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Robert
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King Robert I of Scotland, national hero of Scotland, arguably the best-known Robert in history.
Pronunciation/ˈrɒbərt/
French: [ʁɔ.bɛʁ]
German: [ˈʁoːbɛɐ̯t]
Czech: [ˈrobɛrt]
Slovak: [ˈrɔːbɛrt]
Serbo-Croatian: [rǒbert]
GenderMale
Name daySeptember 17
Origin
Word/nameGermanic
Meaning"fame-bright", "glory-bright", "shining with glory"
Region of originGermanic countries (England, Scotland, Germany, Netherlands, France, Iceland, Scandinavian region (Denmark, Sweden, Norway))
Other names
Related namesRob (short form),
Robb (short form),
Roby (nickname),
Robbie (nickname),
Robby (nickname),
Ro (nickname),
Roe (nickname),
Bob (nickname),
Bobby (nickname),
Boris, Robrecht, Rodbert, Robin, Rupert
See alsoRoger, Roland, Rudolph, Roderick, Herbert, Waldemar, Vladimir

The name Robert is an ancient Germanic given name, from Proto-Germanic *Hrōþi- "fame" and *berhta- "bright" (Hrōþiberhtaz).[1] Compare Old Dutch Robrecht and Old High German Hrodebert (a compound of Hruod (Old Norse: Hróðr) "fame, glory, honour, renown" and berht "bright, shining"). It is the second most frequently used given name of ancient Germanic origin.[2][3] It is also in use as a surname.

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 feminine version is Roberta. The Italian, Portuguese, and Spanish form is Roberto.

Robert is also a common name in many Germanic languages, including English, German, Dutch, Norwegian, Swedish, Scottish, Danish, and Icelandic. It can be used as a French, Polish, Irish, Finnish, Romanian, and Estonian name as well.

Variations

Bert, Bertie, Berto, Bertus (also short for Albert or Herbert)
Beto, Betinho (Portuguese)
Bo, Bob, Bobbie, Bobby
Beau
Chrodobert, Chrodobrecht (Frankish)
Dobbie, Dobby
Boris (Bulgarian) (possibly not etymologically connected, but linked together through nickname "Bob")
Hob, Hopkin (Medieval English)
Hopcyn (Welsh)
Hrodberaht, Hrodebert, Hrodpreht (Old High German)
Rab, Rabbie (Scots)
Raibeart (Scottish Gaelic)
Rhobert (Welsh)
Roibeárd, Riobárd (Irish)
Rob, Robb, Robbie, Robby (also short for Robin)
Rod
Robbe (Dutch, Frisian and Low German short form)
Roban
Robban (Swedish)
Robbert (Dutch)
Robbi, Hrobbi, Hrobjartur, Bjartur, Art (Icelandic)
Robercik or Robuś (Polish, "Little Robert")
Robere (Old French)
Ροβῆρος, Rovēros (Greek)
Róbert (Hungarian, Icelandic, Slovak)
Robertas (Lithuanian)
Roberto (Italian, Portuguese, Spanish)
Robertino (Italian, "Little Robert")
Robertinho (Portuguese, "Little Robert")
Роберт (Robert), Роман (Roman) (Russian)
Ροβέρτος, Rovértos (Greek)
Raivo (Estonian)
Roberts (Latvian)
Raivis (Latvian form of the Estonian variant)
Robertson (English given name)
Robertus (Latin)
Robetus (Medieval misspelling?)
Robi (Croatian, Hungarian, Romanian, Serbian)
Röbi (Swiss German)

Robin (Medieval diminutive in English, Dutch, Swedish)
Robo
Robrecht (Old Dutch)
Rochbert
Rodbeard, Rodbeart
Rodbert, Rodebert, Rotbert, Roteberht, Rotebert (Germanic)
Rodbertus, Rodepertus (Latin)
Rodebrecht (Old German)
Röpke (Low German diminutive form)
Rotbryht (Old English)
Rothbert
Roopertti, Pertti, Roope (Finnish)
Robertukka, Roopertukka, Tuukka (Finnish nicknames)
Ropars, Ropartz, Roparzh (Breton)
Ruben, Rupen, Roupen (Armenian)
Reuben (Hebrew)
Rutbert, Rubert, Ruby (Old Dutch)
Rudebet, Rudbert, Rudbert, Rudpert, Rudbrecht, Rudprecht
Rupert (Dutch, English, German, Polish)
Ruperto (Spanish)
Rupertus, Rvpertvs (Latin)
Rutpert, Ruppert, Rupprecht, Ruprecht (Upper German)
Trebor (reversal)


Feminine forms:
Bobbi, Bobbie
Robbi, Robbie
Roberta
Robertina, Robertine
Robina
Robyn, Robynne
Ruprette, Rupretta (archaic French)


Surnames:
Robert, Roberts, Robertson, Roberson, Robinson, Robero, Romero, Bertson, Bertke, Robertsen, Robertov, Robright

Trivia

Robert I of Normandy a.k.a. Robert the Magnificent

The name Robert was also a royal name in France, Germany, Scotland and England during medieval period. Robert was the name of several kings, dukes, and other rulers and noblemen.

Robert was in the top 10 most given boys' names in the US for 47 years, from 1925 to 1972.[4]

Robert 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 remains one of the most frequently given male names in the world.

The names second component, *berhta- , is the original root for the modern English word "bright".

The name Robert almost exactly shares the same meaning with the name Waldemar / Vladimir.

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.

In Italy during the Second World War, the form of the name, Roberto, briefly acquired a new meaning derived from, and referring to the Rome-Berlin-Tokyo Axis.[5]

People with the given name

Royalty

See also: List of rulers named Robert
Kings of Scotland
Kings of France
King of Naples
King of Germany
  • Robert of Germany (Rupertus, Rex Romanorum) (1352–1410)
King of Hungary and Croatia
King of Bulgaria
Dukes of Normandy
Duke of Chartres
  • Prince Robert, Duke of Chartres, Crown Prince of France (1840–1910)
Duke of Parma
Count of Flanders
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
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

Medieval Figures

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 national heroes of England
  • Robert Roy Macgregor (1671-1734), Scottish outlaw and national hero

Nobility

Religious figures and saints

See also: Saint Robert (disambiguation)

Presidents and Prime Ministers

Secretaries of Defense

Wartime Figures and Military Leaders

Other Military

Nazis

  • Robert Grawitz, 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, 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 Mulka, 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 Ritter, 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 Wagner, 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

Explorers

  • Robert Bartlett, 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, Irish soldier and police officer who explored Australia, leader of the first expedition to cross Australia from south to north
  • Robert Dudley, English explorer and cartographer
  • Sir Robert McClure, 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, 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, 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 Antarctic Exploration, widely regarded as one of the greatest explorers of all time

Movie industry

  • Robert Altman, (1925–2006) American film director, screenwriter, and producer;
  • Robert "Robbie" Amell (born 1988), Canadian-American actor and producer
  • Robert "Bob" Bergen, American voice actor
  • Robert Carlyle (born 1961), Scottish actor
  • Robert "Robbie" Coltrane, (1950) Scottish actor and author
  • Robert Cummings, (1910–1990) American actor;
  • Robert Davi, (1954) American actor
  • Robert De Niro, (1953) American actor, director and producer;
  • Robert Downey Jr, (1965) American actor;
  • Roberto Draghetti, (1960–2020) Italian actor and voice actor;
  • Robert Duvall, (1931) American actor;
  • Robert Eggers, (1983) American film director, screenwriter and production designer
  • Robert Englund, (1947) American actor, voice actor, singer and film director;
  • Robert Goulet, (1933–2007) French-Canadian singer and actor;
  • Robert Guillaume, (1927–2017) American actor and singer;
  • Robert Gustafsson, (1964) Swedish comedian and actor
  • Robert Hardy, (1925–2017) British actor;
  • Robert "Bob" Iger, (1951) American media executive, film producer, author and businessman who is chairman and chief executive officer of The Walt Disney Company
  • Robert Knepper, (1959) American actor;
  • Robert "Rob" Letterman, (1970) American film director and screenwriter
  • Robert "Rob" Lowe (born 1964), American actor, producer and director
  • Robert "Rob" Marshall, (1960) American film and theater director, producer and choreographer;
  • 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 "Rob" Minkoff, (1962) American film and animation director;
  • Robert Mitchum, (1917–1997) American film actor, director, author, poet, composer and singer
  • Robert Montgomery, (1904–1981) American actor, director and producer;
  • Robert Mulligan, (1925–2008) American film director
  • Robert Patrick, (1958) American actor and voice actor;
  • Robert Pattinson, (1986) British actor;
  • Robert "Bob" Peck (1945-1999), English stage, television and film actor
  • Robert Redford, (1936) American actor, director and producer;
  • Robert Rodriguez, (1968) American film director, screenwriter, producer, musician, filmmaker and visual effects supervisor, best known for his film Alita: Battle Angel
  • Robert Ryan, (1909–1973) American actor;
  • Robert Schwentke, (1968) German film director;
  • Robert Smigel (born 1960), American actor, voice actor, comedian, humorist, writer, director, producer and puppeteer
  • Robert Singer, American film director and producer;
  • Robert Adolf Stemmle, (1903–1974) German screenwriter and film director;
  • Robert Stromberg, (1965) American special effects artist, designer and film director;
  • Robert Taylor, (1911–1969) American actor, one of the most famous Hollywood actors of his time;
  • Robert Vaughn, (1932–2016) American actor;
  • Robert Wagner, (1930) American actor;
  • Robert Walker, (1918–1951) American actor;
  • Robert B. Weide, (1959) American screenwriter, producer and director
  • Robert Wise, (1914–2005) American film director, widely regarded as one of the greatest of all time;
  • Robert Young, (1907–1998) American actor;
  • Robert Zemeckis, (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

  • Robert Abisi, member of the electronic music and DJ duo Lost Kings
  • Robert Babicz, Polish born German electronic music producer and DJ
  • Robert "Rob" Bourdon, American musician, drummer and founding member of the rock band Linkin Park
  • Robert "Bob" Crosby, American jazz singer and bandleader, best known for his group the Bob-Cats
  • 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 Francis, American multi-instrumentalist, singer, songwriter;
  • Robert "Bobby" Hackett, American jazz musician
  • 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 Hughes, real name of the Canadian trap music DJ and record producer Vincent;
  • 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 Johnson, American blues singer-songwriter and musician;
  • 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 "Bob" Kerr, comic musician who plays trumpet and cornet
  • 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 "Bob" Marley, Jamaican singer-songwriter, widely regarded as one of the greatest musicians of all time
  • Robert Miles, Swiss-born Italian DJ and record producer, inventor of the dream trance genre;
  • Robert Del Naja, British artist, musician, singer and songwriter, founding member of the band Massive Attack
  • Roberto "Bert" Nievera, Filipino-American singer
  • Robert Palmer, English composer, songwriter, singer and record producer;
  • Robert Plant, English singer, songwriter, and musician, lead singer and lyricist of the English rock band Led Zeppelin;
  • Robert "Bob" Rifo, founder of the Italian electronic music project The Bloody Beetroots
  • Robert Ritchie, American singer-songwriter, rapper, musician, record producer, and actor known as Kid Rock;
  • Robert "Rob" Scallon, American YouTuber, musician and multi-instrumentalist
  • Robert Schumann, German composer and music critic, one of the greatest composers of romantic era;
  • Robert "Bob" Seger, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
  • Robert Smith, lead singer of The Cure;
  • 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 Trujillo, American singer and songwriter, one of the members of American heavy metal band Metallica;
  • Robert "Bobby" Vee, American singer, songwriter, musician and teen idol
  • Robert Volkmann, German composer
  • Robert "Rob" Zombie, American musician, singer, songwriter, programmer, voice actor, filmmaker and founding member of the heavy metal band White Zombie
  • 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
  • Robert Rihmeek Williams, American rapper, singer and activist known as Meek Mill
  • Robert "Robbie" Williams, British singer and songwriter
  • Robert van Winkle, real name of American rapper, actor, and television host Vanilla Ice
  • Robert "Bob" Wiseman, Canadian film composer, songwriter and music teacher
  • Robert Allen Zimmerman, real name of American singer-songwriter Bob Dylan.

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 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 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 Esnault-Pelterie, French aircraft designer and spaceflight theorist, developer of ballistic missiles, father of modern rocketry
  • Robert Fulton, American engineer and inventor who is widely credited with developing a commercially successful steamboat known as North River Steamboat
  • 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 Graaff 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 Tuberculosis, widely regarded as one of the greatest scientists of all time
  • 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
  • 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 Shapiro, professor emeritus of chemistry at New York University, best known for his work on the origin of life
  • 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 infrared photography and ultraviolet photography
  • Robert J. White, American neurosurgeon best known for his head transplants on living monkeys

Intelligence officers

Criminals

  • Robert J. Anderson, American murderer
  • Robert Bales, former United States army soldier who committed the Kandahar massacre
  • Robert John Bardo, American assassin of Rebecca Schaeffer
  • Robert Berdella, American serial killer, known as The Kansas City Butcher and The Collector
  • 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 Jay Mathews, American neo-Nazi terrorist and the leader of The Order, an American white supremacist militant group
  • Robert Maudsley, English serial killer
  • Robert "Bobby" Long, American serial killer and rapist
  • Robert Napper, British serial killer
  • Robert Pickton, Canadian serial killer
  • Robert Ben Rhoades, American serial killer known as "The Truck Stop Killer"
  • 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 organised crime boss
  • Robert Lee Yates, American serial killer from Spokane, Washington

Judges

Political Figures

Secretaries of State

Governors

Mayors

Founding fathers of United States

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 Cormier, American author and journalist, known for his deeply pessimistic novels
  • Robert Frost, American poet
  • 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 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 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 Kirkman, American comic book author best known for creating The Walking Dead
  • Robert "Rob" Liefeld, American comic book artist and writer, best known for creating the character Deadpool
  • Robert Rozhdestvensky, Soviet Russian poet, regarded as one of the most significant Russian poets
  • 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

Businessmen

  • Robert Bosch, German industrialist, businessman, engineer and inventor, founder of Robert Bosch GmbH (Bosch)
  • Robert Kardashian, American attorney and businessman
  • Robert Kiyosaki, American businessman and author, founder of the Rich Dad Company
  • Robert Kyncl, American business executive, Chief Business Officer of YouTube and former Vice President of Content Acquisitions of Netflix
  • Robert Napier, Scottish marine engineer and founder of Robert Napier and Sons
  • 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 Trump, American real estate developer and business executive, brother of the president of America Donald Trump
  • 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 Administration (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

Sportsmen

Paranormal

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

Others

  • Robert Ballard, 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 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 Bevan, British painter, draughtsman and lithographer, founding member of the Camden Town Group, the London Group, and the Cumberland Market Group
  • Robert Capa, Hungarian war photographer and photojournalist
  • 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 G. Elliott, American executioner
  • Robert Elms, English writer and broadcaster
  • 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
  • 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
  • Carl Robert Jakobson, Estonian writer, politician and teacher, one of the most important people in the Estonian national awakening
  • Robert J. Kirby, 45th commandant of Sing Sing prison
  • Robert Knox, Irish bishop
  • 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
  • Roberto Matta, of Chilean painter and a seminal figure in 20th century abstract expressionist and surrealist art
  • Robert de Montesquiou, French aesthete, Symbolist poet and art collector
  • 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 M. Price, American theologian and writer
  • Robert O. Scholz, American architect from Washington, D.C.
  • 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 (bishop), 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

Fictional characters

  • Robert "Rocky" Balboa, the main character in 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 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 "Yokai" Callaghan, a former robotics professor at the San Fransokyo Institute of Technology and the main antagonist of Big Hero 6
  • 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 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 Neville, a main protagonist and US Army Virologist in 2007 movie I Am Legend;
  • 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
  • Robbie Rotten, the main villain in LazyTown since 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 "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 Resident 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 "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 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
  • Robert Underdunk Terwilliger, known as Sideshow Bob, a character from the animated series The Simpsons

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

In different languages

Indo-European

Germanic

Major
Others
  • Elfdalian: Rodbert
  • Gothic: Hroþobrecht
  • Frankish: Chrodobert, Chrodobrecht
  • Limburgish: Robbert
  • Luxembourgish: Robbert

Baltic

Major
  • Latvian: Roberts, Robērs
  • Lithuanian: Robertas
Other

Celtic

Hellenic

Romance

Major
Others

Slavic

Major
Others

Indo-Iranian

  • Balochi: رابرت (Robert)
  • Bengali: রবার্ট (Rabārṭa)
  • Gujarati: રોબર્ટ (Rōbarṭa)
  • Hindi: रॉबर्ट (Robart)
  • Kashmiri: रॉबर्ट (Robart)
  • Kurdish: رابرت (Robert)
  • Malvi: रॉबर्ट (Robart)
  • Marathi: रॉबर्ट (Rŏbarṭa)
  • Mazanderani: رابرت (Robert)
  • Nepali: रोबर्ट (Rōbarṭa)
  • Odia: ରବର୍ଟ (Robert)
  • Pashto: رابرټ (Robert)
  • Persian: رابرت (Robert)
  • Punjabi: ਰਾਬਰਟ (Rābaraṭa)
  • Romani: Robert
  • Sanskrit: रॉबर्ट (Robart)
  • Tajik: Роберт
  • Urdu: رابرٹ (Robert)

Other

  • Albanian: Robert
  • Armenian: Ռոբերտ (Robert), Ռուբեն (Ruben), Ռուպեն (Rupen, Roupen)
  • Esperanto: Robert, Roberto
  • Hittite: �������� (Ruberitàš, Ruberetàš)
  • Tocharian: Roberetus

Kartvelian

Afro-Asiatic

Semitic

Other

Turkic

Major
Others
  • Altai: Роберт (Robert)
  • Gagauz: Robert
  • Tuvan: Роберт
  • Yakut: Роберт

Uralic

Finno-Ugric

Major
Others
  • Erzya: Роберт
  • Ingrian (Izhorian): Raivo, Raivert, Rovert, Robert
  • Karelian: Roope, Roopertti, Roobert, Robert, Роопе, Роопертти, Рооберт, Роберт
  • Khanty: Роберт
  • Komi: Роберт
  • Komi-Permyak: Роберт
  • Livonian: Raivo, Robert, Roobert
  • Ludic: Roope, Roopertti, Roobert, Robert
  • Mansi: Роберт
  • Mari: Роберт
  • Moksha: Роберт
  • Sámi: Roope, Roopertti, Roobert, Robert, Роопе, Роопертти, Рооберт, Роберт
  • Udmurt: Роберт
  • Veps: Roope, Roopertti, Roobert, Robert
  • Võro: Raivo
  • Votic: Robert
  • Zyrian: Роберт

Samoyedic

Austronesian

Major
Others

Sino-Tibetan

  • Burmese: ရောဘတ် (Rawbhaat)
  • Cantonese: 羅伯特 (Robert)
  • Chinese Simplified: 罗伯特 (Robert)
  • Chinese Traditional: 羅伯特 (Robert)
  • Kokborok (Tipuri): Robert
  • Classical Tibetan: རབཏ (Rabata)
  • Standard Tibetan: རབཏ (Rabata)

Austroasiatic

Dravidian

  • Tamil: ராபர்ட் (Rāparṭ)
  • Telugu: రాబర్ట్ (Rābarṭ)
  • Tulu: రాబర్ట్ (Rābarṭ)

Niger-Congo

Nilo-Saharan

Other

Major
Others
  • Ainu: ロベルツ (Roberutsu)
  • Buryat: Robert, Роберт
  • Etruscan: Ροβέρτος (Rovértos)
  • Evenki: Роберт
  • Greenlandic: Robert
  • Hadza: Robert
  • Khoekhoe: Robert
  • Manchu: Robert
  • Melpa: Robert
  • Mura: Robert
  • Sandawe: Robert
  • Taa: Rõbèrt
  • Udege: Роберт

Native American

Major
  • Aymara: Robert
  • Coyutla Totonac (Tachihuiin): Robert
  • Cree: ᕒᐅᐯᕒ‡ (Ropêrth), ᕈᐅᐸᕃᕪ (Ropareth)
  • Guarani (Paraguayan): Robert
  • Isthmus Zapotec (Diidxaza): Robert
  • Lalana Chinantec (Tsa Jujmi): Robert
  • Mapuche (Mapudungun): Robert
  • Mayan: Robert
  • Miskito: Robert
  • Mixean (Mixe): Robert
  • Mixtec: Robert
  • Mezquital Otomi: Robert
  • Nahuatl (Aztec): Robert
  • Quechuan (Inca): Robert
  • Navajo: Robert
Others

See also

  • Rob (given name), short for Robert
  • Robby, nickname for Robert
  • Robbie, nickname for Robert
  • Bob (given name), nickname for Robert
  • Bobby (given name), nickname for Robert
  • Robinson (disambiguation)
  • Robinett
  • Robinet (disambiguation)
  • Robinette (disambiguation)
  • Roberts (surname)
  • Robertson (surname)
  • Roberson
  • Rupert (name), alternate version of Robert
  • Robin (name)
  • Roderick (name)
  • Roger
  • Roland (name)
  • Rudolph (name)

Names with a similar meaning

References

  1. ^ "Robrecht". Historische woordenboeken: Nederlands en Fries (in Dutch). Instituut voor de Nederlandse Taal.
  2. ^ Reaney & Wilson, 1997. Dictionary of English Surnames. Oxford University Press.
  3. ^ Withycombe, E., 1973 edn. Oxford Dictionary of English Christian names. Oxford University Press.
  4. ^ Frank Nuessel (1992). The Study of Names: A Guide to the Principles and Topics. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press. p. 10. Retrieved September 11, 2013.  – via Questia (subscription required)
  5. ^ RoBerTo Checked, Time Magazine, October 19, 1942
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