Robbie
Appearance
Robbie or Robby is a surname. It is usually encountered as a nickname or a shortened form of Robert or Robin or Rob The name experienced a significant rise in popularity in Northern Ireland in 2003.[1]
People
Given name
Robbie
- Robbie Amell, actor
- Robbie Burns (1759–1796), Scottish poet
- Robbie Coltrane (born 1950) Scottish actor
- Robbie Daymond (born 1982) American actor and voice actor
- Robbie E (born 1983), pro wrestler
- Robbie Farah (born 1984), Australian rugby league player
- Robbie Fowler (born 1975), English footballer and manager
- Robbie Ftorek (born 1952), National Hockey League player and coach
- Robbie Grey (born 1957), English lead singer of Modern English
- Robbie Hart (born 1947), English football referee
- Robbie Hunter-Paul (born 1976), New Zealand rugby league player
- Robbie Keane (born 1980), Irish footballer
- Robbie Klay, South African singer and actor
- Robbie Kruse, Australian association football player
- Robbie Knievel (born 1962), motorcycle daredevil
- Robbie Maddison (born 1981), Australian motorcycle stunt rider
- Robbie Nevil (born 1958), American singer
- Robbie Perkins (born 1994), Australian professional baseball player
- Robbie Ray (born 1982), American auto racing driver
- Robbie Rist (born 1964), American actor and musician
- Robbie Robertson (born 1942), Canadian musician
- Robbie Rogers, American Footballer, first openly gay athlete
- Robbie Savage (born 1974), soccer player
- Robert J. Sherman (born 1968), American songwriter and businessman
- Robbie Widlansky (born 1984), American baseball player
- Robbie Williams (born 1974), English singer-songwriter
- Dove-Myer Robinson (1901–1989), former mayor of Auckland, New Zealand, known as Robbie
Robby
- Robby Albarado, (born 1973), horse racing jockey
- Robby Benson, stage name of American actor Robin David Segal (born 1956)
- Robby Brink (born 1971), South African former rugby union player
- Robby Ginepri (born 1982), tennis player
- Robby Gordon (born 1969), race car driver
- Robby Krieger (born 1946), American guitar player of The Doors
- Robby Langers (born 1960), retired footballer from Luxembourg
- Robby Lyons (born 1989), race car driver
- Robby Müller (born 1940), Dutch cinematographer most often associated with film director Wim Wenders
- Robby Steinhardt (born 1950), American rock violinist and singer best known for his work with the group Kansas
- Robby Thompson (born 1962), Major League Baseball player
Surname
- David Robbie (Australian footballer) (born 1944), Australian rules footballer
- David Robbie (Fijian politician) (1849–1940), businessman and politician in colonial Fiji
- David Robbie (Scottish footballer) (1899–1978)
- Joe Robbie (1916–1990), former owner of the Miami Dolphins National Football League team
- Margot Robbie (born 1990), Australian actress and film producer
- Mike Robbie (born 1943), former general manager of the Miami Dolphins football team, son of Joe Robbie
- Rod Robbie (1928–2012), British-born Canadian architect and planner
- Seymour Robbie (1919–2004), American TV director
- William Robbie (1849–1929), stonemason and mayor of Chico, California (1907–1919)
Fictional characters
- Robby the Robot, in films and TV programs
- Robbie the Reindeer, in three animated comedy TV specials
- Robbie Douglas, in the TV series My Three Sons
- Robbie Hart, lead character in the 1998 film The Wedding Singer
- Robbie McGrath, in the TV series Radio Free Roscoe
- "Robbie", a story in Isaac Asimov's I, Robot
- Robbie Quinn, in the TV series Fair City
- Robbie Robertson (comics), in the Spider-Man comic books
- Robbie Rotten, in the Icelandic children's TV show LazyTown
- Robbie Shapiro, in the TV series Victorious
- Robbie Sinclair, on the TV series Dinosaurs
- Robby Stewart, in the TV series Hannah Montana
- Robbie Valentino, in the animated series Gravity Falls
- The title character of Robby the Rascal, an anime TV series
- Robby, a seal that appears in the TV series Pingu
- Roberta 'Robbie' Henderson, in The Ferals, an Australian children's TV series
- The title character of Robby (film), a 1968 retelling of Robinson Crusoe
- The title character of Robbie (film), a British public information film
See also
References
- ^ "Jack and Emma were the most popular first names in Northern Ireland in 2003" (PDF) (Press release). Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency. 2004-01-02. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2006-09-29. Retrieved 2008-02-14.
...Robbie has risen from rank 141 in 2002 to 81 in 2003