Robins may refer to:
Places
United States
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Robins, Iowa
Robins is a city in Linn County, Iowa, United States. The population was 3,353 at the time of the 2020 census. It is a suburb of Cedar Rapids and part of the Cedar Rapids Metropolitan Statistical Area.
Geography
Robins is located at (42.072916 ...
, a small city
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Robins, Ohio Robins is an unincorporated community in Guernsey County
Guernsey County is a county located in the U.S. state of Ohio. As of the 2020 census, the population was 38,438. Its county seat is Cambridge, and it is named for the Isle of Guernsey in ...
, an unincorporated community
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Robins Township, Fall River County, South Dakota Robins Township is one of the three civil township, townships of Fall River County, South Dakota, Fall River County, South Dakota, United States; most of the rest of the county is unincorporated area#U.S. Census Bureau, unorganized territory. The to ...
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Robins Island
Robins Island is a island in Peconic Bay by the eastern end of Long Island off the coast of New Suffolk, New York. The island is privately owned and not accessible to the public and is within the jurisdiction of the Town of Southold in Suf ...
, of the coast of New York state
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Robins Air Force Base
Robins Air Force Base is a major United States Air Force installation located in Houston County, Georgia, United States. The base is located just east of the city of Warner Robins, south-southeast of Macon and approximately south-southeast ...
, Georgia
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Robins Center, arena in Richmond, Virginia
People
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Alison Robins (1920-2017), worked at Bletchley Park "Y-Service"
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Augustine Warner Robins (1882–1940), U.S. Army Air Corps
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Benjamin Robins
Benjamin Robins (170729 July 1751) was a pioneering British scientist, Newtonian mathematician, and military engineer.
He wrote an influential treatise on gunnery, for the first time introducing Newtonian science to military men, was an early en ...
(1707–1751), English scientist, mathematician, and engineer
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Bryce Robins (rugby union, born 1958)
Bryce Graeme Robins (born 12 December 1958) is a former New Zealand rugby union player. A wing, Robins represented Taranaki at a provincial level, and was a member of the New Zealand national side, the All Blacks
The New Zealand national ...
(born 1958), New Zealand rugby union player and All Black
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Bryce Robins
Bryce B. Robins (born 19 September 1980) is a New Zealand-born Japanese rugby union player who plays as a centre for the Munakata Sanix Blues in the Top League and Japan. He played for the Hurricanes in 2002 and 2003.
On 22 April 2007, Robins ...
(born 1980), New Zealand and Japanese rugby union player, son of above
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C. A. Robins (1884–1970), 22nd Governor of Idaho
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C. Richard Robins (1928-2020), American ichthyologist
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Denise Robins
Denise Robins (née Denise Naomi Klein; 1 February 1897 – 1 May 1985) was a prolific English romantic novelist and the first President of the Romantic Novelists' Association (1960–1966). She wrote under her first married name and under th ...
(1897−1985), English romance novelist
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Derrick Robins
Derrick Harold Robins (27 June 1914 – 3 May 2004) was an English cricketer and sports promoter, at one time chairman of Coventry City Football Club. He was born in Bexleyheath, Kent.
Robins played two matches for Warwickshire in 1947, but did ...
(1914–2004), English cricketer and sports promoter
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Edward H. Robins
Edward Haas Robins (October 15, 1881 – July 27, 1955) was an American actor.
Early years
Robins was born Edward Haas on October 15, 1881, in Shamokin, Pennsylvania. His parents were Samuel Williamson Haas and Lennora Robins Haas. A graduate o ...
(1881-1955), American actor
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Edwin Frederick Robins (1870-1951) Anglican Bishop in Canada
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Elizabeth Robins
Elizabeth Robins (August 6, 1862 – May 8, 1952) was an actress, playwright, novelist, and suffragette. She also wrote as C. E. Raimond.
Early life
Elizabeth Robins, the first child of Charles Robins and Hannah Crow, was born in Louisville, ...
(1862–1952), actress, playwright, novelist, and suffragist
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James Robins, American epidemiologist and biostatistician
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John Robins (fl. 1650–2), English Ranter and plebeian prophet
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John Robins (1926–2007), international union rugby player for Wales
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Laila Robins
Laila Robins is an American stage, film and television actress. She has appeared in films including '' Planes, Trains and Automobiles'' (1987), ''An Innocent Man'' (1989), '' Live Nude Girls'' (1995), ''True Crime'' (1999), '' She's Lost Control' ...
(born 1959), American stage, film, and television actress
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Mark Robins
Mark Gordon Robins (born 22 December 1969) is an English football manager and former player, who is the current manager of Coventry City in the EFL Championship. As a player, he was a striker and is best known for his time in the Premier League ...
, English football manager
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Mikey Robins
Mikel Mason "Mikey" Robins (born 8 December 1961) is an Australian media personality, comedian and writer. He is best known for the satirical game show '' Good News Week'', which ran on the ABC and Network Ten between 1996 and 2000, and return ...
, Australian media personality, comedian, and writer
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Noel Robins
David Noel Robins, OAM (3 September 1935 – 22 May 2003) was an Australian sailor. He began sailing as a child, and became partially quadriplegic after receiving a spinal fracture from a car crash at the age of 21. He was the sk ...
(1935–2003), Australian sailor
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Patricia Robins
Patricia Robins (1 February 1921 – 4 December 2016) was a British writer of short stories and over 80 novels mainly romances from 1934 to 2016, she also signed under the pseudonym Claire Lorrimer, she had sold more than ten million copies. Sh ...
(born 1921), English romance novelist, daughter of Denise Robins
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Paul Robins
Paul may refer to:
*Paul (given name), a given name (includes a list of people with that name)
* Paul (surname), a list of people
People
Christianity
* Paul the Apostle (AD c.5–c.64/65), also known as Saul of Tarsus or Saint Paul, early Chr ...
(1804–1890), a pioneer of the Bible Christian movement in North America
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Robert H. "Bobby" Robins (1921−2000), English linguist
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Robyn Robins
Robert Clark Seger ( ; born May 6, 1945) is an American singer, songwriter, and musician. As a locally successful Detroit-area artist, he performed and recorded as Bob Seger and the Last Heard and The Bob Seger System throughout the 1960s, break ...
(born 1951), rock and roll keyboardist, founding member of the Bob Seger Silver Bullet Band
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Thomas Sewell Robins
Thomas Sewell Robins ( Devonport 8 May 1810 – 9 August 1880) was a British painter of maritime subjects.
Early life
Born 8 May 1810 in Devonport, Devon, he was admitted into the Royal Academy Schools on 22 April 1829 under the sponso ...
(c. 1810–1880), British painter of maritime themes
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Toby Robins
Toby Robins (March 13, 1931 – March 21, 1986) was a Canadian actress of film, stage and television.
Robins starred in hundreds of radio and stage productions in Canada from the late 1940s through the 1960s, working with such performers as Jan ...
, Canadian actress and journalist
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Vanessa Robins
Vanessa Robins is an Australian applied mathematician whose research interests include computational topology, image processing, and the structure of granular materials. She is a fellow in the departments of applied mathematics and theoretical ph ...
, Australian mathematician
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Walter Robins
Robert Walter Vivian Robins (3 June 1906 – 12 December 1968) was an English cricketer and cricket administrator, who played for Cambridge University, Middlesex, and England. A right-handed batsman and right-arm leg-break and googly bowler, h ...
(1906–1968), English cricketer and footballer
Entertainment
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''Robins'' (talk show), a Swedish talk television show on SVT2
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The Robins
The Robins were a successful and influential American R&B group of the late 1940s and 1950s, one of the earliest such vocal groups who established the basic pattern for the doo-wop sound. They were founded by Ty Terrell, and twin brothers Bi ...
, an American R&B singing group of the 1940s and 1950s
Sport
* Brooklyn Robins, name between
1914
This year saw the beginning of what became known as World War I, after Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria, heir to the Austrian throne was assassinated by Serbian nationalist Gavrilo Princip. It also saw the first airline to provide schedule ...
and
1931
Events
January
* January 2 – South Dakota native Ernest Lawrence invents the cyclotron, used to accelerate particles to study nuclear physics.
* January 4 – German pilot Elly Beinhorn begins her flight to Africa.
* January 22 – Sir I ...
of the baseball franchise now known as the
Los Angeles Dodgers
The Los Angeles Dodgers are an American professional baseball team based in Los Angeles. The Dodgers compete in Major League Baseball (MLB) as a member club of the National League (NL) West division. Established in 1883 in the city of Brookly ...
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* Shochiku Robins and Taiyō-Shochiku Robins, two former names of the
Yokohama BayStars
The are a professional baseball team in the Japanese Central League. Their home field is Yokohama Stadium, located in central Yokohama. The team has been known by several names since becoming a professional team in 1950. It adopted its curren ...
, a Japanese NPB team
* The Robins, a nickname for
Altrincham Football Club, based in Greater Manchester, England
* The Robins, a nickname for
Bracknell Town Football Club, based in England
* The Robins, a nickname for
Bristol City Football Club, based in England, because of their red playing kit
* The Robins, a nickname for
Cheltenham Town Football Club
Cheltenham Town Football Club is a professional association football club based in the town of Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, England. From the 2021–22 season, the club compete in League One, the third tier of the English football league sy ...
, based in England, because of their red playing kit
* The Robins, a nickname for
Evesham United Football Club, based in Worcestershire, England
* The Robins, a nickname for
Hull Kingston Rovers
Hull Kingston Rovers are a professional rugby league club based in Kingston upon Hull, Yorkshire, England, that competes in the Super League, the top tier of British rugby league. The club has won five league championships, and one Challenge ...
, the English Rugby league club, because of their red playing kit
* The Robins, a nickname for
Ilkeston Football Club, based in Derbyshire, England
* The Robins, a nickname for
Swindon Town Football Club, based in England, because of their red playing kit
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Swindon Robins
The Swindon Speedway team, also known as the Swindon Robins, are an English motorcycle speedway team established in 1949 that have competed primarily in the top division of speedway league competition in the United Kingdom. They are five times ...
, English Motorcycle Speedway team
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Brighton Robins, Australian rules football club based in Tasmania
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Kermandie Robins, Australian rules football club in Tasmania
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Peekskill Robins, formerly the Stamford Robins, American collegiate baseball team playing in an NCAA summer league
See also
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Robbins (disambiguation)
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Robin (disambiguation)
Robin may refer to:
Animals
* Australasian robins, red-breasted songbirds of the family Petroicidae
* Many members of the subfamily Saxicolinae (Old World chats), including:
** European robin (''Erithacus rubecula'')
**Bush-robin
** Forest ...
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