Robert Smith
Robert, Bob or Bobby Smith, or variants thereof, may refer to:
Business
- Robert MacKay Smith, Scottish businessman, meteorologist and philanthropist who founded Glasgow University's Mackay Smith Prizes
- Robert Barr Smith, Australian businessman and philanthropist
- Robert Hall Smith, American railroad executive, president of the Norfolk and Western Railway, 1946–1958
- Robert H. Smith , American builder and developer who developed much of the Crystal City, Virginia neighborhood just south of Washington, D.C.
- Robert P. Smith , American financial pioneer, philanthropist and author
- Robert Smith, Baron Smith of Kelvin, British businessman, governor of the BBC
- Robert F. Smith , American businessman and investor; founder, chairman, and CEO of Vista Equity Partners
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Entertainment
Acting
- Robert Wilton Smith, known as Robb Wilton, English comedian and comic actor
- Robert Smith , American actor
- Robert Grant Smith, American aeronautical engineer and actor after whom the R.G. Smith Award is named
- Robert O. Smith, American voice actor
- Robert Smith , Canadian actor and voice actor
Music
- Robert Archibald Smith, Scottish composer, known for his collection Scotish Minstrel, a selection from the vocal melodies of Scotland ancient and modern
- Robert Bache Smith, American librettist and lyricist
- Robert Curtis Smith, American Piedmont blues singer, guitarist and songwriter
- Bobby Smith , American musician, lead singer of the Spinners
- Robert Weston Smith, known as Wolfman Jack, American disc jockey famous for his gravelly voice
- Bob Smith, founder, singer, keyboardist and drummer for Cat Mother & the All Night Newsboys
- Robert Dean Smith, American operatic tenor
- Robert W. Smith , American composer, arranger and teacher
- Robert Smith , English musician, lead singer and guitarist of The Cure
- Robert L. Smith , American recording engineer and record producer in New York City
- Rob Smith , Irish singer-songwriter and DJ
- Rob Smith, English contemporary DJ, musician, and remixer
- Rob Sonic, American rapper and record producer
Writing
- Robert Paul Smith, American author
- Robert W. Smith , American martial artist and historian
- Robert Kimmel Smith, American novelist and children's author
- Bob Smith, American author who wrote the memoir Hamlet's Dresser
- Rob Magnuson Smith, British-American novelist, short story writer, and university lecturer
Stage name
- Robert Emil Schmidt, nicknamed Buffalo Bob Smith, American host of TV show Howdy Doody
- Bob and Roberta Smith, pseudonym for British artist Patrick Brill
Other entertainment
- Robert Emmet Smith, American film art director and production designer
- Bob Smith , American comic book inker
- Bob Smith , American comedian and author
- Normal Bob Smith, American graphic artist, writer, and atheist activist
- Robert Farrell Smith, American humorist who writes children's books under the name Obert Skye
- Bob Smith, American video game developer and producer
- Bob Kupa'a Smith, American host of the television show ''Wordsmith''
History
- Robert Smith , expert on the history of the Yoruba people of Nigeria
- Robert Bruce Smith IV, American music and history expert
- Robert J. A. Smith, chairman of the Richmond Local History Society in Richmond, London
- Robert W. Smith, scholar of history and the classics at the University of Alberta
- Robert Chester Smith, American art historian
Journalism
- Robert Smith, journalist for The New York Times
- Robert Smith, correspondent for National Public Radio
- Rob Smith, BBC South East TV presenter
Law
- Robert Percy Smith, British lawyer, MP and judge advocate-general of Bengal, India
- Robert L. Smith , Nebraska Supreme Court judge
- Robert Ellis Smith, American attorney and author
- Robert S. Smith, New York State Court of Appeals associate judge
Military
- Robert A. Smith, birth name of British soldier and churchwarden Robert Smith-Dorrien
- Robert Smith , American Indian Wars soldier and Medal of Honor recipient
- Robert Smith , Australian wool merchant and army officer
- Robert H. Smith , United States Navy submariner for whom the destroyer/minelayer USS Robert H. Smith was named
- Robert T. Smith, American World War II flying ace
- Robert G. Smith , American colonel of the Spanish–American War
Politics and government
Australia
- Robert Murray Smith, politician in colonial Victoria and agent-general for Victoria
- Robert Burdett Smith, solicitor and politician in colonial New South Wales
- Robert Harrison Smith, member of both the Queensland Legislative Council and the Queensland Legislative Assembly
- Bob Rowland Smith, National Party member of the New South Wales Legislative Council
- Bob Smith , Labor member of the Victorian Legislative Council
Canada
- Robert Smith , Canadian member of parliament for Peel, Ontario
- Robert Smith , Canadian member of parliament for Stormont, justice of the Supreme Court of Canada
- Robert Smith , Newfoundland politician and merchant
- Robert Smith, Irish-born member of the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia
- Robert Black Smith, member of the Legislative Assembly of New Brunswick 1917–1925
- Robert Knowlton Smith, Canadian member of parliament for Cumberland 1925–1935
- Robert Melville Smith, deputy minister of the Department of Highways of Ontario 1934–1943
New Zealand
- Robert William Smith , member of parliament
United Kingdom
- Robert Smith, member of parliament for Wycombe from 1318 to 1322
- Robert Smith, MP for Derby in 1420 and 1421
- Robert Smith , MP for Devizes
- Robert Smith, MP for Carlisle
- Robert Smith, 1st Baron Carrington, MP for Nottingham
- Robert Percy Smith, British lawyer, MP and judge advocate-general of Bengal, India
- Robert Vernon, 1st Baron Lyveden, known as Robert Vernon Smith until 1859, British Liberal Party politician and MP
- Robert Smith , general secretary of the National Union of Scottish Mineworkers and British Labour Party politician
- Sir Robert Smith, 1st Baronet, Scottish Unionist politician and MP for Aberdeen and Kincardine Central
- Robert Smith , British governor of North Borneo
- Sir Robert Smith, 3rd Baronet, Liberal Democrat politician and MP for West Aberdeenshire and Kincardine
- Bobby Smith , British political and fathers' rights activist
United States
- Robert Smith , secretary of state and of the Navy
- Robert Barnwell Smith, known as Robert Barnwell Rhett, U.S. senator and representative from South Carolina
- Robert Smith , U.S. representative from Illinois
- Robert Hardy Smith, Alabama politician and officer of the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War
- Robert Burns Smith, governor of Montana
- Robert Lloyd Smith, educator, businessman, and politician in the Texas Legislature
- Robert B. Smith, mayor of Newport News, Virginia 1956–1958
- Robert Solwin Smith, American ambassador to the Côte d'Ivoire
- Robert P. Smith , American diplomat
- Bob Smith , U.S. representative from Oregon
- Robert L. Smith , Republican politician from Idaho
- Bob Smith , U.S. senator from New Hampshire
- Bob Smith , New Jersey state senator
- Robert C. Smith , political science professor at San Francisco State University
- Robert J. Smith II, American attorney and New Jersey state legislator
Religion
- Robert Smith , English-born American clergyman, planter and prelate of the Episcopal Church who served as the first bishop of the Diocese of South Carolina
- Robert Payne Smith, Regius Professor of Divinity at the University of Oxford and Dean of Canterbury
- Robert Pearsall Smith, lay leader in the Holiness movement in the United States and the Higher Life movement in the United Kingdom
- Robert H. Smith , American Lutheran clergyman, theologian, author and lecturer
- Robert Smith , American Catholic priest, author, and educator
- Robert P. Smith , American educator, pastor, and writer
Science, engineering and medicine
- Robert William Smith , Irish surgeon and pathologist
- Robert Angus Smith, Scottish chemist, discoverer of acid rain
- Robert Murdoch Smith, Scottish engineer, archaeologist and diplomat
- Robert Smith , Sierra Leonean medical doctor and the first African to become a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh
- Bob Smith , American physician and surgeon who co-founded Alcoholics Anonymous
- Robert Allan Smith, Scottish physicist
- Robert J. Smith , Cornell University anthropologist
- Robert H. T. Smith, Australian-Canadian professor of geography
- Robert L. Smith, American engineer, academic and author
- Robert Smith, American business executive and aerospace engineer
Sports
Association football
- Robert Smith , Scottish international footballer born in Aberdeen
- Robert Smith, English footballer for Darwen in the 1890s
- Bobby Smith, English footballer born in Stoke-upon-Trent, Staffordshire
- Bobby Smith, Scottish footballer born in Kirkcaldy, Fife
- Robert Smith, English football player and manager born in Atherton, Lancashire
- Bob Smith , English professional footballer born in Walkden, Lancashire
- Bobby Smith , English footballer born in Lingdale, North Yorkshire
- Bobby Smith , Irish football player
- Bobby Smith , Canadian soccer player
- Bobby Smith , English footballer born in Barnsley, South Yorkshire
- Bobby Smith, English footballer and manager born in Prestbury, Cheshire
- Rob Smith, English footballer born in Kingston upon Hull, East Riding of Yorkshire
- Bobby Smith , American soccer player born in Trenton, New Jersey
- Bobby Smith , Scottish footballer born in Dalkeith, Midlothian
- Rob Smith , American soccer player born in Wilmington, Delaware