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Robert Glasper

Pianist and producer Robert Glasper's 2012 album Black Radio won a Grammy for best R&B album, and his follow-up, Black Radio 2, won for best traditional R&B performance the next year. The…

Doris Roberts

Name at birth: Doris May GreenDoris Roberts had a career on stage and screen for six decades, but she was best known for her Emmy-winning role on the sitcom Everybody Loves Raymond (1996-2005,…

Robert Mueller

Name at birth: Robert Swan Mueller IIIRobert Mueller is the former FBI director who was named special counsel by the U.S. Justice Department on May 17, 2017. Mueller was given the job of leading an…

Robert Bly

Robert Bly was an American poet and the author of the best-selling prose work on modern masculinity, Iron John (1990). Bly's strong poems and charismatic personality made him one of the most…

Robert Altman

A Hollywood filmmaker who made non-Hollywood movies, Robert Altman earned five Oscar nominations over his long and independent-minded career, eventually winning an honorary Oscar in 2006 for his body…

Robert Conrad

Name at birth: Konrad Robert FalkowskiActor Robert Conrad specialized in playing resourceful tough guys throughout his long TV career. He starred in two especially popular TV series, playing special…

Robert Duvall

A leading man and character actor since the 1960s, Robert Duvall has specialized in taciturn cowboys, fierce leaders and driven characters of all types. One of his most memorable roles was as a…

Robert Durst

Robert Durst was the eccentric multimillionaire who was arrested for murder in 2015 after being featured in the HBO documentary The Jinx. He was convicted of murder and sentenced to life in prison in…

Robert Johnson

Name at birth: Robert SpencerRobert Johnson was an influential Mississippi blues singer and songwriter who supposedly sold his soul to Satan "at the crossroads" in exchange for his remarkable talent…

Robert Jenkins

Part of Robert Jenkins is the eponym of the War of Jenkins's Ear, an 18th century episode in the war between Britain and Spain. On 19 October 1739 Britain declared war on Spain, their trade rivals…