| Robert |
| Gender |
Male |
| Meaning |
Bright Fame |
| Region |
Germanic |
| Related names |
Rob, Bob, Bobby, Robbie, Robin, Rupert and Bert |
| Wikipedia articles |
All pages beginning with Robert |
Robert is a male given name.
The name Robert[1][2] is derived from Germanic roots meaning "Bright Fame". After becoming widely used
in Continental Europe it entered England, where an Anglo-Saxon cognate of the name also already
existed, with the Normans.
- Proto-Germanic hrôdberxtas
- Old German Hrodebert, Rodbert
- Old English language Hrēodbēorht, Hrodberht, Hrēodbēorð,
Hrœdbœrð, Hrœdberð
- Old French Rodbert, Robert
- Modern English Robert, Roberta(feminine)
- Modern French Robert, Rober, Roper,
Roberta(feminine)
- New High German Robert, Rodebrecht, Rodeberht,
Roberta(feminine)
- (Medieval) Latin Rotberti
Variations
There are several variations, some of which are used as nicknames for people named Robert, and others which are derived from
the name Robert. The following which are marked "*" also have other derivations.
In Italy during the Second World War, the form of the name, Roberto, briefly acquired a new
meaning derived from, and referring to the Rome-Berlin-Tokyo
Axis)[3].
Given names
- Saints
- Medieval
- Dukes of Normandy
- Kings of Scotland
- Franconian Babenbergers/Robertian
Capetians
- Robert I of Wormgau(aka Rutpert I, Hruodbertus I)
- Robert II of Wormgau(aka Rutpert II, Hruodbertus II)
- Robert III of Wormgau(aka Rutpert III, Hruodbertus III)
- Robert the Strong(aka Rutpert IV, Hruodbertus IV)
Politics and Legal
- Robert Bell (speaker), Speaker of the British House of Commons 1572-76, Lord Chief Baron of the Exchequer
- Robert Bertrand, Canadian politician
- Robert Bork, American judge
- Robert Fico, Prime Minister of Slovakia
- Robert Gates U.S. Secretary of
Defense
- Robert Hawke, former Prime Minister of Australia
- Robert Heinrich Wagner, Nazi Gauleiter and Reich Governor of Alsace
- Robert Hill, former Australian Defence Minister
- Robert Francis Kennedy, U.S. Attorney General (1961-1964) and younger brother of
President John F. Kennedy
- Robert M. La Follette, Sr., politician
- Robert M. La Follette, Jr., politician
- Robert E. Lee, General of Confederate army during United States Civil
War
- Robert McClelland, Australian politician
- Robert McNamara, U.S. Secretary of Defense (1961 to 1968) during President
Lyndon B. Johnson's administration
- Robert Menzies, former Prime Minister of Australia
- Robert Milligan, British soldier and politician
- Robert Mugabe, president of Zimbabwe
- Robert Muldoon, former Prime Minister of New
Zealand
- Robert Schuman, late German-French foreign minister, regarded as one of the founders
of the European Union
- Robert Zubrin, Martian advocate
- Robert Zoellick, U.S. Deputy Secretary of State
- Robert Jovicic, stateless person.
- Robert F. Wagner, Democratic U.S. Senator, New York
- Robert F. Wagner, Jr., New York City
Mayor
- Robert Walpole, popularly regarded as the first British Prime Minister
Entertainment & The Arts
- Robert Adam, Scottish architect
- Robert Altman Movie Director
- Robert April, fictional character in the
Star Trek universe
- Robert Barclay, eminent writer of the 17th century
- Robert Beltran, best known for his role as Commander Chakotay on Star Trek: Voyager
- Roberto Benigni, Academy-Award winning Italian movie
director and actor
- Robert Bingham, American writer
- Robert Blake, American actor
- LeVar Robert Martyn Burton Jr., actor and
director who first came to prominence playing Kunta
Kinte in the 1977 award winning television miniseries Roots
- Roberto Carlos, Brazilian singer (born Roberto Carlos Braga)
- Robert Carlyle, British actor
- Robert Colescott, United States painter
- Robert Conrad, American actor
- Robbie Coltrane, British Actor
- Robert Conway, professional wrestler
- Robert Culp, American actor
- Robert Cummings, American film director and musician under the name Rob Zombie
- Robert De Niro, two-time Oscar-winning
Italian-American actor
- Robert Del Naja, British trip-hop musician best known for his work with Massive Attack
- Robert Donat, Academy Award Actor
- Robert Downey Jr., American actor
- Robert Duvall , American actor
- Robert Englund, American actor best known for his portrayal of horror character
Freddy Krueger
- Robert Evans, Film Producer
- Robert Forster, American actor
- Robert Frost, American poet
- Robert Goulet, singer
- Robert Guillaume, actor
- Robert Halford, Lead singer for Judas Priest
- Robert Hass, American poet
- Robert A. Heinlein, late German-American science fiction author
- Robert Iler, American actor The Sopranos
- Robert Johnson, an influential American blues singer and songwriter
- Robert Kelly, American singer known as R Kelly
- Robert Klein, American comic
- Robby Krieger, The Doors guitarist
- Robert Lansing, actor
- Robert Sean Leonard, actor
- Robert Lindsay, British actor
- Robert Lowe, American actor
- Robert Ludlum, American fiction author
- Robert Nesta Marley, musician better known as Bob Marley
- Robert Merrill, opera singer
- Robert Merwald, opera singer
- Robert McCormick, Australian drummer
- Robert Duncan McNeill, American
actor, producer, movie
director, and television director who is best known for his role as
Lieutenant Tom Paris on the television show,
Star Trek: Voyager
- Robert Mitchum American actor
- Roberto Miura, fictional character from
the Rival Schools video game universe
- Robert Moog, electronic music synthesizer and pioneer
- Robert Morse, American actor
- Robert Morley, British Actor
- Robert Novak, columnist and writer
- Robert Palmer, English rock singer best known for the song Addicted to
Love
- Robert Pastorelli actor
- Robert Picardo, American actor
- Robert Plant, singer and songwriter; lead vocalist for the band Led Zeppelin
- Robert Preston, American actor
- Robert Reed, actor Brady Bunch
- Robert Redford, American actor
- Robert Ripley, Ripley's Believe it or
Not
- Robert Rodriguez,film maker
- Roberto Rossellini, Italian Director
- Robert Ryan, actor
- Robert Schimmel, comic
- Robert Schumann, German composer
- Robert Shaw, actor, Jaws, The Sting
- Robert B. Sherman, American songwriter
- Robert Smith (musician), vocalist and songwriter for the rock group
The Cure
- Robert Louis Stevenson, novelist, poet
- Robert Taylor, American actor
- Robert Thomas, singer known as Rob Thomas
- Robert Townsend, actor and film maker
- Robert Urich, American actor
- Robert Vaughn, American actor
- Robert Wagner, American actor
- Robert Williams, English pop star, more commonly known as Robbie
Williams
- Robert Wise, director and producer
- Robert Hewitt Wolfe, American television producer and scriptwriter
- Robert Young, American actor Father Knows
Best, Marcus Welby
- Robert Zemekis, Film Director and Producer
- Robert Allen Zimmerman, German-American musician, more commonly known as Bob
Dylan
Sports
Gabriella Vorermork cheerleader
- Robert Allenby, Australian golfer
- Roberto Alomar, baseball player
- Roberto Carlos da Silva, Brazilian football (soccer) player
- Roberto Baggio, Italian football (soccer) player
- Robert Bartko, German road and track cyclist
- Robert Brazile, former 1970's all decade team NFL linebacker
- Roberto Clemente, Puerto Rican baseball player for whom the team owner named his
champion racehorse Roberto (horse)
- Robert Conway, professional wrestler
- Rob Dibble, baseball player and sports analyst
- Roberto Donadoni, Former Italian football (soccer) player and head coach of the
Italian national team
- Roberto Duran, Boxer
- Robert Fick, baseball player
- Robbie Fowler, English football (soccer) player
- Robert Grondelaers (1933-1989), Belgian cyclist
- Roberto Hernandez, baseball player
- Robert Horry, American professional basketball player
- Robert Horstink, Dutch volleyball player
- Robert Ihly, German race walker
- Robert Booker Tio Huffman, American professional wrestler
- Robert Jones (American football), former pro bowl football player
for the Dallas Cowboys
- Robert Karlsson, Swedish golfer
- Roberto Kelly, baseball player
- Robert Knievel motorcycle daredevil Evel
Knievel
- Robbie Knievel, motorcycle daredevil son of Evel
Knievel
- Robert Oliver, New Zealand road and track cyclist
- Robert Pires, French footballer
- Robert Parish, American professional basketball player
- Robert Porcher, Former Detriot Lions defensive stand out
- Roberto Lopes, Brazilian beach volleyball player
- Roberto Luongo, Canadian ice hockey player
- Robert Reid (basketball) (1955- ), American basketball player
- Robbie Savage, Welsh footballer
- Robert Remus, former pro wrestler Sgt. Slaughter
- Robert Smith (football player), former standout running back for the
Minnesota Vikings
- Robert Szatkowski, professional wrestler under the name Rob Van Dam
- Robby Thompson, baseball player, 2nd baseman San Francisco Giants
- Robert van der Zant, Australian medley swimmer
- Robert Witschge, Dutch footballer
- Robert Kubica, Polish Formula One driver
Other
- Robert Atkins (nutritionist), Creator of the famous Atkins Diet.
- Robert Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powell, soldier,
writer and founder of the world Scouting movement
- Robert Browning, British poet
- Robert Boyle, Famous Irish-born Scientist responsible for Boyle's Law
- Roberto Cavalli, Fashion Designer
- Robert Ford (outlaw), the man who shot Jesse James
- Robert Fulton, Inventor of the Steamship
- Robert Hooke, Famous British Scientist, best known for Hooke's Law
- Robert L. Johnson , Founder of BET network, owner of the NBA's Charlotte
Bobcats. first African American billionaire
- Robert Morris (financier) (1734–1806), financier of the American
Revolution and signatory of three important founding documents of the United States. Robert Morris University college is named after him.
- Robert Moses, city planner and architect
- Robert Nozick, Polish-American Philosopher
- Robert Oppenheimer, German-American nuclear physicist, regarded as the sole
"Father of the Atomic Bomb"
- Robert Pickton, Canadian accused of multiple murders
- Robert Scoble, technology blogger.
- Robert Shapiro, lawyer
- Robert Swirsky, pianist and computer scientist
- Robert La Salle, French explorer
Surnamed
- see also Roberts (surname)
Institutions
See also
Resources
- ^ Reaney & Wilson, 1997. Dictionary of English Surnames. OUP
- ^ Withycombe, E., 1973 edn. Oxford Dictionary of English Christian
names OUP
- ^ RoBerTo Checked, Time Magazine, October 19, 1942
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