Robert Wilson may refer to:

Entertainment

Writers

Robert Anton Wilson Robert Anton Wilson (born Robert Edward Wilson; January 18, 1932 – January 11, 2007) was an American writer, futurist, psychologist, and self-described agnostic mystic. Recognized within Discordianism as an Episkopos, pope and saint, Wilson ...

(1932–2007), American writer, futurist, and mystic * Robert Burns Wilson (1850–1916), American painter and poet * Robert C. Wilson (born 1951), American novelist and lawyer *

Robert Charles Wilson Robert Charles Wilson (born December 15, 1953) is an American-Canadian science fiction author. Career Wilson's work has won the Hugo Award for Best Novel (for '' Spin''), the John W. Campbell Memorial Award (for the novel '' The Chronoliths' ...

(born 1953), Canadian science fiction writer * R. McL. Wilson (Robert McLachlan Wilson, 1916–2010), Scottish biblical scholar and translator * Robert McLiam Wilson (born 1966), Northern Irish novelist *

Robert McNair Wilson Captain Robert McNair Wilson (22 May 1882 in Maryhill, Glasgow – 29 November 1963 in New Forest, Hampshire), was a British surgeon, writer and journalist and Liberal Party politician. Background Wilson was the son of William Wilson and Helen ...

(1882–1963), British surgeon, fiction writer, and politician *

Robert Wilson (crime novelist) Robert Wilson (born 1957) is a British crime writer currently resident in Portugal. He is the son of an RAF fighter pilot, and has a degree in English from Oxford University, Oxford. Wilson is the author of the Bruce Medway series, set in and ar ...

(born 1957), British crime novelist *

Robert Wilson (dramatist) Robert Wilson (flourished 15721600), was an Elizabethan dramatist who worked primarily in the 1580s and 1590s. He is also believed to have been an actor who specialized in clown roles. He was connected with sixteen plays intended for Philip H ...

(died 1600), English Elizabethan dramatist *

Robert Wilson (editor) Robert S. Wilson (born 1951
''Contemporary Authors'', January 1, 2007 via ...

(born 1951), American magazine editor and author

Musicians

* Rob Wilson, known as Fresh I.E., Canadian rapper * Robert Wilson (tenor) (1907–1964), Scottish tenor * Robert Wilson (American singer) (1957–2010), American R&B and funk musician in The Gap Band * Robert Wilson (music entrepreneur) (born 1951), British musician and charity founder * Juice Wilson (Robert Wilson, 1904–1993), American jazz violinist * Robert Wilson (born 1980),

Bobby V Robert Marcel Wilson (born February 27, 1980), better known by his stage name Bobby V (formerly known as Bobby Valentino), is an American R&B singer. Born in Jackson, Mississippi and raised in Atlanta, Georgia, he first joined the R&B group Mi ...

, American R&B singer formerly known as Bobby Valentino

Other entertainment

Robert Scott Wilson Robert Scott Wilson (born November 9, 1987) is an American model and actor. He is recognized for portraying the roles of Ben Weston (Days of Our Lives), Ben Weston and Alex Kiriakis on ''Days of Our Lives''. He is also known for being the first ...

(born 1987), American model and actor *

Robert Wilson (director) Robert Wilson who was born on October 4, 1941) is an American Experimental theatre, experimental theater stage director and playwright who has been described by ''The New York Times'' as " mericas – or even the world's – foremost vanguar ...

(born 1941), American avant-garde stage director and playwright * Robert Wilson (1941–2017), American advertising executive; father of

Andrew Andrew is the English form of the given name, common in many countries. The word is derived from the , ''Andreas'', itself related to ''aner/andros'', "man" (as opposed to "woman"), thus meaning "manly" and, as consequence, "brave", "strong", "c ...

Owen Owen may refer to: People and fictional characters * Owen (name), including a list of people and fictional characters with the given name or surname Places United States * Owen, Missouri, a ghost town * Owen, Wisconsin * Owen County, Indiana ...

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Luke Wilson Luke Cunningham Wilson (born September 21, 1971) is an American actor. Wilson's prominent film roles have included '' Bottle Rocket'' (1996), '' Blue Streak'' (1999), '' My Dog Skip'' (2000), '' Legally Blonde'' (2001), ''The Royal Tenenbaums' ...

Military

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Robert Wilson (British Army officer, born 1777) General Sir Robert Thomas Wilson (17 August 1777 – 9 May 1849) was a British Army officer and politician who served in Flanders, Egypt, the Iberian Peninsula, Prussia, and was seconded to the Imperial Russian Army in 1812. He sat as the Whig ...

(1777–1849), British Army general *

Robert Wilson (British Army officer, born 1911) Lieutenant-Colonel Robert Wilson (4 November 1911 – April 2002) was a British Army officer of the Second World War. He escaped twice from captivity, having been taken and becoming a prisoner of war. Military career Wilson worked as a draughts ...

(1911–2002), British Army special operations officer * Robert L. Wilson (1920–1944), United States Marine and Medal of Honor recipient

Politics

Robert A. Wilson (Virginia politician) Robert Archer Wilson Jr. (June 9, 1913 – March 31, 2003) was an American business and civic leader from Richmond, Virginia. He was a name partner of the advertising agency Cargill, Wilson & Acree and served as its president and as chair of it ...

(1913–2003), vice mayor of Richmond, Virginia *

Robert Wilson (Missouri politician) Robert Wilson (November 1803May 10, 1870) was a United States senator from Missouri. Biography Born near Staunton, Virginia, he moved to Howard County, Missouri in 1820 and taught school. In 1825 he was probate judge of Howard County and was cle ...

(1803–1870), U.S. Senator from Missouri * Robert L. Wilson (politician) (1805–1880), American politician *

Robert P. C. Wilson Robert Patterson Clark Wilson (August 8, 1834 – December 21, 1916) was a U.S. Representative from Missouri. Born in Boonville, Missouri, Wilson moved with his parents to Platte County. He attended William Jewell College, Liberty, Missouri, a ...

(1834–1916), U.S. Representative from Missouri * Robert D. Wilson (1839–1930), member of the Wisconsin State Assembly *

Robert Richard Wilson Robert Richard Wilson (29 May 1891 – 26 Apr 1969) was a farmer and politician in South Australia. History Born at Ardrossan, South Australia, he was for many years a successful farmer, grazier and dairyman of Yeelanna, South Australia. He was ...

(1891–1969), farmer and politician in South Australia *

Robert Wilson (Australian politician) Sir Robert Christian Wilson (11 November 1896 – 21 August 1973) was an Australian politician. He was born in Mudgee to grazier Henry Christian Wilson and Mary Hales. He attended Fort Street High School and served during World War I with t ...

(1896–1973), New South Wales politician *

Robert John Wilson Robert John Wilson (14 July 1865 – 5 November 1946) was Labour MP for Jarrow. Born in Gateshead Gateshead () is a town in the Gateshead Metropolitan Borough of Tyne and Wear, England. It is on the River Tyne's southern bank. The town's a ...

(1865–1946), Member of Parliament in 1922 for Jarrow *

Robert Wilson (Manitoba politician) Robert George "Bob" Wilson (born November 2, 1934) is a former politician in Manitoba. He represented Wolseley in the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba from 1975 to 1981 as a Progressive Conservative and then independent member. He was first el ...

(born 1934), Manitoba politician * Robert J. Wilson, candidate in the 1953 Manitoba provincial election *

Rob Wilson Robert Owen Biggs Wilson (born 4 January 1965) is an English politician and political author. He was elected Conservative Member of Parliament for the Reading East parliamentary constituency in the 2005 general election, being re-elected in ...

(born 1965), British politician and entrepreneur, MP for Reading East *

Robert Nichol Wilson Robert Nichol Wilson, known as R. N. Wilson, was a unionist politician in Northern Ireland. Wilson studied at Malvern College and served in the Royal Artillery during World War II. After the war, he became a director of a textile company and jo ...

, Northern Irish politician *

Robert Wilson (Texas politician) Robert "Honest Bob" Wilson (1793 1856) was a land speculator and politician in Texas. Early life Robert Wilson was born in Talbot County, Maryland, on December 7, 1792, to James and Elizabeth (Hardcastle) Wilson. Robert received some schooling an ...

(1793–1856), land speculator and politician in Texas *

Gordon Wilson (Scottish politician) Robert Gordon Wilson (16 April 1938 – 25 June 2017) was a Scottish politician and solicitor. He was the leader of the Scottish National Party (SNP) from 1979 to 1990, and was SNP Member of Parliament (MP) for Dundee East from 1974 to 1987. ...

(1938–2017, Robert Gordon Wilson), Scottish politician and solicitor

Science and medicine

Robert A. Wilson (gynecologist) Robert A. Wilson was an American gynecologist who is known for writing the best-selling 1966 book ''Feminine Forever''. He is also known for his organization the Wilson Research Foundation (WRA). In ''Feminine Forever'', Wilson promoted the use o ...

(1895–1981), American gynecologist who wrote the book ''Feminine Forever'' * Robert Wilson (physician) (1829–1881), wrote about the British mining industry * Robert O. Wilson (1904–1967), American physician *

Robert R. Wilson Robert Rathbun Wilson (March 4, 1914 – January 16, 2000) was an American physicist known for his work on the Manhattan Project during World War II, as a sculptor, and as an architect of the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Fermilab), w ...

(1914–2000), American physicist * Robert Wilson (astronomer) (1927–2002), British astronomer *

Robert Woodrow Wilson Robert Woodrow Wilson (born January 10, 1936) is an American astronomer who, along with Arno Allan Penzias, discovered cosmic microwave background radiation (CMB) in 1964. The pair won the 1978 Nobel Prize in Physics for its discovery. While ...

(born 1936), American astronomer and physicist *

Robert B. Wilson Robert Butler "Bob" Wilson, Jr. (born May 16, 1937) is an American economist who is the Adams Distinguished Professor of Management, Emeritus at Stanford University. He was jointly awarded the 2020 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences, toge ...

(born 1937), American economist *

Robert E. Wilson Robert E. Wilson is an astrophysicist, academic, and author. He is a professor emeritus at the University of Florida (UF). Wilson's research covers various aspects of astrophysics including stellar models, stellar structure & evolution, and clos ...

, astrophysicist, academic, and author

Sports

American football

* Robert P. Wilson (fl. 1890s), American football player and coach * Robert Wilson (running back) (born 1969), American football player *

Robert Wilson (wide receiver) Robert Wilson (June 23, 1974 – September 9, 2020) was an American professional football wide receiver who played in the National Football League (NFL) for the Seattle Seahawks and New Orleans Saints. He played college football at Florida A&M ...

(1974–2020), American football player

Cricket

* Robert Wilson (cricketer, born 1916) (1916–2004), Scottish cricketer * Robert Wilson (cricketer, born 1922) (1922–1980), English cricketer * Robert Wilson (cricketer, born 1934), English cricketer * Robert Wilson (cricketer, born 1935) (1935–1987), Scottish cricketer * Robert Wilson (cricketer, born 1948), New Zealand cricketer

Rugby

Robert Wilson (rugby union, born 1854) Robert Wilson (4 February 1854 – 6 July 1911) was a Scotland international rugby union player who represented Scotland Scotland is a Countries of the United Kingdom, country that is part of the United Kingdom. It contains nearly one-t ...

(1854–1911), Scottish rugby union player * Robert Wilson (rugby union, born 1861) (1861–1944), rugby union player for New Zealand in 1884 * Robert Wilson (rugby league) (1879–1916), rugby league footballer for England and Broughton Ranchers

Other sports

* Robert Wilson (Scottish footballer) (fl. 1909–1913), Scottish footballer (Partick Thistle} * Robert Wilson (Canadian rower) (born 1935), Canadian Olympic rower * Robert Wilson (tennis) (1935-2020), English tennis player * Robert Wilson (American rower) (born 1939), American Olympic rower *

Rob Wilson (racing driver) Rob Wilson (born 6 September 1952 in Auckland) is a driving coach and a former racing driver from New Zealand. Wilson raced in various formula racing and endurance racing series. Career history Formula racing Rob Wilson won a scholarship to ...

(born 1952), racing driver from New Zealand * Robert Wilson (bobsleigh) (born 1954), Canadian Olympic bobsledder * Robert Wilson (footballer, born 1961), English football player for Fulham * Rob Wilson (ice hockey) (born 1968), Canadian-British professional ice hockey coach

Other

Robert Arnott Wilson Robert Arnott Wilson (born 1958) is a retired mathematician in London, England, who is best known for his work on classifying the maximal subgroups of finite simple groups and for the work in the Monster group In the area of abstract algebr ...

(born 1958), British mathematician *

Robert Dick Wilson Robert Dick Wilson, PhD, DD (February 4, 1856 – October 11, 1930) was an American linguist and Presbyterian Old Testament scholar who devoted his life to prove the reliability of the Hebrew Bible. In his quest to determine the accuracy o ...

(1856–1930), American linguist and Presbyterian scholar * Robert E. Lee Wilson (1865–1933), American cotton plantation owner * Robert Gordon Wilson (architect) (1844–1931), Scottish architect * Robert Kenneth Wilson, surgeon who in 1934 supposedly took a photograph purporting to show the Loch Ness Monster * Robert M. Wilson Jr. (1952–2012), Arkansas lawyer * Robert W. Wilson (philanthropist) (1926–2013), American hedge fund manager and philanthropist *

Robert Wilson (architect) Robert Wilson (9 September 1834 – 1 July 1901) was architect for the Edinburgh Board of Education and responsible for a high percentage of the city's schools. He is also noteworthy for involvement in several institutions aimed at improving th ...

(1834–1901), Scottish architect * Robert Wilson (businessman) (born 1942/1943), British businessman *

Robert Wilson (engineer) Robert Wilson FRSE FRSSA (10 September 1803 – 28 July 1882) was a Scottish engineer, remembered as inventor of a special kind of a screw propeller, which he demonstrated in 1827 (although the first patent was awarded to another inventor in 1836 ...

(1803–1882), Scottish engineer and inventor * Robert Wilson (philosopher) (born 1964), philosophy professor *

Robert Wilson (priest, born 1840) Robert James Wilson (20 September 1840 – 15 May 1897) was an English Anglican priest and academic, who was Warden of Keble College, Oxford, from 1889 until his death. Wilson was born in Broadwater, Sussex, England and educated at Cheltenham ...

(1840–1897), English Anglican priest and academic, warden of Keble College, Oxford * Robert Wilson (dean of Ferns), 17th-century Anglican dean in Ireland * Robert Wilson (ship captain) (1806–1888), Great Lakes captain who helped slaves escape * Robert Wilson (merchant) (1832–1899), New Zealand merchant and company director * Robert & William Wilson, American silversmiths in Philadelphia during the 19th century

Other uses

* USS ''Robert L. Wilson'', United States Navy destroyer named for Robert L. Wilson * Robert Wilson, big-game hunter in the Ernest Hemingway short story "

The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber "The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber" is a short story by Ernest Hemingway. Set in Africa, it was published in the September 1936 issue of ''Cosmopolitan'' magazine. The story was eventually adapted to the screen as the Zoltan Korda film '' ...