Robert Young
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In sports:
- Robert Young (athlete)Robert Young (athlete)Robert Young was an American athlete who competed mainly in the 400 metres....
(1916-2011), American track athlete - Robert Young (triathlete)Robert Young (triathlete)Robert Young is a British professional racing cyclist with UCI ProTeam Milram and former triathlete. He has completed 42 internationals in triathlon, cycling and biathlon events....
(born 1982), British cyclist - Robert Young (American football)Robert Young (American football)Robert E. Young is a former professional American football player who played defensive lineman for six seasons for the Los Angeles Rams/St. Louis Rams and the Houston Oilers.-College career:...
(born 1969), American football player - Bob Young (American football)Bob Young (American football)Robert Allen Young was an American football offensive guard who played 16 seasons in the National Football League, mainly for the St. Louis Cardinals, where he and other Cardinal offensive linemen are credited with introducing modern weightlifting/powerlifting into the training regime of the NFL....
(1942–1995), American football player - Bob Young (footballer)Bob Young (footballer)Bob Young was an English footballer and manager. He played for Sunderland throughout his professional playing career, which was largely interrupted by World War I. During his career coached Norwich City...
, English association football manager - Bob Young (boxer)Bob Young (boxer)Bob Young is a retired American boxer. Born in Providence, Rhode Island, Young fought Sugar Ray Robinson in 1959, losing via second round knockout.-References:...
, American boxer from Rhode Island - Bobby Joe YoungBobby Joe YoungBobby Joe Young is a former boxer from Steubenville, Ohio. Young is best known as the only man to have a professional win over Aaron Pryor.-Amateur career:...
(born 1959), American boxer from Ohio - Bobby YoungBobby YoungRobert George Young was an American second baseman in Major League Baseball who played most of his career for the St. Louis Browns/Baltimore Orioles franchise....
(1925–1985), American baseball player
In politics:
- Robert A. YoungRobert A. YoungRobert A. Young III was a Democratic politician from the state of Missouri who served five terms in the US House of Representatives.-Education and family background:...
(1923–2007), member of the US House of Representatives - Robert Young (London politician)Robert Young (London politician)Reginald Stanley Young , known as Robert Young, was a Labour Party politician in the United Kingdom....
(1891–1985), British Member of Parliament for Islington North - Robert Young (Canadian politician) (1834–1904), Canadian politician and businessman
- Sir Robert Young (Lancashire politician)Robert Young (Lancashire politician)Sir Robert Young was a trades unionist and Labour Party politician in the United Kingdom.Young was born in Glasgow, and attended Mossbank Industrial School in the city before taking up a career in engineering. He subsequently became one of the first students enrolled at Ruskin College, Oxford...
(1872–1957), British Member of Parliament for Newton - Bob Young (mayor) (1947- ), former mayor of Augusta, Georgia, former senior executive in cabinet of Pres. George W. Bush, former television news anchor
In film and television:
- Bob Young (news anchor)Bob Young (news anchor)Robert H. "Bob" Young was a television news journalist for ABC News. He served as the anchor of The ABC Evening News from October 1967 to May 1968. Young's most noteworthy broadcast took place on April 4, 1968, when he anchored ABC's coverage of the assassination of Dr...
, American host of ABC's Evening News - Bob Young (TV producer)Bob Young (TV producer)Bob Young, born Robert S. Young Jr. in Knoxville, Tennessee, attended college at the University of Pennsylvania and soon after his graduation began working in stand-up comedy in Philadelphia with fellow comedian Bob Myer in a duo called Myer and Young. Once Bob moved out to Los Angeles he began...
, American television writer and producer, including Dinosaurs and Smart Guy - Robert M. Young (film director) (born 1924), American director, writer and producer
- Robert Young (actor)Robert Young (actor)Robert George Young was an American television, film, and radio actor, best known for his leading roles as Jim Anderson, the father of Father Knows Best and as physician Marcus Welby in Marcus Welby, M.D. .-Early life:Born in Chicago, Illinois, Young was the son of an Irish immigrant father...
(1907–1998), American actor - Robert Young (director)Robert Young (director)Robert William Young is a British television and film director.Young was born in Cheltenham, and in the 1980s and early 1990s, established himself as a leading director of British TV drama. In the 1970s, he directed Vampire Circus and Hammer House of Horror...
(born 1933), British film and television director
Authors and writers:
- Robert Clark YoungRobert Clark YoungRobert Clark Young is an American author of novels, essays, short stories and journalism. Recurring themes in Young's fiction include the relation between alcoholism, the abuse of power, and institutional dysfunction in American life, while his nonfiction has recently focused on eldercare topics...
(born 1960), American novelist, short-story writer, essayist, journalist and anti-Iraq War activist - Robert F. Young (1915–1986), American science fiction writer
- Robert J.C. YoungRobert J.C. Young- Life :He was educated at Repton School and Exeter College, Oxford where he read for a B.A. and D.Phil., taught at the University of Southampton, and then returned to Oxford University where he was Professor of English and Critical Theory and a fellow of Wadham College. In 2005, he moved to New...
(born 1950), British post-colonial theorist, cultural critic and historian - Robert M. Young (academic)Robert M. Young (academic)For other people with this name, see Robert Young ----Robert Maxwell Young, usually known as Robert M. Young or Bob Young , is a historian of science specialising in the 19th century and particularly Darwinian thought, a philosopher of the biological and human sciences, and a Kleinian...
(born 1935), American science historian, author and psychoanalyst - Robert W. Young (1912–2007), American linguist, co-author of the Analytical Lexicon of Navajo
- Robert O. Young (1952-), American author of books relating to alternative medicine and the alkaline diet
- Robert Young (Biblical scholar)Robert Young (Biblical scholar)Robert Young, LL.D., F.E.S.L. was a Scottish publisher who was self-taught and proficient in various oriental languages. He published works, the best known being a Bible translation commonly referred to as Young's Literal Translation.-Life:...
(1822–1888), Scottish publisher, author of Young's Literal Translation of the Bible - Rob YoungRob YoungRob Young is a British music author, journalist and current editor-at-large of The Wire, a British based experimental music magazine.Young has contributed to various publications including The Guardian, Gramophone, The Independent On Sunday, Uncut, Frieze and Jazz Times.-Rob Young, coastal...
, British music author and journalist
Others:
- Robert Young (architect) (1822–1917), Irish architect
- Robert P. Young, Jr. (born 1951), Michigan Supreme Court Justice
- Robert Benjamin YoungRobert Benjamin YoungCommander Robert Benjamin Young, RN was an officer in the Royal Navy. His service in small ships led to his presence observing the battle of Trafalgar in 1805 from the deck of the tiny 10 gun cutter HMS Entreprenante...
(1773–1846), British sea captain at the Battle of Trafalgar - Robert H. YoungRobert H. YoungRobert H. Young was a soldier in the United States Army during the Korean War. He posthumously received the Medal of Honor for his actions on October 9, 1950. Young is buried at Golden Gate National Cemetery in San Bruno, California.-Medal of Honor citation:Rank and organization: Private First...
(1929–1950), U.S. Army soldier, Medal of Honor recipient - Red Top YoungRed Top YoungRed Top Young is an American blues, rhythm and blues, country, rock and roll and jazz musician.Robert Young was born February 15, 1936 in Martinsville, Virginia, to Willie and Mattie Young. One of seven children, he started his education in Martinsville and completed high school in Elyria, Ohio...
(born 1936), American musician - Robert J. YoungRobert J. YoungRobert J. Young was a professor of History at the University of Winnipeg from 1967 until 2008. He specializes in 20th century European international politics. A graduate of the University of Saskatchewan and the London School of Economics, Young's doctoral dissertation was written under the...
(born 1942), Canadian historian - Robert R. YoungRobert R. YoungRobert Ralph Young was a United States financier and industrialist. He is best-known for leading the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway and New York Central Railroad during and after World War II. He was a brother-in-law of the famous western painter Georgia O'Keeffe.Because of his initials, R.R...
(1897–1958), American financier and industrialist - Robert Vaughn YoungRobert Vaughn YoungRobert Vaughn Young commonly known by his initials RVY, was a whistleblower against the Church of Scientology after working high inside their organization for over twenty years.-In Scientology:...
(1938–2003), American ex-Scientologist and critic of Scientology - Bob Young (businessman), Canadian founder and CEO of Red Hat
- Bob Young (artist)Bob Young (artist)Robert Keith Young is an English musician and author, who became famous for being the unofficial fifth member of the rock band Status Quo.- Collaborations with Status Quo :...
(born 1945), English musician and book author, unofficial member of Status Quo - Robert "Bob" Young VII (born 1964), a contestant on the third season of the Australian version of The MoleThe Mole (Australia season 3)The third season of the Australian version of The Mole took place mostly in Gold Coast, Queensland and was hosted by Grant Bowler.-Show Details:...
- Robert "Throb" Young, former lead guitarist with Primal ScreamPrimal ScreamPrimal Scream are a Scottish alternative rock band originally formed in 1982 in Glasgow by Bobby Gillespie and Jim Beattie and now based in London. The current lineup consists of Gillespie, Andrew Innes , Martin Duffy , and Darrin Mooney...