Top Celebrity Names Starting With Robert

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   Robert Downey, Jr.

   Age 47 Male
   

   Actor, Producer, Singer

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   Robert John Downey, Jr. is an American actor who made his screen debut in 1970 at the age of five, appearing in his father's film Pound, and has worked consistently in film and television ever since. During the 1980s, he had roles in a series of coming of age films associated with the Brat Pack. His role in Less Than Zero (1987) was the first time Downey's acting would be commended by critics.… read more

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   Robert De Niro

   Age 68 Male
   

   Actor, Director

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   Robert De Niro is an American actor, director and producer. His first major film roles were in Bang the Drum Slowly and Mean Streets, both in 1973. In 1974, he played the young Vito Corleone in The Godfather Part II, a role that won him the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor.… read more

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   Robert Duvall

   Age 81 Male
   

   Actor

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   Robert Selden Duvall is an American actor and director. He has won an Academy Award, two Emmy Awards, four Golden Globe Awards and a BAFTA over the course of his career.

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   Robert Redford

   Age 75 Male
   

   Actor, Director, Producer

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   Charles Robert Redford, Jr., better known as Robert Redford, is an American actor, film director, producer, businessman, environmentalist, philanthropist, and founder of the Sundance Film Festival. He has received two Oscars: one in 1981 for directing Ordinary People, and one for Lifetime Achievement in 2002. In 2010 he was awarded French Knighthood in the Legion d'Honneur.… read more

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   Robert Mugabe

   Age 88 Male
   

   Politician, General, Smith

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   Robert Gabriel Mugabe is the President of Zimbabwe. As one of the leaders of the liberation movement against white-minority rule, he was elected into power in 1980. He served as Prime Minister from 1980 to 1987, and as the first executive head of state since 1987. Mugabe rose to prominence in the 1960s as the Secretary General of the Zimbabwe African National Union during the conflict against the white-minority rule government of Ian Smith.… read more

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   Robert Rodriguez

   Age 43 Male
   

   Film Director and Producer

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   Robert Anthony Rodríguez is an American film director, screenwriter, producer, cinematographer, editor and musician. He shoots and produces many of his films in his native Texas and Mexico. He has directed such films as Desperado, From Dusk Till Dawn, The Faculty, Spy Kids, Sin City, Planet Terror, and Machete. He is a friend and frequent collaborator of filmmaker Quentin Tarantino.… read more

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   Robert F. Kennedy

   1925 - 1968 Male
   

   Politician

   
   

   Robert Francis "Bobby" Kennedy, also referred to by his initials RFK, was an American politician, a Democratic senator from New York, and a noted civil rights activist. An icon of modern American liberalism and member of the Kennedy family, he was a younger brother of President John F. Kennedy and acted as one of his advisors during his presidency. From 1961 to 1964, he was the U.S. Attorney General.… read more

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   Robert Byrd

   1917 - 2010 Male
   

   United States Senator From West Virginia

   
   

   Robert Carlyle Byrd was a United States Senator from West Virginia. A member of the Democratic Party, Byrd served as a U.S. Representative from 1953 until 1959 and as a U.S. Senator from 1959 to 2010. He was the longest-serving senator and the longest-serving member in the history of the United States Congress.… read more

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   Robert Plant

   Age 63 Male
   

   Singer-songwriter, Musician

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   Robert Anthony Plant, CBE is an English singer and songwriter best known as the vocalist and lyricist of the iconic rock band Led Zeppelin. He has also had a successful solo career. In 2007, Plant released Raising Sand, an album produced by T-Bone Burnett with American bluegrass soprano Alison Krauss, which won the 2009 Grammy Award for Album of the Year at the 51st Grammy Awards.… read more

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    Robert Lusk

    1781 - 1845 Male
    

    Reformed Presbyterian Minister 1814-1845

    
    

    Robert Adam Holliday Lusk was a Reformed Presbyterian or Covenanter minister of the strictest sort, in a century which, according to Presbyterian historian Robert E. Thompson, was marked by increasing relaxation into less stringent manifestations of doctrine and practice amongst all branches of Presbyterianism. His career crossed paths with many prominent ministers and he was involved in numerous ecclesiastical courts at pivotal moments in the history of the Reformed Presbyterian Church.… read more

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    Robert Gates

    Age 68 Male
    

    Cia Director, U.S. Secretary of Defense, and University President

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    Robert Michael Gates is the 24th Chancellor of the College of William and Mary and a retired civil servant and university president who served as the 22nd United States Secretary of Defense from 2006 to 2011. Prior to this, Gates served for 26 years in the Central Intelligence Agency and the National Security Council, and under President George H. W. Bush as Director of Central Intelligence.… read more

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    Robert Chua

    Age 66 Male
    

    Producer, Actor

    
    

    Robert Chua Wah-Peng was born in Singapore on 20 May 1946. Robert Chua's 48 years television experience spans from Australia, Singapore, Hong Kong to China. He started his TV career in Australia at the age of 17 before making Hong Kong his home. In 1967 at the age of 21, he helped launched TVB Hong Kong's first terrestrial TV and created the most successful and longest running 'live' variety show 'Enjoy Yourself Tonight'.… read more

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    Robert McNamara

    1916 - 2009 Male
    

    United States Secretary of Defense During the Vietnam War

    
    

    Robert Strange McNamara was an American business executive and the eighth Secretary of Defense, serving under Presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson from 1961 to 1968, during which time he played a large role in escalating the United States involvement in the Vietnam War. Following that he served as President of the World Bank from 1968 until 1981.… read more

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    Robert Kiyosaki

    Age 65 Male
    

    Investor, Founder, Businessman

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    Robert Toru Kiyosaki is an American investor, businessman, self-help author, motivational speaker, board-game inventor, financial literacy activist, and occasional financial commentator. Kiyosaki is perhaps best known for his Rich Dad Poor Dad series of motivational books and other material published under the Rich Dad brand. He has written over 15 books which have combined sales of over 26 million copies.… read more

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    Robert Wilson

    Age 70 Male
    

    Stage Director

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    Robert Wilson is an American avant-garde stage director and playwright who has been called "[America America]'s — or even the world's — foremost vanguard 'theater artist'". Over the course of his wide-ranging career, he has also worked as a choreographer, performer, painter, sculptor, video artist, and sound and lighting designer.… read more

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    Robert Zemeckis

    Age 61 Male
    

    Film Director

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    Robert Lee Zemeckis is an American film director, producer and screenwriter. Zemeckis first came to public attention in the 1980s as the director of the comedic time-travel Back to the Future film series, as well as the Academy Award-winning live-action/animation epic Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988), though in the 1990s he diversified into more dramatic fare, including 1994's Forrest Gump, for which he won an Academy Award for Best Director.… read more

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    Robert E. Howard

    1906 - 1936 Male
    

    Short Story Writer, Poet, Novelist, Epistolean

    
    

    Robert Ervin Howard was an American author who wrote pulp fiction in a diverse range of genres. He is probably best known for his character, Conan the Barbarian, he is regarded as the father of the sword and sorcery subgenre. Howard was born and raised in the state of Texas. He spent most of his life in the town of Cross Plains with some time spent in nearby Brownwood.… read more

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    Robert Palmer

    1949 - 2003 Male
    

    Singer, Musician, Songwriter

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    Robert Allen Palmer, born in Batley, Yorkshire, was a Grammy Award-winning English singer-songwriter. He was known for his distinctive voice and the eclectic mix of musical styles on his albums, combining soul, jazz, rock, pop, reggae and blues. He found success both in his solo career and in the musical act Power Station, and had Top 10 songs in both the US and the UK.… read more

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    Robert E. Lee

    1807 - 1870 Male
    

    General

    
    

    Robert Edward Lee was a career military officer who is best known for having commanded the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia in the American Civil War. The son of Revolutionary War officer Henry "Light Horse Harry" Lee III and a top graduate of the United States Military Academy, Robert E. Lee distinguished himself as an exceptional officer and combat engineer in the United States Army for 32 years.… read more

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    Robert Mitchum

    1917 - 1997 Male
    

    Film Actor, Singer

    
    

    Robert Charles Durman Mitchum was an American film actor, author, composer and singer and is #23 on the American Film Institute's list of the greatest male American screen legends of all time. Mitchum rose to prominence for his starring roles in several major works of the film noir style, and is considered a forerunner of the anti-heroes prevalent in film during the 1950s and 1960s.… read more

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    Robert Hertzberg

    Age 57 Male
    

    Politician, Speaker, Lawyer

    
    

    Robert Myles Hertzberg served as Speaker of the California State Assembly. He was twice elected unanimously Speaker of the State Assembly, and served two terms. In the State Assembly, he represented more than 400,000 constituents in the San Fernando Valley communities of Los Angeles.… read more

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    Robert Muldoon

    1921 - 1992 Male
    

    Prime Minister of New Zealand, Politician

    
    

    Sir Robert David "Rob" Muldoon, GCMG, CH served as the 31st Prime Minister of New Zealand from 1975 to 1984, as leader of the governing National Party. Muldoon had been a prominent member of the National party and MP for the Tamaki electorate for some years prior to becoming leader of the party.… read more

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    Robert Fripp

    Age 66 Male
    

    Rock Guitarist, Leading Member of King Crimson, Founder of Discipline Global Mobile of Guitar Craft, Former President of American Society For Continuous Education, Public Motivational Speaker

    
    

    Robert Fripp is an English guitarist, composer and record producer. He was ranked 42nd on Rolling Stone magazine's 2003 list of the "100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time" and #47 on Gibson. com’s "Top 50 Guitarists of All Time". Among rock guitarists, Fripp is a master of crosspicking, a technique often associated with the banjo. His compositions often feature unusual time signatures, which have been influenced by classical and folk traditions.… read more

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    Robert Voisey

    Age 42 Male
    

    Composer

    
    

    Robert Voisey is a composer and producer of electroacoustic and chamber music. He founded Vox Novus in 2000 to promote the music of contemporary American composers and in 2001 created The American Composer Timeline, the first in-depth listing of American composers, spanning from 1690 to the present, to appear on the Internet.… read more

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    Robert Ouko

    1931 - 1990 Male
    

    Politician, Foreign Minister, Cabinet Minister

    
    

    The Honorable Minister Dr. John Robert Ouko, commonly known as Robert Ouko, was a Kenyan politician who served as Foreign Minister of Kenya. Robert Ouko served in the government of Kenya from the colonial period through the presidencies of Jomo Kenyatta and Daniel arap Moi. He was a member of the National Assembly for Kisumu and a cabinet minister, rising to the post of Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation by 1990.… read more