Famous People with Name Robert

Robert Brown Elliott            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Robert Brown Elliott: was an African American member of the United States House of Representatives from South Carolina.

Robert Smalls            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Robert Smalls: was a slave who became a national hero when he freed himself and his family from slavery on May 13, 1862 by commandeering a Confederate transport ship, The Planter, to freedom in Charleston harbor. He was born in Beaufort, South Carolina, and eventually became a politician - serving in both the SC State legislature and the United States House of Representatives.

Robert Solow            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Robert Solow: American economist particularly known for his work on the theory of economic growth. He was awarded the John Bates Clark Medal (in 1961) and the 1987 Nobel Prize in Economics.

Robert William Fogel            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Robert William Fogel: American economic historian and scientist, and winner (with Douglass North) of the 1993 Nobel Prize in Economics. He is best known as a leading advocate of cliometrics, a name for the use of quantitative methods in history.

Robert Lucas, Jr.            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Robert Lucas, Jr.: American economist at the University of Chicago. He is among the 10 best economists in the world according to IDEAS/RePEc. He received the Nobel Prize in Economics in 1995. He is married to economist Nancy Stokey.

Yvon Robert            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Yvon Robert: was a French Canadian professional wrestler who was best known to fans as Yvon "The Lion" Robert.Yvon Robert started wrestling in 1932 at age 17. He got his first stint in American Wrestling Association (Boston). He was trained by Emil Maupas. He was bill

Gilles Robert            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Gilles Robert: is a politician and teacher in the Canadian province of Quebec, who was elected to represent the riding of Prévost in the National Assembly of Quebec in the 2008 provincial election. He is a member of the Parti Québécois. Robert first obtained a bachelor's degree from the Université de Montréal in history in 1977 and later added a certificate in educational sciences from the Université du Québec à Montréal in 1995.

Joseph-Edmond Robert            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Joseph-Edmond Robert: was a farmer and political figure in Quebec. He represented Rouville in the Legislative Assembly of Quebec from 1908 to 1922 as a Liberal member.He was first elected to the Quebec assembly in an 1908 by-election held after Alfred Girard was named a judge. Robert resigned his seat in 1922 after being named colonization and immigration agent for Quebec.

Hélène Robert            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Hélène Robert: is a politician in the Canadian province of Quebec. She was a Parti Québécois member of the National Assembly of Quebec from 1994 to 2007. Robert ran as a Parti Québécois candidate in Deux-Montagnes in the 1989 provincial election. She centered her local campaign around environmental issues while also highlighting her support for Quebec nationalism. Near the end of the election, she said, "My grandmother was a Canadian, my mother was a French-Canadian and I'm a Quebecoise. I want to make sure that my daughter, too, is a Quebecoise." On election day, she was narrowly defeated by Liberal candidate Jean-Guy Bergeron. Robert later served as president of the Parti Québécois's association in Deux-Montagnes; she offered support to party leader Jacques Parizeau in 1992 when his leadership was questioned by some in the party. She was elected to the Quebec legislature in the 1994 provincial election as the Parti Québécois won a majority government under Parizeau's leadership. On September 26, 1994, she was appointed as the government's regional delegate for the Laurentides. This was not a ministerial position, although she had some oversight powers on regional development projects.

J.J. Michel Robert            Origin/Culture/Country: American

J.J. Michel Robert: is a Quebec jurist and former Canadian politician. Robert served as president of the Young Liberals of Canada from 1963 to 1965, and was a member of the 1982 to 1985 Royal Commission on the Economic Union and Development Prospects for Canada headed by Donald Stovel Macdonald. From 1986 to 1990, he was president of the Liberal Party of Canada. In 1991, he was appointed to the Queen's Privy Council for Canada when Prime Minister Brian Mulroney appointed him to the Security Intelligence Review Committee.