Robert Anderson

Arts and entertainment

• Robert Anderson , Scottish literary scholar and editor
• Robert Anderson , English poet
• Robert Rowand Anderson, Scottish architect
• Robert Anderson , Danish-born American actor
• Robert Alexander Anderson , American composer
• Robert Anderson , Canadian filmmaker
• Robert Anderson , American playwright and screenwriter
• Robert Anderson , African-American gospel singer and composer
• Robert Theodore Anderson, American organist, composer, and pedagogue
• Robert G. W. Anderson, historian, former director of the British Museum
• Robert Anderson , American portrait artist
• Robert Mailer Anderson, American novelist
• Robert T. Anderson, Canadian poet

  Law and politics

• Robert Anderson , mayor of Williamsburg, Virginia
• Robert Stirling Hore Anderson, Irish-born Australian colonial politician
• Robert M. Anderson , lieutenant governor of California
• Robert H. Anderson , American politician in New York
• Sir Robert Anderson, 1st Baronet, Irish businessman and Lord Mayor of Belfast
• Robert Anderson , lawyer, British intelligence officer and London CID chief, in charge during the Jack the Ripper murders
• Robert Alexander Anderson , Canadian politician in British Columbia
• Robert King Anderson, Canadian politician, physician and teacher
• Robert Newton Anderson, MP in the Northern Ireland Parliament for Londonderry
• Robert P. Anderson, United States judge in Connecticut
• Robert B. Anderson , businessman, politician, and U.S. Secretary of the Treasury
• Robert B. Anderson, member of the South Carolina House of Representatives
• Robert Banneka Anderson Sr., member of the South Carolina General Assembly
• Robert Anderson , United States ambassador to Morocco
• Robert A. Anderson, American politician and businessman
• Robert Anderson , New Zealand politician
• Robert T. Anderson , American politician, lieutenant governor of Iowa
• Robert Anderson , Australian Aboriginal elder and union official

  Military

• Robert Anderson , Revolutionary War general and lieutenant governor of South Carolina
• Robert Anderson , Union commander at Fort Sumter at the start of the American Civil War
• Robert H. Anderson , Confederate officer in the American Civil War
• Robert Anderson , U.S. Navy sailor and Medal of Honor recipient
• Robert Anderson , Australian World War I brigadier general

  Sports

• Robert Anderson , English cricketer, played for Hertfordshire 1835–36 and MCC 1837–41
• Robert Anderson , American cricketer
• Robert Anderson , New Zealand cricketer, played nine Tests and two One Day Internationals for New Zealand
• Robert Anderson , Australian rugby player
• Robert Anderson , Australian rules footballer
• Robert Kiplagat Andersen, Kenyan-born middle-distance runner who ran internationally for Denmark
• Robbie Anderson , American football wide receiver
• Robbie Anderson , English footballer

  Other

• Robert Anderson , English mathematician and silk-weaver
• Robert Anderson , Scottish inventor
• Robert Anderson , banker and community leader in Hollywood, Florida
• Robert Anderson, New Zealand businessman and philanthropist
• Robert Orville Anderson, American businessman and philanthropist
• Robert Marshall Anderson, Episcopal bishop of Minnesota
• Robert Leroy Anderson, American murderer and self-proclaimed serial killer
• Robert Anderson , American murderer executed for killing a 5-year-old girl in Texas
• Robert M. Anderson , professor of economics and of mathematics
• Robert Henry Anderson, Australian botanist
• Robert P. Anderson, American zoologist
• Robert Wherry Anderson, British journalist
• Robert S. Anderson, American geomorphologist
• Robert J. Anderson , director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
• Robert Anderson , American sex offender
• Robert Ball Anderson, African-American homesteader and landowner in Nebraska
• Robert Anderson Middle School, school in Anderson, South Carolina.