders of Simba rebellion
* **Robert T. Frederick**, American general, one of the principal commanders of Battle of Nuremberg (1945)
* **Robert L. Ghormley**, admiral in the United States Navy, serving as Commander of South Pacific Area during World War II, one of the principal commanders of Guadalcanal campaign and Solomon islands campaign
* **Robert C. Giffen**, United States Navy Admiral, one of the principal commanders of Battle of Rennell Island
* **Robert W. Hayler**, United States Navy General, one of the principal commanders of Battle of Kula Gulf
* **Robert Hehemann**, American air combat pilot, one of the principal commanders of Samurra Air Battle
* **Robert Hoke**, Confederate major general during the American Civil War, one of the principal commanders of Battle of Plymouth (1864)
* **Robert B. Johnston**, retired United States Marine Corps lieutenant general whose last duty assignment was as Commander, Marine Forces Atlantic Marine Forces Europe and Marine Expeditionary Force, one of the principal commanders of Operation Restore Hope and Gulf War
* **Robert E. Lee**, American and Confederate general, supreme commander of the Confederate States Army during American Civil War, one of the most famous military commanders of his time, widely regarded as one of the greatest generals of all time and one of the founders of modern warfare, served as superintendent of United States Military Academy, one of the principal commanders of Mexican–American War and American Civil War;
* **Robert A. Lewis**, United States Army Air Forces officer serving in the Pacific Theatre during World War II, one of the pilots and commanders of the Enola G, the B-29 Superfortress bomber which dropped the atomic bomb Little Boy on the Japanese city of Hiroshima on August 6, 1945 during the Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
* **Robert Magaw**, American lawyer from Carlisle, Pennsylvania who served as a colonel in the Continental Army during the U.S. Revolutionary War, one of the principal commanders of Battle of Fort Washington
* **Robert B. McClure**, American general, one of the principal commanders of First and Second Battles of Wonju and New Georgia campaign
* **Robert McDade**, United States Army colonel, one of the principal commanders of Pleiku Campaign and Battle of Ia Drang
* **Robert McGowan Littlejohn**, major general in the United States Army, leader of War Assets Administration
* **Robert "Robin" Olds Jr.**, American fighter pilot and general officer in the U.S. Air Force, one of the principal commanders of Operation Bolo and Action of 23 August 1967
* **Robert Olds Sr.**, general officer in the US Army Air Forces, instructor at Air Corps Tactical School, member of the Bomber Mafia and theorist of strategic air power
* **Robert Patterson**, soldier and settler who helped found the cities of Lexington, Kentucky, and Cincinnati, Ohio, one of the principal commanders of Battle of Blue Licks
* **Robert Patterson**, Irish-born United States major general during the American Civil War, one of the principal commanders of Battle of Hoke's Run and First Battle of Bull Run
* **Robert W. Porter Jr.**, United States Army four-star general who served as Commander in Chief, United States Southern Command from 1965 to 1969, one of the key figures in Operation Condor
* **Robert Prince**, American military officer, one of the principal commanders of Raid at Cabanatuan
* **Robert Van Rensselaer**, American general, one of the principal commanders of Battle of Klock's Field
* **Robert Gould Shaw**, American officer in the Union Army during the American Civil War, commander of the first all-African American regiment (the 54th Massachusetts) in the Northeast, one of the principal commanders of Second Battle of Fort Wagner
* **Robert Sink**, senior United States Army officer who fought during World War II, the Korean War, and early parts of the Vietnam War, mostly remembered for his command of the 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, part of the 101st Airborne Division, one of the principal commanders of Battle of Carentan and Battle of Bloody Gulch
* **Robert H. Soule**, senior officer in the United States Army, one of the principal commanders of Raid on Los Baños
* **Robert F. Stockton**, United States Navy commodore, United States Senator from New Jersey, Military Governor of California, one of the principal commanders of Mexican-American War
* **Robert A. Theobald**, United States Navy officer who served in World War I and World War II, achiever of the rank of rear admiral, one of the principal commanders of Battle of Dutch Harbor, the air forces commander during Attack on Pearl Harbor
* **Robert F. Travis**, United States Army Air Forces general during World War II
* **Robert Toombs**, American lawyer, planter, army general, and politician from Georgia who became one of the organizers of the Confederacy and served as its first Secretary of State, one of the principal commanders of Peninsula Campaign and  Battle of Columbus (1865)
* **Robert Treat**, American colonial leader, militia officer and governor of the Connecticut Colony between 1683 and 1698 and the founder of Newark, New Jersey, one of the principal commanders of Great Swamp Fight
* **Robert Troup**, United States district judge of the United States District Court for the District of New York and military officer, the commander of Hearts of Oak (New York militia)
* **Robert C. Tyler**, Confederate Brigadier General during the American Civil War, one of the principal commanders of Battle of West Point
* **Robert O. Tyler**, American soldier who served as a general in the Union Army during the American Civil War, one of the principal commanders of Peninsula campaign
* **Robert Webster Cary**, United states army officer and one of the most decorated officers in the history of the United States Navy
* **Robert P. White**, United States Army lieutenant general serving as commander of Fort Hood, Texas and as the 61st Commanding General of III Armored Corps, one of the principal commanders Operation Inherent Resolve
* **Robert B. Williams**, major general in the United States Army Air Forces and an eminent combat commander during World War II, the principal leader of Air Raid on Schweinfurt–Regensburg
* **Robert York**, American general, one of the principal commanders of 1965 United States invasion of Dominican Republic
**British / Scotish army*** **Sir Robert Abercromby**, British general, appointed Knight of the Order of the Bath, a Governor of Bombsy (now Mumbai) and Commander-in-Chief of the Bombay Army and then Commander-in-Chief, India, one of the principal commanders of Battle of Crooked Billet, Battle of Millstone, and Siege of Yorktown
* **Robert Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powell**, British Army officer, writer, founder and first Chief Scout of the world-wide Boy Scout Movement, and founder of the world-wide Girl Guide / Girl Scout Movement, one of the principal commanders of Anglo-Ashanti wars, Siege of Mafeking, Second Matabele War and Second Boer War
* **Robert Blake**, British Royal Navy officer and one of the most important military commanders of the Commonwealth of England, one of the most famous English admirals of the 17th century, one of the principal commanders of Anglo-Spanish War (1654-1660), First Anglo-Dutch War and Battle of the Kentish Knock
* **Robert G. Broadwood**, British military officer, one of the principal commanders of Battle of Driefontein and Sanna's Post
* **Robert Brooke-Popham**, senior commander in the Royal Air Force and leader of Operation Matador (1941), Battle of Borneo (1941–1942), Battle of Kota Bharu and Malayan Campaign
* **Robert Brownrigg**, British statesman, general and soldier who brought the last part of Sri Lanka under British rule, Governor of British Ceylon, General Officer Commanding, Ceylon, one of the principal commanders of Great Rebellion of 1817–18
* **Sir Robert Burnett**, British Admiral during World War II, one of the principal commanders of Battle of the Barents Sea
* **Sir Robert Calder**, British naval officer, one of the principal commanders of Battle of Cape Finisterre (1805), Napoleon's planned invasion of the United Kingdom and  Anglo-Spanish War (1796-1808)
* **Robert Coleman**, British military officer, one of the principal commanders of Battle of Mobley's Meeting House
* **Sir Robert Constable**, member of the English Tudor gentry, one of the leaders of Pilgrimage of Grace
* **Robert H. Dick**, Scottish soldier, one of the principal commanders of First Anglo-Sikh War
* **Robert Drury-Lowe**, Vice Admiral in the British Imperial Royal Navy in World War I, one of the principal commanders of Battle of Rufiji Delta
* **Robert Rollo Gillespie**, officer in the British Army, one of the principal commanders of Anglo-Nepalese War, Vellore mutiny, Invasion of Java (1811) and Battle of Nalapani
* **Robert Groves Sandeman**, British Indian Army officer and colonial administrator known for his activities in Balochistan where he introduced a system of "tribal pacification" that endured until the partition of India in 1947
* **Robert Haining**, British Army officer, one of the principal commanders of 1936–1939 Arab revolt in Palestine
* **Robert Peverell Hichens**, British Lieutenant Commander and the most highly decorated officer of the Royal Navy Volunteer Reserve (RNVR), one of the principal commanders of Dunkirk evacuation
* **Robert Howe**, Continental Army general from the Province of North Carolina who played a role in the colonial and state governments of North Carolina, one of the principal commanders of Capture of Savannah, perpetrator of Burning of Norfolk
* **Robert Kekewich**, British Army officer, principal leader of Battle of Rooiwal and Siege of Kimberley
* **Sir Robert Mansell**, English Royal Navy officer and a member of parliament (MP), mostly for Welsh constituencies, one of the principal commanders of Battle of the Narrow Seas
* **Sir Robert Mansergh**, senior British Army officer during and after the Second World War, one of the principal commanders of Battle of Surabaya and Operation Tiderace
* **Robert "Paddy" Blaire Mayne**, British army officer, one of the principal commanders of Battle of the Litani River
* **Robert Monckton**, officer of the Britsih Army and also a colonial administrator in British North America, one of the principal commanders of Battle of Fort Beauséjour, St. John River Campaign, Battle of the Plains of Abraham and Capture of Martinique
* **Robert Munro, 18th Baron of Foulis**, known as the Black Baron, Scotish soldier and military warlord, one of the principal commanders of Siege of Stralsund (1628) and Battle of Lützen (1632)
* **Robert Monro**, Scottish general during Thirty Years’ War, one of the principal commanders of Siege of Stralsund (1628), Battle of Frankfurt an der Oder, Battle of Breitenfeld (1631), Battle of Benburb and Wars of the Three Kingdoms
* **Sir Robert Moray**, Scottish soldier, statesman, diplomat, judge, spy and natural philosopher, one of the founders of Royal Society and Freemasonry
* **Robert Orme**, British soldier and military leader, one of the principal commanders of Battle of the Monongahela in July 1755
* **Sir Robert Pigot, 2nd Baronet**, British Army officer during the American Revolutionary War, one of the principal commanders of Battle of Rhode Island and Battle of Bunker Hill, commander In-Chief of Mount Hope Bay raids
* **Robert Prescott**, British military officer and colonial administrator, Governor of Martinique, Governor General of Canada, one of the principal commanders of Siege of Brimstone Hill
* **Robert Rogers**, American colonial frontiersman and officer in the British Army, commander of Rogers' Rangers, one of the principal commanders of Battle of Snowshoes (1757), Battle of Snowshoes, St. Francis Raid, Battle of Bloody Run and Battle of Mamaroneck
* **Robert Ross**, officer in the British Army, born in Ireland, one of the principal commanders of War of 1812, Battle of Bladensburg, Burning of Washington, Battle of Baltimore and Battle of North Point
* **Robert Ryder**, British military officer and Navy Captain, one of the principal commanders of St Nazaire Raid (Operation Chariot)
* **Robert Sale**, British army officer, one of the principal commanders of Kabul Expedition (1842) and Battle of Jellalabad
* **Robert Sherbrooke**, British Rear Admiral in the Royal Navy, one of the principal commanders of Battle of the Barents Sea
* **Sir Robert Stopford**, distinguished officer in the Royal Navy, one of the principal commanders of Egyptian–Ottoman War (1839–1841), Oriental Crisis of 1840 and Invasion of Java (1811)
* **Robert Stanford Tuck**, British fighter pilot, flying ace, and test pilot, member of the Royal Air Force, war hero of World War II
* **Robert Sturges**, British Royal marine general, one of the principal commanders of Battle of Madagascar, principal leader of British Invasion of Iceland
* **Robert "Roy" Urquhart**, British Army officer, one of the principal commanders of Battle of Arnhem, Operation Market Garden, Operation Doomsday and Malayan Emergency
* **Robert Whittaker**, City of London banker and a senior officer in Britain's part-time Territorial Army (TA), chief of staff at Anti-Aircraft Command during World War II
**Australian army*** **Robert Chipman**, Air Marshal and senior officer in the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) who serves as Chief of Australian Air Force
* **Roberts Dunstan** (1922–1989), Australian soldier and airman of the Second World War
* **Robert A. Little**, World War I fighter pilot and the most successful Australian flying ace;
**New Zealand Army*** **Robert Logan**, officer in the New Zealand Military Forces who served in the First World War as the Military Administrator of Samoa, one of the principal commanders of Occupatioh of German Samoa and Asian and Pacific theatre of World War I
* **Robert A. Row**, New Zealand military officer, one of the principal commanders of Battle of the Treasury Islands and Bougainville campaign
**Canadian army*** **Robert "Rob" Walker**, Canadian military officer, one of the principal commanders of Operation Hoover
**German / Austrian army*** **Robert von Blumenthal**, German general in the German colonial empire, one of the principal commanders of Australian occupation of German New Guinea
* **Robert von Eggenberg**, Austrian colonel-general, one of the principal commanders of Battle of Sisak and Long Turkish War
* **Robert Gysae**, a German U-boat commander in the Kriegsmarine during World War II, one of the main commanders of Battle of the Atlantic
* **Robert Ritter von Greim**, German Field Marshal (the highest military rank of Germany) and pilot, second and last supreme commander of German Air Forces "Luftwaffe", one of Nazi Germanys most decorated and skillful generals, one of the principal commanders of Battle of Kursk (the largest tank battle in history), World War II, Operation Kutuzov and Warsaw Uprising
* **Robert Kosch**, Prussian general in the Imperial German army, one of the principal commanders of Flămânda Offensive and Crimea Operation (1918)
* **Robert Zapp**, German U-boat commander in World War II, one of the principal commanders of Torpedo Alley
**Irish army*** **Robert Emmet**, Irish Republican, orator and rebel leader, principal commander of Irish Rebellion of 1803
**Rwandan army*** **Robert Kajuga**, national president and leader of the MRND-affiliated extremist militia, the Interahamwe, one of the leading perpetrators of Rwandan genocide, one of the principal commanders of First Congo War
Syrian Army* **Robert Ichou**, Syrian general in the Democratic movement of Syria, leader of the military organization Nattoreh, one of the principal commanders of Deir ez-Zor campaign (2017–2019)
**Cuban army*** **Roberto Rodriguez Fernandez**, Cuban revolutionary, one of the principal commanders of Cuban Revolution and Battle of Santa Clara
**Colombian army*** **Roberto Urdaneta Gomez**, Colombian military officer, one of the principal commanders of Thousand Days' War
**Salvadoran army*** **Roberto D'Aubuisson**, neo-fascist Salvadoran soldier, politician and death squad leader, one of the principal commanders of Salvadoran Civil War
**Dutch army*** **Robert "Rob" Bertholee**, retired lieutenant general of the Royal Netherlands Army who served as the head of the General Intelligence and Security Service (AIVD) from 2011 to 2018 and Commander in-chief of the Royal Netherlands Army from 2008 to 2011
* **Robert "Rob" Querido**, Dutch military officer, one of the principal commanders of Battle of Chora
* **Robert "Rob" Verkerk**, a retired officer of the Netherlands Marine Corps who served as Commander of the Royal Netherlands Navy
* **Robert "Rob" Zuiderwijk**, retired Royal Netherlands Navy officer who is a former Commander of the Royal Netherlands Navy and Admiral Benelux
**Italian army*** **Roberto Brusati**, Italian general during World War I, one of the principal commanders of Battle of Asiago
**French army*** **Robert Nivelle**, French artillery officer who served as one of the principal commanders of the Boxer Rebellion and led the French forces during World War I as commander in-chief of French army, one of the principal commanders of Western Front, Nivelle Offensive, Battle of the Hills, Second Battle of the Aisne, Battle of Verdun, the longest battle in history and European theatre of World War I;
* **Robert Lacoste**, French military officer and politician, one of the principal commanders of Algerian War
* **Robert Bugeaud**, Marshal of France and Governor-General of Algeria, one of the principal commanders of Battle of Isly, French Conquest of Algeria and Franco-Moroccan War
* **Robert Petiet**, French military officer, one of the principal commanders of German invasion of Luxembourg
* **Chevalier Robert Sutton de Clonard**, French general, one of the principal commanders of Action of 13 August 1780
**Latvian army*** **Roberts Ancāns**, Latvian military officer
* **Roberts Žanis Briesma-Briesme** (1891–1941), Latvian military officer and army commander
* **Roberts Dambītis** (1881–1957), Latvian soldier and politician, Latvian rifleman, founder of the National Soldiers' Union, one of the principal commanders of Latvian War of Independence
* **Roberts Gaigals** (1913–1982), Latvian Waffen-Obersturmführer in the Latvian Legion during World War II
* **Roberts Kļaviņš** (1885–1941), Latvian military officer and General
* **Roberts Rubenis** (1917-1944), lieutenant in the Latvian Army, Latvian legionnaire and a commander of the Kureļa group battalion
**Russian army*** **Robert Bruce**, first chief commander of Saint Petersburg, one of the principal commanders of Great Northern War
* **Robert Segercrantz**, Russian general in the Russian Imperial army, one of the principal commanders of Caucasian War
* **Robert von Ungern-Sternberg**, also known as The Mad Baron or The Bloody White Baron, Austrian-born, Russian Empire's Baltic German anti-Bolshevik lieutenant general in the Russian Civil War and then an independent warlord whose Asiatic Cavalry Division wrested control of Mongolia from the Republic of China in 1921 after its occupation, one of the principal commanders of Mongolian Revolution of 1921 and Siberian Intervention
* **Robert Viren**, general, admiral and career naval officer in the Imperial Russian Navy in Russian Empire, the commander of the Black Sea Fleet, one of the principal commanders of Siege of Port Arthur and Russo-Japanese War

### Other military

* **Robert B. Abrams**, four-star general in the United States Army who currently serves as the commander of U.S. Forces Korea, concurrently serving as the commander of United Nations Command and commander of R.O.K.-U.S. Combined Forces Command, previously served as the 22nd commanding general of U.S. Army Forces Command
* **Roberto de Albuquerque**, Brazilian General
* **Robert Aske**, English lawyer who became a leader of the Pilgrimage of Grace military uprising
* **Robert Blake**, highly decorated major general in the United States Marine Corps during World War II
* **Robert Grierson Combe**, Scottish-Canadian military officer
* **Robert E. Cushman Jr.**, United States Marine Corps general who served as the 25th Commandant of the Marine Corps
* **Robert Cardenas**, brigadier general of the United States Air Force
* **Robert Duff**, British Royal Navy officer
* **Robert H. Foglesong**, American General and former President of Mississipi State University
* **Robert Glavaš**, Slovenian general, chief commander of Slovenian Armed Forces
* **Sir Robert Henderson**, Scottish knight, one of the principal commanders of Siege of Bergen op Zoom (1622)
* **Robert Yabut y Marmol**, Filipino paramilitarian and drug lord, one of the principal commanders of Philippine drug war
* **Robert J. Miller**, United States Army Special Forces soldier of Company A, 3rd Battalion, 3rd Special Forces Group (Airborne)
* **Robert Miller Montague**, lieutenant general in the United States Army, deputy commander of Fort Bliss, Texas, and commander of the Sandia Missile Base in New Mexico during the start of modern ufology and head of the US Carribean command
* **Robert Neller**, retired United States Marine Corps four-star general who served as the 37th Commandant of Marine Corps
* **Robert H. Reed**, General in the United States Air Force and the former chief of staff of the Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe
* **Robertus Remkes**, United States Air Force major general
* **Robert Rennie**, British colonel general, one of the principal commanders of Battle of New Orleans
* **Robert Rheault**, American colonel in the U.S. Army Special Forces who served as commander of the First Special Forces Group in Okinawa, and the Fifth Special Forces Group in Vietnam
* **Robert Roddam**, British Royal Navy officer
* **Robert M. Shoemaker**, United States Army general and former commander of the United States Army Forces, inductee into the Aviation Hall of Fame

### Nazis and communists

* **Roberts Blūzmanis**, Latvian SS officer of German origin, one of the perpetrators of mass executions and torture at Daugavpils Ghetto
* **Robert Eikhe** (1890-1940), Latvian Bolshevik, provincial head of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union in Siberia during the forced collectivization of agriculture, perpetrator of numerous mass executions during the Great Purge
* **Roberto Farinacci**, leading Italian Fascist politician and important member of the Grand Council of Fascism, Secretary of National Fascist Party and one of the leading perpetrators of the Holocaust in Italy
* **Robert Grawitz** (1899-1945), Nazi German physician and an SS functionary, Chief physician of the SS, head of the German Red Cross, overseer of the experimentation on inmates in Nazi concentration camps, one of the leading organisers of euthanasia and mass killings during Aktion T4;
* **Robert Ley** (1890-1945), Reichsleiter and DAF führer of Nazi Germany (head of the German Labour Front), high-ranking member of the SS, labour and economical leader of Nazi Germany, founder of Volkswagen, creator of NSDAP School system, also known for his role in the Holocaust, Final Solution and Aktion T4, Kristallnacht and Night of the Long Knives as well as managing the labour in Nazi concentration camps;
* **Robert Mohr**, German Nazi SS officer and interrogation specialist of the Gestapo, headed the special commission responsible for the search and arrest of the White Rose, part of the German Resistance to Nazism
* **Robert Mulka** (1895-1969), German Nazi SS-Hauptsturmführer and later SS-Obersturmführer, commander of Auschwitz concentration camp, holocaust perpetrator who played a major role in the transformation of Auschwitz from a concentration camp into an extermination complex;
* **Robert Minor**, alternatively known as "Fighting Bob", a political cartoonist, a radical journalist, and, beginning in 1920, a leading member of the Communist Party USA
* **Robert Oss**, (1900–1973), known also as Roberts Osis, German-Latvian military officer, leader of the 43th grenadier regiment, one of the principal commanders of Battle of More, one of the principal perpetrators of Rumbula massacre
* **Robert Ritter** (1901-1951), Nazi German "racial scientist" doctor of psychology and medicine, with a background in child psychiatry and the biology of criminality, one of the leading perpetrators of Romani Genocide;
* **Robert Uhrig** (1903-1944), German communist and resistance fighter against National Socialism
* **Robert Jan Verbelen** (1911-1990), Nazi officer, assassin and mass execution organizer of Belgian origin
* **Robert Wagner** (1895-1946), Gauleiter of Baden, Gauleiter of Alsace and Head of the Civil Government of Alsace during the Nazi German occupation of France during World War II, one of the leaders of Beer Hall Putsch involved in large scale mass killings during the Holocaust, executed for war crimes

### Nuclear physicists and weapon developers

* **Robert Oppenheimer** (1904-1967), American theoretical physicist, professor of physics at the University of California, wartime head of the Los Alamos Laboratory, principal leader of the Manhattan Project, founder of Nuclear Warfare, commander of the Nuclear Test "Trinity", developer and inventor of the atomic bomb
* **Robert Bacher** (1905-2004), American nuclear physicist and one of the leaders of the Manhattan Project
* **Robert Serber** (1909-1997), American physicist who participated in Robert Oppenheimers nuclear weapon development project known as Manhattan Project, best remembered for giving the names of Thin man, Fat Man and Little Boy nuclear bombs
* **Robert Lusser**, German engineer, aircraft designer and aviator, remembered both for several well-known Messerschmitt and Heinkel designs during World War II, pioneer the developer of modern ski bindings, introducing the first teflon anti-friction pads to improve release, principal developer of V-1 flying bombs

### Explorers

* **Robert Ballard** (born 1942), retired United States Navy officer and a professor of oceanography at the University of Rhode Island who is best known for the discovery of the wrecks of the RMS Titanic in 1985
* **Robert Bartlett** (1875-1946), Newfoundland-born American Arctic explorer of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, accompanied United States Navy Commander Robert Peary on his attempts to reach the North Pole
* **Robert O'Hara Burke** (1821-1861), Irish soldier and police officer who explored Australia, leader of the first expedition to cross Australia from south to north
* **Robert Dudley** (1574-1649), English explorer and cartographer
* **Robert Jacob Gordon** (1743-1795), Dutch explorer, soldier, artist, naturalist and linguist of Scottish descent
* **Robert Christian Barthold Avé-Lallemant** (1812–1884), German physician and explorer
* **Sir Robert McClure** (1807-1873), Irish explorer of the Arctic who in 1854 traversed the Northwest Passage by boat and sledge and was the first to circumnavigate the Americas
* **Robert Peary** (1856-1920), American explorer and United States Navy officer who made several expeditions to the Arctic, reached the geographic North Pole with his expedition on April 6, 1909, believed to be the first man to have ever reached the North Pole
* **Robert Falcon Scott** (1868-1912), British Royal Navy officer and explorer who led two expeditions to the Antarctic regions including Discovery Expedition and Terra Nova Expedition, one of the leading figures of Heroic Age of Arctic Exploration, widely regarded as one of the greatest explorers of all time
* **Robert Swan** (born 1956), the first person to walk to both Poles

### Intelligence officers

* **Robert P. Ashley Jr.** (born 1960), retired lieutenant general in the United States Army who served as the Director of the Defense Intelligence Agency from 2017 to 2020
* **Robert Eatinger** (born 1957), Deputy General Counsel for Operations for the Central Intelligence Agency, serving as Acting General Counsel of the CIA from 2009 to 2014
* **Robert Hanssen** (born 1944), former Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) secret agent who spied for Soviet and Russian intelligence services against the United States from 1979 to 2001
* **Robert S. Mueller III** (born 1944), American attorney who served as the sixth Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) from 2001 to 2013, leader of the investigations of September 11 attacks and Boston Marathon bombing

### Actors, film directors and television

* **Robert Aldrich**, (1918–1983) American film director, producer, and screenwriter working in many genres during the Golden Age of Hollywood, directing mainly films noir, war movies, westerns and dark melodramas with Gothic overtones
* **Robert Altaman**, (1925–2006) American film director, screenwriter, and producer;
* **Robert "Robbie" Amell** (born 1988), Canadian-American actor and producer
* Robert Arevalo (1938-2023), veteran Filipino film and television actor
* **Robert Belushi** (born 1980), American actor
* **Robert "Rob" Benedict** (born 1970), American actor and writer
* **Robert "Bob" Bergen**, American voice actor
* **Robert Buckley** (born 1981), American actor
* **Robert John Burke** (born 1960), American actor, best known for his portrayal of Robocop
* **Robert Carlyle** (born 1961), Scottish actor
* **Robert "Bob" Chapek** (born 1960), American media executive and businessman, chairman of Disney Parks, Experiences and Products, the current CEO of Walt Disney Company
* **Robert Clarke** (1920-2005), American actor best known for his cult classic science fiction films of the 1950s
* **Robert "Rob" Cohen** (born 1949), American director and producer of film and television, best known for directing Dragonheart, The Skulls, The Fast and the Furious, The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor and Stealth
* **Robert "Robbie" Coltrane**, (1950-2022) Scottish actor and author, best known for his role as Rubeus Hagrid
* **Robert Conrad** (1935-2020), American actor and stuntman
* **Robert "Bob" Crane** (1928-1978), American actor, drummer, radio personality, and disc jockey
* **Robert Cummings**, (1910–1990) American actor;
* **Robert Davi**, (born 1954) American actor
* **Robert De Niro**, (1953) American actor, director and producer, regarded as one of the most famous actors of 20th and 21st centuries;
* **Robert FitzGerald Diggs** (born 1969), American rapper, actor, filmmaker, and record producer known as RZA
* **Robert Downey Sr.** (1936–2021), American actor, director and producer
* **Robert Downey Jr**, (born 1965) American actor, regarded as one of the most famous actors of the 20th and 21st centuries, best known for his portrayal of Iron Man
* **Roberto Draghetti** (1960–2020), Italian actor and voice actor
* **Robert Duvall**, (born 1931) American actor;
* **Robert Eggers**, (born 1983) American horror and dark fantasy film director, screenwriter and production designer, best known for directing the films The Northman, The Lighthouse and The Witch
* **Robert "Bob" Einstein** (1942-2019), American actor, comedy writer, and producer
* **Robert Englund**, (born 1947) American actor, voice actor, singer and film director, best known for his main role in the famous horror franchise A Nightmare on Elm Street
* **Robert Forster** (1941-2019), American actor
* **Bob Franklin** (born 1965), Hillingdon, London-born, Welsh raised comedian who has lived in Australia since 1989
* **Robert Fuller**, American horse rancher and actor
* **Robert Goulet**, (1933–2007) French-Canadian singer and actor;
* **Robert Guillaume**, (1927–2017) American actor and singer;
* **Robert Gustafsson**, (born 1964) Swedish comedian and actor
* **Robert Gwisdek** (born 1984), German actor and rapper using the stage name Käptn Peng
* **Robert Hardy**, (1925–2017) British actor;
* **Robert Hays**, (born 1947), American actor
* **Robert Hegyes**, American actor
* **Robert "Bob" Iger**, (born 1951) American media executive, film producer, author and businessman who is chairman and chief executive officer of The Walt Disney Company
* **Robert Irwin** (born 2003), Australian television personality and wildlife photographer, son of the famous explorer Steve Irwin
* **Robert Janowski** (born 1961), Polish singer, TV presenter and musical journalist
* **Robert "Rob" Kardashian** (born 1987), American television personality, member of the well known Kardashian family
* **Robert Knepper**, (born 1959) American actor;
* **Robert Kramer** (1939-1999), American film director, screenwriter and actor
* **Robert Lansing** (1928–1994), American stage, film and television actor
* **Robert "Rob" LaZebnik** (born 1962), American screenwriter best known for his work on The Simpsons
* **Robert "Bobby" Lee** (born 1971), Asian-American stand-up comedian, actor, and podcaster
* **Robert "Rob" Letterman**, (born 1970) American film director and screenwriter best known for directing Goosebumps and Monsters vs. Aliens
* **Robert Logan Jr.** (born May 29, 1941) American actor
* **Robert "Rob" Lowe** (born 1964), American actor, producer and director
* **Robert Luketic** (1971), Australian film director best known for directing Legally Blonde
* **Robert "Rob" Marshall**, (born 1960) American film and theater director, producer and choreographer best known for directing Memoirs of a Geisha, Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides and Mary Poppins Returns
* **Robert "Rob" McClure** (born 1982), American Broadway stage actor
* **Robert McKimson**, (1910–1977) American animator and illustrator, best known for his work on creating the Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies series of cartoons from Warner Bros. Cartoons
* **Robert Duncan McNeill** (born 1964), American director, producer, and actor
* **Robert "Rob" Mills** (born 1982), Australian actor, television host and singer-songwriter
* **Robert "Rob" Minkoff**, (born 1962) American film and animation director best known for his 1994 animated film The Lion King;
* **Robert Minor**, alternatively known as "Fighting Bob", a political cartoonist, a radical journalist, and, beginning in 1920, a leading member of the Communist Party USA
* **David Robert Mitchell**, (born 1974) American film director and writer who received significant recognition as a director after completing his second feature, the critically acclaimed horror film It Follows
* **Robert Mitchum**, (1917–1997) American film actor, director, author, poet, composer and singer
* **Robert Montgomery**, (1904–1981) American actor, director and producer;
* **Robert Morley** (1908-1992), English actor who had a very lengthy career in both Britain and the United States
* **Robert "Bob" Mortimer** (born 1959), English comedian, podcast presenter and actor
* **Robert Morse** (1931-2022), American actor, who starred in How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying
* **Robert Mulligan**, (1925–2008) American film director best known for directing The Man in the Moon
* **Robert Newman** (born 1958), American television actor
* **Robert "Rob" Oliver** (born 1977), American animation director best known for directing a large number of episodes of The Simpsons
* **Robert Patrick**, (born 1958) American actor and voice actor;
* **Robert Pattinson**, (born 1986) British actor, regarded as one of the most famous actors of the 21st century, best known for his portrayal of Edward in The Twilight Saga and Batman
* **Robert "Bob" Peck** (1945–1999), English stage, television and film actor
* **Robert Redford**, (born 1936) American actor, director and producer, widely regarded as one of the greatest actors and film directors of all time,
* **Robert "Rob" Reiner** (born 1947), American film director best known for his psychological thriller Misery
* **Robert Rodriguez**, (born 1968) American film director, screenwriter, producer, musician, filmmaker and visual effects supervisor, best known for his film Alita: Battle Angel
* **Robert Rusler** (born 1965), American film and television actor
* **Robert Ryan**, (1909–1973) American actor;
* **Robert Schwartzman** (born 1982), American film director
* **Robert Schwentke**, (1968) German film director best known for directing The Captain and The Divergent Series: Insurgent
* **Robert Sheehan** (born 1988), Irish actor
* **Robert Singer**, American film director and producer best known for his work on the TV series Supernatural
* **Robert Smigel** (born 1960), American actor, voice actor, comedian, humorist, writer, director, producer and puppeteer
* **Robert Stack** (1919-2003), American actor
* **Robert Adolf Stemmle**, (1903–1974) German screenwriter and film director;
* **Robert Stevenson**, British film director best known for directing Mary Poppins (film)
* **Robert Strauss**, American actor who became most familiar in Hollywood films of the 1950s
* **Robert Stromberg**, (born 1965) American special effects artist, designer and film director best known for directing Maleficent
* **Robert Taylor**, (1911–1969) American actor, one of the most famous Hollywood actors of his time;
* **Robert Urich**(1946–2002), American film, television, and stage actor, and television producer, over the course of his 30-year career, starred in a record 15 television series
* **Robert Vaughn**, (1932–2016) American actor;
* **Robert Wagner**, (born 1930) American actor;
* **Robert Wahlberg** (born 1967), American actor, brother of the actor Mark Wahlberg
* **Robert Walker**, (1918–1951) American actor;
* **Robert B. Weide**, (born 1959) American screenwriter, producer and director
* **Robert Wiene** (1873—1938), film director of the silent era of German cinema best known for directing The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
* **Robert Wise**, (1914–2005) American film director, best known for directing The Sound of Music, widely regarded as one of the greatest of all time;
* **Robert Young**, (1907–1998) American actor;
* **Robert Zemeckis**, (born 1952) Lithuanian-Italian born American film director, screenwriter and producer, best known for his "Back to the Future" film trilogy, frequently credited as an innovator in visual effects, widely regarded as one of the greatest film directors of all time.

### Musicians

**Record producers and DJs*** **Robert Abisi**, member of the electronic music and DJ duo Lost Kings
* **Robert Alzáte**, Colombian DJ and electronic music producer known as KhoMha
* **Robert Armani**, American DJ and record producer
* **Robert Babicz**, Polish born German electronic music producer, DJ and mastering engineer
* **Robert Baker**, Canadian record producer known as Computa
* **Robert Balotsky**, American electronic music producer known as Buku
* **Robert Bergin**, Australian DJ and music producer known as Throttle
* **Robert Card**, English orchestral bass music producer known as Blackmill
* **Robert Cristian**, Romanian DJ and record producer
* **Robert Chacon**, record producer and composer
* **Robert Connelly**, American electronic music producer known as Sober Rob
* **Robert van de Corput**, real name of the award-winning Dutch DJ, twice worlds No.1 DJ, composer and music producer Hardwell;
* **Robert DeLong**, American electronic musician, record producer, composer and performer
* **Robert "Bobby" Duque**, American electronic musician, member of the bass music duo FYER, brother of the record producer and DJ Skrillex
* **Robert Etheridge**, English DJ and record producer known as Dimension
* **Robert Falcon**, Belgian DJ, record producer, remixer, composer and arranger, best known for his genre diversity
* **Robert "Rob" Gasser**, Swiss-Thai multi-genre record producer, composer and audio engineer
* **Robert Geaux**, American-Filipino DJ and record producer
* **Robert Glasper**, American pianist, record producer, songwriter, and musical arranger with a career that bridges several different musical and artistic genres
* **Robert Gorham**, English DJ known as Rob da Bank
* **Robert Hood**, American electronic music producer and DJ
* **Robert Hughes**, real name of the Canadian trap music DJ and record producer Vincent;
* **Robert "Mutt" Lange**, South African record producer and songwriter
* **Robert Lavelle Hugar**, American singer, songwriter and record producer known as RL
* **Robert Liepa**, Latvian-Norwegian electronic music producer known as SubPhex
* **Robert Lindsey**, electronic music producer and DJ known as Bobby Blakdout
* **Robert "Joe" Meek** (1929 –1967), English record producer, musician, sound engineer and songwriter, assisted in the development of recording practices like overdubbing, sampling and reverberation, considered one of the most influential sound engineers of all time, one of the first producers to be recognised for an individual identity as an artist
* **Robert Miles**, Swiss-born Italian DJ and record producer, inventor of the dream trance genre;
* **Robert "Rob" Nelson**, American music producer known as Inverness
* **Robert Nickson**, Dutch-Norwegian DJ and record producer
* **Robert "Bob" Rifo**, founder of the Italian electronic music project The Bloody Beetroots
* **Roberto "Robbie" Rivera**, Puerto Rican DJ and record producer
* **Robert Sarn**, American DJ and producer known as Bobby Puma
* **Robert Simmerling**, German electronic music producer, member of the duo Teqq
* **Robert "Rob" Swire**, Australian electronic music producer and DJ, also known as one of the members of dubstep/electro house duo Knife Party and drum and bass band Pendulum;
* **Robert "Rob" Talbott**, British DJ and record producer, one of the members of the duo Dodge & Fuski
* **Robert "Robbie" Tarrant-Steedman**, Canadian electronic music producer, singer and rapper known as INF1N1TE
* **Robert Vahter**, English-Finnish record producer, composer, remixer, arranger, sound designer, mixing and mastering engineer and sound engineer
**Singers*** **Roberto Carlos**, Brazilian singer-songwriter, also known as King of Latin Music or simply The King
* **Robert "Bob" Chilcott**, British choral composer, conductor, and singer
* **Robert "Bob" Crosby**, American jazz singer and bandleader, best known for his group the Bob-Cats
* **Robert "Bobby" Darin**, American singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, impressionist, and actor
* **Robert Francis**, American multi-instrumentalist, singer, songwriter;
* **Robert Kelly**, American singer, songwriter, record producer, and former semi-professional basketball player who helped redefine R&B and hip hop, earning the nicknames "King of R&B" and "King of Pop-Soul"
* **Robert Johnson**, American blues singer-songwriter and musician;
* **Robert Maraj**, American musician, father of the rapper Nicki Minaj
* **Robert "Bob" Marley**, Jamaican singer-songwriter, widely regarded as one of the greatest musicians of all time
* **Robert "Bobby" McFerrin**, American musician, singer, conductor, arranger and record producer
* **Roberto Meloni**, Italian singer and television presenter currently residing in Latvia who represented Latvia twice in a row in the Eurovision Song Contest in 2007 and 2008
* **Robert Mosley**, American operatic bass-baritone, part of the first generation of African-American opera singers to achieve wide success
* **Roberto "Bert" Nievera**, Filipino-American singer
* **Robert Palmer**, English composer, songwriter, singer and record producer;
* **Robert Ritchie**, American singer-songwriter, rapper, musician, record producer, and actor known as Kid Rock;
* **Robert "Bob" Seger**, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
* **Robert Tepper**, American songwriter, composer, recording artist, record producer and singer
* **Robert "Bobby" Vee**, American singer, songwriter, musician and teen idol
* **Robert "Robbie" Williams**, British singer and songwriter
* **Robert "Rob" Zombie**, American musician, singer, songwriter, programmer, voice actor, filmmaker and founding member of the heavy metal band White Zombie
* **Robert Allen Zimmerman**, real name of American singer-songwriter Bob Dylan.
**Band members*** **Rpbert "Bobby" Amaru**, American musician, member of the band Saliva
* **Robert "Rob" Bourdon**, American musician, drummer and founding member of the rock band Linkin Park
* **Robert Jon Burrison**, American musician, member of the rock band Robert Jon & the Wreck
* **Robert "Bobby" Colomby**, jazz-rock fusion drummer, record producer and television presenter best known as an original member of the group Blood, Sweat & Tears, which he co-founded in 1967, one of the early record production mentors of Michael Jackson
* **Robert "Robin" Finck**, American guitarist, the longest-serving touring musician for Nine Inch Nails and a guitarist for Guns N' Roses
* **Robert Fripp**, English musician, songwriter, and record producer, best known as the guitarist, founder and longest-lasting member of the band King Crimson
* **Robert "Rob" Halford**, English singer and songwriter, lead vocalist of the Grammy Award-winning heavy metal band Judas Priest, also a member of Fight, Two, Halford, Great White and Black Sabbath
* **Robert Hunter**, American poet, principle lyricist for the rock band Grateful Dead
* **Robert "Rob" Hyman**, American singer, songwriter, keyboard and accordion player, producer, arranger, recording studio owner and a founding member of the rock band The Hooters
* **Robert Janson**, Polish composer, singer, guitarist, leader and co-founder of the band Varius Manx
* **Robert "Robbie" King**, Canadian musician, associated with many national and international acts, member of the band Bobby Taylor & the Vancouvers
* **Robert "Robby" Krieger**, American guitarist and singer-songwriter best known as the guitarist of the rock band The Doors, inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
* **Robert Del Naja**, British artist, musician, singer and songwriter, founding member of the band Massive Attack
* **Robert Plant**, English singer, songwriter, and musician, lead singer and lyricist of the English rock band Led Zeppelin;
* **Robert Smith**, lead singer of The Cure;
* **Robert "Bobby" Taylor**, American musician, first producer of the band Jackson5, member of the Motown band Bobby Taylor & the Vancouvers
* **Robert Trujillo**, American singer and songwriter, one of the members of American heavy metal band Metallica;
* **Robert "Bob" Weir**, American musician and songwriter, one of the founders of the rock band Grateful Dead, also a member of bands The Other Ones, The Dead, Kingfish, Bobby and the Midnites, RatDog, Furthur and Dead & Company
**Rappers*** **Sir Robert Bryson Hall II**, American rapper known as Logic
* **Robert Rihmeek Williams**, American rapper, singer and activist known as Meek Mill
* **Robert Ross**, American rapper known as Black Rob
* **Robert van Winkle**, real name of American rapper, actor, and television host Vanilla Ice
**Composers*** **Robert Carli**, Canadian film and television composer and saxophonist
* **Robert "Bob" Cole**, Black American composer, actor, playwright, and stage producer and director
* **Robert Nathaniel Dett**, Black Canadian-American composer, organist, pianist, choral director, and music professor
* **Robert Kajanus**, Finnish composer, conductor and teacher, founder of the Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra
* **Robert Lopez**, award-winning American songwriter of musicals, best known for co-creating The Book of Mormon and Avenue Q, and for composing the songs featured in the 3D Disney computer animated films Frozen and Coco
* **Robert Schumann**, German composer and music critic, one of the greatest composers of romantic era;
* **Robert "Bobby" Timmons**, American jazz pianist and composer, one of the most well known African American composers
* **Robert Volkmann**, German composer
* **Robert "Bob" Wiseman**, Canadian film composer, songwriter and music teacher
**Instrumentalists*** **Robert "Rob" Barrett**, guitarist for death metal band Cannibal Corpse
* **Robert "Bobby" Hackett**, American jazz musician
* **Robert "Bobby" Hewitt**, musician and member of the American industrial rock band Orgy
* **Robert "Bob" Kerr**, comic musician who plays trumpet and cornet
* **Robert Mirabal**, Native American musician and flute player
* **Robert "Rob" Scallon**, American YouTuber, musician and multi-instrumentalist

### Scientists

* **Robert Boyle**, British natural philosopher, chemist, physicist, and inventor, first modern chemist, and one of the founders of modern chemistry, and one of the pioneers of modern experimental scientific method, also remembered for creating Boyle's law, which describes the inversely proportional relationship between the absolute pressure and volume of a gas, if the temperature is kept constant within a closed system, one of the founders of the Royal Society, widely regarded as one of the greatest scientists of all time
* **Robert "Bob" Berman**, American astronomer, author, and science popularizer, owner of the Overlook Observatory in Woodstock, New York, USA
* **Robert Bunsen**, German chemist who discovered caesium in 1860 and rubidium in 1861, pioneer of photochemistry and organoarsenic chemistry and developer of the Bunsen Burner
* **Robert Burns Woodward**, American organic chemist, considered by many to be the most preeminent synthetic organic chemist of the twentieth century, having made many key contributions to the subject, especially in the synthesis of complex natural products and the determination of their molecular structure
* **Robert F. Christy**, Canadian-American theoretical physicist, astrophysicist, one of the last surviving people to have worked on the Manhattan Project during World War II, president of California Institute of Technology (Caltech)
* **Robert Darwin**, English medical doctor, who today is best known as the father of the naturalist Charles Robert Darwin
* **Robert Ensault-Pelterie**, French aircraft designer and spaceflight theorist, developer of ballistic missiles, father of modern rocketry
* **Robert Ettinger**, American academic, known as "the father of cryonics"
* **Robert Fludd**, prominent English Paracelsian physician with both scientific and occult interests
* **Robert Fulton**, American engineer and inventor who is widely credited with developing a commercially successful steamboat known as North River Steamboat
* **Robert L. Gilruth**, American aerospace engineer and an aviation/space pioneer who was the first director of NASA's Manned Spacecraft Center, involved with early research into supersonic flight and rocket-powered aircraft, and then with the United States human spaceflight program, including the Mercury, Gemini, and Apollo programs, which succeeded in preparing and landing the first humans on the Moon from 1968 to 1972
* **Robert H. Goddard**, American engineer, professor, physicist, and inventor, credited with creating and building the world's first liquid-fueled rocket, father of the modern rocketry
* **Robert C. Green**, American medical geneticist, physician, and public health researcher
* **Robert J. Van De Graaff**, engineer and physicist, inventor of high-voltage Van de Graaf generators
* **Robert Gardiner Hill**, British surgeon specialising in the treatment of lunacy, normally credited with being the first superintendent of the Lincoln Lunatic Asylum to develop a mode of treatment in which reliance on mechanical medical restraint and coercion could be dropped altogether in 1838
* **Robert Hooke**, English Natural Philosopher, architect and polymath, best known for discovering and naming the Cell in 1665 and numerous other contributions, widely regarded as one of the greatest scientists of all time
* **Sir Robert Jones, 1st Baronet**, Welsh orthopaedic surgeon who helped to establish the modern specialty of orthopaedic surgery in Britain, early proponent of the use of radiography in orthopaedics, and described the eponymous Jones fracture
* **Robert Koch**, German physician and microbiologist, founder of modern bacteriology, received the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1905 for his research on Tubercolosis, widely regarded as one of the greatest scientists of all time
* **Robert Lanza**, American medical doctor and scientist, currently Head of Astellas Global Regenerative Medicine, and Chief scientific officer of the Astellas Institute for Regenerative Medicine
* **Robert Liston**, Scottish surgeon, noted for his speed and skill in an era prior to anaesthetics, when speed made a difference in terms of pain and survival
* **Robert Andrews Millikan**, American experimental physicist honored with the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1923 for the measurement of the elementary electric charge and for his work on the photoelectric effect
* **Robert Plot**, English naturalist, first Professor of Chemistry at the University of Oxford, and the first keeper of the Ashmolean Museum, discovered the dinosaur species Megalosaurus
* **Sir Robert Robinson**, Nobel Prize and Medal of Freedom winning British organic chemist
* **Robert A. Rolfe**, English botanist specialising in the study of orchids
* **Robert Sapolsky**, American neuroendocrinology researcher and author, professor of biology, neurology, neurological sciences, and neurosurgery at Stanford University, a research associate at the National Museums of Kenya
* **Robert Shapiro**, professor emeritus of chemistry at New York University, best known for his work on the origin of life
* **Robert Stephenson**, English civil engineer and designer of locomotives, widely regarded as the greatest engineer of the 19th century
* **Robert Winston**, British professor, medical doctor, scientist
* **Robert W. Wood**, American physicist and inventor who is often cited as being a pivotal contributor to the field of optics and a pioneer of infared photography and ultraviolet photography
* **Robert Whittaker**, American plant ecologist, active in the 1950s to the 1970s, the first to propose the five kingdom taxonomic classification of the world's biota into the Animalia, Plantae, Fungi, Protista, and Monera in 1969, also proposed the Whittaker Biome Classification, which categorized biome-types upon two abiotic factors: temperature and precipitation
* **Robert J. White**, American neurosurgeon best known for his head transplants on living monkeys

### Prison officials

* **Robert McKenty**, warden of Eastern State Penitentiary, once one of the strictest maximum-security prisons in the world, now supposedly severely haunted
* **Robert J. Elliott**, American executioner
* **Robert J. Kirby**, 45th commandant of Sing Sing maximum-security prison
### Judges

* **Robert J. Cindrich**, American judge, former United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania
* **Robert H. Jackson**, American attorney and judge who served as an Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court, previously served as United States Solicitor General, and United States Attorney General, the Chief United States Prosecutor at the Nuremberg Trials
* **Robert Morgenthau**, American lawyer, District Attorney for New York County and United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York
* **Robert Price**, British judge and politician
* **Robert Rajanayagam Selvadurai** (1894–1973), Sri Lankan Tamil lawyer, police magistrate, and civil servant
* **Robert Trimble**, lawyer and jurist who served as Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States

### Police officers and firefighters

* **Robert Adamson**, American public official, New York City Fire Commissioner
* **Robert Faulcon Jr.**, American police officer, one of the perpetrators of Danziger Bridge shootings
* **Robert Gisevius Jr.**, American police officer, one of the perpetrators of Danziger Bridge shootings
* **Robert O. Lowery**, the 21st New York City Fire Commissioner
* **Robert McBride**, South African police officer and terrorist, former chief of the metropolitan police for Ekurhuleni Metropolitan Municipality, member of Umkhonto we Sizwe, the armed wing of the African National Congress, the perpetrator of Durban beach-front bombing
* **Robert "Bob" Ricks**, American law enforcement agent and politician from Texas and Oklahoma, Chief of Police for Edmond, Oklahoma, Oklahoma Secretary of Safety and Security, Oklahoma Commissioner of Public Safety, one of the principal commanders of Waco siege
* **Robert W. Stewart**, American police officer, the first Black officer on the Los Angeles Police force

### Political figures

* **Robert Bauer**, American attorney, White House Counsel
* **Robert Bilott**, American environmental attorney from Cincinnati, Ohio known for the lawsuits against DuPont on behalf of plaintiffs injured by waste dumped in rural communities in West Virginia
* **Robert J. Bulkley**, United States Democratic Party Politician from Ohio;
* **Robert Baird**, American clergyman and author
* **Robert Byrd**, American lawyer and politician who served as a United States Senator from West Virginia for over 51 years, from 1959 until his death in 2010
* **Robert Chadvick**, Pennsylvania State Representative
* **Robert J. Clendening**, Pennsylvania State Representative
* **Robert Crosser**, U.S. Representative from Ohio, the longest serving member of the United States House of Representatives from the state of Ohio
* **Robert "Bob" Dole**, American politician and attorney who represented Kansas in the United States Senate from 1969 to 1996
* **Robert Budd Dwyer**, the 30th State Treasurer of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, best remembered for his public suicide on live TV;
* **Robert A. Green**, U.S Representative from Florida
* **Arthur Robert Guiness**, Zealand politician and Speaker of the House of Representatives
* **Robert Gunwardena** (1904–1971), founder of the Trotskyist Lanka Sama Samaja Party, diplomat
* **Robert G. Harper**, a Federalist, member of the United States Senate from Maryland, serving from January 1816 until December of the same year;
* **Robert H. Foerderer**, U.S. Congressman from Pennsylvania from 1901 to 1903
* **Robert M. La Follette Jr.**, U.S. senator from Wisconsin from 1925 to 1947
* **Robert J. Gamble**, Representative and Senator from South Dakota
* **Robert Edward Jayatilaka**, Sri Lankan Sinhala politician
* **Sir Robert Laurie, 5th Baronet**, Scottish soldier and politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1774 to 1804
* **Robert Lee Henry**, Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives from Texas from 1897 to 1917;
* **Robert Hertzberg**, American politician serving as Majority Leader in the California State Senate
* **Roberto Jefferson**, Brazilian politician involved in several violence controversies and corruption scandals, national president of Brazilian Labour Party
* **Robert Lowe**, British statesman and pivotal figure who shaped British politics in the latter half of the 19th century
* **Roberto Mangabeira Unger**, Brazilian philosopher and politician whose political activity helped the transition to democracy in Brazil in the aftermath of the military regime, and culminated with his appointment as Brazil's Minister of Strategic Affairs
* **Robert James Manion**, Canadian politician best known for leading the Conservative Party of Canada from 1938 until 1940.
* **Robert "Bob" Menendez** (born 1954), American lawyer and politician serving as the senior United States senator from New Jersey
* **Robert Morgenthau**, American lawyer, District Attorney for New York County (the borough of Manhattan), previously served as United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York throughout much of the 1960s
* **Robert "Bob" Moses**, American educator and civil rights activist, leader of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) in Mississippi during the Civil Rights Movement, co-founder of the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party, one of the founders of Freedom Summer project
* **Robert "Rob" Ortt**, American politician who is a member of the New York State Senate
* **Baron Robert Rothschild** (1911–1998), Belgian diplomat who helped to draft the Treaty of Rome of 1957, the foundation of the European Economic Community (EEC) in 1958
* **Robert "Beto" O'Rourke**, American politician who represented Texas's 16th congressional district in the United States House of Representatives from 2013 to 2019 who sought the 2020 Democratic nomination for President of the United States, also a past member of the music band Foss and hacker group Cult of the Dead Cow
* **Robert Schmidt**, Reich Minister of Food and Agriculture of Germany
* **Robert Sobukwe**, prominent South African political dissident and teacher who founded and became the first president of the Pan Africanist Congress
* **Robert Roosevelt**, a sportsman, author and politician who served as a United States Representative from New York and as Minister to the Hague, brother of the president of America Theodore Rooseevelt;
* **Robert K. Steel**, American businessman, financier and government official;
* **Robert A. Taft**, American conservative politician, lawyer, and scion of the Taft family;
* **Robert L. "Bob" Turner**, American businessman and politician
* **Robert F. Williams**, American civil rights leader and author best known for serving as president of the Monroe, North Carolina chapter of the NAACP

### Secretaries of War

* **Robert Todd Lincoln**, American politician, lawyer, and businessman, the first son of American president Abraham Lincoln, United States Secretary of War and United States Minister to the United Kingdom
* **Robert P. Patterson**, United States Secretary of War

### Secretaries of State

* **Sir Robert Buckland**, British politician, Secretary of State for Wales, also served as Solicitor General for England and Wales, Minister of State for Prisons, Secretary of State for Justice and Lord Chancellor
* **Lord Robert Crewe-Milnes, 1st Marquess of Crewe**, Secretary of State for India during World War I and Lord Lieutenant of India
* **Robert M. T. Hunter**, Virginia lawyer, politician and plantation owner, U.S. Representative (1837–1843, 1845–1847), Speaker of the House (1839–1841), and U.S. Senator (1847–1861), during the American Civil War, the Confederate States Secretary of State (1861–1862) and then a Confederate Senator (1862–1865)
* **Robert Smith**, second United States Secretary of the Navy from 1801 to 1809 and the sixth United States Secretary of State from 1809 to 1811
* **Sir Robert Southwell**, Irish diplomat, Secretary of State for Ireland and President of the Royal Society from 1690

### Governors

* **Robert J. Bentley**, American politician and physician who served as the 53rd Governor of Alabama from 2011 until 2017;
* **Robert Brooke**, soldier and Virginia political figure who served as the tenth Governor of Virginia
* **Robert Brooke**, lieutenant-colonel in the army of Bengal and governor of the island of St Helena from 1788 to 1800
* **Robert Carter I**, American colonist, Colonial Governor of Virginia and Speaker of the Virginia House of Burgesses;
* **Robert Stockton Green**, American Democratic Party politician, who served as the 27th Governor of New Jersey from 1887 to 1890
* **Robert Paul Marie de Guise**, colonial administrator in various colonies of the French Colonial Empire, Governor General of French Equatorial Africa, Governor of French India and Governor of Guinea, best known for his racist policies against the indigenous people
* **Robert Hunter**, British military officer, colonial governor of New York and New Jersey from 1710 to 1720, and governor of Jamaica from 1727 to 1734;
* **Robert M. La Follette**, American lawyer and politician who served as the 20th Governor of Wisconsin;
* **Sir Robert Fullerton**, Scottish colonial administrator who served as the first Governor of the Straits Settlements, appointed by the East India Company
* **Robert S. Kerr**, American businessman and politician, 12th Governor of Oklahoma
* **Robert S. Kerr III**, American politician, Lieutenant Governor of Oklahoma
* **Robert Lowry**, American politician and a Confederate States Army general during the American Civil War, who served as 32nd Governor of Mississippi;
* **Robert D. Orr**, American politician and diplomat who served as the 45th Governor of Indiana from 1981 to 1989
* **Roberto Silveira**, Brazilian politician and governor of Rio de Janeiro
* **Robert E. Quinn**, American attorney and politician from Rhode Island who served as the 58th Governor of Rhode Island and Judge for the Rhode Island Superior Court
* **Robert Marcellus Stewart**, 14th Governor of Missouri from 1857 to 1861, during the years just prior to the American Civil War;
* **Robert Yellowtail**, leader of the Crow Nation, the first Native American to hold the post of Agency Superintendent at a reservation in the Crow Inddian Reservation

### Mayors

* **Robert Worth Bingham**, American politician, judge, United States Ambassador to the United Kingdom and mayor of Louisville, Kentucky
* **Robert Brent**, the first Mayor of Washington, D.C., the federal capital of the United States;
* **Robert T. Conrad**, the first mayor of Philadelphia to take office following the Consoloidation Act of 1854;
* **Robert "Rob" Ford**, Canadian politician and businessman who served as the 64th Mayor of Toronto;
* **Robert "Bob" Foster**, Mayor of Long Beach, California
* **Robert Garcia**, Indigenous Peruvian-American educator and politician, Mayor of Long Beach, California
* **Robert King High**, American politician who served as 29th mayor of the city of Miami;
* **Robert Jaworski Jr.**, Filipino politician, businessman, and former basketball player, the vice mayor of Pasig, son of Robert Jaworski Sr.
* **Robert Moran**, American shipbuilder, engineer and Mayor of Seattle
* **Robert H. Morris**, 64th Mayor of New York City;
* **Robert L. Thornton**, merican banker, civic leader, and four-term Mayor of Dallas, Texas
* **Robert F. Wagner**, American politician who served three terms as the mayor of New York City from 1954 through 1965

### Founding fathers of United States

* **Robert R. Livingston**, American lawyer, politician, diplomat from New York, 1st United States Secretary of Foreign Affairs, 1st Chancellor of New York and a Founding Father of the United States
* **Robert Morris**, English-born merchant, United States Secretary of the Navy, United States Superintendent of Finance and a Founding Father of the United States
* **Robert Treat Paine**, American lawyer, politician and Founding Father of the United States who signed the Continental Association and the Declaration of Independence as a representative of Massachusetts

### Literary figures

* **Robert Browning**, English poet and playwright whose mastery of the dramatic monologue made him one of the foremost 19th century poets
* **Robert Burns**, Scottish/British poet and lyricist, widely regarded as the national poet of Scotland
* **Robert Commanday**, American music critic, chief classical music critic of the San Francisco Chronicle (1964–1994)
* **Robert Cormier**, American author and journalist, known for his deeply pessimistic novels
* **Robert Estienne**, 16th-century printer and classical scholar in Paris
* **Robert Frost**, American poet, regarded as one of the most significant American poets
* **Robert Hardman** (born 1965), British journalist, author, and documentary filmmaker
* **Robert Harris**, English novelist and former BBC reporter
* **Robert A. Heinlein**, American science-fiction writerand one of the pioneers of hard science fiction genre
* **Robert Hichens**, English journalist, novelist, music lyricist, short story writer, music critic
* **Robert E. Howard**, American author who wrote pulp fiction, well known for his character Conan the Barbarian, regarded as the father of the sword and sorcery subgenre
* **Robert Icke**, English writer and theatre director, referred to as the "great hope of British theatre"
* **Robert G. Ingersoll**, American writer and orator during the Golden Age of Freethought, who campaigned in defense of agnosticism
* **Robert "Bob" Kane**, American comic book artist and writer, best known for creating the character Batman
* **Robert D. Kaplan**, American author
* **Robert Kirkman**, American comic book author best known for creating *The Walking Dead*
* **Robert Leckie**, United States Marine and machine gunner, author of books about the military history of the United States, Catholic history and culture, sports books, fiction books, autobiographies, and children's books
* **Robert "Rob" Liefeld**, American comic book artist and writer, best known for creating the character Deadpool
* **Robert Morrison**, Anglo-Scottish missionary and linguist, a pioneering sinologist, lexicographer, and translator considered the "Father of Anglo-Chinese Literature".
* **Robert Nozick**, American philosopher and writer, widely regarded as one of the greatest philosophers of all time
* **Robert Rozhdestvensky**, Soviet Russian poet, regarded as one of the most significant Russian poets
* **Robert Ruark**, American author, syndicated columnist and big game hunter
* **Robert W. Service**, British-Canadian poet and writer
* **Robert Shea**, American novelist and former journalist
* **Robert J.C. Stead**, Canadian novelist
* **Robert Louis Stevenson**, Scottish novelist, poet, essayist, musician and travel writer, best known for his work Treasure Island, which became one of the most popular literary works of all time
* **Robert Anton Eilson**, American author, futurist, philosopher and self-described agnostic mystic, co-author (with Robert Shea) of the illuminatus! Trilogy

### Businessmen

* **Robert Bigelow**, American businessman and ufologist, owner of the hotel chain Budget Suites of America and founder of Bigelow Aerospace, former owner of the UFO / paranornal hotspot known as the Skinwalker Ranch
* **Robert Bosch**, German industrialist, businessman, engineer and inventor, founder of Robert Bosch GmbH (Bosch)
* **Robert Herjavec**, Canadian businessman, millionaire, investor, and television personality who founded BRAK Systems, a Canadian integrator of Internet security software
* **Robert Kardashian**, American attorney and businessman
* **Robert Kyiosaki**, American businessman and author, founder of the Rich Dad Company
* **Robert Kyncl**, American business executive, Chief Business Officer of TouTube and former Vice President of Content Acquisitions of Netflix
* **Robert "Bob" Minton**, a millionaire who helped finance lawsuits against the Church of Scientology
* **Robert Morley**, British trade unionist and politician
* **Robert Napier**, Scottish marine engineer and founder of Robert Napier and Sons
* **Robert de Rothschild** (1880-1946), French banker, philanthropist and polo player
* **Robert Miles Sloman**, English-German shipbuilder, ship owner and sailor
* **Robert Smalls**, American businessman, publisher, and politician who, born into slavery in Beaufort, South Carolina, freed himself, his crew, and their families during the American Civil War by commandeering a Confederate transport ship, CSS *Planter* in 1862
* **Robert F. Smith**, American billionaire, businessman, philanthropist, chemical engineer, and investor, founder, chairman, and CEO of private equity firm Vista Equity Partners
* **Robert Trump**, American real estate developer and business executive, brother of the president of America Donald Trump
* **Robert Vadra**, Indian businessman, entrepreneur and the husband of Priyanka Gandhi
* **Robert Winthrop**, wealthy banker and capitalist in New York City

### Administrators of NASA

* **Robert A. Frosch**, American scientist who was the fifth administrator of NASA from 1977 to 1981
* **Robert M. Lightfoot Jr.**, engineer and former Acting Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Agency (NASA), serving from January 20, 2017 until April 23, 2018, making him the longest-serving Acting Administrator in NASA history

### Astronauts

* **Robert L. Behnken**, United States Air Force officer, NASA astronaut and former Chief of the Astronaut Office
* **Robert D. Cabana**, director of NASA's John F. kennedy Space Center, a former NASA astronaut, and a veteran of four Space Shuttle flights
* **Robert J. Cenker**, American aerospace and electrical engineer, aerospace systems consultant, and former astronaut
* **Robert Crippen**, American retired naval officer and aviator, test pilot, aerospace engineer, and retired astronaut
* **Robert Curbeam**, former NASA astronaut and captain in the United States Navy
* **Robert L. Gibson**, former American naval officer and aviator, test pilot, aeronautical engineer, and a retired NASA astronaut, as well as a professional pilot and regular racer at the annual Reno Air Races
* **Robert S. Kimbrough**, retired United States Army officer, and a NASA astronaut
* **Robert Lawrence Jr.**, a United States Air Force officer and the first African-American astronaut
* **Robert F. Overmyer**, American test pilot, naval aviator, aeronautical engineer, physicist, United States Marine Corps officer and USAF/NASA astronaut
* **Robert A. Parker**, American physicist and astronomer, former Director of the NASA Management Office at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, and a retired NASA astronaut
* **Robert Satcher**, American physician, chemical engineer and NASA astronaut
* **Robert C. Springer**, retired American astronaut and test pilot
* **Robert L. Stewart**, retired brigadier general of the United States Army and a former NASA astronaut
* **Robert Thirsk**, a Canadian engineer and physician, and a former Canadian Space Agency astronaut
* **Roberto Vittori**, Italian air force officer and an ESA astronaut

### Criminals

* **Robert J. Anderson**, American murderer
* **Robert Bales**, former United States army soldier who committed the Kandahar massacre
* **Robert John Bardo**, American assassin who is best known for assassination of Rebecca Schaeffer
* **Robert "Bobby" Beausoleil**, American murderer and associate of Charles Manson and members of his communalManson Family
* **Robert Berdella**, American serial killer, known as The Kansas City Butcher and The Collector
* **Robert E. Crimo III**, American mass murderer who perpetrated the Highland Park parade shooting
* **Robert Durst**, American suspected serial killer
* **Robert Black**, Scottish serial killer
* **Robert Newton Ford**, 19th century American outlaw
* **Robert Garrow**, American spree killer
* **Robert Hansen**, American serial killer known as "The Butcher Baker"
* **Robert Hawkins**, mass murderer who perpetrated the Westroads Mall shooting
* **Robert O. Marshall**, American businessman and public figure who in 1984 was charged with (and later convicted of) the contract killing of his wife
* **Robert Jay Mathews**, American neo-Nazi terrorist and the leader of The Order, an American white supremacist militant group
* **Robert Maudsley**, English serial killer
* **Robert A. Long**, American spree killer who perpetrated the 2021 Atlanta spa shootings
* **Robert "Bobby" Long**, American serial killer and rapist
* **Robert Napper**, British serial killer
* **Robert Perrino** (1938–1992), Bonanno crime family associate and murder victim
* **Robert Pickton**, Canadian serial killer
* **Robert Ben Rhoades**, American serial killer known as "The Truck Stop Killer"
* **Robert Lloyd Schellenberg**, Canadian drug contrabandist
* **Robert M. Shelton**, leader of United Klans of America, a Ku Klux Klan group
* **Robert Steinhäuser**, German mass murderer and perpetrator of the Erfurt School massacre
* **Robert Stroud**, a convicted murderer, American federal prisoner and author known as the "Birdman of Alcatraz" who has been cited as one of the most notorious criminals in the United States
* **Robert Tilton**, American televangelist and fraud
* **Robert Trimbole**, Australian businessman, drug baron and organized crime boss
* **Robert Lee Yates**, American serial killer from Spokane, Washington

### Sportsmen

* **Robert Green**, English former professional footballer who played as a goalkeeper, played in the Premier League and football League and for the England national football team
* **Robert Alexander**, Irish sportsman
* **Roberto Baggio**, Italian former professional footballer who mainly played as a second striker, or as an attacking midfielder
* **Roberto Carlos**, Brazilian footballer, widely regarded as one of the best football players of all time
* **Robert "Bob" Foster**, American boxer, widely regarded as one of the greatest boxers of all time
* **Robert "Bob" Foster**, British motorcycle racer and champion
* **Robert Garcia**, American boxer
* **Robert Griffin III**, American football quarterback for the Baltimore Ravens of the National Football League
* **Robert "Rob" Gronkowski**, American former football tight end, widely regarded as one of the greatest American football players of all time
* **Robert Gsellman** (born 1993), American baseball player
* **Robert Hellenius**, Finnish professional boxer
* **Robert Howard**, Irish Grandmaster of taekwondo
* **Robert "Bobby" Hull**, Canadian former ice hockey player who is regarded as one of the greatest players of all time
* **Robert Jaworski**, Filipino former professional basketball player, head coach and politician who served as a Senator of the Philippines from 1998 to 2004, widely regarded as one of the best and most popular PBA players of all-time, father of Robert Jaworski Jr.
* **Róbert Jež**, retired Slovak footballer
* **Robert "Bobby" Jones**, American golfer, the first man in history to achieve golf Grand Slam
* **Robert "Bob" Kalsu**, American football player and United States Army officer
* **Robert Kerr**, Irish Canadian sprinter
* **Robert "Robbie" Kerr**, British racing driver
* **Robert Kubica**, Polish racing and rally driver, the first and so far the only Polish racing driver to compete in Formula One
* **Robert Lewandowski**, Polish football player who plays as a striker for Bayern Munich and is the captain of the Poland national team
* **Roberto López Ufarte**, Basque former footballer
* **Roberto Mancini**, Italian football manager and former player who is the manager of the Italy national team
* **Robert "Bob" McNamara**, American infielder in Major League Baseball
* **Robert Alexander Michel Melki** (born 1992), Swedish-Lebanese footballer
* **Robert Mühren**, Dutch professional footballer
* **Robert Person** (born 1969), American baseball player
* **Robert "Bobby" Orr**, Canadian former professional ice hockey player, widely acknowledged as one of the greatest of all time
* **Robert Rudolph Remus**, American professional wrestler known as Sgt. Slaughter
* **Robert Sánchez**, Spanish professional footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for Premier League club Chelsea and the Spain national team
* **Robert Shwartzman**, Russian-Israeli racing driver
* **Robert "Bingo" Smith**, American professional basketball player
* **Robert "Rob" Terry**, Welsh professional wrestler and bodybuilder
* **Robert Turbin**, American football running back who is a free agent
* **Robert "Bobby" Wagner**, American football middle linebacker for the Los Angeles Rams of the National Football League (NFL)
* **Robert Whittaker**, New Zealand-born Australian professional mixed martial artist
* **Robert Wickens**, Canadian racing driver

### Paranormal

* **Robert the Doll**, a supposedly haunted doll exhibited at a museum, center of an urban legend

### Others

* **Robert Barclay Allardice**, generally known as Captain Barclay, Scottish walker of the early 19th century, known as the celebrated pedestrian, considered the father of the 19th century sport of pedestrianism, a precursor to racewalking
* **Robert T. Barrett**, American painter, illustrator, and professor of illustration at Brigham Young University
* **Robert "Rob" Bell Jr.**, American author, speaker and former pastor
* **Rob Bell**, American TV host and adventurer
* **Robert Bevan**, British painter, draughtsman and lithographer, founding member of the Camden Town Group, the London Group, and the Cumberland Market Group
* **Robert Boyd**, American anthropologist
* **Robert "Bobby" Brazier**, English actor and model
* **Robert Capa**, Hungarian war photographer and photojournalist
* **Robert Sheaffer**, American ufologist and paranormal investigator
* **Robert Chung**, Hong Kong academician, former Director of the Public Opinion Programme (POP) of the University of Hong Kong, head of the Hong Kong Public Opinion Research Institute
* **Robert Conquest**, an English-American historian and poet
* **Robert Cornelius**, American pioneer of photography and a lamp manufacturer who took the first light picture ever taken and whose self-taken portrait is the first known photographic portrait taken in America
* **Robert De Cotte**, French architect-administrator, under whose design control of the royal buildings of France the earliest notes presaging the Rococo Style were introduced
* **Robert Elms**, English writer and broadcaster
* **Robert Étienne**, 20th-century French historian of ancient Rome
* **Robert Geraldino**, Canadian youtube content creator known as RobertIDK
* **Robert Gibbings**, Irish artist and author who was most noted for his work as a wood engraver and sculptor
* **Robert Gregg**, Anglican Archbishop
* **Robert Gray**, first Anglican Bishop of Cape Town and Metropolitan of Africa
* **Robert Gray**, English Bishop of Bristol
* **Robert Gray**, American merchant sea captain who pioneered the maritime fur trade
* **Robert H. Gray**, American data analyst, author and astronomer
* **Robert Grierson**, Canadian missionary to Korea
* **Roparz Hemon (Robert Hemon)**, Breton author and scholar of Breton expression
* **Robert Henri**, American painter and teacher
* **Robert Hichens**, British sailor who was part of the deck crew on board the RMS Titanic as one of six quartermasters on board the vessel and was at the ships wheel when it struck the iceberg and sunk
* **Carl Robert Jakobson**, Estonian writer, politician and teacher, one of the most important people in the Estonian national awakening
* **Robert "Bob" Jones Sr.**, American evangelist, pioneer religious broadcaster, and the founder and first president of Bob Jones University
* **Robert "Bob" Kaluza**, rig supervisor of the semi-submersible, mobile, floating, dynamically positioned drilling rig Deepwater Horizon when it exploded and created an ecologic catastrophe in 2010
* **Robert Knox**, Irish bishop
* **Robert Laurie**, journalist, television travel expert, the co-host of The Jet Set as well as a traffic anchor and reporter at iHeartMedia and WJLA-TV
* **Robert Lefèvre**, French painter of portraits, history paintings and religious paintings
* **Roberto Matta**, of Chilean painter and a seminal figure in 20th century abstract expressionist and surrealist art
* **Robert ‘’Bob’’ Moir** (1929–2016), Canadian television producer, sports commentator, and journalist
* **Robert Molyneux**, English-American Catholic priest and Jesuit missionary to the United States
* **Robert de Montesquiou**, French aesthete, Symbolist poet and art collector
* **Sir Robert Morant**, English administrator and educationalist
* **Captain Robert Nairac**, British Army officer in 14 Intelligence Company who was abducted from a pub in Dromintee, south County Armagh, during an undercover operation and assassinated by the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) on his fourth tour of duty in Northern Ireland as a Military Intelligence Liaison Officer
* **Robert "Rob" Newman**, English comedian, author and political activist
* **Robert M. Price**, American theologian and writer
* **Robert "Bob" Ross**, American painter, art instructor, and television host
* **Robertus Rubiyatmoko**, Indonesian Roman Catholic archbishop
* **Robert O. Scholz**, American architect from Washington, D.C.
* **Robert Livingston Rudolph**, American bishop of the Reformed Episcopal Church
* **Robert Stevens**, British-born American photojournalist killed in the 2001 anthrax attacks
* **Robert Scotland Liddell**, British war reporter and photographer
* **Robert Topala**, also known as Zhenmuron, Swedish musician and video game developer known for developing the popular rhythm based arcade art game Geometry Dash
* **Robert Barron**, American prelate of the Catholic Church, author, theologian and evangelist, known for his Word on Fire ministry
* **Robert Wadlow**, known as the Alton Giant and the Giant of Illinois, an American who became famous as the tallest person in recorded history
* **Robert Wipper**, Russian historian of classical antiquity, medieval and modern period
## Middle name

* **Theodore Robert "Ted" Bundy** (1946-1989), American serial killer and terrorist, regarded as one of the most brutal serial killers of all time
* **Julien Robert Rene Corrales**, French musician and record producer, member of the French bass music duo Dirtyphonics
* **Daniel Robert "Danny" Elfman** (born 1853), American film composer, singer, songwriter, and musician known as the lead singer of the band Oingo Boingo and the author of the music for several well known films
* **Brian Robert Helander**, American record producer, member of the melodic bass music duo Last Heroes
* **Ellis Robert McKay Lawrie**, English DJ and record producer known simply as Ellis
* **Sir Peter Robert Jackson** (born 1961), New Zealand film director, screenwriter and producer, best known as the director, writer and producer of the Lord of the Rings trilogy and the Hobbit trilogy as well as other notable films including Heavenly Creatures, The Frighteners and King Kong
* **David Robert Jones** (1947-2016), known as David Bowie, English singer, songwriter, musician, and actor, widely regarded as one of the greatest musicians of all time
* **Melvin Robert Laird** (1922–2016), American politician, writer and statesman, U.S. congressman from Wisconsin from 1953 to 1969 before serving as Secretary of Defense from 1969 to 1973, instrumental in forming the administration's policy of withdrawing U.S. soldiers from the Vietnam War, one of the principal commanders of Cambodian Civil War and Laotian Civil War
* **Daniel Robert Middleton** (born 1991), English YouTube content creator known as DanTDM
* **Mark Robert Michael Wahlberg** (born 1971), American actor and rapper formerly known by his stage name Marky Mark, one of the most well known modern day Hollywood actors, brother of the actor Robert Wahlberg
## Fictional characters

* **Robert "Rocky" Balboa**, the main character in the Rocky Balboa film series;
* **King Robert Baratheon**, a fictional king in A Song of Ice and Fire novels by George R. R. Martin & the 2011 TV series Game of Thrones (King of the Andals, the Rhoynar and the First Men, Lord of the Seven Kingdoms, Protector of the Realm, Lord of Storm's End, Lord Paramount of the Stormlands)
* **Robert McCall**, vigilante CIA agent, revenge seeker and main character in the film Equalizer
* **Commander Robert Hicks**, A senior officer with the LAPD Special Operations Bureau in 2017 TV series S.W.A.T.
* **Robert Accutrone**, a Quincy and a member of the Wandenreich's Sternritter with the designation "N" from the Bleach manga
* **Robert**, main character of the 2021 action thriller Roberrt
* **Robert Barone**, a character from the 1996 sitcom Everybody Loves Raymond
* **Robert Blake**, main character in the story The Haunter of the Dark by H.P. Lovecraft
* **Robert The Devil**, main character of a legend of medieval origin about a Norman knight who discovers he is the son of Satan
* **Robert Doom**, the cousin of Doctor Doom and inhabitant of Latveria in Marvel Comics
* **Robert "Yokai" Callaghan**, a former robotics professor at the San Fransokyo Institute of Technology and the main antagonist of Big Hero 6
* **King Robert**, the main character from the video game Royal Match
* **Robert Grimsditch**, a powerful wizard and one of the first American aurors in Harry Potter franchise
* **Robert Philip**, one of the main characters in the 2007 film Enchanted
* **Robert Jürgens**, owner of the beyblade Griffolyon, team leader of Majestics clan, character from the Japanese Manga series Beyblade
* **Robert Garcia**, fictional character from the video game "Art of Fighting"
* **Robert Drake**, fictional superhero known as Iceman, appearing in comic books published by Marvel Comics, a founding member of the X-Men
* **Robert Ford**, main character in TV series Westworld
* **Robert "Rob" Smith**, one of the main characters from the TV series The Golbergs
* **Robert "Bob" Felcher**, the main character from the animated TV series Bob's Burgers
* **Robert Langdon**, symbologist and cryptologist in Dan Brown's novels Angels & Demons, The Da Vinci Code, The Lost Symbol & Inferno, the 2006 film The Da Vinci Code & the 2009 film Angels & Demons
* **Robert McGonagall**, father of Minerva McGonagall, the transfiguration teacher and Head of Gryffindor House in the Harry Potter franchise;
* **Robert "Bobby" Nash**, a firefighter in TV series 9-1-1
* **Robert "Bob" Kelso**, chief of medicine for Sacred Heart Hospital for the first seven seasons of Scrubs
* **Robert Neville**, a main protagonist and US Army Virologist in 2007 movie I Am Legend;
* **Robert "Bob" Ryan**, character from the TV movie Bernie the Dolphin
* **Robert "Bob" Newby**, a character from the TV series Stranger Things
* **Robert Paulson**, a character in Chuck Palahniuk's novel Fight Club and the 1999 film of the same name
* **Robert "Bob" Fossil**, a zoo owner in the TV series The Mighty Boosh
* **Robert Reynolds**, a Marvel Comics Superhero known as Sentry
* **Robert ‘’Robbie’’ Rotten**, the main villain in LazyTownsince the second play, Glanni Glæpur í Latabæ (Robbie Rotten in LazyTown);
* **Robert "Robbie" Shapiro**, character from TV series Victorious
* **Robert "Bobby" Singer**, fictional character in The CW Television Network's horror-drama television series Supernatural
* **Robert The Scotsman**, character from animated series Samurai Jack
* **Robert "Bob" Stone**, main character, CIA agent and martial arts specialist from the action comedy Central Intelligence
* **Robert "Robb" Stark**, a fictional character in A Song of Ice and Fire novels by George R. R. Martin & the 2011 TV series Game of Thrones
* **Robert Chan**, chief executive of Umbrella Corps in Resident Evil franchise
* **Robert "Bob" Kendo**, a character from Resideent Evil franchise
* **Robert**, character from the Lithuanian soap opera Moterys meluoja geriau (Women lie better) and its Latvian version Viņas melo labāk
* **Robert T. Sturgeon**, video game character in the Ninja Gaiden series
* **Robert Haydn**, the main antagonist for the first half of the series and the strongest power user in the tournament in the anime series The Law of Ueki
* **Robert "Bob" Gray**, real name of the character known as **It or Pennywise the Dancing Clown** from the horror story and movies of the same name
* **Sponge Robert "Bob" SquarePants**, title character of the animated series SpongeBob SquarePants
* **Robert "Bob" the Builder**, a character from the British animated series Bob The Builder
* Robert "Bobby" Jones, main character in the detective novell Why Didn't They Ask Evans?
* **Robert Seaver**, a character from Homeward Bound: The Incredible Journey
* **Robert Bruce Banner**, a major character featured in Marvel Comics, known as **The Incredible Hulk**
* **Dr Robert Gru**, character from the Despicable Me franchise
* **Robert "Bob" Parr**, a fictional superhero known as **Mr Incredible** from The Incredibles franchise
* **Dr. Robert Vaughan**, a character from the 1996 film Crash
* **Robert Underdunk Terwilliger**, known as **Sideshow Bob**, a character from the animated series The Simpsons
* **Robert Accutrone**, a Quincy and a member of the Wandenreich's Sternritter with the designation "N" from the Bleach manga
* **Robert Stanton**, a character from the American horror franchise Five Nights at Freddy's
## Folklore

* **Robert Goodfellow**, domestic and nature sprite, demon, or fairy in mythology
* **Knight Robert**, a legendary Christmas character from German folklore
* **Robert**, one of the names often used to refer to a legendary Christmas character known as **Krampus**
* **Robert**, one of the names often used to refer to the **Devil** in mythology
## References

https://www.behindthename.com/name/robert