Robert Williams Explained
Robert, Rob, Robbie, Bob or Bobby Williams may refer to:
Entertainment
Film
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
Military
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
Religion
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 (Dallas Cowboys) (born 1962), former American football cornerback
- Bobbie Williams (born 1976), American football guard
- Robert Williams (defensive back, born 1977) (born 1977), former American football cornerback
Baseball
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
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
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
See also
