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Robert Werdann Robert Werdann (born September 12, 1970 in Sunnyside, New York) is an American former professional basketball player who was selected by the Denver Nuggets in the 2nd round (46th overall) of the 1992 NBA Draft. A 6'11" center from St.
Robert West Robert West (b. 1928) is a Professor Emeritus of Chemistry at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and world-renowned chemist best known for his groundbreaking research in silicon chemistry, as well as for his work with oxocarbons and organolithium compounds.
Robert Westall Robert Westall (October 7, 1929 – April 15, 1993) is the author of many books, mostly fiction for children, though also for adults, and non-fiction. His children's fiction includes The Machine Gunners (1975), set during the Second World War, where a group of children living in Tyneside, England try to retrieve a machine gun from the turret of a felled German aircraft.
Robert Westerholt Robert Westerholt (born January 1, 1975) is the founder of, and guitarist in, the Dutch symphonic metal band Within Temptation. He writes most of the music for the band, along with the band's vocalist, his girlfriend, Sharon den Adel.
Robert Whitaker (photographer) Robert Whitaker (born 1939) is a renowned British photographer, best known internationally for his many photographs of The Beatles, taken between 1964 and 1966, and for his photographs of the rock group Cream, which were used in the Martin Sharp-designed collage on the cover of their 1967 LP Disraeli Gears.
Robert White (composer) Robert White (c1538-1574) English composer whose liturgical music to Latin texts is considered particularly fine. His surviving works include a setting of verses from Lamentations, and instrumental music for viols.
Robert White (guitarist) Robert White (born 1936 in Billmyre, Pennsylvania, USA; died 1994 in Los Angeles, California, USA) was an African-American musician. Of note for being one of the main guitarists for Motown Records' in-house studio band, the Funk Brothers, White played the guitar on many successful Motown records, including "Can I Get a Witness" by Marvin Gaye, "You Keep Me Hangin' On" by The Supremes, "My Cherie Amour" by Stevie Wonder, and "It's a Shame" by The Spinners.
Robert Whitman Robert Whitman (born 1935 in New York City) is an outstanding American artist who is best known for his seminal and continuing work in creating new, non-narrative, imagistic theater pieces. His theater works are rich in visual and sound images, and incorporate actors, film, slides, sound, and evocative props in environments of his own making.
Robert Wilfort Robert Wilfort is a British actor who has had many notable guest appearances on British Television, including Rose and Maloney and Coronation Street. Notable, if minor, film roles have included the irrepressibly enthusiastic Dr Simon Griffith in Mike Leigh's All or Nothing (2002) and Bozo, Rita Skeeter's photographer, in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (2005).
Robert Willan Robert Willan (born 12 November, 1757 near Sedbergh, Yorkshire; died 7 April, 1812, Madeira) is the founder of dermatology as a medical specialty. He received his MD in Edinburgh in 1780 and was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1809.
Robert William Billings Robert William Billings (1813 - 14 November, 1874) was a London-born Victorian era painter and architect. He wrote a book called The Power of Form, in which he showed examples of the use of geometry in architecture.
Robert William Hudson Robert William Hudson (1856–1937) was the eldest son of Robert Spear Hudson who had founded a soap-flake manufacturing business. Hudson managed his father's company until it was taken over by Lever Brothers Ltd in 1908.
Robert William Matthews Robert William Matthews (born 1897, Plas Bennion, Ruabon, north-east Wales) played football as centre-half for Liverpool Football Club in the early 1920s and earned three caps for Wales. During World War I, he took part in the Battle of the Somme, in France.
Robert William Rankin Robert William Rankin (June 3 1907 - March 4 1942) was an Australian naval officer who served in World War II and one of six men to have a Collins class submarine named in his honour. Rankin was born in Cobar, New South Wales and joined the Royal Australian Naval College in 1921.
Robert William Wilcox Robert William Kalanihiapo Wilcox (February 15, 1855-October 23, 1903), nicknamed the Iron Duke of Hawaii, was a native Hawaiian revolutionary, soldier and delegate to the United States Congress for the Territory of Hawaii. Considered a menace to the government of the Republic of Hawaii, Wilcox is today recognized as a hero by some of the people of Hawaii for his instigation of the Wilcox rebellions.
Robert Williams (railroad developer) Sir Robert Williams was a Scottish mining engineer, pioneering explorer of Africa, entrepreneur, and railroad developer who was chiefly responsible for the discovery of the vast copper deposits in Katanga Province (now incorporated in the Democratic Republic of Congo) and Northern Rhodesia (now Zambia). Williams was closely associated, variously as an employee of, advisor to, and partner with Cecil Rhodes in his many enterprises from the time of their first meeting in 1885 at the de Beers diamond mine in Kimberley until Rhodes’s death in 1902.
Robert Williams (Trebor Mai) Robert Williams (25 May, 1830 - 5 August, 1877), usually referred to by his bardic name Trebor Mai, was a Welsh language poet, born in Llanrhychwyn, near Llanrwst, in the old county of Caernarfonshire, north Wales.
Robert Williams town Robert Williams (now Caála) was a colonial town under the Portuguese control of Angola. The town of Robert Williams was just west of Nova Lisboa (now Huambo) and was remarkable for huge outcroppings of boulders that jutted from the fields just outside of the town.
Robert Wilson (astronomer) Sir Robert Wilson (16 April, 1927 - 2 September, 2002) FRS, CBE, Kt, the son of a Durham miner studied physics at King's College, Durham and obtained his PhD in Edinburgh where he worked at the Royal Observatory on stellar spectra. He was an astronomer, who fully embraced the opportunities provided by the space age and he was one of the pioneers who laid the ground work for the development of the Great Space Observatories, such as the Hubble Space Telescope.
Robert Wilson (director) Robert Wilson (born 4 October 1941) is an internationally acclaimed American avant-garde stage director and playwright who has been called "[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.
Robert Wilson (politician) Robert George Wilson (born November 2, 1934 in Winnipeg, Manitoba) is a former politician in Manitoba, Canada. He served as a Progressive Conservative member of the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba from 1975 to 1980.
Robert Winthrop Chanler Robert Winthrop Chanler (1872-1930) was born in New York City to John Winthrop Chanler and Margaret Astor Ward, in a sea of wealthy and interconnected Hudson River families that included the Astors, Delanos, Winthrops and Stuyvesants. A designer and muralist, Chanler received much of his art training in France at the École des Beaux-Arts, and there his most famous work titled "Giraffes," was completed in 1905 and later purchased by the French Government.
Robert Wise Robert Wise (September 10, 1914 – September 14, 2005) was a sound effects editor, film editor, and Academy Award-winning American film producer and director. Among his many famous films are The Sand Pebbles, The Sound of Music, West Side Story, The Hindenburg, Star Trek: The Motion Picture, The Day the Earth Stood Still, Run Silent, Run Deep, The Andromeda Strain, The Set-Up, The Haunting, and The Body Snatcher.
Robert Wishart Robert Wishart was Bishop of Glasgow during the Wars of Scottish Independence and a leading supporter of Robert Bruce. For Wishart and many of his fellow churchmen the freedom of Scotland and the freedom of the Scottish church were one and the same thing.
Robert Wolf Robert Wolf is the executive director and co-founder of the Free River Press. He is a recipient of the Bronze Medal for radio editorial/commentary and the Sigma Delta Chi Award (1994), both from the Society of Professional Journalists.
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation is one of the world's biggest philanthropic organizations and the fifth largest in the United States. It was greatly expanded and renamed from earlier versions of the foundation when the will of Robert Wood Johnson II was settled in 1972.
Robert Wood Johnson IV Robert Wood Johnson IV (born April 12, 1947 in New Brunswick, New Jersey) nicknamed "Woody Johnson" is the owner of the NFL's New York Jets, which he bought from the estate of Leon Hess in 2000. He bought the team for $635 million, the third-highest ever for a professional sports team and the most for one in New York.
Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital One of the nation’s leading academic medical centers, Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital provides state-of-the-art care across the full range of health care services. Specialties include cardiac care from screening to heart surgery and transplantation, cancer care, emergency medicine, pediatrics and maternal-fetal medicine.
Robert Woodhouse Robert Woodhouse (April 28, 1773 – December 23, 1827), mathematician. He was born at Norwich and was educated at Caius College, Cambridge, of which society he was subsequently a fellow; was Plumian professor in the university; and continued to live at Cambridge till his death.
Robert Woof (scholar) Dr. Robert Samuel Woof (born in Lancaster, UK, on 20 April, 1931 - died in Newcastle upon Tyne, UK, on 7 November, 2005) was an English scholar, most famous for having been the first Director of the Wordsworth Trust and museums director of the Wordsworth museum and Dove Cottage in Grasmere, Lake District, Cumbria, UK.
Robert Woonton Dr Robert Woonton (born 1949) was the Prime Minister of the Cook Islands from February 11 2002 until December 11 2004, and is a member of the centrist Democratic Alliance Party. A medical doctor by training, he became a Member of Parliament (MP) for the island of Manihiki.
Robert Worcester Sir Robert Worcester, KBE, DL born December 21, 1933, is the founder of the MORI polling and research organisation, and a member and contributor to many voluntary organisations. He is a well known figure in British research and political circles and as a media commentator, especially about voting intentions in elections.
Robert Wright (journalist) Robert Wright is an American journalist and prize-winning author of best-selling books about science, evolutionary psychology, history and sociobiology, including Nonzero and The Moral Animal. He is a visiting scholar at The University of Pennsylvania.
Robert Wright (writer) Robert C. Wright (born Daytona Beach, Florida, September 25 1914; died Miami, Florida, July 27 2005) was an American writer of musical theatre best known for the show Kismet, which used musical themes by Alexander Borodin.
Robert Wuthnow Robert Wuthnow is a sociologist at the Princeton University, where he is the Andlinger Professor of Sociology and Director of Center for the Study of Religion. He is the author of several academic books and articles.
Robert Yarber Robert Yarber (born Dallas, Texas, 1948) is an American painter and Distinguished Professor of Art at Pennsylvania State University. He received a BFA from Cooper Union in 1971, and a MFA from Louisiana State University in 1973.
Robert Yates (politician) Robert Yates (1738-1801) was a United States politician well known for his Anti-Federalist stances. Most scholars believe that he was the author of a series of sixteen articles written against the ratification of the United States Constitution under the pseudonym Brutus after Marcus Junius Brutus, who helped assassinate Julius Caesar in order to preserve the Roman Republic.
Robert Young (Biblical scholar) Robert Young (1822-1888) was a Scottish publisher who was self-taught and proficient in various ancient languages. He had his own published works, the most well known being a Bible translation commonly referred to as Young's Literal Translation.
Robert Yuill Robert Frederick Murray (Bob) Yuill (1924—May 17, 2006) was a municipal politician in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. He served on the North York city council for twenty-four years, at first as a ward councillor and later as a city controller.
Robert Zadow Robert Zadow is a first-class South Australian cricketer born January 17 1955 in Adelaide. He came to England in 1976 to play as an overseas amateur for Flowery Field Cricket Club in the Saddleworth and District League.
Robert Zajonc Robert B. Zajonc (1923-present) is a social psychologist who is best known for his decades of work on the mere exposure effect, the phenomenon that repeated exposure to a stimulus brings about an attitude change in relation to the stimulus.
Robert Zeglarski Robert Zeglarski (born May 7, 1974) is a Democrat who has served on the Roselle Park (New Jersey, United States) Borough Council since 2003 and represents Roselle Park's Fifth Ward. He currently serves as the Chairman of the Technology Committee and Council liaison to the Environmental Commission.
Robert Zemelsky Musky Heist The Robert Zelmelsky Musky Heist--The Robert Zelmelsky Musky Heist occurred in 1963 in Spooner, Wisconsin, and involved, as the name implies, Spooner-area angler Robert Zelmelsky. According to the published reports1, Zelmelsky claims to have reeled in a mammoth 70 lb muskellunge from the Namekagon River, what would have then been a world record.
Robert Zildjian Robert Zildjian is a founder of Sabian Cymbals, the second largest manufacturer of cymbals in the world. Rober Zildjian belongs to the Zildjian family, which brought the technology of cymbal making from their ancestral homeland in Western Armenia (modern Turkey
Robert Zoellick Robert Bruce Zoellick (born July 25, 1953) was the last United States Deputy Secretary of State, resigning on July 7, 2006. Before this position, he served as United States Trade Representative, from February 7, 2001 until February 22, 2005.
Robert Zubrin Robert Zubrin is an aerospace engineer and author, best known for his advocacy of manned Mars exploration. He was the driving force behind Mars Direct—a proposal intended to produce significant reductions in the cost and complexity of such a mission.
Robert Zuppke Robert Carl Zuppke (1879–1957) was the head football coach at the University of Illinois from 1913 until 1941. Inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame in 1951, Zuppke coached his teams to national titles in 1914, 1919, 1923, and 1927.
Robert's American Gourmet Food Robert's American Gourmet Food is an organic snack food company located in the United States. Founded by businessman Robert Ehrlich, the company is best known for its snack food, Pirate's Booty, which is found in over 90% of United States supermarkets.
Robert-Ambroise-Marie Carré Robert-Ambroise-Marie Carré OP (1908-2004) was a Catholic priest, author and member of the French Academy. Born in Fleury-les-Aubrais in Loiret, France, Carré studied at l’école Saint-Joseph and the collège Sainte-Croix de Neuilly before entering the Dominican order in 1926 and being ordained a priest in 1933.
Robert-François Damiens [Damiens]Robert-François Damiens (1715-1757) was a Frenchman who attained notoriety by unsuccessfully attempting the assassination of Louis XV of France in 1757. He was the last person to be executed in France with the traditional and gruesome form of death penalty used for regicides, which was drawing and quartering.
Robert-Jan Temmink Robert-Jan Temmink (born 5 February 1973) is a barrister practising in the United Kingdom. He practises mainly in the areas of commercial litigation and asset recovery; he also practices in the field of human rights.
Robert, Archduke of Austria-Este Archduke Robert Karl Ludwig Maximilian Michael Maria Anton Franz Ferdinand Joseph Otto Hubert Georg Pius Johannes Marcus d'Aviano of Austria-Este (Schonbrunn, February 8, 1915 - Basel, February 7, 1996), Prince Imperial of Austria, Prince Royal of Hungary and Bohemia was born as the second son of Karl I of Austria and Princess Zita. On April 16, 1917 he was created Archduke of Austria-Este by his father, Emperor Karl I of Austria.
Robert, comte de la Marche Robert Benoît Paul Henri James Marie d'Orléans, Petit-Fils de France, Prince de France, comte de la Marche was born on 6 September 1976. He is the son of the late Thibaut Louis Denis Humbert Marie d'Orléans, Prince de France and Marion Gordon-Orr.
Roberta Roberta was a 1933 Broadway musical, with music by Jerome Kern and lyrics by Otto Harbach, which starred Tamara Drasin, Bob Hope, George Murphy, Lyda Roberti, Fred MacMurray, Fay Templeton, Ray Middleton (billed as Raymond E. Middleton), and Sydney Greenstreet.
Roberta Alma Anastase Roberta Alma Anastase (born 27 March 1976 in Ploieşti) is a Romanian politician and Member of the European Parliament. She is a member of the Democratic Party, part of the European People's Party–European Democrats, and became an MEP on 1 January 2007 with the accession of Romania to the European Union.
Roberta Blackman-Woods Dr Roberta Carol Blackman-Woods (Born 16 August 1957, Belfast, Northern Ireland) is a Labour Party politician in the United Kingdom. She has been Member of Parliament for the City of Durham constituency since May 2005.
Roberta Bondar Public School Roberta Bondar Public School is an elementary school in Ottawa, Ontario from kindergarten to grade eight with a dual stream of English and Immersion. Construction began on the school in the Fall of 1995 and was completed in early August of 1996.
Roberta Flack Roberta Flack (born February 10 1937 in Asheville, North Carolina) is an American singer, notable in the areas of jazz, soul, and folk. Flack is best known for singles such as "Killing Me Softly With His Song", which won the 1974 Grammy for Record of the Year, and "Where Is the Love", the latter being one of her many duets with Donny Hathaway.
Roberta Kalechofsky Roberta Kalechofsky (born May 11, 1931) is an American writer, feminist and animal rights activist, focusing on the issue of animal rights within Judaism and the promotion of vegetarianism within the Jewish community. She is the founder of Jews for Animal Rights and runs Micah Publications, which specializes in the publication of animal-rights and vegetarian literature.
Roberta Kevelson Roberta Kevelson was an important authority on the pragmatism theories of Charles Sanders Peirce, and on semiotics in general. A professor at Penn State and William and Mary, she wrote and published several books, including High Fives, The Inverted Pyramid, and the Law as the System of Signs.
Roberta Leigh Roberta Leigh was a British writer of romance fiction and children's stories. She began writing with her first published work in 1951 and is remembered for her work with Gerry Anderson at the start of his career.
Roberta Martin Roberta Martin (February 12, 1907-January 18, 1969) was an influential gospel singer and composer who helped launch the careers of many other gospel artists through her group The Roberta Martin Singers. Hardly known outside the African-American community, her funeral in Chicago in 1969 attracted over 50,000 mourners.
Roberta Maxwell Roberta Maxwell was born in 1942 in Toronto, Ontario, and began studying for the stage at the age of 12. She joined John Clark for 2 years as the kid co-host of his Junior Magazine series for CBC Television, before becoming the youngest actress apprentice at the Stratford Shakespeare Festival in Stratford, Ontario, ready to pursue an acting career, as she explains in a 1958 interview.
Roberta Shore Roberta Jymme Schourop (born April 7, 1943, Monterey Park, California), better known as Roberta Shore, is an American actress and performer, most famous for her youthful television and movie roles in the 1950s and early 1960s.
Roberta Tovey Roberta Tovey (born 9 August 1953 in Shepherd's Bush, London) is an English actress who has appeared in many films and television programmes. One of her more well-known roles was that of Susan, the granddaughter of Doctor Who in the 1960s films Dr.
Roberta Vinci Roberta Vinci (born 18 February 1983) is an Italian tennis player, who reached the semi-finals of the women's doubles competition with Sandrine Testud at the French Open in 2004. She recently won a $75,000 title in Dinan, France.
Roberta Wohlstetter Roberta Morgan, better known by her married name of Roberta Wohlstetter, (August 22,1912 - January 6, 2007), was one of America's most important historians of military intelligence. Her most influential work is Pearl Harbor: Warning and Decision.
Robertas Javtokas Robertas Javtokas (born March 20, 1980 in Ĺ iauliai, Lithuanian SSR, Soviet Union) is a Lithuanian basketball center playing for Panathinaikos in the Greek A1 and Euroleague. Member of Lithuania national basketball team since 2000.
Robertas Poškus Robertas Poškus (born May 5 1979 in Klaipėda) is a Lithuanian professional footballer currently playing for the Russian Premier League club Dinamo Moscow on loan from Zenit Saint Petersburg. A hard-working striker, he stands 1.
Roberto (horse) Roberto (1969-1988) was a American-bred Thoroughbred Champion racehorse who competed in Ireland and England. He was named for Major League Baseball star Roberto Clemente by his owner John Galbreath who also owned the Pittsburgh Pirates baseball team.
Roberto Abbado Roberto Abbado (born Dec 30, 1954 in Milan, Italy) is an Italian conductor, nephew of the acclaimed pianist and conductor Claudio Abbado. He studied conducting under Franco Ferrara at La Fenice, Venice, and at the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia where he became the only student of the academy ever to be asked to conduct the Orchestra di Santa Cecilia.
Roberto Abbondanzieri Roberto Carlos Abbondanzieri (born Abbondancieri on August 19 1972 in Bouquet, Santa Fe Province) is an Argentine football goalkeeper of Italian descent currently playing for Getafe CF and the Argentina national football team.
Roberto Acuña Roberto Acuña fullname Roberto Miguel Acuña Cabello (born March 25, 1972 in Avellaneda, Buenos Aires) is a football (soccer) player from Paraguay, who was born in Argentina and plays as a midfielder. At a young age he migrated to Paraguay where he played for Club Nacional.
Roberto Ardigo Roberto Ardigò (Casteldidone, Cremona province, Italy, 1828‑Mantua, 1920), was an Italian philosopher, an influential leader of Italian positivism and former Catholic priest. Ardigo resigned from the Church in 1871 after abandoning theology in 1869.
Roberto Arzú Roberto Arzú Garcia-Granados is the son of former Guatemalan president and current mayor of Guatemala City Álvaro Arzú. He is mostly known for managing the Guatemalan football club Comunicaciones, which is owned by the Garcia-Granados family.
Roberto Bolaño Roberto Bolaño (April 28, 1953 — July 15, 2003) was a Chilean novelist and poet, winner of the prestigious Rómulo Gallegos Prize for his novel Los detectives salvajes (The Savage Detectives) in 1999. For most of his youth he was a nomad, living at one time or another in Chile, Mexico, El Salvador, France and Spain, where he finally settled down in the early eighties in the small catalonian beachtown of Blanes, where he died of a liver disorder he suffered from for more than a decade.
Roberto Bonano Roberto Oscar Bonano (born January 24 1970 in Rosario, Argentina) is an Argentinian footballer who currently is playing for Deportivo Alavés in the Second Division. To be able to play as a Comunitarian in Europe, Bonano obtained an Italian Passport, which was given to him because of his ancestors.
Roberto Bravo Roberto Bravo (born 1947, Villa Azueta, Veracruz, Mexico) is an award-winning novelist and a short story writer. His books include Al sur de la frontera (To South of the Border), No es como usted dice (It's not as you say), Vida del Orate (Life of the Orate), Lo que quedo de Roy Orbison (What I am of Roy Orbison), De Cuerpo entero (Of Whole Body), Si tu mueres primero (If You Die First), Itinerario Inicial (First Itinarary) (An anthology of the new Mexican Narrative), and Tierra Adentro (Inland).
Roberto Brunamonti Roberto Brunamonti (born April 14, 1959 in Spoleto) is a former basketball player from Italy, who won the silver medal with his national team at the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow, four national championships (1984, 1993, 1994, 1995), one Italian Cup in 1984 and one Italian Supercup in 1995.
Roberto Burle Marx Roberto Burle Marx (August 4, 1909, SĂŁo Paulo - June 4, 1994, Rio de Janeiro) was a Brazilian landscape designer (besides being a painter, ecologist and naturalist) whose designs of parks and gardens made him world famous. He is accredited with having introduced modernist landscape architecture to Brazil.
Roberto Busa Father Roberto Busa (born November 13, 1913) is an Italian Jesuit priest and one of the pioneers in the usage of computers for linguistic and literary analysis. He is the author of the Index Thomisticus, a complete lemmatization of the works of Saint Thomas Aquinas and of a few related authors.
Roberto Calderoli Roberto Calderoli (born 18 April 1956) is an Italian politician, a member of the Senate of Italy and formerly the Reforms Minister, and a leading member of the Northern League. He is usually seen as representing the component originating from the right wing and Bergamo, whereas Roberto Maroni represents the area originating from the left wing and Varese.
Roberto Calvi Roberto Calvi (Milan, April 13, 1920 - London, June 17, 1982) was an Italian banker dubbed by the press as "God's Banker", due to his close association with the Vatican. Calvi was the chairman of Banco Ambrosiano which collapsed in one of Italy's biggest modern political scandals, and his death in London in June 1982 has been the source of enduring controversy.
Roberto Cammarelle Roberto Cammarelle (born July 30, 1980) represented Italy and won a Super Heavyweight bronze medal at the 2004 Summer Olympics. He also won the bronze medal at the 2005 World Amateur Boxing Championships in Mianyang, People's Republic of China, and the silver medal at the 2004 European Amateur Boxing Championships in Pula, Croatia.
Roberto Carlos (singer) Roberto Carlos Braga (born April 19, 1941 in Cachoeiro de Itapemirim, EspĂ­rito Santo, Brazil) is one of the most popular MPB ('Brazilian Popular Music') singers in history, having achieved a great deal of success and recognition for over 40 years. Most of his songs are written in partnership with his friend, the singer and songwriter Erasmo Carlos.
Roberto Castelli Roberto Castelli (born 12 July 1946) is an Italian politician. He was the Minister of Justice in the Italian government of Silvio Berlusconi, is a Senator and one of the main representatives of Lega Nord, of which he is floor leader in the Senate.
Roberto Clemente Award The Roberto Clemente Award is given annually to a Major League Baseball player selected for his character and charitable contributions to his community. It is named for Hall of Fame outfielder Roberto Clemente, who was killed in a plane crash in 1972 while delivering supplies to earthquake victims in Nicaragua.
Roberto Clemente Coliseum The Roberto Clemente Coliseum (or Coliseo Roberto Clemente in Spanish) is a sporting events and concert arena in San Juan, Puerto Rico. It was, for many years, Puerto Rico's largest event facility, and it continues being one of the largest.
Roberto Clemente Memorial Park Roberto Clemente Memorial Park is maintained by the Department of Parks and Recreation, City of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, in honor of Pittsburgh Pirates great Roberto Clemente. The park is located along North Shore Drive in the city's North Side, near Heinz Field and PNC Park.
Roberto Clemente State Park Roberto Clemente State Park is a state park in Bronx County, New York in the USA. The park is in the northern part of New York City, adjacent to the Harlem River, the Major Deegan Expressway and the Morris Heights station on Metro-North's Hudson Line.
Roberto CofresĂ­ Roberto CofresĂ­ (June 17, 1791-March 29, 1825) born Roberto CofresĂ­ y RamĂ­rez de Arellano in Cabo Rojo, Puerto Rico, is Puerto Rico's most famous pirate and is better known as "El Pirata CofresĂ­".
Roberto Colautti Roberto Colautti (born May 24, 1982 in CĂłrdoba) is an Argentinian-Israeli football striker who joined Maccabi Haifa from Boca Juniors. In his first season with Maccabi he was top scorer in the Liga Al (Premier League) with 19 goals.
Roberto de Assis Moreira Roberto de Assis Moreira is the older brother, manager, agent and adviser of Brazilian football star Ronaldinho. Although Assis is known predominantly for his intelligent managing of better known and more illustrious younger brother Ronaldinho's career, he himself was a budding football talent in his youth.
Roberto de Nobili Roberto de Nobili (1577-16 January, 1656) was a Tuscan Jesuit missionary to Southern India. He pioneered new methods of evangelism (inculturation), adopting many Brahmin customs which were not, in his opinion, contrary to Christianity, in order to get a hearing.
Roberto D'Aubuisson Major Roberto D'Aubuisson Arrieta (August 23, 1944–February 20, 1992), a Salvadoran political figure known as Chele, Major Bob and "Blowtorch Bob" by detractors, was a Salvadoran politician and military leader who founded the Nationalist Republican Alliance (ARENA), which he led from 1978 to 1985.
Roberto DĂ­az Herrera Roberto DĂ­az Herrera (born on June 27, 1937) was a Panamanian colonel under General Manuel Noriega and was most famous for his public denunciation of the Panamian dictator in 1987. After General Noriega placed him under house arrest, Col.
Roberto Devereux Roberto Devereux (or Roberto Devereux, ossia Il conte di Essex [Roberto Devereux, or the Earl of Essex]) is a tragedia lirica, or tragic opera, by Gaetano Donizetti. Salvatore Cammarano wrote the Italian libretto after François Ancelot's tragedy Elisabeth d'Angleterre.
Roberto Dinamite Carlos Roberto de Oliveira, nicknamed Roberto Dinamite (born April 13, 1954 in Duque de Caxias, Rio de Janeiro state) is a Brazilian politician and former football center-forward, most associated with the club Vasco da Gama. He is one of the most prolific goalscorers in the history of Brazilian football.
Roberto Dipiazza Roberto Dipiazza (born February 1, 1953 in Aiello del Friuli, Province of Udine) is an Italian entrepreneur and politician, mayor of Muggia (in the Province of Trieste) in 1996-2001, and since 2001, mayor of Trieste.
Roberto Eduardo Viola Roberto Eduardo Viola Prevedini (October 13 1924 – September 30 1994) was a military officer who briefly served as interim president of Argentina from March 29 to December 11, 1981 during a period of military rule. Under his brief tenure, the country once again became increasingly unstable due to the rise and consolidation of political movements led by the Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo.

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