Robert Wood may refer to:

Art

* Robert E. Wood (painter) (born 1971), Canadian landscape artist * Robert William Wood (1889–1979), American landscape artist * Robert Wood (artist), accused and acquitted of the Camden Town murder

Military

* Robert B. Wood (1836–1878), American Civil War sailor and Medal of Honor recipient *

Robert E. Wood Robert Elkington Wood (June 13, 1879 – November 6, 1969) was an American military officer and business executive. After retiring from the U.S. Army as a brigadier general, Wood had a successful career as a corporate executive, most notably ...

(1879–1969), American soldier and businessman * Robert J. Wood (1905–1986), U.S. Army general *

Robert Crooke Wood Robert Crooke Wood, M.D. (September 23, 1799 – March 28, 1869) was an American Brevet Brigadier General, military medicine, military physician and neurologist who was the Assistant Surgeon General throughout the American Civil War as well as se ...

(1799–1869), American general, military physician and neurologist

Politics

Robert Wood (antiquarian) Robert Wood (1717 – 9 September 1771) was an Irish-British traveller, classical scholar, civil servant and politician. He was the son of the Revd James Wood of Summerhill, County Meath and educated at Glasgow University (1732) and the Middl ...

(1717–1771), English civil servant and politician * Sir Robert Wood (mayor), English politician, mayor of Norwich * Robert James Wood (1886–1954), Canadian politician, member of the House of Commons * Robert Wood (American politician) (1885–1964), American politician, Wisconsin state assemblyman * Robert H. Wood (1844–?), African American mayor in Natchez, Mississippi and the first in the United States *

Robert Wood (Australian politician) William Robert Wood (born 13 November 1949) is a British-born Australian who has campaigned on peace and justice issues. He was elected to the Australian Parliament in the 1987 elections as Senator for New South Wales, however the High Court ...

(born 1949), British-born Australian politician, senator for New South Wales * Robert A. Wood, American diplomat

Science and math

Robert Wood (mathematician) Robert Wood or Woods (1622?–1685) was an English mathematician. Life Born at Pepperharrow, near Godalming in Surrey, in 1621 or 1622, was the son of Robert Wood (d. 1661), rector of Pepperharrow. He was educated at Eton College, and matricul ...

(1622–1685), English mathematician *

Robert W. Wood Robert Williams Wood (May 2, 1868 – August 11, 1955) was an American physicist and inventor who made pivotal contributions to the field of optics. He pioneered infrared and ultraviolet photography. Wood's patents and theoretical work inform m ...

(1868–1955), American physicist and writer *

Robert Wood (psychologist) Robert Wood is a British psychologist and writer. Biography Robert Wood was born on 10 March 1941 in Gosforth, Newcastle upon Tyne. Born to an English father and a Welsh mother, Wood was raised in Sunderland. After a grammar school educatio ...

(born 1941), British psychologist and writer *

Robert Wood (roboticist) Robert J. Wood is a roboticist and a professor of electrical engineering at the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences and the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard University, and is the director of the Harva ...

, Harvard University professor and innovator in robotics * Robert Wood (atmospheric scientist), British-American atmospheric scientist

Other

* Robert Wood (sailor) (1926–2004), American Olympic sailor * Robert Wood (timber merchant) (1792–1847), claimed to be the son of Prince Edward Augustus of the U.K. *

Robert Wood (rugby, born 1872) Robert Wood (14 November 1872 – 1 March 1928) was an English rugby union, and professional rugby league footballer who played in the 1890s. He played representative level rugby union (RU) for England national rugby union team, England, and a ...

(1872–1928), rugby union and rugby league player who played in the 1890s *

Robert Wood (rugby union, born 1948) Robert Neil Wood (born 6 May 1948) was a rugby union player who represented Australia. Wood, a lock, was born in Brisbane, Queensland Brisbane ( ; ) is the List of Australian capital cities, capital and largest city of the States and terr ...

, rugby union player for Australia *

Robert Stanford Wood Sir Robert Stanford Wood (5 July 1886 – 18 May 1963) was a civil servant and educational administrator. He was the last Principal of Southampton University College and the first Vice Chancellor of its successor, the University of Southampton, in ...

(1886–1963), civil servant and educational administrator *

Robert Coldwell Wood Robert Coldwell Wood (September 16, 1923 – April 1, 2005) was an American political scientist, academic and government administrator, and professor of political science at MIT. From 1965 to 1969, Wood served as the Under Secretary of the D ...

(1923–2005), American political scientist and academic * Robert S. Wood (born 1936), American military leader and Mormon leader *

Robert Wood (television executive) Robert Dennis Wood (April 17, 1925 – May 20, 1986) was an American television executive from Boise, Idaho who was president of CBS from 1969 to 1976. He, along with his vice president Fred Silverman, initiated the network's " rural purge" in the e ...

(1925–1986), American television executive *

Robert Watson Wood Robert Watson Wood ( – ) was an American clergyman of the United Church of Christ, an early activist for LGBT rights and advocate for the LGBT community both before and after the pivotal Stonewall riots in the United States, and an author. Wood ...

(1923–2018), American clergyman, LGBT rights activist, and author *

Robert Wood (coach) Robert Simpson Wood (1887 – April 20, 1949) was an American college football coach and mayor of Athens, Ohio. He served as the head football coach at his alma mater, Ohio University, from 1909 to 1910, compiling a record of 2–10–3. He later ...

(1887–1949), American college football coach and mayor of Athens, Ohio

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