Robert Walker
Wikimedia disambiguation page
Robert, Rob, Bob or Bobby Walker may refer to:
Entertainment
Robert Walker (actor, born 1888) (1888–1954) American actor
Robert Walker (actor, born 1918) (1918–1951), actor in Strangers on a Train (1951)
Robert Walker (actor, born 1940) (1940–2019), actor in Ensign Pulver and Easy Rider
Robert Walker (animator) (1961–2015), Disney animator who directed Brother Bear
Robert Walker (painter) (1599–1658), English portrait painter
Robert Walker (musician) (1937–2017), American blues guitarist
Robert Walker (composer) (born 1946), English composer and broadcaster
Robert G. Walker (1917–1988), American television director
Bob Walker (photographer) (1952–1992), American photographer and environmental activist
Rob Walker (poet) (born 1953), Australian poet
Politics
Robert Walker (MP) (1597–1673), English merchant and Royalist during the English Civil War
Robert F. Walker (1850–1930), Missouri attorney general and justice of the Missouri Supreme Court
Robert J. Walker (1801–1869), Mississippi senator, U.S. Treasury Secretary under President Polk
USCS Robert J. Walker, a survey ship in the United States Coast Survey
Robert Jarvis Cochran Walker (1838–1903), congressman from Pennsylvania
Robert Walker (Canadian politician) (1916–1989), Saskatchewan lawyer and attorney general
Bob Walker (Pennsylvania politician) (born 1942), member of the Congress of the United States from Pennsylvania
Robert Major Walker, first African American mayor of Vicksburg, Mississippi
Religion
Robert Walker (priest, of Seathwaite) (1709–1802), Church of England clergyman in the Lake District
Robert Walker (moderator) (1716–1783), Church of Scotland minister and historian
Robert Walker (minister) (1755–1808), minister in the Church of Scotland
Robert Francis Walker (1789–1854), English cleric and translator
Robert Walker (archdeacon of Peterborough) (fl. 1956–1962), Canadian Anglican priest
Sports
Association football (soccer)
Bob Walker (footballer, born 1942), English footballer
Bobby Walker (footballer, born 1879) (1879–1930), Scottish international footballer
Bobby Walker (footballer, born 1906) (1906–?), Scottish footballer in Scotland and the United States
Robert Walker (Third Lanark footballer) (1857–1936), one of the first black Scottish footballers
Robert Walker (footballer, born 1884) (1884–late 1940s), English footballer
Robert Walker (footballer, born 1903), English footballer for Bradford City
Robert Walker (footballer, born 1922) (1922–1991), Scottish footballer for Bournemouth and Wrexham
Robert Walker (footballer, born 1982), Scottish footballer for Hamilton
Robert Walker (Swedish footballer) (born 1987), Swedish footballer for Örebro
Australian rules football
Bob Walker (footballer, born 1891) (1891–1965), Australian footballer for Essendon
Bob Walker (footballer, born 1912) (1912–1997), Australian footballer for Geelong
Bobby Walker (Australian footballer) (1900–1971), Australian footballer for Fitzroy
Robert Walker (Australian footballer) (born 1970), Australian rules footballer
Other sports
Bob Walker (racing driver) (1942–2018), American race car driver
Bobby Walker (golfer) (1943–1995), Scottish golfer
Bob Walker (wrestler), American Greco-Roman wrestler
Bobby Walker (wrestler), American professional wrestler
Robert Walker (American football) (born 1972), American college football running back
Robert Walker (rower) (born 1973), Australian Olympian rower.
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