Gender:
Origin:
German
21822 famous people named Robert found on Wikipedia.
4819844 male, 20098 female in US.
Most recent ranking:
71-th in year 2018
Best ranking:
1st in year 1953
Used in: Ancient-Germanic, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, French, German, Norwegian, Polish, Romanian, Russian, Slovene, Swedish
A male given name: from Germanic words meaning “glory” and “bright.”.
The name Robert is a Celtic and Germanic given name, from Proto-Germanic *χrōþi- "fame" and *berχta- "bright". Compare Old Dutch Robrecht and Old High German Hrodebert (a compound of hruod "fame, glory" and berht "bright"). It is also in use as a surname.
After becoming widely used in Continental Europe it entered England in its Old French form Robert, where an Old English cognate form (Hrēodbēorht, Hrodberht, Hrēodbēorð, Hrœdbœrð, Hrœdberð) had existed before the Norman Conquest. The feminine version is Roberta. The Italian, Portuguese, and Spanish form is Roberto.
Similar to the name Richard, "Robert" is also a common name in many Germanic languages, including English, German, Dutch, Norwegian, Swedish, Danish, and Icelandic. It can be used as a French, Irish, Scottish, Finnish, and Estonian name as well.
Masc. proper name, from Old North French form of Old High German Hrodberht "bright-fame, bright with glory," from hrod- "fame, glory," from Proto-Germanic *hrothi-, + -berht "bright" (see Albert). The name of William the Conqueror's rebellious oldest son. "It was introduced by Normans during the reign of Edward the Confessor and became very popular" ["Dictionary of English Surnames"].
Bright fame. Combine of hrod (fame) and beraht (bright).
| Popularity | Name | Birth Year | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Robert Kardashian | 1944 | American attorney |
| 2 | Robert Downey, Jr. | 1965 | American actor |
| 3 | Robert Shapiro | 1942 | Los Angeles lawyer and entrepreneur |
| 4 | Robert Redford | 1936 | Actor and film director from the United States |
| 5 | Robert F. Kennedy | 1925 | American politician and brother of John F. Kennedy |
| 6 | Robert Pattinson | 1986 | English actor |
| 7 | Robert Durst | 1943 | American businessman |
| 8 | Robert E. Lee | 1807 | Confederate general in the Civil War |
| 9 | Robert Lewandowski | 1988 | Polish footballer |
| 10 | Robert Duvall | 1931 | American actor and director |
| 11 | Robert Plant | 1948 | English musician, singer and songwriter |
| 12 | Robert Herjavec | 1963 | Croatian-Canadian businessman |
| 13 | Robert Wadlow | 1918 | American who was the tallest recorded person in history |
| 14 | Robert Mugabe | 1924 | President of Zimbabwe |
| 15 | Robert Wagner | 1930 | American actor |
| 16 | Robert Griffin III | 1990 | American football quarterback |
| 17 | Robert Carlyle | 1961 | Scottish actor |
| 18 | Robert Vaughn | 1932 | American actor |
| 19 | Robert Hanssen | 1944 | FBI agent who spied for Soviet and Russian intelligence services |
| 20 | Robert Kraft | 1941 | American businessman and philanthropist |
| 21 | Robert Mitchum | 1917 | 1917-1997 American film actor, author, composer and singer |
| 22 | Robert Rinder | 1974 | |
| 23 | Robert Blake | 1933 | Actor |
| 24 | Robert Frost | 1874 | American poet |
| 25 | Robert Patrick | 1958 | American actor |
| 26 | Robert I of Scotland | 1274 | King of Scots from 1306 until his death in 1329 |
| 27 | Robert Rodriguez | 1968 | American film director and producer |
| 28 | Robert Louis Stevenson | 1850 | Scottish novelist, poet, essayist, and travel writer |
| 29 | Robert Mueller | 1944 | An American attorney who was the sixth director of the FBI |
| 30 | Robert Johnson | 1911 | American blues singer and musician |
| 31 | Robert Todd Lincoln | 1843 | Union Army officer |
| 32 | Robert Zemeckis | 1952 | American film director, producer and screenwriter |
| 33 | Robert Englund | 1947 | American actor, voice-actor, singer, and director |
| 34 | Robert Knepper | 1959 | Actor |
| 35 | Robert Shaw | 1927 | English actor and novelist |
| 36 | Robert Palmer | 1949 | English singer-songwriter and musician |
| 37 | Robert Byrd | 1917 | United States Senator from West Virginia |
| 38 | Robert Loggia | 1930 | American actor |
| 39 | Robert Trujillo | 1964 | American bassist known for his role as the current bassist of Metallica |
| 40 | Robert Reed | 1932 | American actor, director |
| 41 | Robert Hooke | 1635 | English natural philosopher, architect and polymath |
| 42 | Robert Smith | 1959 | English singer, songwriter and musician |
| 43 | Robert Burns | 1759 | Scottish poet and lyricist |
| 44 | Robert Irvine | 1965 | English celebrity chef |
| 45 | Robert Fuller | 1933 | Actor from the United States |
| 46 | Robert Wahlberg | 1967 | American actor |
| 47 | Robert Horry | 1970 | American basketball player |
| 48 | Robert Conrad | 1935 | Actor, singer, radio commentator |
| 49 | Robert Downey, Sr. | 1936 | Actor and director from the United States |
| 50 | Robert McNamara | 1916 | American businessman and Secretary of Defense |
| 51 | Robert Hansen gayy | 1939 | American serial killer |
| 52 | Robert Reich | 1946 | American political economist |
| 53 | Robert Whittaker | 1990 | Australian martial artist |
| 54 | Robert Huth | 1984 | German footballer |
| 55 | Robert Carradine | 1954 | American actor |
| 56 | Robert Mapplethorpe | 1946 | American photographer |
| 57 | Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. | 1954 | American activist |
| 58 | Robert A. Heinlein | 1907 | American science fiction author |
| 59 | Robert Ben Rhoades | 1945 | |
| 60 | Robert Osborne | 1932 | American actor and film historian |
| 61 | Robert Taylor | 1963 | Australian actor |
| 62 | Robert Sheehan | 1988 | Actor from the Republic of Ireland |
| 63 | Robert Urich | 1946 | Actor |
| 64 | Robert Sean Leonard | 1969 | American actor |
| 65 | Robert Pickton | 1949 | Canadian murderer |
| 66 | Robert Schumann | 1810 | German composer, aesthete and influential music critic |
| 67 | Robert Forster | 1941 | American actor |
| 68 | Robert Kazinsky | 1983 | British actor and model |
| 69 | Robert Black | 1947 | Scottish serial killer |
| 70 | Robert Dudley, 1st Earl of Leicester | 1532 | English nobleman and the favourite and close friend of Queen Elizabeth I |
| 71 | Robert Gates | 1943 | CIA director, U.S. Secretary of Defense, and university president |
| 72 | Robert Culp | 1930 | Actor, scriptwriter |
| 73 | Robert Falcon Scott | 1868 | Royal Navy officer and explorer |
| 74 | Robert Kirkman | 1978 | American comic book writer |
| 75 | Robert Ford | 1862 | American outlaw |
| 76 | Robert Kiyosaki | 1947 | American finance author , investor |
| 77 | Robert John "Mutt" Lange | 1948 | Rock music record producer, songwriter, Grammy winner |
| 78 | Robert Stack | 1919 | Actor |
| 79 | Robert Peel | 1788 | British Conservative statesman |
| 80 | Robert Mercer | 1946 | American businessperson |
| 81 | Robert Pine | 1941 | American actor |
| 82 | Robert Fripp | 1946 | English guitarist, composer and record producer. |
| 83 | Robert Baden-Powell | 1857 | Lieutenant-general in the British Army, writer, founder and Chief Scout of the Scout Movement |
| 84 | Robert Buckley | 1981 | American actor |
| 85 | Robert Wolders | 1936 | Dutch actor |
| 86 | Robert Altman | 1925 | American film director and screenwriter |
| 87 | Robert Guillaume | 1927 | American stage and television actor |
| 88 | Robert Pirès | 1973 | French footballer |
| 89 | Robert Goulet | 1933 | Singer and actor of French Canadian ancestry |
| 90 | Robert Bork | 1927 | American legal scholar |
| 91 | Robert Aldrich | 1918 | American film director, screenwriter and producer |
| 92 | Robert Davi | 1953 | American actor and jazz singer |
| 93 | Robert Parish | 1953 | American basketball player |
| 94 | Robert Emmet Odlum | 1851 | Swimming instructor; first person to dive off Brooklyn Bridge |
| 95 | Robert Liston | 1794 | Scottish surgeon |
| 96 | Robert Todd Lincoln Beckwith | 1904 | Descendent of Abraham Lincoln |
| 97 | Robert Boyle | 1627 | English natural philosopher, chemist, physicist, and inventor |
| 98 | Robert Browning | 1812 | English poet and playwright of the Victorian Era |
| 99 | Robert Ellis Silberstein | 1943 | |
| 100 | Robert Ludlum | 1927 | Novelist |
| 101 | Robert Del Naja | 1966 | British musician |
| 102 | Robert Lopez | 1975 | Songwriter of musicals |
| 103 | Robert Clive | 1725 | British East India Company military officer |
| 104 | Robert Ryan | 1909 | Actor |
| 105 | Robert Koch | 1843 | German physician and bacteriologist |
| 106 | Robert Montgomery | 1904 | American film and television actor |
| 107 | Robert J. Bentley | 1943 | 53rd Governor of Alabama |
| 108 | Robert Miles | 1969 | Record producer, composer, musician and DJ |
| 109 | Robert Sandifer | 1983 | American murder victim |
| 110 | Robert Vadra | 1969 | Indian businessman |
| 111 | Robert Webb | 1972 | English comedian, actor and writer |
| 112 | Robert Graysmith | 1942 | American writer |
| 113 | Robert Smalls | 1839 | American politician |
| 114 | Robert Stroud | 1890 | Alcatraz inmate |
| 115 | Robert Foxworth | 1941 | Actor |
| 116 | Robert Picardo | 1953 | American actor |
| 117 | Robert John Burke | 1960 | Actor |
| 118 | Robert Walpole | 1676 | British statesman |
| 119 | Robert Rauschenberg | 1925 | American artist |
| 120 | Robert Moses | 1888 | American urban planner |
| 121 | Robert Clary | 1926 | Holocaust survivor and actor |
| 122 | Robert Gould Shaw | 1837 | Union United States Army officer |
| 123 | Robert Chambers | 1966 | American criminal, born 1966 |
| 124 | Robert Snodgrass | 1987 | Scottish footballer |
| 125 | Robert Rogers | 1731 | American loyalist soldier |
| 126 | Robert Baratheon | A Song of Ice and Fire character | |
| 127 | Robert Powell | 1944 | English television and film actor |
| 128 | Robert John Bardo | 1970 | American murderer |
| 129 | Robert Crumb | 1943 | American cartoonist |
| 130 | Robert Morse | 1931 | American actor |
| 131 | Robert Young | 1907 | American actor |
| 132 | Robert E. Howard | 1906 | American author |
| 133 | Robert Peston | 1960 | British journalist |
| 134 | Robert Preston | 1918 | American actor |
| 135 | Robert II of Scotland | 1316 | King of Scots from 1371 to his death as the first monarch of the House of Stewart |
| 136 | Robert Glenister | 1960 | British actor |
| 137 | Robert Smigel | 1960 | Humorist, performer |
| 138 | Robert Maxwell | 1923 | Czechoslovakian-born British media proprietor and Member of Parliament |
| 139 | Robert Owen | 1771 | Welsh social reformer |
| 140 | Robert Ri'chard | 1983 | Robert Ri'chard |
| 141 | Robert Capa | 1913 | American photographer |
| 142 | Robert O'Neill | 1976 | Navy SEAL |
| 143 | Robert Chase | Fictional character | |
| 144 | Robert Christgau | 1942 | American music journalist |
| 145 | Robert William Fisher | 1961 | American fugitive |
| 146 | Robert Iler | 1985 | American actor |
| 147 | Robert Hays | 1947 | American actor |
| 148 | Robert Graves | 1895 | English poet and novelist |
| 149 | Robert California | ||
| 150 | Robert Ballard | 1942 | United States Navy officer, oceanographer and underwater archaeologist |
| 151 | Robert Beltran | 1953 | American actor |
| 152 | Robert Landsburg | 1931 | American photographer |
| 153 | Robert Alda | 1914 | American theatrical and film actor; father of actors Alan and Antony Alda |
| 154 | Robert Leckie | 1920 | US writer |
| 155 | Robert Horton | 1924 | American actor |
| 156 | Robert Stephens | 1931 | English actor |
| 157 | Robert Maillet | 1969 | Canadian professional wrestler |
| 158 | Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex | 1565 | English nobleman |
| 159 | Robert Lamm | 1944 | American musician, member of Chicago |
| 160 | Robert Jordan | 1948 | American writer |
| 161 | Robert Kearns | 1927 | Inventor of the intermittent windshield wiper system |
| 162 | Robert Cummings | 1908 | American film and television actor |
| 163 | Robert Guerrero | 1983 | American boxer |
| 164 | Robert Fulton | 1765 | American engineer and inventor |
| 165 | Robert Lindsay | 1949 | Actor |
| 166 | Robert Harris | 1957 | Novelist |
| 167 | Robert L. Johnson | 1946 | American businessman |
| 168 | Robert Kubica | 1984 | Polish racing driver |
| 169 | Robert H. Goddard | 1882 | American physicist |
| 170 | Robert Kuok | 1923 | Malaysian businessman |
| 171 | Robert Wisdom | 1953 | American actor |
| 172 | Robert Belushi | 1980 | American actor |
| 173 | Robert Menzies | 1894 | Former Australian politician and 12th Prime Minister of Australia |
| 174 | Robert Sugden | ||
| 175 | Robert Taft | 1889 | Politician from the United States, son of 27th US President William Howard Taft |
| 176 | Robert Hardy | 1925 | Actor |
| 177 | Robert K. Merton | 1910 | American sociologist |
| 178 | Robert Greene | 1959 | American author |
| 179 | Robert Neller | 1953 | A United States Marine Corps general who currently serves as the 37th Commandant of the Marine Corps |
| 180 | Robert III of Scotland | 1337 | King of Scotland |
| 181 | Robert Gibbs | 1971 | 28th White House Press Secretary |
| 182 | Robert Nkemdiche | 1994 | American football defensive lineman |
| 183 | Robert Hoffman | 1980 | American actor and dancer |
| 184 | Robert Duncan McNeill | 1964 | American actor and director |
| 185 | Robert Pastorelli | 1954 | American actor |
| 186 | Robert Prosky | 1930 | American actor |
| 187 | Robert Townsend | 1753 | American spy |
| 188 | Robert Eggers | 1982 | Film director |
| 189 | Robert Cialdini | 1945 | American social psychologist |
| 190 | Robert Klein | 1942 | American actor and comedian |
| 191 | Robert Lee | 1948 | Musician |
| 192 | Robert Green | 1980 | English footballer |
| 193 | Robert Sink | 1905 | United States Army officer |
| 194 | Robert Berdella | 1949 | American serial killer |
| 195 | Robert Fox | 1953 | English theatre and film producer |
| 196 | Robert Noyce | 1927 | American businessman and engineer |
| 197 | Robert Tilton | 1946 | American television evangelist |
| 198 | Robert Newton | 1905 | English stage and film actor |
| 199 | Robert Surcouf | 1773 | French privateer |
| 200 | Rob Tapert | 1955 | American film producer |