Robert Howard may refer to:
Entertainment
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Robert Howard (playwright)
Sir Robert Howard (January 1626 – 3 September 1698) was an English playwright and politician. He fought for the Royalist cause in the English Civil War.
Life
Robert was born the fifth son of Thomas Howard, 1st Earl of Berkshire and his wife ...
(1626–1698), English playwright and politician
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Robert Boardman Howard
Robert Boardman Howard (September 20, 1896 – February 18, 1983) was an American artist. He is known for his graphic art, watercolors, oils, and murals, as well as his Art Deco bas-reliefs and his Modernist sculptures and mobiles. An online facs ...
(1896–1983), American muralist and sculptor
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Robert E. Howard
Robert Ervin Howard (January 22, 1906 – June 11, 1936) was an American writer who wrote pulp magazine, pulp fiction in a diverse range of genres. He created the character Conan the Barbarian and is regarded as the father of the sword and sor ...
(1906–1936), fantasy writer, creator of Conan the Barbarian
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Bob Howard (singer) (1906–1986), American jazz pianist and vocalist
* Robert Howard ("Dr. Robert", born 1961), British pop star and member of
the Blow Monkeys
The Blow Monkeys are a British pop band formed in 1981. Their first single, "Live Today Love Tomorrow", was released in 1982. They subsequently enjoyed a successful career with several hit singles and albums throughout the 1980s before split ...
Politics
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Robert Howard (Royalist)
Sir Robert Howard KB (159822 April 1653) was an English landowner, member of parliament, and Royalist soldier. He was involved in a scandal when his mistress Frances Coke, Viscountess Purbeck, was found guilty of adultery and was twice summoned ...
(1585–1653), Royalist commander and M.P.
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Robert Danvers
Robert Danvers also Wright, Howard and Villiers (19 October 1624 – 1674) was an English soldier and landowner who briefly sat in the House of Commons in 1659 and 1660. The illegitimate child of a notorious liaison, Danvers had at least fo ...
(1624–1674), aka Robert Howard, English politician
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Robert Howard, 2nd Earl of Wicklow
Robert Howard, 2nd Earl of Wicklow (7 August 1757 – 23 October 1815) was an Anglo-Irish politician and peer.
Biography
Howard was the eldest son of Ralph Howard, 1st Viscount Wicklow and his wife, Alice Howard, 1st Countess of Wicklow.John Ber ...
(1757–1815), Anglo-Irish politician and peer
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Robert Howard (unionist)
Robert Howard (February 8, 1845 – 1902) was a British-born American labor union leader and politician.
Born in Nantwich, in Cheshire, to parents from Ireland, Howard began working as a piercer in a silk mill in Macclesfield when only 8 years ...
(1845–1902), British-born American labor union leader and politician
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Robert Mowbray Howard (1854–1928), English official
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Rob Howard (politician) (
fl.
''Floruit'' ( ; usually abbreviated fl. or occasionally flor.; from Latin for 'flourished') denotes a date or period during which a person was known to have been alive or active. In English, the unabbreviated word may also be used as a noun indic ...
2009), Canadian politician
Religion
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Robert Howard (bishop) (1670–1740), Anglican prelate in the Church of Ireland
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Robert Wilmot Howard (1887–1960), British Anglican priest and academic
Sports
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Robert Howard (martial artist)
Robert J. Howard (born 29 November 1938) is an Irish Grandmaster of taekwondo. He is ranked 9th ''dan'' black belt and is the first European to have been promoted to Grandmaster by the International Taekwon-Do Federation.
Howard is now r ...
(born 1938), Irish taekwondo master
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Robert Howard (Irish swimmer) (1956–2013), Irish Olympic swimmer
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Robert Howard (American swimmer) (born 1996), American freestyle swimmer
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Robert Howard (triple jumper) (1975–2004), American triple jumper
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Bob Howard (American football) (1944–2008), American football defensive back
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Bobby Howard (running back) (born 1964), American football running back
* Bob Howard (born 1963), American professional wrestler best known as
Hardcore Holly
Robert William Howard (born January 29, 1963) is an American Professional wrestling, professional wrestler. He is best known for his tenure in WWE, where he performed under the ring name Hardcore Holly.
After debuting in 1987, Holly worked for ...
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Robert Howard (wrestler, born 2002)
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Rob Howard (footballer) (born 1999), English footballer
Other
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Robert Howard (knight)
Sir Robert Howard (1385—1436), Knight, of Stoke by Nayland, Suffolk, was a member of the 15th-century English gentry in Norfolk. He was a minor royal official and probably a retainer (medieval), retainer of John Mowbray, 2nd Duke of Norfolk. His ...
(1385–1436), father of John Howard, 1st Duke of Norfolk
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Bob Howard (political scientist) (born 1936), Australian professor of international relations
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Robert F. Howard (1883–1963), Texan farmer and agriculture professor
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Robert L. Howard (1939–2009), Medal of Honor recipient during the Vietnam War
* Robert Howard (1944–2015), responsible for the
murder of Hannah Williams in England, and maybe others
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Robert Rice Howard (known as 'Nosey Bob' Howard) (1832–1906), Australian executioner, active from 1875 to 1904
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Robert Souper Howard (1818–1881), Chilean soldier
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Robert Howard Hodgkin (1877–1951), British historian
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Robert Howard (psychiatrist) (born 1961), British professor of psychiatry
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