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Animals

*Roe buck or roebuck, a male
roe deer The roe deer (''Capreolus capreolus''), also known as the roe, western roe deer, or European roe, is a species of deer. The male of the species is sometimes referred to as a roebuck. The roe is a small deer, reddish and grey-brown, and well-adapt ...


People

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Alvah Curtis Roebuck Alvah Curtis Roebuck (January 9, 1864 – June 18, 1948) was the co-founder of Sears, Roebuck and Company with his partner Richard Warren Sears. Early life Alvah Curtis Roebuck was born on January 9, 1864, in Lafayette, Indiana. He began work ...
(1864–1948), American businessman, co-founder of Sears, Roebuck and Company *
Daniel Roebuck Daniel James Roebuck (born March 4, 1963) is an American actor and writer. His best known roles include Deputy Marshal Robert Biggs in ''The Fugitive'' and its spinoff film ''U.S. Marshals'', Jay Leno in ''The Late Shift'', and Dr. Leslie Arz ...
(born 1963), American television film actor, writer and producer * Ellie Roebuck (born 1999), English association football player *
Gene Roebuck Gene Roebuck (born February 8, 1947) is the retired head coach of the women's basketball team at the University of North Dakota. He is a graduate of Mayville State University. See also *List of college women's basketball coaches with 600 wins Th ...
(born 1947), American college sports coach *
John Roebuck John Roebuck of Kinneil FRS FRSE (1718 – 17 July 1794) was an English inventor and industrialist who played an important role in the Industrial Revolution and who is known for developing the industrial-scale manufacture of sulphuric ac ...
(1718–1794), English inventor *
John Arthur Roebuck John Arthur Roebuck (28 December 1802 – 30 November 1879), British politician, was born at Madras, in India. He was raised in Canada, and moved to England in 1824, and became intimate with the leading radical and utilitarian reformers. He was ...
(1802–1879), British politician and Member of Parliament * Joseph Roebuck (born 1985), English swimmer * Kristian Roebuck (born 1981), English badminton player * Marty Roebuck (born 1965), Australian rugby union footballer *
Neil Roebuck Neil Roebuck (born 4 October 1969) is an English former professional rugby league footballer who played in the 1980s and 1990s. He played at club level for Bradford Northern, Castleford ( Heritage № 683) and Featherstone Rovers as a , i.e. nu ...
(born 1969), English rugby league footballer of the 1980s and 1990s *
Nigel Roebuck Nigel Roebuck (born 1946 in Manchester, Lancashire) is an English journalist. Since 1971 he has reported on Formula One, and is considered one of the sport's most influential writers. From 2007 to 2016 he was editor-in-chief of ''Motor Sport'' ...
(born 1946), English Formula One journalist *
Peter Roebuck Peter Michael Roebuck (6 March 195612 November 2011) was an English cricketer who later became an Australian newspaper columnist and radio commentator. A consistent county performer with over 25,000 runs, and "one of the better English openers ...
(1956–2011), English-Australian cricketer and journalist *
Roy Roebuck Roy Delville Roebuck (born 25 September 1929) is a British Labour Party politician and journalist. He was the Member of Parliament for Harrow East from 1966 to 1970. Early life Roebuck was born in Manchester in September 1929. He served in th ...
(born 1929), British journalist, Member of Parliament and barrister *
Thomas Roebuck Thomas Roebuck (1781–1819) was a Scottish army officer of the East India Company, known as an orientalist and lexicographer. Life A grandson of inventor John Roebuck, he was born in Linlithgowshire; politician John Arthur Roebuck was a cousin. ...
(1781–1819), British orientalist, translator, soldier and writer * Disney Roebuck or Disney-Roebuck, British family whose members include: ** Henry Disney Roebuck (18th-century), builder of "folly" Midford Castle ** Francis Algernon Disney-Roebuck "Captain Roebuck" (1819–1885), theatre manager in South Africa ** Francis Henry Algernon Disney-Roebuck (1846–1919), English cricketer, a son **
Claude Delaval Disney-Roebuck Claude Delaval Disney-Roebuck (1 March 1876 – 10 May 1947) was an English first-class cricketer, British Army officer, and actor. Early service and cricket He was born at Morice Town in Plymouth in March 1876 to Anna Marian Kate Bond and her ...
(1876–1947), English cricketer, a grandson ;Given name *
Pops Staples Pops may refer to: Name or nickname * Pops, an informal term of address for a father or elder * Pops (nickname), a list of people * Pops (Muppet), a Muppets character * Pops (Johnny Bravo), a character from the Cartoon Network animated television ...
born Roebuck Staples (1914–2000), American gospel and R&B musician


Places


Geography

* Roebuck, Dublin, a townland in south county Dublin, Ireland *
Roebuck, South Carolina Roebuck is a census-designated place (CDP) in Spartanburg County, South Carolina, United States. The population was 2,200 at the 2010 census. History The community was named for Revolutionary War Officer, Benjamin Roebuck. Roebuck is home to th ...
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Roebuck Bay Roebuck Bay is a bay on the coast of the Kimberley region of Western Australia. Its entrance is bounded in the north by the town of Broome, and in the south by Bush Point and Sandy Point. It is named after , the ship captained by William D ...
, Western Australia * Roebuck Estate, Holyhead Anglesey


Structures

* Roebuck Castle, home of the School of Law at
University College Dublin University College Dublin (commonly referred to as UCD) ( ga, Coláiste na hOllscoile, Baile Átha Cliath) is a public research university in Dublin, Ireland, and a collegiate university, member institution of the National University of Ireland ...
, Ireland * The Roebuck, a Grade II listed public house at 50 Great Dover Street, Borough, London


Other uses

* Roebuck, a character in '' Call of Duty: World at War'' * Roebuck Wright, a character in
The French Dispatch ''The French Dispatch of the Liberty, Kansas Evening Sun'', or simply ''The French Dispatch'', is a 2021 American anthology comedy drama film written, directed, and produced by Wes Anderson from a story he conceived with Roman Coppola, Hugo G ...
* Roebuck (Wicca), tradition begun by Robert Cochrane * HMS ''Roebuck'', the name of 14 ships of the Royal Navy *
Sears, Roebuck and Company Sears, Roebuck and Co. ( ), commonly known as Sears, is an American chain of department stores founded in 1892 by Richard Warren Sears and Alvah Curtis Roebuck and reincorporated in 1906 by Richard Sears and Julius Rosenwald, with what began a ...
, colloquially known as "Sears", an American chain of department stores founded by Richard Warren Sears and Alvah Curtis Roebuck {{disambiguation, geo, surname