Robert Watson
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Robert Watson may refer to:
- Robert Watson (artist)Robert Watson (artist)Robert Watson was an artist born in Martinez, California. He is known for his paintings of mysterious landscapes occupied by solitary figures amidst ancient buildings, calm deserts and expanding oceans. Watson provided the cover art for Ray Bradbury's The Martian Chronicles, second edition,...
(1923-2004) - Robert Watson (engineer)Robert Watson (engineer)Robert Watson was an English and Australian civil engineer. He was also a surveyor and railway engineer.-Family life and education:...
(1822-1891) - Robert Watson (computer scientist), computer scientist
- Robert Watson (Canadian politician)Robert Watson (Canadian politician)Robert Watson was an industrialist and political figure in Manitoba, Canada. He represented Marquette in the Canadian House of Commons from 1883 to 1892 as a Liberal and Portage La Prairie in the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba as a Liberal from 1892 to 1899...
(1853-1929), Canadian parliamentarian - Robert Watson (Newfoundland politician)Robert Watson (Newfoundland politician)Robert Watson was a civil servant and political figure in Newfoundland. He represented Trinity Bay in the Newfoundland and Labrador House of Assembly from 1897 to 1900, from 1902 to 1904 and from 1908 to 1913 as a Conservative and later as a member of the People's Party.He was born in Hant's...
(1863-1930), politician in Newfoundland - Robert Watson (scientist)Robert Watson (scientist)Robert T. Watson is a British scientist who has worked on atmospheric science issues including ozone depletion, global warming and paleoclimatology since the 1980s.- Education and awards :...
, atmospheric scientist - Robert Watson (Scrabble player)Robert Watson (Scrabble player)Robert Watson is the 1988 National Scrabble Championship champion, who subsequently retired from tournament Scrabble to pursue other interests, including medicine...
- Robert A. Watson, Rhode Island politician
- Robert B. WatsonRobert B. WatsonRobert B. "Bobby" Watson was a Canadian Horse Racing Hall of Fame jockey. He was born in Aberdeen, Scotland, the son of Helen Booth and her husband, Alexander Watson. In his youth, the family emigrated to Canada where they settled in the city of Toronto, Ontario where Alexander Watson became...
, Canadian Hall of Fame jockey - Robert Boog WatsonRobert Boog WatsonRobert Boog Watson was a Scottish malacologist and minister of the Free Church of Scotland best known as the author of the report on the Scaphopoda and Gastropoda collected by on the H.M.S. Challenger expedition to survey the world's oceans during the years 1873-1876. Watson also described...
, Scottish malacologist, (1823-1910) - Robert James WatsonRobert James WatsonRobert James Watson was a Canadian politician.Born in Saint John, New Brunswick, he was educated at a Public School and Hamilton University. A farmer, he ran unsuccessfully in the Ontario riding of Muskoka and Parry Sound for the Canadian House of Commons in 1900. He was elected in the 1904...
(1846-1931), Canadian parliamentarian - Robert K. WatsonRobert K. WatsonRobert Watson, born in Chicago, Illinois, in the United States, is an international leader in the green building movement. He founded the LEED Green Building Rating System of the United States Green Building Council in 1993 and was its Founding Chairman until 2006.After helping to pioneer the...
, LEED - Robert P. WatsonRobert P. WatsonDr. Robert P. Watson is a professor, author, frequent media commentator, and former candidate for the United States House of Representatives.-Background and education:...
, educator & activist
See also
- Bob Watson, baseball player
- Bob Watson (lacrosse)Bob Watson (lacrosse)Bob "Whipper" Watson is a former goaltender for the Toronto Rock in the National Lacrosse League and is regarded as one of the best goaltenders ever to play indoor lacrosse Watson won six NLL Championships with the Rock, and was named Championship Game MVP in both 2003 and 2011. Watson was named...
- Bobby WatsonBobby WatsonBobby Watson is an American post-bop jazz alto saxophonist, composer, producer, and educator. Watson now has 26 recordings as a leader. He appears on nearly 100 other recordings as either co-leader or in a supporting role...
, jazz saxophonist, composer, producer, and educator - Bobby Watson (basketball)Bobby Watson (basketball)Bobby Watson is a former guard who played in the National Basketball Association. Watson was drafted by the Milwaukee Hawks in the 1952 NBA Draft. He first played in the NBA with the Minneapolis Lakers in 1954 before being traded back to the Milwaukee Hawks for Lew Hitch.-References:...
, American basketball player - Bobby Watson (footballer)Bobby Watson (Footballer)Bobby Watson is a Scottish former football player and manager. Watson played as a defender for Rangers and Motherwell. Watson was transferred from Rangers to Motherwell in a deal that also involved Peter McCloy and Brian Heron. Watson represented Scotland once, in a friendly match played against...
, Scottish football player and manager - Rob WatsonRob WatsonRobert D. Watson is a keyboard player, producer and composer best known for his work with the rock bands Daniel Amos and The Swirling Eddies...
, keyboardist - Bobby Watson, the name of every single member of a family referenced in The Bald SopranoThe Bald SopranoLa Cantatrice Chauve — translated from French as The Bald Soprano or The Bald Prima Donna — is the first play written by Franco-Romanian playwright Eugène Ionesco. Nicolas Bataille directed the premiere on May 11, 1950 at the Théâtre des Noctambules, Paris...
by Eugène IonescoEugène IonescoEugène Ionesco was a Romanian and French playwright and dramatist, and one of the foremost playwrights of the Theatre of the Absurd...
. - Robert Watson, Confederate Civil War veteran from Florida (1835-1911)