A few of note

 Several of my namesake have come up many times over the years. Here a are a few. In order to reduce the ambiguous nature of this site, I will try to refer to each Robert with the terms associated with them most (which will be difficult in some circumstances because some of us are identified only by a crime committed or a family survived). 

There are so many fun one-off stories that I'll highlight, but for now, here are a few of the more famous ones.

Japanese baseball author

If google hits correlate to fame, Robert "You Gotta Have Wa" Whiting is the most famous of us. He owns (and recently started redirecting) robertwhiting.com to his tokyojunkie.com blog. He's a journalist and author who focuses primarily on Japanese baseball. His most famous book, "You Gotta Have Wa" shows up on the google list regularly (though he's written several other books).

I think he would call New Jersey, California, and Japan his homes. More than an author, he used to work for the NSA, consulted on movies, and traveled the world with his wife. He even has his own wikipedia page. It makes sense that he gets a lot of press because he's a journalist.

Motorist who killed Dr. Ling Felce

Not all of us are famous for our field of work. In Oxfordshire, UK, this Robert is now serving an 8 year sentence for killing Dr. Ling Felce for driving a lorry while "uninsured and unqualified." The headlines started back in March of this year and the sentence only recently came out.

I feel for Dr. Felce's family and students. I've prayed for them.

This unqualified lorry driver also made me consider what would be written about me if I was distracted and didn't see a cyclist in a roundabout. What kind of crushing weight must it be to have a person's death on your conscience? And how much multiplied would weight be if I were unqualified, uninsured, and distracted, while the person killed was loved and respected by so many?

Police Officer in Norwich

Every once in a while, I see a headline for a crime and my heart jumps into my chest, "It's happened, someone with my name has defaced it, and we'll all have to live with it." But unlike the motorist, it's an article like this out of the greater Norwich area of the UK, where Robert the police officer is cleaning up the streets. From the scattered articles over the years, he does good work.