David Roberts
Encyclopedia
Politics
- David Roberts (mayor)David Roberts (mayor)David Roberts was the 36th mayor of Hoboken, New Jersey, serving from 2001 to 2009. Roberts declined to seek re-election in 2009, retiring from a political career of 25 years.-Early life:...
(born 1956), mayor of Hoboken, New Jersey, U.S. American Entrepreneur
Sports
- Dave Roberts (American football) (born 1947), college football coach in the United States
- Dave Roberts (outfielder) (born 1972), American professional baseball player, 1999–2008
- Dave Roberts (pitcher)Dave Roberts (pitcher)David Arthur Roberts was an American left-handed pitcher in Major League Baseball who played for eight teams from 1969 to 1981. He was second in the National League with a 2.10 earned run average in for the San Diego Padres, after which he was traded to the Houston Astros, where he spent the...
(1944–2009), American professional baseball player, 1969–1981 - Dave Roberts (first baseman)Dave Roberts (first baseman)David Leonard Roberts is a former Major League Baseball first baseman who played 22 seasons of professional baseball. Of all professional baseball players whose careers began in 1952 only Hank Aaron had a longer career.-Minor leagues:...
(born 1933), American professional baseball player, 1962–1966 - Dave Roberts (sports broadcaster), TV and radio sports broadcaster and football referee
- Dave Roberts (third baseman) (born 1951), American professional baseball player, 1972–1982
- Dave Roberts (footballer)Dave Roberts (footballer)Dave Roberts was an English footballer who played for Bohemians and Fordsons in the League of Ireland during the 1920s.-Bohemians:While playing for Bohemians, Roberts finished the 1923–24 season as the League of Ireland's top goalscorer. His 20 goals in 17 appearances helped Bohs win their first...
, English centre forward in the 1920s - Dave Roberts (Welsh footballer)Dave Roberts (Welsh footballer)David Frazer Roberts is a retired Welsh footballer who played for Fulham, Oxford United, Hull City, and Cardiff City. During his spell at Oxford, he played 161 league games...
- David Roberts (athlete) (born 1951), American pole vaulter
- David Roberts (ice hockey)David Roberts (ice hockey)David Lance Roberts is an American retired ice hockey forward. He is the son of former NHL player Doug Roberts. Roberts played prep school hockey at Avon Old Farms in Avon, CT under the legendary coach John Gardner...
(born 1970), American ice hockey forward - David Roberts (swimmer)David Roberts (swimmer)David Evan Roberts CBE , is a Welsh swimmer. An eleven-time Paralympic gold medallist, he is one of Great Britain's most successful Paralympians ever.-Swimming career:...
(born 1980), Welsh Paralympic gold medalist
Arts and literature
- David Roberts (painter)David Roberts (painter)David Roberts RA was a Scottish painter. He is especially known for a prolific series of detailed lithograph prints of Egypt and the Near East that he produced during the 1840s from sketches he made during long tours of the region . These, and his large oil paintings of similar subjects, made him...
(1796–1864), Scottish painter - David Roberts (art collector)David Roberts (art collector)David Roberts is a multi- millionaire commercial property developer and is considered as one of the UK's most important art collectors.-Early life:David Ian Roberts came from a family who worked in shipbuilding in Greenock, Scotland...
, British contemporary art collector - David Roberts (novelist)David Roberts (novelist)David Roberts is an English editor and novelist.Roberts worked for several years as a book editor at Chatto and Windus, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, and Michael O'Mara Books...
, English editor and mystery writer - David Roberts (illustrator)David Roberts (illustrator)David Roberts is a British children's illustrator. He has illustrated a large number of books in both black and white and colour. His black and white work mainly features in books for older readers and he has worked with such well-known authors as Philip Ardagh , G.P...
, British children's illustrator - David Roberts (journalist)David Roberts (journalist)David Roberts is a primary staff writer for Grist Magazine, an online environmental publication based in Seattle, Washington.- Background :Born and raised in Tennessee, he pursued a graduate degree in philosophy at the University of Montana before leaving academia for the Seattle tech industry in...
, American writer for Grist magazine - David Thomas RobertsDavid Thomas RobertsDavid Thomas Roberts is an American composer and musician, known primarily as a modern ragtime composer. Roberts is also a painter in a primitivist style....
(born 1955), American composer - Dave Roberts (musician)Dave Roberts (musician)Dave Roberts was the bass player of the band Sex Gang Children who were a prominent act in the gothic rock movement of the 1980s, recording under the name ‘Dave Sex Gang’. He left the band in 1983 after their only album Song and Legend, setting up the group Carcrash International with various...
, English musician - David B. Roberts, Living CorbanLiving CorbanLiving Corban were a Christian punk/rock band formed in late 1999/early 2000, in Miami, Florida. The band started with its core members, Jonathan and David Roberts, and Chris and Meagan Jimenez....
pianist - Dave Roberts (singer), member of Straight No Chaser
- David H. Roberts (linguist), American professor/researcher, b. 1944
Film and television
- David Roberts (Australian actor)
- Dave Roberts (American actor)
- Dave Roberts (broadcaster) (birth name, David Thomas Boreanaz), American television personality
- Dave Roberts (EastEnders), a fictional character in the British television series EastEnders
Other fields
- David Roberts (engineer)David Roberts (engineer)David Roberts was the Chief Engineer and managing director of Richard Hornsby & Sons in the early 1900s...
(1859–1928), English inventor of the caterpillar track - David Roberts (climber)David Roberts (climber)David Roberts is a climber, mountaineer, and author of books and articles about climbing. He is particularly noted for his books The Mountain of My Fear and Deborah: A Wilderness Narrative, chronicling major ascents in Alaska in the 1960s, which had a major impact on the form of mountaineering...
, mountaineer and author - David Roberts (diplomat), British ambassador to Lebanon, Syria, and the United Arab Emirates