Robert Campbell Explained

Robert, Bobby or Bob Campbell may refer to:

Politics

Canada

• Robert Campbell (Nova Scotia politician) (1718–1775), merchant and political figure in Nova Scotia
• Robert Campbell (Canadian politician) (1818–1887), Canadian lumber merchant and politician
• Robert Campbell (Alberta politician) (1871–1965), member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta
• Robert Adam Campbell (fl. 1894–1899), lumber merchant and politician from Ontario, Canada
• Robert Campbell (Prince Edward Island politician) (1922–1992)

U.K.

• Robert Campbell (Scottish politician), MP for Argyllshire, 1766–1772
• Robert James Roy Campbell (1813–1862), British Member of Parliament for Weymouth and Melcombe Regis
• Robert Campbell (Liberal politician) (died 1887), MP for Helston 1866
• Robert Campbell (Northern Ireland politician), MPA for North Down, 1973–1974

U.S.

• Robert B. Campbell (fl. 1809–1862), U.S. Representative from South Carolina
• Robert Campbell (New York politician) (1808–1870), American politician
• Robert Campbell (Wisconsin politician) (1841–?), member of the Wisconsin State Assembly
• Robert Alexander Campbell, lieutenant governor of Missouri, 1881–1885
• Robert A. Campbell (mayor) (1865–1947), mayor of Ann Arbor, Michigan 1925–1927
• Robert Campbell (California politician) (1937–2020), member of the California state assembly
• Robert M. Campbell (1935–1988), Justice of the Supreme Court of Texas
• Robert Campbell (artist) (1951–2004), a painter, poet, and publisher

Elsewhere

• Robert Campbell (1769–1846), Australian merchant/politician from New South Wales
• Robert Campbell (Australian politician) (1804–1859), New South Wales politician
• Robert Campbell (New Zealand politician) (1843–1889), New Zealand politician

Sports

Football and rugby

• Bob Campbell (Australian footballer) (1868–1946), for St. Kilda Football Club
• Robert Campbell (football manager) (fl. 1896–1905), Scottish manager of Bristol City and first Bradford City side
• Robert Campbell (footballer, born 1882) (1882–1931), with Partick Thistle, Rangers and Bradford City
• Robert Campbell (footballer, born 1883) (1883–1942), Celtic and Rangers
• Bob Campbell (soccer) (fl. 1926–1930), Scottish-American
• Bobby Campbell (footballer, born 1922) (1922–2009), with Chelsea and Reading and manager of Dumbarton and Bristol Rovers
• Bobby Campbell (footballer, born 1941) (1941–2019), Scottish footballer - Motherwell
• Bobby Campbell (English footballer) (1937–2015), with Liverpool and manager of Portsmouth, Fulham and Chelsea
• Bob Campbell (American football) (born 1947), wide receiver
• Bobby Campbell (Northern Irish footballer) (1956–2016), with Bradford City, capped twice for his country
• Bobby Campbell (Scottish footballer) (born c. 1938), Scottish footballer - St Mirren
• Robert Campbell (rugby league) (born 1971), Australian who also played internationally for Russia
• Robert Campbell (Australian rules footballer) (born 1982), for the Hawthorn Football Club
• Rob Campbell (footballer) (born 1961), Scottish footballer with Dumbarton and Cowdenbeath
• Robert Campbell (footballer, born 1986), Scottish footballer with East Fife F.C.

Other sports

• Earl Campbell (ice hockey) or (Robert Earl Campbell (1900–1953), Canadian ice hockey player
• Robert Campbell (curler) (born 1966), Canadian curler

Other

• Robert C. Campbell (1885–1966), British POW when the Kaiser allowed him to visit his dying mother
• Robert Campbell of Glenlyon (1630–1696), Scottish officer implicated in the Massacre of Glencoe
• Robert Campbell (frontiersman) (1804–1879), 19th century Irish-American frontiersman, and businessman in St. Louis, Missouri
• Robert Campbell (fur trader) (1808–1894), fur trader of the Hudson's Bay Company and explorer of the Yukon
• Robert Campbell (advocate) (1814–1868), advocate, hymn writer and translator
• Robert L. Campbell (born 1953), American psychologist
• Robert Orr Campbell (1815–1892), Madras businessman who served as a non-official member of the Madras Legislative Council
• Robert Neil Campbell (1854–1928), a Scottish physician
• Robert Campbell (bishop) (1884–1977), bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Liberia
• Robert Campbell (art gallery director) (1902–1972), Australian painter and director of State art Galleries in the mid twentieth century
• Robert Wright Campbell (1927–2000), American screenwriter, author and actor
• Bob Campbell (photographer) (1930–2014), wildlife photographer and filmmaker
• Robert Campbell (journalist) (born 1937), architecture journalist with the Boston Globe
• Bobbi Campbell or Robert Boyle Campbell Jr. (1952–1984), American AIDS activist
• Rob Campbell (fl. 1990s–2010s), American actor
• Robert Campbell (colonist) (1829–1884), Jamaican-born American settler in Lagos (modern-day Nigeria)
• Rob Campbell (economist) or Robert James Campbell (1951 - present), New Zealand economist, trade unionist, businessman, and public servant

See also

• Robert A. Campbell (disambiguation)