title: Robert Gordon
text: # Robert Gordon
  
  Robert Gordon may refer to:
  
  ## Entertainment
  
  * Robert Gordon (actor) (1895–1971), silent-film actor
  * Robert Gordon (director) (1913–1990), American director
  * Robert Gordon (singer) (1947–2022), American rockabilly singer
  * Robert Gordon (screenwriter), American screenwriter
  * Robert Gordon (writer and filmmaker), American author and director
  * Robert Gordon, British record producer, member of the Forgemasters
  
  ## Military
  
  * Robert Gordon (RAF officer) (1882–1954), British officer
  * Robert MacIntyre Gordon (1899–1983), Scottish World War I flying ace
  * Robert Gordon (British Army officer) (born 1950), British general
  
  ## Politics
  
  * Sir Robert Gordon, 1st Baronet (1580–1656), Scottish courtier and historian
  * Sir Robert Gordon, 3rd Baronet (1647–1704), Scottish courtier and politician
  * Sir Robert Gordon, 4th Baronet (1696–1772), Scottish landowner and politician
  * Robert Gordon (MP) (1786–1864), British Member of Parliament for Windsor and Cricklade
  * Robert Gordon (diplomat) (1791–1847), British diplomat
  * Robert B. Gordon (1855–1923), U.S. Representative from Ohio
  * Robert Gordon (Vermont politician) (1865–1921), mayor of Barre 1916–1917
  * Robert C. F. Gordon (1920–2001), American diplomat
  * Robert M. Gordon (born 1950), New Jersey state senator
  * Robert Gordon (ambassador) (born 1952), British ambassador to Burma and to Vietnam
  
  ## Sports
  
  * Robert Gordon (rower) (1830–1914), English rower and clergyman
  * Robert Gordon (cricketer) (1889–1914), New Zealand cricketer
  * Robert Gordon (English footballer) (1917–1940), British footballer and soldier
  * Robert Gordon (gridiron football) (born 1968), American football player
  * Robert Gordon (Scottish footballer), Scottish footballer for Dumbarton during the 1900s
  * Rob Gordon (born 1975), New Zealand rugby player
  * Rob Gordon (curler), Canadian curler
  * Robb Gordon, Canadian hockey player
  * Robby Gordon (born 1969), American racing driver
  
  ## Professors
  
  * R. K. Gordon (1887–1973), medieval literature professor at University of Alberta
  * Robert Winslow Gordon (1888–1961), folklore professor at Berkeley
  * Robert Aaron Gordon (1908–1978), economics professor at Berkeley
  * Robert A. Gordon (born 1932), sociology professor at Johns Hopkins
  * Robert J. Gordon (born 1940), economics professor at Northwestern
  * Robert P. Gordon (born 1945), professor of Hebrew at Cambridge
  * Robert Gordon (academic) (born 1966), Italian studies professor at Cambridge
  
  ## Other
  
  * Robert Gordon of Lochinvar (died 1628) Scottish landowner and promoter of colonies in Canada
  * Robert Gordon of Straloch (1580–1661), Scottish cartographer
  * Robert Gordon (philanthropist) (1668–1731), Scottish trader and philanthropist
  * Robert Jacob Gordon (1743–1795), Dutch explorer of South Africa
  * Robert Gordon (minister) (1786–1853), Free Church of Scotland minister
  * Robert Gordon (banker) (1829–1918), founder of the Metropolitan Museum of Art
  * Robert Gordon (psychologist) (born 1944), American
  * Robert L. Gordon III (born 1957), American business executive
  * Robert J. Gordon (lawyer), American trial lawyer
  