Robert Johnson (1911–1938) was an American blues singer and guitarist.

Robert Johnson may also refer to:

Arts

  • Robert Johnson (artist) (1770–1796), English artist, pupil of Thomas Bewick
  • Robert Barbour Johnson (1907–1987), artist and writer of weird fiction
  • Robert Flynn Johnson, curator emeritus at the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
  • Bob Johnson (actor) (1920–1993), voice actor noted for Mission: Impossible mission messages
  • Bob J (Robert Kwame Johnson, died 2010), Ghanaian cinematographer
  • Robert Johnson (born 1948), British comic entertainer known under the stage name Bob Carolgees

Musicians

  • Robert Johnson (Scottish composer) (c. 1470–after 1554), Scottish renaissance composer and priest
  • Robert Johnson (English composer) (c. 1583–1633), English lutenist and composer
  • Robert Sherlaw Johnson (1932–2000), British composer, pianist and music scholar
  • Robert A. Johnson (musician) (born 1950s), Memphis-based guitarist
  • Robert Johnson (drummer), former drummer for KC and the Sunshine Band
  • Robert White Johnson (born 1950s), Nashville songwriter
  • Bob Johnson (1944-2023) , prominent member of Steeleye Span .

Business

  • Bob Johnson (butcher) (Robert Alan Johnson, 1940–2001), English businessman
  • Robert E. Johnson (editor) (1922–1996), publisher and editor of JET magazine
  • Robert L. Johnson (born 1946), American media entrepreneur, founder of Black Entertainment Television (BET)
  • Robert M. Johnson (publisher) (born 1945), publisher of Newsday
  • Robert Wood Johnson I (1845–1910), founded Johnson & Johnson
  • Robert Wood Johnson II (1893–1968), 3rd president of Johnson & Johnson
  • Robert Wood Johnson III (1920–1970), 3rd generation president of Johnson & Johnson
  • Woody Johnson (Robert Wood Johnson IV, born 1947), American businessman

Military

  • Robert Johnson (Tennessee) (1834–1869), Civil War colonel; the son and private secretary of US president Andrew Johnson
  • Robert S. Johnson (1920–1998), American World War II flying ace
  • Robert Lee Johnson (spy) (1922–1972), American spy for the Soviet Union
  • Robert Gibbon Johnson (1771–1850), New Jersey colonel, farmer, historian and politician

Politics and law

U.S.

  • Robert Johnson (governor) (1682–1735), governor of South Carolina
  • Robert Johnson (Louisiana politician) (born 1975), Louisiana House of Representatives
  • Robert Johnson III (born 1958), Mississippi House of Representatives
  • Robert A. Johnson (South Dakota politician) (1921–2014), South Dakota State Senate
  • Robert D. Johnson (1883–1961), U.S. congressman from Missouri
  • Robert E. Johnson (New York politician) (1909–1995), New York State Senate
  • Robert E. Johnson (Colorado politician), state legislator
  • Robert George Johnson (1925–1969), Minnesota state senator
  • Robert H. Johnson (1916–2011), Wyoming state senator; see University of Wyoming College of Law
  • Robert I. Johnson (1928–2020), Wisconsin State Assembly
  • Robert M. Johnson (politician) (1934–2015), Florida House of Representatives
  • Robert T. Johnson (politician) (born 1945), Missouri House of Representatives
  • Robert Underwood Johnson (1853–1937), U.S. writer and diplomat
  • Robert W. Johnson (Minnesota politician) (1924–2013), Minnesota House of Representatives
  • Robert Ward Johnson (1814–1879), U.S. representative, U.S. senator, and Confederate States senator from Arkansas
  • Robert T. Johnson (lawyer) (born 1948), justice of the New York State Supreme Court
  • Robert Grady Johnson (politician) (1895–1951), North Carolina politician

Elsewhere

  • Robert Johnson (English politician) (c. 1537–1622), English politician who sat in the House of Commons, 1597–1614
  • Robert Johnson (died 1730), Irish MP for Trim and Athboy
  • Robert Johnson (died 1721), Irish MP for Athboy and Harristown
  • Robert Johnson (1745–1833), Irish MP for Hillsborough and Philipstown
  • Robert Johnson (Australian politician) (1812–1866), New South Wales politician
  • Robert Milton Johnson (1879–1943), Progressive party member of the Canadian House of Commons

Religion

  • Robert Johnson (martyr) (died 1582), Catholic priest
  • Robert Johnson (archdeacon of Leicester) (1540–1625), Puritan rector
  • Robert Johnson (bishop) (died 1767), Anglican bishop of Cloyne, 1759–1767
  • Robert Carroll Johnson Jr. (1938–2014), bishop of North Carolina in the Episcopal Church
  • Robert Hodges Johnson (fl 1989), bishop of Western North Carolina in the Episcopal Church
  • Robert J. Johnson (priest) (died 1916), American Roman Catholic priest
  • Sir Robert Johnson (judge) (1933–2020), British barrister and judge

Science and academia

  • Robert Johnson (economist) (born 1950s), American economist
  • Robert Johnson (historian), professor at the University of Toronto
  • Robert A. Johnson (psychotherapist) (1921–2018), American author and Jungian analyst
  • Robert David Johnson (born 1967), known as KC Johnson, professor of history
  • Robert E. Johnson (scientist), American mathematician, engineer and physicist
  • Robert Erwin Johnson (1923–2008), University of Alabama professor, historian of the U.S. Navy and Coast Guard
  • Robert Livingston Johnson (1894–1966), Temple University president and former vice president of Time Inc.
  • Robert Royce Johnson (1928–2016), engineer, computer pioneer, and professor; inventor of the Johnson counter
  • Robert Walter Johnson (1899–1971), American physician

Sports

  • Robert Johnson (handballer) (born 1951), Canadian handball player who competed at the 1976 Summer Olympics
  • Robert Johnson (tight end) (born 1980), American football player (NFL tight end)
  • Robert Johnson (safety) (born 1987), American football player (NFL safety for the Tennessee Titans)
  • Robert Johnson (wide receiver) (born 1982), American football player
  • Robert Johnson (runner), 1981 USA marathon champion
  • Robert Johnson (basketball) (born 1995), American basketball player
  • Earl Johnson (runner) (Robert Earle Johnson, 1891–1965), Olympic silver medalist in cross country running
  • B. J. Johnson (basketball) (Robert Johnson Jr.), American basketball player

Others

  • Sir Robert Johnson (civil servant) (1874–1938), British civil servant, Deputy Master of the Royal Mint, 1922–1938
  • Robert Johnson (prison officer) (born 1953), American air force veteran and former prison guard
  • Robert Crawford Johnson (1882–1937), English inventor of the Cube teapot
  • Robert R. Johnson, co-owner of the racehorse Timoleon
  • Robert Grady Johnson, co-conspirator in the Geronimo bank murders

Other uses

  • "Robert Johnson", a song by Alexis Korner from The Party Album
  • Robert Johnson (guitars), guitars owned and played by Robert Johnson
  • Robert Grady Johnson, American criminal

See also

  • Bert Johnson (disambiguation)
  • Bob Johnson (disambiguation)
  • Bobby Johnson (born 1951), college football coach
  • Rob Johnson (disambiguation)
  • Robb Johnson (born 1955), British musician
  • Robert Johnston (disambiguation)
  • The Robert Johnson Songbook, a 1998 album by the Peter Green Splinter Group