Robertson
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Oscar Palmer The Big O, born 1938, U.S. basketball player: Basketball Hall of Fame 1980, 2010.
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Pat Marion Gordon Robertson, 1930–2023, U.S. evangelist and media mogul noted for his influential political conservatism.
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William, 1721–93, Scottish historian, academic, and minister in the Church of Scotland.
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Sir William Robert, 1860–1933, British field marshal, noted for his unprecedented rise from enlisted man to highest ranking British army officer.
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Its top player is Liverpool defender Andy Robertson but its oldest is goalkeeper Craig Gordon, at 43 the most senior player in the tournament.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 10, 2026
"I couldn't get my mate Diogo Jota out of my head today," defender Robertson said after Scotland secured World Cup qualification in November.
From BBC • Jun. 9, 2026
His wife, Cynthia Robertson, had campaigned door-to-door for Platner but now says she will vote for him only to defeat Collins, hoping the party eventually replaces him.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 6, 2026
The son of Korean immigrants, Park grew up in the South Robertson area, “a part of L.A. that was extremely diverse,” he says.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 5, 2026
Pat Robertson, the former television evangelist and presidential candidate, maintained recently that he couldn’t prove that there weren’t Soviet missile sites in Cuba and therefore there might be.
From "Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences" by John Allen Paulos
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