Robert Shaw
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- Bob ShawBob ShawBob Shaw, born Robert Shaw, was a science fiction author and fan from Northern Ireland. He was noted for his originality and wit. He won the Hugo Award for Best Fan Writer in 1979 and 1980...
(19311996), Irish science fiction writer - Bob Shaw (screenwriter) (20th century), co-writer for SeinfeldSeinfeldSeinfeld is an American television sitcom that originally aired on NBC from July 5, 1989, to May 14, 1998, lasting nine seasons, and is now in syndication. It was created by Larry David and Jerry Seinfeld, the latter starring as a fictionalized version of himself...
, A Bugs Life and others - Robert J. ShawRobert J. ShawRobert J. Shaw was an American television writer with 39 credits and teacher of screenwriting at UCLA.-Career:...
(19171996), American television writer - Robert Shaw (American actor)Robert Shaw (American actor)Robert Shaw , born Robert Gottschall, was an American actor.-Filmography:* The Sky's No Limit - Dr...
(19152005), American actor - Robert Shaw (actor)Robert Shaw (actor)Robert Archibald Shaw was an English actor and novelist, remembered for his performances in The Sting , From Russia with Love , A Man for All Seasons , the original The Taking of Pelham One Two Three , Black Sunday , The Deep and Jaws , where he played the shark hunter Quint.-Early life...
(19271978), English actor - Robert Shaw (theatre director)Robert Shaw (theatre director)Robert Shaw is an English theatre director, writer and translator. He is the founder and artistic director of Inside Intelligence, a London-based theatre company specialising in new plays and contemporary music theatre.-Early life:...
(born 1956), English theatre director - Robert Shaw (bishop)Robert Shaw (bishop)Robert Shaw was a Scottish cluniac monk and prelate. A son of the Laird of Sauchie, he became a monk at Paisley Abbey. He was provided as Abbot of Paisley after the resignation of Abbot George Shaw on July 20, 1498. As abbot, he took an active if unimportant role in national affairs, appearing...
(died 1527), Scottish monk and prelate - Robert Shaw (conductor)Robert Shaw (conductor)Robert Shaw was an American conductor most famous for his work with his namesake Chorale, with the Cleveland Orchestra and Chorus, and the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra and Chorus. Shaw received 14 Grammy awards, four ASCAP awards for service to contemporary music, the first Guggenheim Fellowship...
(19161999), American conductor - Robert B. Shaw (20th century), American poet
- Robert Shaw (blues musician)Robert Shaw (blues musician)Robert Shaw was an American blues and boogie-woogie pianist, best known for his 1963 album, The Ma Grinder.-Biography:Shaw was born in Stafford, Texas, the son of farm owners Jesse and Hettie Shaw...
(19081985), American barrelhouse blues pianist - Rob Shaw (filmmaker)Rob Shaw (filmmaker)Rob Shaw is an American animator, and director of music videos, commercials, and short films. He is a graduate of Philadelphia’s University of the Arts.-History:...
, American animator, and director of music videos, commercials, and short films
Sport
- Bob Shaw (baseball)Bob Shaw (baseball)Robert John Shaw was a Major League Baseball pitcher.His career lasted a decade, and he pitched for the Detroit Tigers, Chicago White Sox, Kansas City Athletics, Milwaukee Braves, San Francisco Giants, New York Mets, and Chicago Cubs. He won 18 games with the American League pennant-winning White...
(19332010), American baseball player - Bob Shaw (American football) (19212011), American NFL football player for Chicago Cardinals
- Bob Shaw (golfer)Bob Shaw (golfer)Robert J. Shaw is an Australian professional golfer who played on the PGA Tour in the 1970s.Shaw was born in Sydney. He turned professional in 1965.Shaw played in Europe in the 1960s, winning the Spanish Open in 1968...
(born 1944), Australian golfer - Robert Shaw (footballer)Robert Shaw (footballer)Robert Shaw is a former Australian rules footballer with the Essendon Football Club and coach in the VFL/AFL with the Fitzroy and Adelaide Football Clubs...
(born 1955), Australian rules footballer - Robert Shaw (American football)Robert Shaw (American football)Robert Leslie Shaw is a retired American football center in the National Football League for the Dallas Cowboys from 1979 to 1981. He played college football at the University of Tennessee. Mr. Shaw suffered a knee injury and had to stop playing football...
(born 1956), American NFL football player for Dallas Cowboys - Robert Wilson ShawRobert Wilson ShawRobert Wilson Shaw CBE was a Scottish rugby union footballer who played for Scotland in 19 Tests between 1934 and 1939. Shaw played club for Glasgow High School Former Pupils, and could play in several positions in the backline; including wing, centre and fullback...
(19131979), Scottish rugby union player
Other
- Robert Shaw (judge) (19071972), United States federal judge
- Robert Shaw (Ohio)Robert Shaw (Ohio)Robert Shaw is a former member of the Ohio Senate. He served the 16th District, which encompassed portions of Franklin County. He served from 1967 to 1972 , and was succeeded by Donald L. Woodland....
, Ohio state senator 19671972 - Sir Robert Shaw, 1st Baronet (17741849), Member of Parliament
- Robert Shaw (Canadian politician)Robert Shaw (Canadian politician)Robert Shaw was a lawyer and political figure in Prince Edward Island. He represented 3rd Queens in the Legislative Assembly of Prince Edward Island from 1879 to 1882 as a Conservative member....
(18451882), politician from Prince Edward Island, Canada - Robert Shaw (physicist)Robert Shaw (physicist)Robert Stetson Shaw is an American physicist who was part of Eudaemonic Enterprises in Santa Cruz in the late 1970s and early 1980s. In 1988 he was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship for his work in Chaos theory.-Chaos theory:...
(20th century), American physicist - Robert Barkley Shaw (18391879), British explorer and government agent
- Robert Fletcher ShawRobert Fletcher ShawRobert Fletcher Shaw, CC was a Canadian businessman, academic, civil servant and deputy commissioner general of the Universal and International Exhibition of 1967....
(19102001), Canadian businessman, academic, and civil servant - Robert Gould Shaw, (17761853), father of Quincy Adams Shaw and grandfather of Robert Gould Shaw (18371863)
- Robert Gould ShawRobert Gould ShawRobert Gould Shaw was an American officer in the Union Army during the American Civil War. As colonel, he commanded the all-black 54th Regiment, which entered the war in 1863. He was killed in the Second Battle of Fort Wagner, near Charleston, South Carolina...
(18371863), Union Army Colonel during the American Civil War - Robert Gould Shaw IIRobert Gould Shaw IIRobert Gould Shaw II was a wealthy landowner and socialite of the leisure class in the greater Boston area of Massachusetts during the late 19th century, in an era of rapid economic and population growth in the United States referred to as the Gilded Age.Born in 1872 into one of the wealthiest and...
(18711930), wealthy Massachusetts landowner - Robert Gould Shaw III (18981970), son of Robert Gould Shaw II and Nancy Astor, Viscountess Astor
- Robert Shaw (business writer), business author and consultant on the field of marketing