Robert Williams

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

Entertainment

Film

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

Music

Robert Pete Williams (1914–1980), American blues guitarist
Chocolate Williams (Robert Williams Jr., 1916–1984), jazz bassist and blues vocalist
Bob Williams (singer) (born 1918), American singer and one of the Williams Brothers
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
Rob Williams (1979–2009), partner of business Dolphin Music
Meek Mill (Robert Rihmeek Williams, born 1987), hip hop

Writers

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
Robert Williams (poet) (1744–1815), British poet

Politics

Australia

Robbie Williams (politician) (c. 1960–2007), Australian politician

U.K.

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

U.S.

Robert Williams (Mississippi politician) (1773–1836), Governor of the Mississippi Territory
Robert Williams (North Carolina politician) (1773–1821), U.S. Representative from North Carolina
Robert P. Williams (1841–1910), State Treasurer of Missouri, 1901–1905
Robert L. Williams (1868–1948), American politician, governor of Oklahoma
Bo Williams (Robert Warren Williams, born 1938), mayor of Shreveport, Louisiana
Bob Williams (politician) (born 1951), American politician and state senator in West Virginia
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

Religion

Robert Williams (Archdeacon of Carmarthen) (1863–1938), historian and Anglican priest
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
Robert Dewi Williams (1870–1955), Welsh schoolteacher, Presbyterian minister, and author

Science

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 Williams (physician) (1916–2003), Welsh pathologist
Robin M. Williams (1919–2013), New Zealand scientist, academic and civil servant
Robert Williams (chemist) (1926–2015), Professor of Oxford University
Robert Williams (psychologist) (born 1930), second president of the Association of Black Psychologists
Robert Williams (astronomer) (born 1940), director of STScI 1993–98; president of IAU, 2009–2012
Robert Williams (physicist) (born 1941), Welsh physicist and academic
Robert H. Williams, 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 (American football coach), at Livingston State Teachers College, now University of West Alabama, 1952
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
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 (basketball) (born 1997), American professional basketball player, played collegiately for Texas A&M
Robert Williams (Grambling State basketball), American college basketball player for Grambling State

Football and rugby

Bobby Williams (Scottish footballer) (died 1916), Scottish footballer
Bobbie Williams (rugby player) (1865–1967), Welsh international rugby union player
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
Robert Williams (South African cricketer) (1912–1984), South African cricketer
Robert Williams (English cricketer) (born 1970), former English cricketer
Robbie Williams (cricketer) (born 1987), English cricketer for Middlesex
Bob Williams (rower) (1931–2017), Canadian rower
Rob Williams (rower, born 1960), British rower

Other

Robert A. Williams Jr., American lawyer and professor
Robert B. Williams (general) (1901–1977), World War II general in the United States Army Air Forces
Robert C. Williams, the namesake of the Robert C. Williams Paper Museum
Robert F. Williams (1925–1996), American civil rights activist
Robert H. Williams (USMC) (1908–1983), American Marine general and Navy Cross recipient
Robert W. Williams (1951–1983), American murderer
Robert Williams (general) (1829–1901), Adjutant General of the U.S. Army from 1892 to 1893
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

gollark: Probably not actually as some convenient list.

gollark: Er, Java/Scala. The actual mod source.

gollark: In the Java code somewhere.

gollark: I don't think there actually is one component of OpenOS which you can reasonably call a "kernel".

gollark: The EEPROM provides a few things and loads code off a disk, really. Most of the libraries are handled in /boot and stuff in /lib.