Robert Wilson
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In politics:
- Rob WilsonRob WilsonRobert Owen Biggs Wilson is a United Kingdom politician and entrepreneur. He was elected Conservative Member of Parliament for the Reading East parliamentary constituency in the 2005 general election.-Early life:...
(born 1965), British politician and entrepreneur, MP for Reading East - Robert J. Wilson, candidate in the 1953 Manitoba provincial election
- Robert John Wilson, Member of Parliament for JarrowJarrow (UK Parliament constituency)Jarrow is a parliamentary constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It elects one Member of Parliament by the first-past-the-post system of election.-Boundaries:...
- Robert Nichol WilsonRobert Nichol WilsonRobert Nichol Wilson, known as R. N. Wilson, was a unionist politician in Northern Ireland.Wilson studied at Malvern College and served in the Royal Artillery during World War II. After the war, he became a director of a textile company and joined the Ulster Unionist Party...
, Northern Irish politician - Robert Patterson Clark WilsonRobert Patterson Clark WilsonRobert Patterson Clark Wilson was a U.S. Representative from Missouri.Born in Boonville, Missouri, Wilson moved with his parents to Platte County....
(1834–1916), American politician, U.S. Representative from Missouri - Robert Wilson (Missouri)Robert Wilson (Missouri)Robert Wilson was a United States Senator from Missouri.-Biography:Born near Staunton, Virginia, he moved to Howard County, Missouri in 1820 and taught school. In 1825 he was probate judge of Howard County and was clerk of the circuit and county courts from 1829 to 1840...
(1803–1870), American politician and U.S. Senator from Missouri - Robert Wilson (politician) (born 1934), Canadian politician, expelled from the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba
- Robert Thomas WilsonRobert Thomas WilsonGeneral Sir Robert Thomas Wilson Kt was a British general and politician who served in Egypt, Prussia, and was seconded to the Imperial Russian Army in 1812. He sat as the Liberal Member of Parliament for Southwark from 1818 to 1831...
(1777–1849), British general and politician
In science:
- Robert R. WilsonRobert R. WilsonRobert Rathbun Wilson was an American physicist who was a group leader of the Manhattan Project, a sculptor, and an architect of Fermi National Laboratory , where he was also the director from 1967–1978....
(1914–2000), American physicist - Robert Wilson (astronomer)Robert Wilson (astronomer)Sir Robert Wilson FRS, CBE, Kt, was the son of a Durham miner. He studied physics at King's College, Durham and obtained his PhD in Edinburgh, where he worked at the Royal Observatory on stellar spectra...
(1927–2002), British astronomer - Robert Woodrow WilsonRobert Woodrow WilsonFor the American President, see Woodrow Wilson.Robert Woodrow Wilson is an American astronomer, 1978 Nobel laureate in physics, who with Arno Allan Penzias discovered in 1964 the cosmic microwave background radiation...
(born 1936), American astronomer and 1978 Nobel laureate in physics. - Robert Arnott WilsonRobert Arnott WilsonRobert Arnott Wilson is a mathematician in London, England, who is best known for his work on classifying the maximal subgroups of finite simple groups and for the work in the Monster group.-Books:...
(born 1958), British mathematician - Robert Dick WilsonRobert Dick WilsonRobert Dick Wilson was an American linguist and Presbyterian scholar who devoted his life to prove the reliability of the Hebrew Bible...
(1856–1930), American linguist and Presbyterian scholar - Robert B. WilsonRobert B. WilsonRobert Butler "Bob" Wilson, Jr. is an American economist and the Adams Distinguished Professor of Management, Emeritus at Stanford University. He is known for his contributions to management science and business economics. His doctoral thesis introduced sequential quadratic programming, which...
, American economist and professor at Stanford University - Robert Wilson (engineer) (1803-1882), Scottish engineer; inventor of the first practical screw propeller
In literature:
- Robert Anton WilsonRobert Anton WilsonRobert Anton Wilson , known to friends as "Bob", was an American author and polymath who became at various times a novelist, philosopher, psychologist, essayist, editor, playwright, poet, futurist, civil libertarian and self-described agnostic mystic...
(1932–2007), American author, essayist, occult and science fiction writer, etc. - Robert Charles WilsonRobert Charles WilsonRobert Charles Wilson is an American-Canadian science fiction author.Wilson was born in the United States in California, but grew up near Toronto, Ontario. Apart from another short period in the early 1970s spent in Whittier, California, he has lived most of his life in Canada, and in 2007 he...
(born 1953), Canadian science fiction writer - Robert McLiam WilsonRobert McLiam WilsonRobert McLiam Wilson is a Northern Irish novelist. He attended St Malachy's College and studied at University of Cambridge; however, he dropped out and, for a short time, was homeless. This period of his life profoundly affected his later life and influenced his works...
(born 1964), Northern Irish novelist - Robert Wilson (crime novelist)Robert Wilson (crime novelist)Robert Wilson is a British crime-writer currently resident in Portugal. He is the son of an RAF fighter pilot, and has a degree in English from Oxford. Wilson is the author of the Bruce Medway series, set on the Gold Coast of Africa, and the Javier Falcon series, set largely in Seville, Spain...
(born 1957), British crime novelist - Robert Wilson (dramatist)Robert Wilson (dramatist)Robert Wilson , was an Elizabethan dramatist who worked primarily in the 1580s and 1590s. He is also believed to have been an actor who specialized in clown roles....
(flourished 1572–1600), English Elizabethan dramatist
In performing arts:
- Robert Brian Wilson (born 1968), American film and television actor
- Robert Wilson (director)Robert Wilson (director)Robert Wilson is an American avant-garde stage director and playwright who has been called "[America]'s — or even the world's — foremost vanguard 'theater artist'". Over the course of his wide-ranging career, he has also worked as a choreographer, performer, painter, sculptor, video...
(born 1941), American avant-garde stage director and playwright - Robert Wilson (actor), American actor who almost exclusively played Jesus Christ in 1950's church-sponsored films which were not intended to be shown in theatres
In music:
- Juice WilsonJuice WilsonJuice Wilson was an American jazz violinist.Wilson grew up an orphan and was raised by his uncle from age three in Chicago. He began playing drums in the Chicago Militia Boys Band, then switched to violin at age eight. By the age of twelve he was already playing with Jimmy Wade, and at 14 he...
, (1904–1993), American jazz violinist - Robert Wilson (tenor)Robert Wilson (tenor)Robert Wilson was a Scottish tenor. After beginning his career with the Rothesay Entertainers in Scotland, Wilson joined the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company, with whom he performed from 1931 to 1937...
(1907–1964), Scottish tenor - Fresh I.E.Fresh I.E.Rob Wilson is a Christian rap artist from Winnipeg, Manitoba. His albums Red Letterz and Truth is Fallin' in tha Streetz were both nominated for Grammy Awards. Wilson is the first Canadian Christian artist to have been nominated for a Grammy Award...
, a Canadian rap artist whose real name is Rob Wilson - Robert Wilson (1957–2010), American R&B and funk musician, member of The Gap Band
In sports:
- Robert Wilson (footballer born 1961), UK football player
- Robert Wilson (rugby league)Robert Wilson (rugby league)Robert "Bob" Wilson was an English professional rugby league footballer of the 1900s, who at representative level played for England, and at club level for Broughton Rangers.-International honours:...
, rugby league footballer of the 1930s, for England, and Broughton Rangers - Robert Wilson (tennis), tennis player from the 1960s
- Robert Wilson (rower)Robert Wilson (rower)Robert Andrew Wilson is a Canadian rower who competed in the 1956 Summer Olympics.He was born in Montreal.In 1956 he was a crew member of the Canadian boat which won the silver medal in the eights event.-External links:*...
In other fields:
- Robert L. WilsonRobert L. WilsonRobert Lee Wilson was a United States Marine who posthumously received the Medal of Honor for heroism at the cost of his life on August 3, 1944, in the Marianas.-Early life:...
(1920–1944), United States Marine and Medal of Honor recipient - Robert O. WilsonRobert O. WilsonRobert O. Wilson, MD was an American physician born to Protestant missionaries Wilbur F. Wilson and Mary Rowley Wilson. Wilson attended Princeton University and subsequently obtained his medical training at Harvard Medical School, graduating in 1929. He returned to Nanjing in 1936, where he...
(born 1906), American physician noted for his humanitarian work during the Nanking Massacre - Robert Wilson (priest)Robert Wilson (priest)Robert James Wilson was an English Anglican priest and academic, who was Warden of Keble College, Oxford from 1894 until his death.-Life:...
(died 1897), Warden of Keble College, Oxford - Robert Wilson (ship captain)Robert Wilson (ship captain)Robert Wilson was a Great Lakes ship captain operating out of Oakville, Ontario who helped black slaves escape to freedom as part of the Underground Railroad....
(1806–1888), helped escaped slaves to freedom - Robert John Wilson (1901-1986), Delaware-based chemical industry sales executive
- Robert WilsonRobert WilsonRobert Wilson may refer to:In politics:* Rob Wilson , British politician and entrepreneur, MP for Reading East* Robert J. Wilson, candidate in the 1953 Manitoba provincial election* Robert John Wilson, Member of Parliament for Jarrow...
(1826-1900s), Brooklyn NY-based transit operator and pioneer settler (1867) in Kosciusko Street in Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood
See also
- Bob Wilson (disambiguation)
- Bobby Wilson (disambiguation)
- Robert Willson (disambiguation)Robert Willson (disambiguation)Robert Willson may refer to:*Robert Willson , American artist and sculptor notable for his creative use of solid glass*Robert William Willson , English Roman Catholic Bishop*Bob Willson , TV host...
- USS Robert L. Wilson (DD-847)USS Robert L. Wilson (DD-847)USS Robert L. Wilson was a of the United States Navy, named for Marine Private First Class Robert L. Wilson , who was posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor for "conspicuous gallantry" in the Battle of Tinian....
, United States Navy destroyer