# Your favorite famous people named Robert **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 27, 2015, 6:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-famous-people-named-robert/716141 "2015-03-27T18:28:46Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2015, 6:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-famous-people-named-robert/716141/1 "2015-03-27T18:28:46Z")
Without looking at other lists in this thread, list your favorite celebrities or other famous people whose first name is (or was) Robert. ---
**Author:** ![Ponch8](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ponch8/32/9883_2.png) [@Ponch8](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ponch8)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2015, 6:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-famous-people-named-robert/716141/2 "2015-03-27T18:33:00Z")
Bob Barker Robert Stack (Untouchables, Airplane, Unsolved Mysteries, Beavis and Butt-Head Do America) ---
**Author:** ![WOOKINPANUB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wookinpanub/32/132_2.png) [@WOOKINPANUB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WOOKINPANUB)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2015, 6:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-famous-people-named-robert/716141/3 "2015-03-27T18:44:25Z")
Robert Downey Jr. Robert Redford Robert Plant ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2015, 6:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-famous-people-named-robert/716141/4 "2015-03-27T18:49:36Z")
Mitchum De Niro Duvall Cummings ---
**Author:** ![DCnDC](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dcndc/32/2842_2.png) [@DCnDC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DCnDC)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2015, 6:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-famous-people-named-robert/716141/5 "2015-03-27T18:51:08Z")
Robert Goulet. Not because I’m all that familiar with him or his work, but just because it’s a really random name to bring up when the opportunity presents itself. ---
**Author:** ![JustinC](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/justinc/32/8083_2.png) [@JustinC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JustinC)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2015, 6:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-famous-people-named-robert/716141/6 "2015-03-27T18:53:50Z")
Robert Carlyle in Trainspotting, The Full Monty and 28 Weeks Later. In Trainspotting he really nailed the psycho, unhinged - but also clearly realistic - lunatic. In the Full Monty he played funny really well, and brought a lot of humanity to the film, in 28 Weeks Later he played the devastated, desperate dad and husband with a lot of humanity. ---
**Author:** ![Eddie\_F](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/22d042/32.png) [@Eddie\_F](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eddie_F)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2015, 6:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-famous-people-named-robert/716141/7 "2015-03-27T18:56:51Z")
Smith Cannavale Williams ---
**Author:** ![WOOKINPANUB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wookinpanub/32/132_2.png) [@WOOKINPANUB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WOOKINPANUB)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2015, 6:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-famous-people-named-robert/716141/8 "2015-03-27T18:59:07Z")
I can’t believe I forgot about DeNiro. And Carlyle. Oh how I love me some Robert Carlyle. ---
**Author:** ![doorhinge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a5b964/32.png) [@doorhinge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/doorhinge)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2015, 7:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-famous-people-named-robert/716141/9 "2015-03-27T19:09:53Z")
Robert Newton - the man who defined the stereotypical movie pirate voice. ---
**Author:** ![cjepson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a9adbd/32.png) [@cjepson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cjepson)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2015, 7:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-famous-people-named-robert/716141/10 "2015-03-27T19:21:05Z")
Number one on my list would probably be Robert Fripp, King Crimson guitarist. Then Robert A. Heinlein… I was a total fan of his work in my adolescence, although I have the feeling that we would have basically loathed each other personally. Then Robert Johnson, bluesman. Then Robert Louis Stevenson. Robert Burns and Robert DeNiro – both great, but not special favorites to me personally. Robbie Robertson – problematic. I think he contributed greatly to the music of the Band, but given what people such as Levon Helm have said about him I have mixed feelings. On edit: I knew I’d forget some major Roberts, and having looked at the other posts, I would definitely add Robert Plant, and also Robert Mitchum and Robert Downey Jr. ---
**Author:** ![Eonwe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eonwe/32/240_2.png) [@Eonwe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eonwe)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2015, 7:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-famous-people-named-robert/716141/11 "2015-03-27T19:21:19Z")
Robert Zimmerman Robert Johnson ---
**Author:** ![Eonwe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eonwe/32/240_2.png) [@Eonwe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eonwe)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2015, 7:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-famous-people-named-robert/716141/12 "2015-03-27T19:22:58Z")
> [@cjepson](#): > > Robbie Robertson – problematic. I think he contributed greatly to the music of the Band, but given what people such as Levon Helm have said about him I have mixed feelings. I was gonna list him too, but a quick google shows that he is not in fact named Robert. ---
**Author:** ![Enright3](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/enright3/32/2897_2.png) [@Enright3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enright3)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2015, 7:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-famous-people-named-robert/716141/13 "2015-03-27T19:26:29Z")
I guess I don’t do well under pressure. My first name is Robert and when I read the OP; my mind blanked out and seriously all I could think of was Robert Blake; and he’s hardly a favorite. Good call on Robert Carlyle; he was awesome as [Begbie in Trainspotting](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vc3E7UkIzt4). ---
**Author:** ![Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/prof.pepperwinkle/32/13627_2.png) [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2015, 7:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-famous-people-named-robert/716141/14 "2015-03-27T19:27:49Z")
Burns, Browning, Louis Stevenson, Heinlein Stack ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2015, 7:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-famous-people-named-robert/716141/15 "2015-03-27T19:28:33Z")
It may surprise somebody but there have been no US Presidents named Robert. ---
**Author:** ![stillownedbysetters](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/41988e/32.png) [@stillownedbysetters](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/stillownedbysetters)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2015, 7:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-famous-people-named-robert/716141/16 "2015-03-27T19:29:12Z")
Robert Frost Robert Kennedy Robert Palmer Robert Shaw ---
**Author:** ![Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/left_hand_of_dorkness/32/7156_2.png) [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Left_Hand_of_Dorkness)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2015, 7:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-famous-people-named-robert/716141/17 "2015-03-27T19:32:16Z")
JR “Bob” Dobbs has got to be on there somewhere. I often think about his maxim: Act like a dumbshit, and people will treat you as an equal. ---
**Author:** ![Labdad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/439d5e/32.png) [@Labdad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Labdad)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2015, 7:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-famous-people-named-robert/716141/18 "2015-03-27T19:40:44Z")
Robert Crumb ---
**Author:** ![Art\_Rock](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/art_rock/32/525_2.png) [@Art\_Rock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Art_Rock)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2015, 7:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-famous-people-named-robert/716141/19 "2015-03-27T19:41:33Z")
Robert Schumann was the first name that popped into my head - even though he is far from my favourite composer. ---
**Author:** ![Infovore](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/infovore/32/420_2.png) [@Infovore](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Infovore)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2015, 8:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-famous-people-named-robert/716141/20 "2015-03-27T20:01:15Z")
Robert Downey Jr. Robert Preston [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-famous-people-named-robert/716141.md?page=2)