Famous People with Name Robin

Robin Duke            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Robin Duke: a Canadian actress and comedian. Duke is most famous for her work on the NBC comedy series Saturday Night Live although in recent years her latest venture, Women Fully Clothed, a sketch comedy troupe she co-founded, has toured Canada with strong reviews and ticket sales. Duke also teaches comedy, as a faculty member at Humber College in Toronto, Canada, where she now resides.

Robin Tolmach Lakoff            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Robin Tolmach Lakoff: a professor of linguistics at the University of California, Berkeley.Lakoff's writings have become the basis for much research on the subject of women's language. In a 1975 article, she published ten basic assumptions about what she felt constituted a special women's language. Much of what Lakoff proposed agreed with theories originally proposed in the 1920s by Otto Jespersen in Growth and Structure of the English Language (1905, revised and republished several times).

Robin Ward            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Robin Ward: is regarded as a "one-hit wonder" due to her 1963 million-selling smash "Wonderful Summer"; however, she was also a session singer under her real name, Jackie Ward. Her voice can be heard in several popular U.S. television series and motion pictures since

Robin Beck            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Robin Beck: is an American female singer. She topped the singles chart in the UK in 1988, and Germany in 1989 with her single "The First Time", which had come to the public's attention via its use in a Coca-Cola commercial. The Coca-Cola Co. had tapped the then 33-ye

Robin Lee Irwin            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Robin Lee Irwin: is an American country music artist, known professionally as Robin Lee or Robin Lee Bruce. After several years on an independent label, Lee broke through on the country music scene in 1990 with her cover of Alannah Myles' Number One pop single "Black Velv

James McClellan Robinson            Origin/Culture/Country: American

James McClellan Robinson: was a U.S. Representative from Indiana.Robinson was elected as a Democrat to the Fifty-fifth and to the three succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1897-March 3, 1905). He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1904 to the Fifty-ninth Congress. He cont