Robert Williams

Robert, Rob, Bob, or Bobby Williams may refer to:

Entertainment

Film

• Robert Williams (actor) (1894–1931), American stage and film actor
• Robert B. Williams (actor) (1904–1978), American film actor
• Rob Williams (filmmaker), American film director

Music

• Robert Pete Williams (1914–1980), American blues guitarist
• Chocolate Williams (Robert Williams Jr., 1916–1984), jazz bassist and blues vocalist
• Bob Williams (singer) (born 1918), American singer and one of the Williams Brothers
• Robert S. Williams (born 1949), bassoon player of the Detroit Symphony Orchestra
• Robert Williams (drummer) (born 1955), Captain Beefheart, Hugh Cornwell, and solo
• Rob Williams (1979–2009), partner of business Dolphin Music
• Meek Mill (Robert Rihmeek Williams, born 1987), hip hop

Writers

• Robert Williams (Robert ap Gwilym Ddu) (1767–1850), Welsh-language poet
• Robert Williams (Trebor Mai) (1830–1877), Welsh-language poet
• Robert Moore Williams (1907–1977), American science fiction novelist
• Robert Williams (artist) (born 1943), cartoonist and painter
• Rob Williams (comics), British comic writer

Politics

Australia

• Robbie Williams (politician) (c. 1960–2007), Australian politician

U.K.

• Sir Robert Williams, 2nd Baronet (c. 1627–1678), MP for Carnarvonshire, 1656–1658 and Carnarvon Boroughs, 1659
• Sir Robert Williams, 9th Baronet (1764–1830) of Penryn, MP for Carnarvonshire, 1790–1826 and Beaumaris, 1826–1831
• Sir Robert Williams, 1st Baronet, of Bridehead (1848–1943), Conservative MP for West Dorset, 1895–1922
• Robert Williams (died 1763) (1695–1763), Member of Parliament for Montgomeryshire, 1740–1741 and 1742–1747
• Robert Williams (1735–1814), Member of Parliament for Dorchester 1807–1812
• Robert Williams (1767–1847), Member of Parliament for Dorchester, 1812–1835
• Robert Williams (1811–1890), Member of Parliament for Dorchester, 1835–1841

U.S.

• Robert Williams (Mississippi politician) (1773–1836), Governor of the Mississippi Territory
• Robert Williams (North Carolina politician) (1773–1821), U.S. Representative from North Carolina
• Robert P. Williams (1841–1910), State Treasurer of Missouri, 1901–1905
• Robert L. Williams (1868–1948), American politician, governor of Oklahoma
• Bo Williams (Robert Warren Williams, born 1938), mayor of Shreveport, Louisiana
• Bob Williams (politician) (born 1951), American politician and state senator in West Virginia
• Robert Q. Williams (born 1964), member of the South Carolina House of Representatives

Elsewhere

• Robert Wynn Williams (1864–1929), member Queensland Legislative Assembly, Australia
• Robert Williams (Victorian politician) (1870–1938), Australian politician
• Robert Arthur Williams (born 1933), consultant and political figure in British Columbia, Canada

Religion

• Robert Williams (Archdeacon of Carmarthen) (1863–1938), historian and Anglican priest
• Robert Williams (Archdeacon of Gower) (born 1951), Welsh Anglican priest
• Robert Williams (American priest) (1955–1992), first openly gay male priest in the American Episcopal Church
• Robert Dewi Williams (1870–1955), Welsh schoolteacher, Presbyterian minister, and author

Science

• Sir Robert Williams, 1st Baronet, of Park (1860–1938), Scottish mining engineer, explorer, and railway developer
• Robert R. Williams (1886–1965), American chemist who first synthesized vitamin B₁
• Robert Williams (physician) (1916–2003), Welsh pathologist
• Robin M. Williams (1919–2013), New Zealand scientist, academic and civil servant
• Robert Williams (chemist) (1926–2015), Professor of Oxford University
• Robert Williams (psychologist) (born 1930), second president of the Association of Black Psychologists
• Robert Williams (astronomer) (born 1940), director of STScI 1993–98; president of IAU, 2009–2012
• Robert H. Williams, environmental scientist at the Princeton Environmental Institute
• Bobby G. Williams (born 1951), Jet Propulsion Laboratory astronomer; namesake of asteroid 5642 Bobbywilliams

Sports

American football

• Bob Williams (American football coach), at Livingston State Teachers College, now University of West Alabama, 1952
• Bob Williams (coach) (1877–1957), American college football coach
• Bob Williams (quarterback) (1930–2016), football player for Notre Dame
• Bobby Williams (defensive back) (1942–2012), American pro football player, St. Louis Cardinals and the Detroit Lions
• Robert Williams (quarterback), football player for Notre Dame, 1956–1958
• Bobby Williams (born 1958), tight end, coach
• Robert Williams (cornerback) (born 1962), former American football cornerback
• Bobbie Williams (born 1976), American football guard
• Robert Williams (defensive back) (born 1977), former American football cornerback

Baseball

• Bob Williams (baseball) (1884–1962), baseball player for the New York Highlanders/Yankees
• Bobby Williams (baseball) (1895–1978), American baseball shortstop and manager in the Negro Leagues
• Robert Williams (baseball) (1917–2000), American baseball pitcher and infielder in the Negro Leagues

Basketball

• Bob Williams (basketball, born 1931), American basketball player
• Bob Williams (basketball, born 1953), American basketball coach
• Rob Williams (basketball) (1961–2014), American basketball player
• Robert Williams (basketball) (born 1997), American basketball player

Football and rugby

• Bobby Williams (Scottish footballer) (died 1916), Scottish footballer
• Bobbie Williams (rugby player) (1865–1967), Welsh international rugby union player
• Bob Williams (rugby) (1886–1969), Australian rugby league footballer
• Bob Williams (Australian rules footballer) (1913–2004), Australian rules footballer with Hawthorn
• Bobby Williams (footballer, born 1932), English footballer for Chester City
• Bobby Williams (footballer, born 1940), English footballer
• Robbie Williams (footballer, born 1979), English footballer for Warrington Town
• Robbie Williams (footballer, born 1984), English footballer for Limerick
• Robbie Williams (snooker player) (born 1986), English snooker player
• Robbie Williams (cricketer) (born 1987), English cricketer for Middlesex
• Robert Williams (footballer) (born 1927), English footballer for Wrexham and Shrewsbury Town

Other sports

• Robert Williams (archer) (1841–1914), American archer
• Robert Williams (South African cricketer) (1912–1984), South African cricketer
• Robert Williams (English cricketer) (born 1970), former English cricketer
• Bob Williams (rower) (1931–2017), Canadian rower
• Rob Williams (rower, born 1960), British rower
• Rob Williams (rower, born 1985), British rower

Other

• Robert A. Williams Jr., American lawyer and professor
• Robert B. Williams (general) (1901–1977), World War II general in the United States Army Air Forces
• Robert F. Williams (1925–1996), American civil rights activist
• Robert W. Williams (1951–1983), American murderer
• Robert Williams (general) (1829–1901), Adjutant General of the U.S. Army from 1892 to 1893
• Robert Williams (geometer) (born 1942), American designer, mathematician, and architect
• Robert Williams (robot fatality) (1953–1979), died 1979, the first person to be killed by a robot
• Robert Williams (trade union leader) (1881–1936), British trade union organizer

See also

• Bert Williams (disambiguation)
• Robin Williams (disambiguation)
• William Roberts (disambiguation)
• Robert Williams town, former town name in Angola
• 5642 Bobbywilliams, Mars-crossing asteroid
• Williams (surname)