Robert Johnson (disambiguation)

Robert Johnson (1911–1938) was an American blues singer and guitarist.

Robert Johnson may also refer to:

Arts

• Robert Johnson (artist) (1770–1796), English artist, pupil of Thomas Bewick
• Robert Barbour Johnson (1907–1987), artist and writer of weird fiction
• Robert Flynn Johnson, curator emeritus at the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
• Bob Johnson (actor) (1920–1993), voice actor noted for Mission: Impossible mission messages
• Bob J, Robert Kwame Johnson (died 2010), Ghanaian cinematographer
• Robert Johnson (born 1948), British comic entertainer known under the stage name Bob Carolgees

Musicians

• Robert Johnson (Scottish composer) (c. 1470–after 1554), Scottish renaissance composer and priest
• Robert Johnson (English composer) (c. 1583–1633), English lutenist and composer
• Robert Sherlaw Johnson (1932–2000), British composer, pianist and music scholar
• Robert A. Johnson (musician) (born 1950s), Memphis-based guitarist
• Robert Johnson (drummer), former drummer for KC and the Sunshine Band
• Robert White Johnson (born 1950s), Nashville songwriter

Business

• Bob Johnson (butcher) (Robert Alan Johnson, 1940–2001), English businessman
• Robert E. Johnson (editor) (1922–1996), publisher and editor of JET magazine
• Robert L. Johnson (born 1946), American media entrepreneur, founder of Black Entertainment Television (BET)
• Robert M. Johnson (publisher) (born 1945), publisher of Newsday
• Robert Wood Johnson I (1845–1910), founded Johnson & Johnson
• Robert Wood Johnson II (1893–1968), 3rd president of Johnson & Johnson
• Robert Wood Johnson III (1920–1970), 3rd generation president of Johnson & Johnson
• Woody Johnson (Robert Wood Johnson IV, born 1947), American businessman

Military

• Robert Johnson (Tennessee) (1834–1869), Civil War colonel; the son and private secretary of US president Andrew Johnson
• Robert S. Johnson (1920–1998), American World War II flying ace
• Robert Lee Johnson (spy) (1922–1972), American spy for the Soviet Union
• Robert Gibbon Johnson (1771–1850), New Jersey colonel, farmer, historian and politician

Politics and law

U.S.

• Robert Johnson (governor) (1682–1735), governor of South Carolina
• Robert Johnson (Louisiana politician) (born 1975), Louisiana House of Representatives
• Robert Johnson III (born 1958), Mississippi House of Representatives
• Robert A. Johnson (South Dakota politician) (1921–2014), South Dakota State Senate
• Robert Davis Johnson (1883–1961), U.S. congressman from Missouri
• Robert E. Johnson (New York politician) (1909–1995), New York State Senate
• Robert E. Johnson (Colorado politician), state legislator
• Robert George Johnson (1925–1969), Minnesota state senator
• Robert H. Johnson (1916–2011), Wyoming state senator; see University of Wyoming College of Law
• Robert I. Johnson (born 1928), Wisconsin State Assembly
• Robert M. Johnson (politician), Florida House of Representatives
• Robert T. Johnson (politician) (born 1945), Missouri House of Representatives
• Robert Underwood Johnson (1853–1937), U.S. writer and diplomat
• Robert W. Johnson (Minnesota politician) (1924–2013), Minnesota House of Representatives
• Robert Ward Johnson (1814–1879), U.S. representative, U.S. senator, and Confederate States senator from Arkansas
• Robert T. Johnson (lawyer) (born 1948), justice of the New York State Supreme Court

Elsewhere

• Robert Johnson (English politician) (c. 1537–1622), English politician who sat in the House of Commons, 1597–1614
• Robert Johnson (died 1730), Irish MP for Trim and Athboy
• Robert Johnson (died 1721), Irish MP for Athboy and Harristown
• Robert Johnson (1745–1833), Irish MP for Hillsborough and Philipstown
• Robert Johnson (Australian politician) (1812–1866), New South Wales politician
• Robert Milton Johnson (1879–1943), Progressive party member of the Canadian House of Commons

Religion

• Robert Johnson (martyr) (died 1582), Catholic priest
• Robert Johnson (archdeacon of Leicester) (1540–1625), Puritan rector
• Robert Johnson (bishop) (died 1767), Anglican bishop of Cloyne, 1759–1767
• Robert Carroll Johnson Jr. (1938–2014), bishop of North Carolina in The Episcopal Church
• Robert Hodges Johnson (fl 1989), bishop of Western North Carolina in The Episcopal Church
• Robert J. Johnson (priest) (died 1916), American Roman Catholic priest

Science and academia

• Robert Johnson (economist) (born 1950s), American economist
• Robert Johnson (historian), professor at the University of Toronto
• Robert A. Johnson (psychotherapist) (1921–2018), American author and Jungian analyst
• Robert David Johnson (born 1967), known as KC Johnson, professor of history
• Robert E. Johnson (scientist), American mathematician, engineer and physicist
• Robert Erwin Johnson (1923–2008), University of Alabama professor, historian of the U.S. Navy and Coast Guard
• Robert Livingston Johnson (1894–1966), Temple University president and former vice president of Time Inc.
• Robert Royce Johnson (1928–2016), engineer, computer pioneer, and professor; inventor of the Johnson counter
• Robert Walter Johnson (1899–1971), American physician

Sports

• Robert Johnson (handballer) (born 1951), Canadian handball player who competed at the 1976 Summer Olympics
• Robert Johnson (tight end) (born 1980), American football player (NFL tight end)
• Robert Johnson (safety) (born 1987), American football player (NFL safety for the Tennessee Titans)
• Robert Johnson (wide receiver) (born 1982), American football player
• Robert Johnson (runner), 1981 USA marathon champion
• Robert Johnson (basketball) (born 1995), American basketball player

Others

• Sir Robert Johnson (civil servant) (1874–1938), British civil servant, Deputy Master of the Royal Mint, 1922–1938
• Robert Johnson (prison officer) (born 1953), American air force veteran and former prison guard
• Robert Crawford Johnson (1882–1937), English inventor of the Cube teapot
• Robert R. Johnson (1928–2010), co-owner of the racehorse Timoleon
• Robert Grady Johnson, co-conspirator in the Geronimo bank murders

Other uses

• "Robert Johnson", a song by Alexis Korner from The Party Album

See also

First name variations

• Bert Johnson (disambiguation)
• Bob Johnson (disambiguation)
• Bobby Johnson (born 1951), college football coach
• Rob Johnson (disambiguation)
• Robb Johnson (born 1955), British musician

Surname variations

• Robert Johnston (disambiguation)

Other

• Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
• Robert Wood Johnson Medical School
• Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital
• The Robert Johnson Songbook, a 1998 album by the Peter Green Splinter Group