Robert Anderson

Robert Anderson is the name of:

Arts and entertainment

Robert Anderson (author) (1750–1830), Scottish literary scholar and editor
Robert Rowand Anderson (1834–1921), Scottish architect
Robert Alexander Anderson (composer) (1894–1995), American composer
Robert Woodruff Anderson (1917–2009), American playwright and screenwriter
Robert Anderson (singer) (1919–1995), African-American gospel singer and composer
Robert J. Anderson (1933–2008), American actor and television producer
Robert Anderson (museum director), Director of the British Museum
Robert Mailer Anderson (born 1968), American novelist
Robert Theodore Anderson (1934–2009), American organist, composer, and pedagogue
Robert Anderson (silent film actor), (1890-1963), mainly acted in silent films, appeared in The Temptress (1926) w/Greta Garbo and as the villain trader in White Shadows in the South Seas(1928)

Robert Stirling Hore Anderson (1821–1883), Irish-born Australian colonial politician
Robert H. Anderson (politician) (c. 1831–1879), New York politician
Robert Anderson (Scotland Yard official) (1841–1918), lawyer, British intelligence officer and London CID chief, in charge during the Jack the Ripper murders
Sir Robert Anderson, 1st Baronet (1837–1921), Irish businessman and Lord Mayor of Belfast
Robert Alexander Anderson (mayor) (1858–1916), Canadian politician
Robert Newton Anderson (1871–1937), MP in the Northern Ireland Parliament for Londonderry
Robert P. Anderson (1906–1978), United States judge
Robert Bernard Anderson (1910–1989), businessman, politician, and U.S. Secretary of the Treasury
Robert Anderson (diplomat) (1922–1996), former United States Ambassador to Morocco
Robert Anderson (New Zealand) (1936–1996), former New Zealand politician
Rob Anderson (politician) (born 1977), provincial level politician from Alberta
Robert T. Anderson (born 1943), Lieutenant Governor of Iowa
Robert M. Anderson, Lieutenant Governor of California, 1856-1858
Robert Anderson (mayor) (fl. 1810s–1920s, mayor of Williamsburg, Virginia)

Robert Anderson (Revolutionary War) (1741–1813), Revolutionary general and Lt. Governor of South Carolina
Robert Anderson (Civil War) (1805–1871), Union commander at Fort Sumter at the start of the American Civil War
Robert Houston Anderson (1835–1838), Confederate officer (brigadier general) in the American Civil War
Robert Anderson (Medal of Honor) (1843–1900), U.S. Navy sailor and Medal of Honor recipient
Robert Anderson (general) (1865–1940), Australian World War I brigadier general
Robert Anderson (World War II) (born 1918), Navy Cross recipient

Robert Anderson (cricketer born 1811) (1811–1891), English first-class cricketer
Robert Anderson (American cricketer) (born 1893), American cricketer
Robert Anderson (cricketer) (born 1948), New Zealand cricketer
Robert Anderson (Australian rules footballer) (born 1959), Australian rules footballer
Robert Anderson (rugby), Australian rugby union player

Robert Anderson (mathematician) (fl. 1668–1696), English mathematician and silk-weaver
Robert Anderson (poet) (1770–1833), English poet
Robert Anderson (inventor) (fl. 1830s), Scottish inventor
Sir Robert Anderson, 1st Baronet (1837–1921), Irish businessman and Lord Mayor of Belfast
Robert Orville Anderson (1917–2007), American businessman and philanthropist
Robert Charles Anderson (born 1944), biochemist and genealogist
Robert Anderson (child murderer) (1966–2006), executed for killing a 5-year-old girl in Texas
Robert King Anderson (1861–1950)