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Robert Randall

Wikimedia disambiguation page

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionDec 7, 2025
Entity authorityQ7349163
Source-derived summary

Robert or Bob Randall may refer to:

Robert C. Randall (1948–2001), advocate of medical marijuana, founder of Alliance for Cannabis Therapeutics

Robert Richard Randall (1750–1801), founder of Sailors' Snug Harbor in Staten Island, New York

Robert Randall (photographer) (1918–1984), American photographer

Robert Randall, pseudonym used jointly by American novelists Robert Silverberg (born 1935) and Randall Garrett (1927–1987)

Bob Randall (Aboriginal Australian elder) (1929–2015), Aboriginal Australian elder, singer and community leader

Bob Randall (politician), Australian politician in South Australia

Bob Randall (baseball) (born 1948), American Major League Baseball player, 1976–1980

Bob Randall (rugby union)

Bob Randall (writer)

See also

Robert Randal (c.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Robert Randall” is wikimedia disambiguation page. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Robert, Randall and Wikimedia, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1948, 2001, 1750, 1801—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Robert, Randall and Wikimedia is the immediate research focus.
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The citation trail is more important than the brevity of the summary: it shows where individual claims can be examined in context. The source revision retrieved here is dated Dec 7, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q7349163. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1948, 2001, 1750 and 1801.

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This entry incorporates text from Robert Randall” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.