Robert Anderson

Robert Anderson is the name of:

Arts and entertainment

• Robert Anderson (author) (1750–1830), Scottish literary scholar and editor
• Robert Rowand Anderson (1834–1921), Scottish architect
• Robert Alexander Anderson (composer) (1894–1995), American composer
• Robert Woodruff Anderson (1917–2009), American playwright and screenwriter
• Robert Anderson (singer) (1919–1995), African-American gospel singer and composer
• Robert J. Anderson (1933–2008), American actor and television producer
• Robert Anderson (museum director), Director of the British Museum
• Robert Mailer Anderson (born 1968), American novelist
• Robert Theodore Anderson (1934–2009), American organist, composer, and pedagogue
• Robert Anderson (silent film actor), (1890-1963), mainly acted in silent films, appeared in The Temptress (1926) w/Greta Garbo and as the villain trader in White Shadows in the South Seas(1928)

Law and politics

• Robert Stirling Hore Anderson (1821–1883), Irish-born Australian colonial politician
• Robert H. Anderson (politician) (c. 1831–1879), New York politician
• Robert Anderson (Scotland Yard official) (1841–1918), lawyer, British intelligence officer and London CID chief, in charge during the Jack the Ripper murders
• Sir Robert Anderson, 1st Baronet (1837–1921), Irish businessman and Lord Mayor of Belfast
• Robert Alexander Anderson (mayor) (1858–1916), Canadian politician
• Robert Newton Anderson (1871–1937), MP in the Northern Ireland Parliament for Londonderry
• Robert P. Anderson (1906–1978), United States judge
• Robert Bernard Anderson (1910–1989), businessman, politician, and U.S. Secretary of the Treasury
• Robert Anderson (diplomat) (1922–1996), former United States Ambassador to Morocco
• Robert Anderson (New Zealand) (1936–1996), former New Zealand politician
• Rob Anderson (politician) (born 1977), provincial level politician from Alberta
• Robert T. Anderson (born 1943), Lieutenant Governor of Iowa
• Robert M. Anderson, Lieutenant Governor of California, 1856-1858
• Robert Anderson (mayor) (fl. 1810s–1920s, mayor of Williamsburg, Virginia)

Military

• Robert Anderson (Revolutionary War) (1741–1813), Revolutionary general and Lt. Governor of South Carolina
• Robert Anderson (Civil War) (1805–1871), Union commander at Fort Sumter at the start of the American Civil War
• Robert Houston Anderson (1835–1838), Confederate officer (brigadier general) in the American Civil War
• Robert Anderson (Medal of Honor) (1843–1900), U.S. Navy sailor and Medal of Honor recipient
• Robert Anderson (general) (1865–1940), Australian World War I brigadier general
• Robert Anderson (World War II) (born 1918), Navy Cross recipient

Sports

• Robert Anderson (cricketer born 1811) (1811–1891), English first-class cricketer
• Robert Anderson (American cricketer) (born 1893), American cricketer
• Robert Anderson (cricketer) (born 1948), New Zealand cricketer
• Robert Anderson (Australian rules footballer) (born 1959), Australian rules footballer
• Robert Anderson (rugby), Australian rugby union player

Other

• Robert Anderson (mathematician) (fl. 1668–1696), English mathematician and silk-weaver
• Robert Anderson (poet) (1770–1833), English poet
• Robert Anderson (inventor) (fl. 1830s), Scottish inventor
• Sir Robert Anderson, 1st Baronet (1837–1921), Irish businessman and Lord Mayor of Belfast
• Robert Orville Anderson (1917–2007), American businessman and philanthropist
• Robert Charles Anderson (born 1944), biochemist and genealogist
• Robert Anderson (child murderer) (1966–2006), executed for killing a 5-year-old girl in Texas
• Robert King Anderson (1861–1950)

See also

• Bob Anderson (disambiguation)
• Bobby Anderson (disambiguation)
• Robert Andersson (1886–1972), Swedish water polo player, diver, and freestyle swimmer
• Robert Andersson (handballer) (born 1969), Swedish Olympic handball player