Sports
- Robert Turner (Middlesex cricketer), 18th-century English cricketer
- Robert Turner (footballer) (1877–?), English footballer
- Bob Turner (ice hockey) (1934–2005), ice hockey player
- Bobby Turner (born 1949), American football coach
- Robbie Turner (born 1966), footballer
- Robert Turner (cricketer) (born 1967), English cricketer
- Robert Turner (born 1981), American baseball player/coach
- Robert Turner (American football) (born 1984), American football player for the St. Louis Rams
- Robert Turner (canoer), British slalom canoer
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