1. A Welsh pirate credited with having taken more than 400 ships (1682-1722)
   - Bartholomew Roberts
    
2. United States writer remembered for his historical novels about colonial America (1885-1957)
   - Kenneth Roberts
    
3. American evangelist and educator (1918-2009)
   - Oral Roberts
    
4. United States biochemist (born in England) honoured for his discovery that some genes contain introns (born in 1943)
   - Richard J. Roberts, Richard John Roberts

1. United States parliamentary authority and author (in 1876) of Robert's Rules of Order (1837-1923)
   - Henry M. Robert, Henry Martyn Robert

Type of: author, buccaneer, chemist, evangelist, gospeler [US], gospeller, parliamentarian, pirate, revivalist, sea robber, sea rover, writer

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