Robert Taylor

Robert, Rob, Bob or Bobby Taylor may refer to:

Arts

• Robert Taylor (actor) (1911–1969), American actor
• Robert Taylor (Australian actor) (born 1963), Australian actor, best known as Agent Jones in The Matrix
• Robert Taylor (animator) (1944–2014), directed The Nine Lives of Fritz the Cat, TaleSpin and Heidi's Song

Architecture

• Sir Robert Taylor (architect) (1714–1788), English architect
• Robert Robinson Taylor (1868–1942), first African-American architect in the United States
• Robert J. Taylor, American architect, principal at Taylor & Burns Architects

Music

• Bob Taylor (luthier), American maker of acoustic guitars, principal of Taylor Guitars
• Robert N. Taylor, U.S. musician, artist, Germanic Neopagan, writer and political activist
• Bobby Taylor, leader of the Canadian Motown soul band Bobby Taylor & the Vancouvers

Politics

• Robert Taylor (congressman) (1763–1845), U.S. Representative from Virginia
• Robert Taylor (Labour politician) (1881–1954), British Member of Parliament for Morpeth, 1935–1954
• Robert Taylor (Conservative politician) (1932–1981), Conservative MP for Croydon North West, South London, 1970–1981
• Robert Taylor (Wisconsin), Wisconsin politician
• Robert Love Taylor (1850–1912), U.S. politician from Tennessee
• Robert Love Taylor (judge) (1899–1987), U.S. federal judge from Tennessee
• R. Fenwick Taylor (1849–1926), Florida Chief Justice
• Robert Paris Taylor, Member of Parliament for Berwick-upon-Tweed, 1768–1774
• Robert Arthur Taylor, Member of Parliament for Lincoln, 1924–1931
• Bob Taylor (Ontario politician), mayor of Brantford, 1988–1991
• Rob Taylor (politician), member of the Iowa House of Representatives

Sports

American football

• Rob Taylor (American football) (born 1960), American football player
• Bobby Taylor (American football) (born 1973), American football player

Association football

• Bob Taylor (footballer) (born 1967), English footballer
• Rob Taylor (footballer) (born 1985), English footballer
• Robert Taylor (footballer) (born 1971), English footballer

Australian football

• Bob Taylor (Australian footballer) (born 1931), Australian rules footballer with Essendon
• Rob Taylor (Australian footballer) (born 1945), Australian rules footballer for Footscray

Cricket

• Bob Taylor (cricketer) (born 1941), English cricketer
• Robert Taylor (cricketer) (1873–?), English cricketer
• Robert Taylor (cricketer, born 1989), English cricketer

Ice hockey

• Bob Taylor (ice hockey) (1904–1993), American professional ice hockey player
• Bobby Taylor (ice hockey) (born 1945), Canadian ice hockey player and broadcaster

Running

• Robert Taylor (sprinter born 1948) (1948–2007), American athlete, 1972 Summer Olympics gold medal winner in the 4x100 m relay
• Robert Taylor (sprinter born 1953), American athlete, 1975 Pan American Games gold medal winner in the 4x400 m relay

Other sports

• Bob Taylor (baseball) (born 1944), American baseball outfielder
• Bobby Taylor (Canadian football) (born 1941), Canadian football player
• Bob Taylor (darts player) (born 1960), Scottish darts player
• Bob Taylor (rugby league), English rugby league footballer of the 1920s and '30s
• Bob Taylor (rugby union) (born 1942), English rugby union international
• Robert Taylor (rugby league), rugby league footballer of the 1950s and '60s

Military

• Bob Taylor (GC) (c. 1921–1950), British recipient of the George Cross
• Robert Taylor (British Army officer) (1760–1839), British general
• Robert P. Taylor (1909–1997), American military officer and chaplain

Religion

• Robert Taylor (Radical) (1784–1844), English clergyman turned freethinker
• Robert V. Taylor (born c. 1958), first openly gay Episcopal dean in the United States
• Robert P. Taylor (1909–1997), American military officer and chaplain
• Robert Selby Taylor (1909–1995), Anglican bishop
• Robert Taylor (Archdeacon of Lewes) (fl. 1558–1559)
• Robert Taylor (Provost of Cumbrae) (1873–1944)

Other people

• Robert Taylor (computer scientist) (born 1932), American computer scientist
• Sir Robert Taylor (engineer) (1855–1921), British mining engineer in India
• Detective Bob Taylor, the "Chief" investigator and semi-host of British TV series The Murder Game
• Robert Taylor (Australian businessman) (1792–1850), Englishman transported to New South Wales and early Australian businessman
• Robert A. Taylor, founder of the Alameda East Veterinary Hospital, a facility featured in the Animal Planet series Emergency Vets and E-Vet Interns
• Robert E. L. Taylor (1913–2009), publisher of the Philadelphia Bulletin
• Robert Lewis Taylor (1912–1998), American writer, 1959 Pulitzer Prize winner for the novel The Travels of Jaimie McPheeters
• Robert Saxton Taylor (1918–2009), influential librarian
• Robert L. Taylor (aviator) (born 1924), founder and president of the Antique Airplane Association Inc.
• Robert R. Taylor (Canadian photographer) (1940–2013), Canadian wildlife photographer
• Robert R. Taylor (1935–2013), entrepreneur and inventor of Softsoap
• Robert H. Taylor (c. 1900–1985), bibliophile
• Robert Taylor (artist) (born 1951), self-taught Oklahoma Native artist

Other

• Robert Taylor Homes, a housing project in the South Side of Chicago
• Robert Taylor incident, a 1979 UFO sighting and potential alien abduction in West Lothian, Scotland

See also

• Robert Walker Tayler (1852–1910), Congressman and federal judge