Leading Figures in History

Discover the people who shaped our world — from rulers and scientists to artists and activists.

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Robert Chartoff

American producer

Robert Choquette

b. 1905

Canadian novelist, poet and diplomat

Robert Christgau

b. 1942

American music journalist (born 1942)

Robert Clark (New York politician)

b. 1777

American politician

Robert Clarke

b. 1920

American actor (1920–2005)

Robert Clifford, 1st Baron Clifford

13th and 14th-century English nobleman, sheriff, and baron

Robert Coleman Richardson

b. 1937

American experimental physicist (1937–2013)

Robert Cornthwaite (actor)

b. 1917

American actor

Robert Crais

b. 1953

American author of detective fiction

Robert Craufurd

b. 1764

British Army officer (1764–1812)

Robert Creeley

b. 1926

American poet (1926–2005)

Robert Croft

b. 1970

British cricketer

Robert Crowley (printer)

English stationer, poet, writer, and clergyman

Robert Cummings

b. 1910

American actor (1910–1990)

Robert Cushman Murphy

b. 1887

American ornithologist and museum curator

Robert D. Keppel

b. 1944

American criminologist (1944–2021)

Robert Darcy, 4th Earl of Holderness

b. 1718

British diplomat and politician

Robert de Beaumont, 1st Earl of Leicester

Norman nobleman (circa 1046–1118)

Robert de Ros (died 1285)

English nobleman, died 1285

Robert de Vere, 6th Earl of Oxford

Robert Dean Frisbie

b. 1895

American novelist

Robert Dewar

b. 1945

Computer scientist

Robert Dhéry

b. 1921

French comedian, actor, director and screenwriter

Robert DiPierdomenico

b. 1958

Australian rules footballer, born 1958