Robert Young

Robert, Rob or Bob Young may refer to:

In sports:

• Robert Young (athlete) (1916-2011), American track athlete
• Robert Young (triathlete) (born 1982), British cyclist
• Robert Young (American football) (born 1969), American football player
• Bob Young (American football) (1942–1995), American football player
• Bob Young (footballer), English association football manager
• Bob Young (boxer), American boxer from Rhode Island
• Bobby Joe Young (born 1959), American boxer from Ohio
• Bobby Young (1925–1985), American baseball player

In politics:

• Robert A. Young (1923–2007), member of the US House of Representatives
• Robert Young (London politician) (1891–1985), British Member of Parliament for Islington North
• Robert Young (Canadian politician) (1834–1904), Canadian politician and businessman
• Sir Robert Young (Lancashire politician) (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), American host of ABC's Evening News
• Bob Young (TV producer), 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) (1907–1998), American actor
• Robert Young (director) (born 1933), British film and television director

Authors and writers:

• Robert Clark Young (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. Young (born 1950), British post-colonial theorist, cultural critic and historian
• Robert M. Young (academic) (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) (1822–1888), Scottish publisher, author of Young's Literal Translation of the Bible
• Rob Young, 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 Young (1773–1846), British sea captain at the Battle of Trafalgar
• Robert H. Young (1929–1950), U.S. Army soldier, Medal of Honor recipient
• Red Top Young (born 1936), American musician
• Robert J. Young (born 1942), Canadian historian
• Robert R. Young (1897–1958), American financier and industrialist
• Robert Vaughn Young (1938–2003), American ex-Scientologist and critic of Scientology
• Bob Young (businessman), Canadian founder and CEO of Red Hat
• Bob Young (artist) (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 Mole
• Robert "Throb" Young, former lead guitarist with Primal Scream