Bob (first name)
Bob is an English male given name .
Origin and meaning
Bob is short for Robert . The name is mainly common in the USA and Canada.
variants
First name
- Bobby
- Bobbie
family name
- Bobbie
Name bearer
First name
- Bob Backlund (born 1949), American wrestler
- Bob Barker (born 1923), American television presenter
- Bob Benny (1926–2011, actually Emilius Wagemans ), Belgian singer
- Bob Boilen (* 1953), American radio presenter, musician and author
- Bob Breunig (born 1953), American football player
- Bob Bryan (* 1978), American tennis professional
- Bob Bryar (* 1979), American drummer with My Chemical Romance
- Bob Burnquist (* 1976), Brazilian professional cat
- Bob Dole (born 1923), American politician
- Bob Dunn (1908–1971), American western swing guitarist
- Bob Dylan (* 1941), American folk and rock musician
- Bob Ezrin (* 1949), Canadian musician and record producer
- Bob Fosse (1927–1987), American choreographer and director
- Bob Freedman (1934–2018), American jazz musician and arranger
- Bob Fuller (1898-), American jazz saxophonist and clarinetist
- Bob Geldof (* 1951), Irish musician
- Bob Gruen (* 1945), American photographer
- Bob Gibson (1931–1996), American folk musician
- Bob Hayes (1942–2002), American track and field athlete and American football player.
- Bob Hope (1903-2003), British comedian, actor and entertainer
- Bob Hoskins (1942-2014), British actor
- Bob Howard (* 1955), American freestyle skier
- Bob Kerrey (* 1943), American politician, former governor and senator
- Bob Kindred (1940-2016), American jazz musician
- Bob Marley (1945–1981), Jamaican singer, guitarist and songwriter
- Bob McKinlay (1932-2002), Scottish football player
- Bob Mintzer (* 1953), American saxophonist and clarinetist
- Bob Moore (born 1932), American musician
- Bob Murawski (* 1964), American film editor
- Bob Murray (ice hockey player, 1948) ( Robert John Murray ; * 1948), Canadian ice hockey player
- Bob Murray (ice hockey player, 1954) ( Robert Frederick Murray ; * 1954), Canadian ice hockey player and manager
- Bob Rafelson (* 1933), American film director
- Bob Ross (1942–1995), American painter and actor
- Bob Ross (* 1954), Scottish musician and conductor
- Bob Saget (* 1956), American actor, comedian and presenter
- Bob Seger (* 1945), American rock musician
- Bob Sinclar (* 1969), French record producer and DJ
- Bob Vila (* 1946), Cuban-American presenter
- Bob Weinstein (* 1954), American film producer
- Bob Weir (born 1947), American singer and guitarist
- Bob Wilber (1928–2019), American jazz musician
- Bob Wills (1905–1975), American country musician, band leader and founder of western swing
- Bob Woodward (* 1943), American journalist
Animals
- Bob the Stray; Cat from the novel of the same name by James Bowen
Fictitious namesake
Others
- Alice and Bob ("A", "B"), a fictional position in cryptographic usage and in network protocols