Robert Thornton may refer to:
Politics
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Robert Stirton Thornton (1863–1936), Manitoba politician
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Robert L. Thornton (1880–1964), American businessman, philanthropist, and mayor of Dallas, Texas
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Robert Y. Thornton
Robert Y. Thornton (January 28, 1910 – November 29, 2003) was an American attorney, politician, and jurist in the U.S. state of Oregon. Reproduced in ''Biography Resource Center''. Farmington Hills, Mich.: Thomson Gale. A Democrat, he was the ...
(1910–2003), American attorney and politician
Sports
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Robert Thornton (sailor)
Robert Thornton (born 17 February 1941) is an Australian former sailor who competed in the 1972 Summer Olympics
The 1972 Summer Olympics (), officially known as the Games of the XX Olympiad () and commonly known as Munich 1972 (german: Münch ...
(born 1941), Australian sailor
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Bob Thornton (born 1962), American basketball player
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Robert Thornton (darts player)
Robert "Bob" Thornton (born 17 July 1967) is a Scottish professional darts player, who is the current World Seniors champion.
Thornton is a three-time major winner between the BDO and PDC, having won the World Masters in 2007, UK Open in 20 ...
(born 1967), Scottish darts player
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Robert Thornton (jockey)
Robert "Choc" Thornton (born 14 July 1978 in Darlington) is a retired English National Hunt jockey.
Robert "Chocolate" Thornton (known as Choc) was one of the United Kingdom's leading National Hunt jockeys. After growing up riding hunters wi ...
(born 1978), English National Hunt jockey
Other
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Robert Thornton (scribe) (died 1460), English scribe and compiler of manuscripts
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Robert John Thornton (1768–1837), English physician and writer on botany
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Robert Lyste Thornton
Robert Lyster Thornton (29 November 1908 – 28 September 1985) was a British-Canadian-American physicist who worked on the cyclotrons at Ernest Lawrence's Radiation Laboratory in the 1930s. During World War II he assisted with the development of ...
(1908–1985), English/American physicist
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Robert Thornton (explorer)
See also
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Thornton (surname) Thornton is a surname found in Ireland and Britain.
Overview
Found in Britain as an English and Scottish surname derived from places so named in Buckinghamshire, Cheshire, Fife, Merseyside, Lancashire, Leicestershire, Lincolnshire, London, Pemb ...
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