Famous People with Name Robert

Robert H. "Bob" Brink            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Robert H. "Bob" Brink: is an American politician. A Democrat, he was elected to the Virginia House of Delegates in November 1997. He represents the 48th district in Arlington County.

Robert Mark Marionneaux, Jr.            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Robert Mark Marionneaux, Jr.: is an attorney in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, who has served since 1996 as a Democrat in both houses of the Louisiana State Legislature. Since 2000, Marionneaux has been a member of the Louisiana State Senate. From 1996 to 2000, Marionneaux served for a singl

Robert H. Snyder            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Robert H. Snyder: was a Democratic politician from St. Joseph, the parish seat of Tensas Parish in northeastern Louisiana. From 1896-1900, Snyder was lieutenant governor under Governor Murphy J. Foster, Sr. Snyder was succeeded as lieutenant governor by future U.S. Represe

Robert Terry Tobin            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Robert Terry Tobin: was an African-American educator who became the first and, to date, only member of his race to have served as mayor of Minden, a small city of about 13,000 residents and the seat of Webster Parish in northwestern Louisiana. Mayor Tobin's brief nine-month

Robert Stewart Sparks            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Robert Stewart Sparks: was a Los Angeles City Council member in the 1920s. He was the first person to represent the 5th District under a new city charter effective in 1925. Earlier, as the marriage-license clerk at City Hall, he was given the nickname "Cupid" and, with his wife

Yvon Robert            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Yvon Robert: was a French Canadian professional wrestler who was best known to fans as Yvon "The Lion" Robert.Yvon Robert started wrestling in 1932 at age 17. He got his first stint in American Wrestling Association (Boston). He was trained by Emil Maupas. He was bill

Gilles Robert            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Gilles Robert: is a politician and teacher in the Canadian province of Quebec, who was elected to represent the riding of Prévost in the National Assembly of Quebec in the 2008 provincial election. He is a member of the Parti Québécois. Robert first obtained a bachelor's degree from the Université de Montréal in history in 1977 and later added a certificate in educational sciences from the Université du Québec à Montréal in 1995.

Joseph-Edmond Robert            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Joseph-Edmond Robert: was a farmer and political figure in Quebec. He represented Rouville in the Legislative Assembly of Quebec from 1908 to 1922 as a Liberal member.He was first elected to the Quebec assembly in an 1908 by-election held after Alfred Girard was named a judge. Robert resigned his seat in 1922 after being named colonization and immigration agent for Quebec.

Hélène Robert            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Hélène Robert: is a politician in the Canadian province of Quebec. She was a Parti Québécois member of the National Assembly of Quebec from 1994 to 2007. Robert ran as a Parti Québécois candidate in Deux-Montagnes in the 1989 provincial election. She centered her local campaign around environmental issues while also highlighting her support for Quebec nationalism. Near the end of the election, she said, "My grandmother was a Canadian, my mother was a French-Canadian and I'm a Quebecoise. I want to make sure that my daughter, too, is a Quebecoise." On election day, she was narrowly defeated by Liberal candidate Jean-Guy Bergeron. Robert later served as president of the Parti Québécois's association in Deux-Montagnes; she offered support to party leader Jacques Parizeau in 1992 when his leadership was questioned by some in the party. She was elected to the Quebec legislature in the 1994 provincial election as the Parti Québécois won a majority government under Parizeau's leadership. On September 26, 1994, she was appointed as the government's regional delegate for the Laurentides. This was not a ministerial position, although she had some oversight powers on regional development projects.

J.J. Michel Robert            Origin/Culture/Country: American

J.J. Michel Robert: is a Quebec jurist and former Canadian politician. Robert served as president of the Young Liberals of Canada from 1963 to 1965, and was a member of the 1982 to 1985 Royal Commission on the Economic Union and Development Prospects for Canada headed by Donald Stovel Macdonald. From 1986 to 1990, he was president of the Liberal Party of Canada. In 1991, he was appointed to the Queen's Privy Council for Canada when Prime Minister Brian Mulroney appointed him to the Security Intelligence Review Committee.