Robert Anderson or Andersen may refer to:
Arts and entertainment
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Robert Anderson (editor and biographer)
Robert Anderson (7 January 1750 – 20 February 1830) was a Scotland, Scottish author and critic.
Son of David Anderson, W.S., he was born at Carnwath, Lanarkshire. He studied first divinity and then medicine at the University of Edinburgh, and ...
(1750–1830), Scottish literary scholar and editor
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Robert Anderson (poet) (1770–1833), English poet
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Robert Rowand Anderson (1834–1921), Scottish architect
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Robert Anderson (silent film actor) (1890–1963), Danish-born American actor
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Robert Alexander Anderson (composer) (1894–1995), American composer
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Robert Anderson (filmmaker) (1913–1997), Canadian filmmaker
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Robert Anderson (playwright) (1917–2009), American playwright and screenwriter
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Robert Anderson (singer) (1919–1995), African-American gospel singer and composer
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Robert Theodore Anderson (1934–2009), American organist, composer, and pedagogue
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Robert G. W. Anderson (born 1944), historian, former director of the British Museum
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Robert Anderson (artist) (born 1946), American portrait artist
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Robert Mailer Anderson (born 1968), American novelist
Law and politics
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Robert Anderson (mayor) (fl. 1810s–1820s), mayor of Williamsburg, Virginia
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Robert Stirling Hore Anderson (1821–1883), Irish-born Australian colonial politician
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Robert M. Anderson (politician) (1824–1878), lieutenant governor of California
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Robert H. Anderson (politician) (c. 1831–1879), American politician in New York
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Sir Robert Anderson, 1st Baronet (1837–1921), Irish businessman and Lord Mayor of Belfast
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Robert Anderson (Scotland Yard official)
Sir Robert Anderson (29 May 1841 – 15 November 1918) was the second Assistant Commissioner (Crime) of the London Metropolitan Police, from 1888 to 1901. He was also an intelligence officer, theologian and writer.
Early life and education ...
(1841–1918), lawyer, British intelligence officer and London CID chief, in charge during the Jack the Ripper murders
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Robert Alexander Anderson (politician) (1858–1916), Canadian politician in British Columbia
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Robert King Anderson (1861–1950), Canadian politician, physician and teacher
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Robert Newton Anderson (1871–1948), MP in the Northern Ireland Parliament for Londonderry
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Robert P. Anderson (1906–1978), United States judge in Connecticut
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Robert B. Anderson (Texas politician) (1910–1989), businessman, politician, and U.S. Secretary of the Treasury
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Robert B. Anderson (South Carolina politician), member of the South Carolina House of Representatives
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Robert Banneka Anderson Sr., member of the South Carolina General Assembly
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Robert Anderson (diplomat)
Robert Anderson (January 6, 1922 – April 5, 1996) was an American diplomat who served as the United States Ambassador to Dahomey, Morocco, and the Dominican Republic.
Early life and education
Anderson was born in Boston, Massachusetts. Afte ...
(1922–1996), United States ambassador to Morocco
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Robert A. Anderson (1932–2006), American politician and businessman
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Robert Anderson (New Zealand politician)
Robert Arnold Anderson (22 January 1936 – 24 October 1996) was a New Zealand politician. He was a National Party MP from 1987 to 1996.
Biography
Anderson was born in Epsom
Epsom is a town in the borough of Epsom and Ewell in Surrey, ...
(1936–1996), New Zealand politician
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Robert T. Anderson (born 1945), American politician, lieutenant governor of Iowa
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Robert Anderson (Australian Aboriginal elder)
Robert Vincent Anderson (born 31 July 1929) is an Australian Aboriginal elder and former union official.
Anderson, often referred to as Uncle Bob, is known for his long association with the Building Workers' Industrial Union of Australia where ...
(born 1929), Australian Aboriginal elder and union official
Military
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Robert Anderson (Revolutionary War)
Robert Anderson (November 15, 1741 – January 9, 1813) was a politician, militia officer, and surveyor from South Carolina. He was a lifelong friend of General Andrew Pickens. Anderson, South Carolina, Anderson County, South Carolina, and the g ...
(1741–1813), Revolutionary War general and lieutenant governor of South Carolina
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Robert Anderson (Union officer)
Robert Anderson (June 14, 1805 – October 26, 1871) was a United States Army officer during the American Civil War. He was the Union commander in the first battle of the American Civil War at Battle of Fort Sumter, Fort Sumter in April 1861 whe ...
(1805–1871), Union commander at Fort Sumter at the start of the American Civil War
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Robert H. Anderson (Confederate officer) (1835–1888), Confederate officer (brigadier general) in the American Civil War
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Robert Anderson (Medal of Honor) (1843–1900), U.S. Navy sailor and Medal of Honor recipient
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Robert Anderson (Australian general) (1865–1940), Australian World War I brigadier general
Sports
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Robert Anderson (MCC cricketer) (1811–1891), English cricketer, played for Hertfordshire 1835–36 and MCC 1837–41
*Robert Anderson (American cricketer) (1893–?), American cricketer
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Robert Anderson (New Zealand cricketer) (1948–2025), New Zealand cricketer, played nine Tests and two One Day Internationals for New Zealand
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Robert Anderson (rugby union) (c. 1900 – c. 1979), Australian rugby player
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Robert Anderson (Australian rules footballer) (born 1959), Australian rules footballer
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Robert Kiplagat Andersen (born 1972), Kenyan-born middle-distance runner who ran internationally for Denmark
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Robbie Anderson (American football) (born 1993), American football wide receiver
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Robbie Anderson (footballer) (1936–1996), English footballer
Other
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Robert Anderson (mathematician) (fl. 1668–1696), English mathematician and silk-weaver
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Robert Anderson (inventor) (fl. 1830s), Scottish inventor
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Robert Anderson (Hollywood, Florida community leader) (1912–1998), banker and community leader in Hollywood, Florida
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Robert Anderson (New Zealand philanthropist), New Zealand businessman and philanthropist (
knighted 1934)
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Robert Orville Anderson (1917–2007), American businessman and philanthropist
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Robert Marshall Anderson (1933–2011), Episcopal bishop of Minnesota
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Robert Leroy Anderson (1969–2003), American murderer and self-proclaimed serial killer
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Robert Anderson (murderer) (1966–2006), American murderer executed for killing a 5-year-old girl in Texas
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Robert M. Anderson (mathematician) (born 1951), professor of economics and of mathematics
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Robert Henry Anderson (1899–1969), Australian botanist
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Robert Wherry Anderson (1864–1937), British journalist
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Robert S. Anderson (born 1952), American geomorphologist
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Robert J. Anderson (public health administrator) (1914–1999), director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
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Robert Anderson (sex offender) (1928–2008), American sex offender
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Robert Ball Anderson (1843–1930), African-American homesteader and landowner in Nebraska
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Robert Anderson Middle School, school in Anderson, South Carolina.
See also
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Bob Anderson (disambiguation)
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Bobby Anderson (disambiguation)
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Robert Andersson (disambiguation)
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Robert Kiplagat Andersen (born 1972), Kenyan runner
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Joni Mitchell
Roberta Joan Mitchell (née Anderson; born November 7, 1943) is a Canadian and American singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and painter. As one of the most influential singer-songwriters to emerge from the 1960s folk music circuit, Mitch ...
, born Roberta Anderson
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