Robert Williams
Appearance
Robert, Rob, Robbie, Bob or Bobby Williams may refer to:
Entertainment
[edit]Film
[edit]- Robert Williams (actor, born 1894) (1894–1931), American stage and film actor
- Robert B. Williams (actor) (1904–1978), American film actor
- Robert Guillaume (1927–2017), American film actor whose birth name is Robert Williams
- R. J. Williams (born 1978), American former child actor and later internet entrepreneur
- Rob Williams (filmmaker), American film director
Music
[edit]- Robert Pete Williams (1914–1980), American blues guitarist
- Chocolate Williams (Robert Williams Jr., 1916–1984), American jazz bassist and blues vocalist
- Bob Williams (singer) (1918–2003), American singer and one of the Williams Brothers
- Robert Williams (singer) (1949–2022), Greek singer and composer
- Robert S. Williams (born 1949), American bassoon player of the Detroit Symphony Orchestra
- Robert Williams (drummer) (born 1955), American drummer with Captain Beefheart, Hugh Cornwell, and solo
- Robbie Williams (born 1974), British pop singer and former member of Take That
- Rob Williams (1979–2009), partner of business Dolphin Music
- Meek Mill (Robert Rihmeek Williams, born 1987), American rapper
Writers
[edit]- Robert Williams (poet) (1744–1815), Welsh poet
- Robert Williams (Robert ap Gwilym Ddu) (1767–1850), Welsh-language poet
- Robert Williams (Trebor Mai) (1830–1877), Welsh-language poet
- Robert Moore Williams (1907–1977), American science fiction novelist
- Robert Williams (artist) (born 1943), American cartoonist and painter
- Rob Williams (comics), British comic writer
Military
[edit]- Robert Williams (Royal Navy officer) (1765–1827) English rear-admiral in the Royal Navy
- Robert Williams (adjutant general) (1829–1901), American brigadier general and Adjutant General of the US Army
- Robert Williams (Medal of Honor) (1837–unknown), American sailor and Medal of Honor recipient
- Robert B. Williams (general) (1901–1977), World War II major general in the United States Army Air Forces
- Robert H. Williams (soldier) (1908–1983), American Marine brigadier general
Politics
[edit]UK
[edit]- Sir Robert Williams, 2nd Baronet (c. 1627–1678), MP for Carnarvonshire, 1656–1658, and for Carnarvon Boroughs, 1659
- Robert Williams (died 1763) (1695–1763), MP for Montgomeryshire, 1740–1741 and 1742–1747
- Robert Williams (1735–1814) (1735–1814), MP for Dorchester, 1807–1812
- Sir Robert Williams, 9th Baronet (1764–1830) of Penryn, MP for Carnarvonshire, 1790–1826, and for Beaumaris, 1826–1831
- Robert Williams (1767–1847) (1767–1847), MP for Dorchester, 1812–1835
- Robert Williams (1811–1890) (1811–1890), MP for Dorchester, 1835–1841
- Sir Robert Williams, 1st Baronet, of Bridehead (1848–1943), Conservative MP for West Dorset, 1895–1922
US
[edit]- Robert Williams (Mississippi politician) (1773–1836), governor of the Mississippi Territory
- Robert P. Williams (1841–1910), state treasurer of Missouri, 1901–1905
- Robert L. Williams (1868–1948), American politician, governor of Oklahoma
- Robert R. Williams (politician) (died 1966), mayor of Miami, 1937–1939
- Bob Williams (West Virginia politician) (born 1951), American politician and state senator in West Virginia
- Bob Williams (Washington politician) (1942–2022), member of the Washington House of Representatives
- Robert Q. Williams (born 1964), member of the South Carolina House of Representatives
- Robert Williams (Virginia politician) (c. 1740–c. 1793), American lawyer, patriot, planter and politician
Elsewhere
[edit]- Robert Wynn Williams (1864–1929), member of the Queensland Legislative Assembly, Australia
- Robert Williams (Victorian politician) (1870–1938), Australian politician
- Robert Arthur Williams (1933–2024), consultant and political figure in British Columbia, Canada
- Robbie Williams (politician) (c. 1960–2007), Australian politician
Religion
[edit]- Robert Williams (antiquary) (1810–1881), Welsh Anglican clergyman and Celtic scholar
- Robert Williams (archdeacon of Carmarthen) (1863–1938), Welsh historian and Anglican priest
- Robert Dewi Williams (1870–1955), Welsh schoolteacher, Presbyterian minister, and author
- Robert Williams (archdeacon of Gower) (born 1951), Welsh Anglican priest
- Robert Williams (American priest) (1955–1992), first openly gay male priest in the American Episcopal Church
Science
[edit]- Robert Statham Williams (1859–1945), American bryologist
- Sir Robert Williams, 1st Baronet, of Park (1860–1938), Scottish mining engineer, explorer, and railway developer
- Robert R. Williams (1886–1965), American chemist who first synthesized vitamin B1
- Robert Hardin Williams (1909–1979), American endocrinologist and diabetologist
- Robert Williams (pathologist) (1916–2003), Welsh pathologist
- Robert Williams (physician, died 1845) (1787?– 1845), English physician
- Robin Williams (mathematician) (1919–2013), New Zealand mathematician, university administrator and civil servant
- Robert Williams (English chemist) (1926–2015), professor of Oxford University
- Robert Williams (psychologist) (1930–2020), president of the Association of Black Psychologists
- Robert Williams (astronomer) (born 1940), director of STScI 1993–98; president of IAU, 2009–2012
- Robin Williams (physicist) (Robert Hughes Williams, born 1941), Welsh physicist and academic
- Robert H. Williams (physicist), environmental scientist at the Princeton Environmental Institute
- Bobby G. Williams (born 1951), Jet Propulsion Laboratory engineer; namesake of asteroid 5642 Bobbywilliams
Sports
[edit]American football
[edit]- Bob Williams (coach) (1877–1957), American college football coach
- Bob Williams (quarterback) (1930–2016), football player for Notre Dame
- Bobby Williams (defensive back) (1942–2012), American pro football player, St. Louis Cardinals and the Detroit Lions
- Bob Williams (American football coach), at Livingston State Teachers College, now University of West Alabama, 1952
- Robert Williams (quarterback) (c. 1938–1990), football player for Notre Dame, 1956–1958
- Bobby Williams (born 1958), tight end, coach
- Robert Williams (defensive back, born 1962), former American football cornerback
- Bobbie Williams (born 1976), American football guard
- Robert Williams (defensive back, born 1977), former American football cornerback
Baseball
[edit]- Bob Williams (baseball) (1884–1962), baseball player for the New York Highlanders/Yankees
- Bobby Williams (baseball) (1895–1978), American baseball shortstop and manager in the Negro leagues
- Robert Williams (baseball) (1917–2000), American baseball pitcher and infielder in the Negro leagues
Basketball
[edit]- Bob Williams (basketball, born 1931), American professional basketball player, played collegiately at Florida A&M
- Bob Williams (basketball, born 1953), American basketball coach, most recently with UC Santa Barbara
- Rob Williams (basketball) (1961–2014), American professional basketball player, played collegiately for Houston
- Robert Williams III (born 1997), American professional basketball player, played collegiately for Texas A&M
- Robert Williams (Grambling State basketball), American college basketball player for Grambling State
Cricket
[edit]- Robert Williams (South African cricketer) (1912–1984), South African cricketer
- Robert Williams (English cricketer) (born 1970), English former cricketer
- Robbie Williams (cricketer) (born 1987), English cricketer for Middlesex
Football and rugby
[edit]- Bobbie Williams (rugby union) (1865–1967), Welsh international rugby union player
- Bobby Williams (Scottish footballer) (died 1916), Scottish footballer
- Bob Williams (rugby) (1886–1969), Australian rugby league footballer
- Bob Williams (Australian rules footballer) (1913–2004), Australian rules footballer with Hawthorn
- Bobby Williams (footballer, born 1932), English footballer for Chester City
- Bobby Williams (footballer, born 1940), English footballer
- Robbie Williams (footballer, born 1979), English footballer for Warrington Town
- Robbie Williams (footballer, born 1984), English footballer for Limerick
- Robert Williams (footballer, born 1927), English footballer for Wrexham and Shrewsbury Town
- Robert Williams (footballer, born 1932), English footballer for Mansfield Town
Other sports
[edit]- Robert Williams (archer) (1841–1914), American archer
- Bob Williams (rower) (1931–2017), Canadian rower
- Robbie Williams (snooker player) (born 1986), English snooker player
- Rob Williams (rower, born 1960), British rower
- Rob Williams (rower, born 1985), British Olympian
Other
[edit]- Robert A. Williams Jr., American lawyer and professor
- Robert S. C. Williams, community service worker in Ontario, Canada
- Robert C. Williams, the namesake of the Robert C. Williams Paper Museum
- Robert Edmund Williams (1874-1960), Canadian-American architect
- Robert F. Williams (1925–1996), American civil rights activist
- Robert Wayne Williams (1952–1983), American murderer executed in Louisiana
- Robert Williams (architect) (1848–1918), Welsh architect and social campaigner
- Robert Williams (geometer) (born 1942), American designer, mathematician, and architect
- Robert Williams (robot fatality) (1953–1979), the first person to be killed by a robot
- Robert Williams (trade union leader) (1881–1936), British trade union organizer
See also
[edit]- Bert Williams (disambiguation)
- Robin Williams (disambiguation)
- William Roberts (disambiguation)
- 5642 Bobbywilliams, Mars-crossing asteroid
- Vila Robert Williams, former name of Caála, Angola
- Williams (surname)