Robert William Eyton was an English Church of England clergyman who was author of The Antiquities of Shropshire.

Robert William Mackay (1803–1882) was a British philosophical and religious author. He is best known for The Progress of the Intellect (1850). Charles Hardwick in his Christ and other Masters grouped Mackay's religious views, with those of William Johnson Fox and Theodore Parker, as falling under a heading "absolute religion".

Robert Williams Buchanan was a Scottish poet, novelist and dramatist.

General Sir Robert Thomas Wilson was a British general and politician who served in Flanders, Egypt, the Iberian Peninsula, Prussia, and was seconded to the Imperial Russian Army in 1812. He sat as the Whig Member of Parliament (MP) for Southwark from 1818 to 1831. He served as the Governor of Gibraltar from 1842 until his death in 1849.

Robert Wilson is an American experimental theater stage director and playwright who has been described by The New York Times as "[America]'s – or even the world's – foremost vanguard 'theater artist.'" He has also worked as a choreographer, performer, painter, sculptor, video artist, and sound and lighting designer.

Robert Archibald Wilton was a British journalist, and a proponent of antisemitic thought and conspiracy theories in the United Kingdom.

Robert Maurice Lipson Winston, Baron Winston, is a British professor, medical doctor, scientist, television presenter and Labour peer.

Dr. Robert W. Winter was an architectural historian. He was the Arthur G. Coons Professor of the History of Ideas, Emeritus, at Occidental College, Los Angeles. He is particularly known for his contributions to the history of the California branch of the Arts and Crafts Movement.

Robert Wintner is an author and founder of Snorkel Bob's shops throughout Hawaii.

Robert Yuryevich Wipper was a Russian, Latvian and Soviet historian of classical antiquity, and the medieval and modern periods.