Robinson (Name)
Robinson is a common surname and rarely even a male first name.
Importance
The name is formed patronymic meaning ' son of Robin '.
Variants
Variants are Robson, Robeson, Robison and Robin son.
Bearers of the name
A
- Abraham Robinson ( real name was Abraham 's son Robin; 1918-1974 ), American mathematician
- Adolf Robinson (1838-1920), Austrian singer (baritone )
- Andrew Robinson ( born 1942 ), American actor
- Angela Robinson (born 1971 ), American film director
- Ann Robinson ( born 1935 ), American actress
- Anna Lynch -Robinson, set designer and decorator
- Anne Robinson ( born 1944 ), British television presenter
- Arnie Robinson ( born 1948 ), American track and field athlete
- Arthur Robinson ( athlete ), British track and field athlete
- Arthur Charles Robinson (1878-1929), English footballer, see Nat Robinson
- Arthur H. Robinson (1915-2004), American Cartographer
- Arthur NR Robinson ( born 1926 ), politician from Trinidad and Tobago
- Arthur Raymond Robinson (1881-1961), American politician
- Ashley Robinson ( b. 1982 ), American basketball player
B
- Barbara Robinson (1927-2013), American writer
- Benjamin Lincoln Robinson (1864-1935), American botanist
- Bernard Robinson (1912-1970), British art director
- Betty Robinson (1911-1999), American sprinter
- Beverley Robinson (officer ) ( 1723-1792 ), American colonist, Colonel of the Loyalists
- Beverly Robinson ( born 1974 ), British biathlete
- Bill Robinson ( Mr. Bojangles; 1878-1949 ), American tap dancer
- Brendan Robinson ( * 1990), American actor, writer and producer
- Brent Robinson ( born 1981 ), Canadian ice hockey player
- Brian Robinson ( born 1930 ), British cyclist
- Brooks Robinson ( born 1937 ), American baseball player
- Bruce Robinson ( born 1946 ), British filmmaker
- Bumper Robinson ( born 1974 ), American actor
C
- Carl Robinson (born 1976 ), Welsh football player
- Casey Robinson (1903-1979), American screenwriter, film director and producer
- Charles Robinson ( politician) (~ 1732-1807 ), English politician
- Charles Robinson ( Illustrator ) ( 1870-1937 ), British illustrator
- Charles Robinson (actor ) ( born 1945 ), American actor
- Charles Robinson ( referee ) (born 1964 ), American wrestling referee
- Charles D. Robinson (1822-1886), American politician
- Charles L. Robinson (1818-1894), American politician
- Charles W. Robinson ( born 1919 ), American businessman and politician
- Chip Robinson (born 1954 ), American race car driver
- Chris Robinson (actor ) ( born 1938 ), American actor
- Chris Robinson (born 1966 ), American rock singer
- Christina Robinson ( * 1997), American actress
- Christopher Robinson (1806-1889), American politician
- Cleophus Robinson (1932-1998), American gospel and blues singer, songwriter, entertainer and preacher
- Clifford Robinson (born 1966 ), American basketball player
- Cornelius Robinson (1805-1867), American politician
- Craig Robinson (born 1971 ), American actor and stand- up comedian
D
- Damisa Robinson ( born 1981 ), Nigerian tennis players
- Dar Robinson (1947-1986), American actor and stuntman
- Darcy Robinson (1981-2007), Italian- Canadian professional ice hockey player
- Darren Robinson ( rapper ) ( 1967-1995 ), American rapper
- Darren Robinson (guitarist ) (born 1978 ), American guitarist
- Dave Robinson ( born 1941 ), U.S. American football player
- David Robinson ( film historian ) ( born 1930 ), British film historian and critic
- David G. Robinson ( b. 1947 ), British cell biologist
- David Maurice Robinson (born 1965 ), American basketball player
- David Moore Robinson (1880-1958), American classical archaeologist
- David "Dave" Robinson ( born 1941 ), U.S. American football player
- Dawn Robinson ( born 1968 ), American singer
- Derek Robinson (economist ) ( born 1932 ), British economist
- Derek Robinson ( writer ) ( born 1932 ), British writer
- Derek Charles Robinson (1941-2002), British physicist
- Derek John Scott Robinson ( born 1938 ), British mathematician
- Derek W. Robinson ( born 1935 ), British physicist
- Doug Robinson (actor ) ( born 1930 ), British actor and stuntman
- Doug Robinson ( ice hockey player ) ( born 1940 ), Canadian ice hockey player
- Douglas Robinson (born 1954 ), American linguist, author and translator
- Dove - Myer Robinson (1901-1989), New Zealand politician
E
- Earl Robinson (1910-1991), American composer and singer
- Eden Robinson ( born 1968 ), Canadian writer
- Edina Robinson (born 1978 ), German actress
- Edward Robinson ( theologian ) ( 1794-1863 ), American Protestant theologian and Palestine researchers
- Edward Robinson ( Maine) ( 1796-1857 ), American politician
- Edward Robinson ( archaeologist ) ( 1858-1931 ), American archaeologist
- Edward G. Robinson (1893-1973), American actor
- Edward G. Robinson Jr. (1933-1974), American actor
- Edward Gay Robinson, (1919-2007), American football player and coach, see Eddie Robinson
- Edward R. Robinson (1893-1979), American art director and production designer
- Edwin Arlington Robinson (1869-1935), American poet
- Emma Robinson (born 1971 ), Canadian rower
F
- Frank Robinson ( born 1935 ), American baseball player and manager
- Frank D. Robinson ( born 1930 ), American entrepreneur
- Frank M. Robinson ( born 1926 ), American writer
- Franklin M. Robinson ( Frank Robinson, born 1984 ), American basketball player
- Fred Robinson (1901-1984), American jazz trombonist
- Frederick John Robinson, 1st Earl of Ripon ( 1782-1859 ), British politician
G
- Gail Robinson (1946-2008), American singer (soprano )
- Gene Robinson ( born 1947 ), American clergyman, bishop in New Hampshire
- Geoffrey Robinson ( politician ) ( born 1938 ), British politician ( Labour Party )
- Geoffrey James Robinson ( born 1937 ), Australian clergyman
- George Robinson, 1st Marquess of Ripon ( 1827-1909 ), British statesman
- George Robinson ( cameraman) ( 1890-1958 ), American cinematographer, actor, director and producer
- George Robinson (tennis player), Canadian tennis player
- George Augustus Robinson (1791-1866), English preacher and missionary Tasmanian
- George D. Robinson (1834-1896), American politician
- Glen Robinson (1914-2002), American film technician
- Glenn Robinson (born 1973 ), American basketball player
B
- Harry Robinson (1932-1996), Scottish composer and bandleader
- Harold Ernest Robinson ( born 1932 ), American botanist and entomologist
- Henry Robinson ( resistance fighters ) ( 1897-1944 ), European youth officer and resistance fighter
- Henry Crabb Robinson (1775-1867), English journalist
- Henry Morton Robinson (1898-1961), American writer
- Henry Peach Robinson (1830-1901), British photographer
- Henry Wheeler Robinson (1872-1945), British theologian
- Herbert Christopher Robinson (1874-1929), British zoologist
- Hercules Robinson, 1st Baron Rosmead ( 1824-1897 ), British colonial governor
- Holly Robinson ( athlete ) (* 1994), New Zealand athlete
- Holly Robinson Peete (born 1964 ), American actress
I
- Ikey Robinson (1904-1990), American jazz musician
- Iris Robinson ( born 1949 ), Northern Irish politician
- Ivan Robinson (born 1971 ), American boxer
J
- J. Kenneth Robinson (1916-1990), American politician
- J. Peter Robinson ( born 1945 ), British film composer, arranger, pianist and musician
- J. Russel Robinson (1892-1963), American pianist and composer
- Jack Robinson ( football goalkeeper) ( 1870-1931 ), English football goalkeeper
- Jack Robinson ( footballer ) (* 1993), English footballer
- Jackie Robinson (1919-1972), American baseball player
- James Robinson ( footballer 1899) (1899 -? ), Irish football player
- James Robinson ( athlete ) (born 1954 ), American track and field athlete
- James Robinson ( footballer 1982) ( b. 1982 ), English footballer
- James Robinson (actor ) ( b. 1983 ), Scottish actor
- James Carroll Robinson (1823-1886), American politician
- James Dale Robinson ( born 1963 ), British comic and screenwriter
- James Fisher Robinson (1800-1882), American politician
- James G. Robinson ( born 1935 ), American film producer
- James Harvey Robinson (1863-1936), American historian
- James McClellan Robinson (1861-1942), American politician
- James Paterson -Robinson (born 1978 ), Australian jumpers
- James Sidney Robinson (1827-1892), American politician
- James W. Robinson (1878-1964), American politician
- James Wallace Robinson (1826-1898), American politician
- Jancis Robinson ( born 1950 ), British wine critic
- Jane Robinson ( cyclist ), American cyclist
- Jane Robinson ( Costume Designer ), American costume designer
- Jane Robinson ( rower ) (born 1969 ), Australian rower
- Janet L. Robinson ( born 1950 ), American Manager
- Jared Robinson ( * ~ 1963), Australian actor
- Jason Robinson ( born 1974 ), British rugby player
- Jay Robinson (1930-2013), American actor
- Jerry Robinson (1922-2011), American cartoonist
- Jim Robinson (1892-1976), American jazz trombonist
- Joan Robinson (1903-1983), British economist
- Jodi -Ann Robinson ( * 1989), Canadian soccer player
- Joe Robinson ( * 1927), British wrestler and actor
- John Robinson ( pastor ) (c. 1575-1625 ), English Puritan theologian
- John Robinson ( bishop) ( 1650-1723 ), English diplomat and Bishop of Bristol and London
- John Robinson (actor, 1908) ( 1908-1979 ), British actor
- John Robinson (sculptor ) ( 1935-2007 ), British sculptor
- John Robinson ( drummer ) (JR Robinson, born 1954 ), American drummer
- John Robinson ( footballer ) (born 1971 ), Welsh football player
- John Robinson (actor, 1985) ( born 1985 ), American actor
- John AT Robinson (1919-1983), English Anglican theologian and Bishop of Woolwich
- John Alan Robinson ( born 1930 ), English philosopher and logician
- John Beverley Robinson (1821-1896), Canadian politician
- John Buchanan Robinson (1846-1933), American politician
- John C. Robinson (1817-1897), American soldier and politician
- John L. Robinson (1813-1860), American politician
- John McCracken Robinson (1794-1843), American lawyer and politician
- John S. Robinson (1804-1860), American politician
- John Seaton Robinson (1856-1903), American politician
- John T. Robinson (1923-2001), South African paleontologist
- John Yate Robinson (1885-1916), British field hockey player
- Jonathan Robinson (1756-1819), American politician
- Joseph Benjamin Robinson (1845-1929), South African entrepreneurs
- Joseph Taylor Robinson (1872-1937), American politician
- Julia Robinson (1919-1985), American mathematician
- Julie A. Robinson (Julie Anne Robinson; b. 1957 ), American lawyer and judge
- Julie Anne Robinson, British director
- Justin Robinson ( born 1968 ), American jazz musician
K
- Keith Robinson ( archaeologist ) ( 1904-1988 ), British archaeologist and historian
- Keith Robinson ( rugby player ) (born 1976 ), New Zealand rugby player
- Keith Robinson ( actor) (born 1976 ), American actor and singer
- Ken Robinson ( born 1950 ), British author
- Kenneth Robinson (1925-1979), American physicist
- Kim Stanley Robinson ( born 1952 ), American science fiction author
L
- Larry Robinson ( astronomer ), American amateur astronomer and discoverer of asteroids
- Larry Robinson ( born 1951 ), Canadian ice hockey player and coach
- Leigh Ann Robinson ( born 1986 ), American football player
- Leon Robinson (born 1962 ), American actor
- Leonidas D. Robinson (1867-1941), American politician
- Lucie Robinson (born 1978 ), Czech portrait, art and fashion photographer and image- maker
- Lucius Robinson (1810-1891), American politician
- Lucy Robinson, British actress
M
- Mack Robinson (1914-2000), American sprinter
- Madeleine Robinson (1916-2004), French actress
- Marilynne Robinson ( born 1943 ), American novelist and essayist
- Mary Robinson ( born 1944 ), Irish politician
- Mary Robinson ( poet ) ( 1757-1800 ), English poet
- Mary Robinson ( Buttermere ) ( 1778-1837 ), English bourgeois wife of a nobleman
- Matt Robinson (1937-2002), American actor, producer and screenwriter
- Matthew Robinson, 2nd Baron Rokeby ( 1712-1800 ), British nobleman and eccentrics
- Matthew Robinson ( footballer 1907) ( 1907-1987 ), English footballer
- Matthew Robinson (director, 1944) ( born 1944 ), British film director and producer
- Matthew Robinson ( football player, 1974) ( born 1974 ), English footballer
- Matthew Robinson (director, 1978) (born 1978 ), American film director and Drehbuchaotor
- Matthew Robinson ( snowboarder ) ( 1985-2014 ), Australian Para- Snowboarders
- Matthew Thomas Robinson (1937-2002), American actor, producer and screenwriter, see Matt Robinson
- Max Robinson (1939-1988), American television journalist
- Michael Robinson (born 1958 ), Irish football player
- Michael Rowan -Robinson ( b. 1942 ), British astrophysicist and astronomer
- Milton S. Robinson (1832-1892), American soldier and politician
- Moses Robinson (1741-1813), American politician
N
- Nat Robinson (1878-1929), English footballer
- Nate Robinson ( born 1984 ), American basketball player
- Nathan Robinson ( born 1981 ), Canadian ice hockey player
- Nick Robinson -Baker (* 1987), a British diver
- Nicky Robinson ( b. 1982 ), Welsh rugby player
O
- Orphy Robinson ( born 1960 ), British jazz musician
- Orrin W. Robinson (1834-1907), American politician
- Orville Robinson (1801-1882), American politician
P
- Paul Robinson ( born 1979 ), English footballer
- Paul Robinson ( politician ) ( 1882-1935 ), German politician ( SPD), member of the city council of Berlin
- Paul Peter Robinson ( born 1979 ), English footballer
- Patrick Robinson ( author) ( born 1940 ), English author
- Patrick Robinson ( judge) ( born 1944 ), Jamaican judge
- Perry Robinson ( born 1938 ), American jazz clarinetist
- Peter Robinson (actor ) ( 1874-1947 ), American actor
- Peter Robinson ( politician ) ( born 1948 ), Northern Irish politician
- Peter Robinson ( writer ) ( born 1950 ), British writer
- Peter Robinson ( speechwriter ) ( born 1957 ), American speechwriter
- Peter D. Robinson (born 1969 ), English bishop
- Peter Manning Robinson, English rock musician and film composer
- Phil Alden Robinson ( born 1950 ), American film director and screenwriter
- Porter Robinson ( * 1992), American music producer and DJ
- Prince Robinson (1902-1960), American jazz saxophonist and clarinetist
R
- Raheem Robinson ( * 1992), football player in the Cayman Islands
- Raphael Robinson (1911-1995), American mathematician
- Ray Robinson ( born 1929 ), South African racing cyclist
- Raymond Charles Robinson, known as Ray Charles (1930-2004), American musician
- Reginald R. Robinson (born 1972 ), American ragtime pianist
- Rey Robinson ( born 1952 ), American sprinter
- Rich Robinson (born 1969 ), American guitarist
- Richard Robinson, 1st Baron Rokeby ( 1708-1794 ), English clergyman, Archbishop of Armagh
- Richard Robinson (philosopher ) ( 1902-1996 ), British philosopher
- Richard Atkinson Robinson (1849-1928), British politician
- Robert Robinson (1886-1975), English chemist
- Robert Henry Robinson (1927-2011), British journalist
- Robert P. Robinson (1869-1939), American politician (Delaware)
- Roger Robinson (actor ) ( born 1940 ), American actor
- Roger Robinson ( cartoonist ) ( b. 1971 ), American cartoonist
- Roger Robinson ( footballer ) ( b. 1982 ), American football player
- Ross Robinson ( *?), American music producer
- Ruairí Robinson (born 1978 ), Irish animator and film director
- Rubye Robinson (1942-1967), American civil rights activist
S
- Scott Robinson ( born 1959 ), American jazz saxophonist
- Sharon Robinson ( born 1953 ), American singer, composer and music producer
- Shawan Robinson ( b. 1983 ), American basketball player
- Sidney Robinson (1876-1959), British track and field athlete
- Smokey Robinson ( b. 1940 ), American singer
- Spider Robinson ( born 1948 ), Canadian science fiction author
- Spike Robinson (1930-2001), American jazz saxophonist
- Stephen C. Robinson ( born 1957 ), American lawyer
- Stephen Kern Robinson ( born 1955 ), American astronaut
- Stephen M. Robinson ( born 1942 ), American mathematician
- Sue Lewis Robinson ( born 1952 ), American lawyer
- Sugar Ray Robinson (1921-1989), American boxer
- Svend Robinson ( born 1952 ), Canadian politician
T
- Tancred Robinson (c. 1657-1748 ), English physician
- Theo Robinson ( * 1989), English footballer
- Theodore Robinson (1852-1896), American painter
- Thomas Robinson (c. 1560-1609? ), English composer and music teacher
- Thomas Robinson, 1st Baron Grantham ( 1695-1770 to ), British nobleman and politician
- Thomas Robinson, 2nd Baron Grantham ( 1738-1786 ), British nobleman and politician
- Thomas Robinson Jr. (1800-1843), American politician
- Thomas Robinson ( basketball player ) (* 1991), American basketball player
- Thomas Robinson (actor ) (* 2002), American actor
- Thomas JB Robinson (1868-1958), American politician
- Thomas Romney Robinson (1792-1882), British astronomer
- Tom Robinson ( born 1950 ), English musician and songwriter
- Tommy F. Robinson ( born 1942 ), American politician
V
- V. Gene Robinson ( born 1947 ), American bishop
- Vicki Sue Robinson (1954-2000), American disco singer
- Victoria B. Robinson ( born 1980 ), German journalist, presenter and author
W
- Wendy Raquel Robinson ( born 1967), American actress
- Wilbert Robinson (1863-1934), American baseball player
- William Robinson ( governor) ( 1836-1912 ), British governor of Hong Kong and Trinidad and Tobago
- William Robinson ( botanist ) ( 1838-1935 ), Irish gardener, journalist and herbalists
- William Robinson ( painter) ( b. 1936 ), Australian painter and printmaker
- William Robinson ( philosopher), American philosopher
- William Robinson ( singer) ( born 1940 ), American singer
- William Benjamin Robinson (1797-1873), Canadian fur trader and politician
- William Callyhan Robinson (1834-1911), American lawyer and educator
- William Cleaver Francis Robinson (1834-1897), British colonial administrator
- William Ellsworth Robinson (1861-1918), American artist Trick
- William Erigena Robinson (1814-1892), American lawyer and politician
- William Heath Robinson (1872-1944), British cartoonist, illustrator and writer
- William I. Robinson ( born 1959 ), American social and political scientists
- William Leefe Robinson (1895-1918), British fighter pilot
- William S. Robinson (1913-1996), American statistician
Y
- Yank Robinson (1859-1894), American baseball player
Z
- Zuleikha Robinson ( born 1977 ), English actress
- Family name
- Male first name
- English personal name