Robert Williams

Robert, Rob, Robbie, Bob or Bobby Williams may refer to:

Entertainment

Film

Robert Williams (actor, born 1894) (1894–1931), American stage and film actor
Robert B. Williams (actor) (1904–1978), American film actor
Robert Guillaume (1927–2017), American film actor whose birth name is Robert Williams.
R. J. Williams (born 1978), American former child actor and later internet entrepreneur
Rob Williams (filmmaker), American film director

Music

Robert Pete Williams (1914–1980), American blues guitarist
Chocolate Williams (Robert Williams Jr., 1916–1984), jazz bassist and blues vocalist
Bob Williams (singer) (1918–2003), American singer and one of the Williams Brothers
Robert Williams (singer) (1949–2022), Greek singer and composer
Robert S. Williams (born 1949), bassoon player of the Detroit Symphony Orchestra
Robert Williams (drummer) (born 1955), Captain Beefheart, Hugh Cornwell, and solo
Robbie Williams (born 1974), British pop singer and former member of Take That
Rob Williams (1979–2009), partner of business Dolphin Music
Meek Mill (Robert Rihmeek Williams, born 1987), American rapper

Writers

Robert Williams (poet) (1744–1815), Welsh poet
Robert Williams (Robert ap Gwilym Ddu) (1767–1850), Welsh-language poet
Robert Williams (Trebor Mai) (1830–1877), Welsh-language poet
Robert Moore Williams (1907–1977), American science fiction novelist
Robert Williams (artist) (born 1943), cartoonist and painter
Rob Williams (comics), British comic writer

Military

Robert Williams (Royal Navy officer) (1765–1827) English rear-admiral in the Royal Navy
Robert Williams (adjutant general) (1829–1901), American brigadier general and Adjutant General of the US Army
Robert Williams (Medal of Honor) (1837–unknown), American sailor and Medal of Honor recipient
Robert B. Williams (general) (1901–1977), World War II major general in the United States Army Air Forces
Robert H. Williams (soldier) (1908–1983), American Marine brigadier general

Politics

UK

Sir Robert Williams, 2nd Baronet (c. 1627–1678), MP for Carnarvonshire, 1656–1658, and for Carnarvon Boroughs, 1659
Robert Williams (died 1763) (1695–1763), MP for Montgomeryshire, 1740–1741 and 1742–1747
Robert Williams (1735–1814) (1735–1814), MP for Dorchester, 1807–1812
Sir Robert Williams, 9th Baronet (1764–1830) of Penryn, MP for Carnarvonshire, 1790–1826, and for Beaumaris, 1826–1831
Robert Williams (1767–1847) (1767–1847), MP for Dorchester, 1812–1835
Robert Williams (1811–1890) (1811–1890), MP for Dorchester, 1835–1841
Sir Robert Williams, 1st Baronet, of Bridehead (1848–1943), Conservative MP for West Dorset, 1895–1922

US

Robert Williams (Mississippi politician) (1773–1836), Governor of the Mississippi Territory
Robert P. Williams (1841–1910), State Treasurer of Missouri, 1901–1905
Robert L. Williams (1868–1948), American politician, governor of Oklahoma
Robert R. Williams, mayor of Miami, 1937–1939
Bob Williams (West Virginia politician) (born 1951), American politician and state senator in West Virginia
Bob Williams (Washington politician), member of the Washington House of Representatives
Robert Q. Williams (born 1964), member of the South Carolina House of Representatives

Elsewhere

Robert Wynn Williams (1864–1929), member of the Queensland Legislative Assembly, Australia
Robert Williams (Victorian politician) (1870–1938), Australian politician
Robert Arthur Williams (born 1933), consultant and political figure in British Columbia, Canada
Robbie Williams (politician) (c. 1960–2007), Australian politician

Religion

Robert Williams (antiquary) (1810–1881), Welsh Anglican clergyman and Celtic scholar
Robert Williams (archdeacon of Carmarthen) (1863–1938), Welsh historian and Anglican priest
Robert Dewi Williams (1870–1955), Welsh schoolteacher, Presbyterian minister, and author
Robert Williams (archdeacon of Gower) (born 1951), Welsh Anglican priest
Robert Williams (American priest) (1955–1992), first openly gay male priest in the American Episcopal Church

Science

Robert Statham Williams (1859–1945), American bryologist
Sir Robert Williams, 1st Baronet, of Park (1860–1938), Scottish mining engineer, explorer, and railway developer
Robert R. Williams (1886–1965), American chemist who first synthesized vitamin B₁
Robert Hardin Williams (1909–1979), American endocrinologist and diabetologist
Robert Williams (pathologist) (1916–2003), Welsh pathologist
Robin Williams (mathematician) (1919–2013), New Zealand mathematician, university administrator and civil servant
Robert Williams (English chemist) (1926–2015), Professor of Oxford University
Robert Williams (psychologist) (1930–2020), second president of the Association of Black Psychologists
Robert Williams (astronomer) (born 1940), director of STScI 1993–98; president of IAU, 2009–2012
Robin Williams (physicist) (Robert Hughes Williams, born 1941), Welsh physicist and academic
Robert H. Williams (physicist), environmental scientist at the Princeton Environmental Institute
Bobby G. Williams (born 1951), Jet Propulsion Laboratory engineer; namesake of asteroid 5642 Bobbywilliams

Sports

American football

Bob Williams (coach) (1877–1957), American college football coach
Bob Williams (quarterback) (1930–2016), football player for Notre Dame
Bobby Williams (defensive back) (1942–2012), American pro football player, St. Louis Cardinals and the Detroit Lions
Bob Williams (American football coach), at Livingston State Teachers College, now University of West Alabama, 1952
Robert Williams (quarterback), football player for Notre Dame, 1956–1958
Bobby Williams (born 1958), tight end, coach
Robert Williams (cornerback) (born 1962), former American football cornerback
Bobbie Williams (born 1976), American football guard
Robert Williams (defensive back) (born 1977), former American football cornerback

Baseball

Bob Williams (baseball) (1884–1962), baseball player for the New York Highlanders/Yankees
Bobby Williams (baseball) (1895–1978), American baseball shortstop and manager in the Negro leagues
Robert Williams (baseball) (1917–2000), American baseball pitcher and infielder in the Negro leagues

Basketball

Bob Williams (basketball, born 1931), American professional basketball player, played collegiately at Florida A&M
Bob Williams (basketball, born 1953), American basketball coach, most recently with UC Santa Barbara
Rob Williams (basketball) (1961–2014), American professional basketball player, played collegiately for Houston
Robert Williams III (born 1997), American professional basketball player, played collegiately for Texas A&M
Robert Williams (Grambling State basketball), American college basketball player for Grambling State

Cricket

Robert Williams (South African cricketer) (1912–1984), South African cricketer
Robert Williams (English cricketer) (born 1970), English former cricketer
Robbie Williams (cricketer) (born 1987), English cricketer for Middlesex

Football and rugby

Bobbie Williams (rugby union) (1865–1967), Welsh international rugby union player
Bobby Williams (Scottish footballer) (died 1916), Scottish footballer
Bob Williams (rugby) (1886–1969), Australian rugby league footballer
Bob Williams (Australian rules footballer) (1913–2004), Australian rules footballer with Hawthorn
Bobby Williams (footballer, born 1932), English footballer for Chester City
Bobby Williams (footballer, born 1940), English footballer
Robbie Williams (footballer, born 1979), English footballer for Warrington Town
Robbie Williams (footballer, born 1984), English footballer for Limerick
Robert Williams (footballer, born 1927), English footballer for Wrexham and Shrewsbury Town
Robert Williams (footballer, born 1932), English footballer for Mansfield Town

Other sports

Robert Williams (archer) (1841–1914), American archer
Bob Williams (rower) (1931–2017), Canadian rower
Robbie Williams (snooker player) (born 1986), English snooker player
Rob Williams (rower, born 1960), British rower
Rob Williams (rower, born 1985), British Olympian

Other

Robert A. Williams Jr., American lawyer and professor
Robert S. C. Williams, community service worker in Ontario, Canada
Robert C. Williams, the namesake of the Robert C. Williams Paper Museum
Robert F. Williams (1925–1996), American civil rights activist
Robert Wayne Williams (1952–1983), American murderer executed in Louisiana
Robert Williams (architect) (1848–1918), Welsh architect and social campaigner
Robert Williams (geometer) (born 1942), American designer, mathematician, and architect
Robert Williams (robot fatality) (1953–1979), the first person to be killed by a robot
Robert Williams (trade union leader) (1881–1936), British trade union organizer