Robert Edward Russell, known as Bob Russell, (born 31 March 1946, London) is a British politician. He has been a Liberal Democrat Member of Parliament for Colchester since 1997 (re-elected 2001 and 2005). He was the Liberal Democrat Parliamentary Spokesman on Culture, Media and Sport 2002-2005, but the portfolio is now held by Don Foster. Mr Russell is currently a member of the LibDem's Shadow Defence team.

Mr Russell has a majority of 6,277 votes. His majority makes his the 404th safest out of 643 seats. During 2004/05, Mr Russell claimed £113,939 expenses. He ranks 504th for the amount of expenses claimed. russell/colchester" target="_blank">http://www.theyworkforyou.com/mp/bob_russell/colchester Mr Russell was previously a member of the _Social Democratic Party and the Labour Party. He made an unsuccessful run for Parliament in 1979 as the Labour Party candidate. Before becoming an MP, he was a councillor for over twenty years, initially for the Labour Party, then for the SDP, and finally for the Lib Dems. Mr Russell represented the town's New Town ward. He was leader of Colchester Borough Council until 1991. He was Mayor of Colchester from 1986-87.

During the 2005 general election campaign, Mr Russell was satirised on British television by Bremner, Bird and Fortune for his "war" on mobility scooters for OAPs.

Mr Russell has written several articles concerning his requests to re-join the Co-operative Party, currently not open to members of any other party except the Labour Party. The Co-operative Party has declined his approaches.

Mr Russell is a season ticket holder for Colchester United football club, and wrote the foreword for the latest history of the club (ISBN 1-874287-27-9).

Sidney Keith Russell, known as Bob Russell (25 April 1914 - February 1970) was an American songwriter born in Passaic, New Jersey. Although he was primarily a lyricist who collaborated with composers, he was, on occasion, a composer who collaborated with lyricists.

In 1968, Russell along with songwriting partner Quincy Jones was nominated for an Academy Award in the Best Original Song category (for the film Banning). The following year, both he and Jones were nominated again in the same category (for the Sidney Poitier film For Love of Ivy).

He attended Washington University (St. Louis, Missouri) where he was roommates with Sidney Sheldon the novelist. Then Bob went to work as an advertising copywriter. He then turned to writing special material for vaudeville acts, and then for movie studios, ultimately writing complete scores for two movies: Jack and the Beanstalk and Reach for Glory. The latter of these received the Locarno International Film Festival prize in 1962. A number of other movies featured compositions by Russell: Affair in Trinidad, Blue Gardenia, The Girl Can’t Help It, The Girl Most Likely, Matter of Who, Meet Captain Kidd, Sound-Off, That Midnight Kiss, and Ticket to Tomahawk. In the movies The Girl Most Likely, Blue Gardenia, and Matter of Who, Russell's compositions included the title songs.

Among his collaborators were Lou Alter, Peter De Rose, Duke Ellington, Bronislaw Kaper, Lester Lee, Carl Sigman, Harold Spina, and Harry Warren.

In 1970 he was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame. Russell died from cancer in February of 1970. In 2004 he was posthumously awarded the ASCAP lifetime achievement award in "Pop" music.

Russell's wife, Hannah Russell (b.1913 d.2002), was also a composer of children's movies and songs. Bob Russell's brother-in-law was legendary songwriter Bud Green (b.1897 d.1981) who wrote such classics as Sentimental Journey, Once In A While, and Alabamy Bound. One of Russell's daughters, Simohn Spearitt (b.1945), is an author, who wrote Pink Rose Bush, a self-esteem book for children. She is also an artist who now resides in Mexico. His grandson is singer/songwriter/producer Luther Russell (b.1970). His granddaughter, who resides in Brooklyn, New York, is art director Savannah Spirit and publisher of her online magazine "Fuel" (b.1975).

Bob Russell (b. January 1 1908, Passaic, New Jersey - d. January 24 1998, Sarasota, Florida) was an American entertainer, best known for hosting the Miss America pageant during the years of 1940 to 1946, 1948 to 1950 and 1954. He also served as emcee for the Miss Universe, Miss World, and Miss Canada pageants.

When the Miss America pageant was first televised in 1954, Russell rejected the song "There She Is, Miss America" in favor of two of his own. His recommended replacement, Bert Parks, in 1955 sang this promenade tune into history. Lee Meriwether, age 19 from California, was crowned Miss America on September 11 1954, by a panel of judges including movie queen Grace Kelly. It was watched by 27 million people.

In 1952 he co-created, directed and hosted the very first Miss Universe pageant in Long Beach, California, and continued with the pageant through 1957.

Bob Russell moved to New York at age nine and began his career appearing in Broadway musicals in the 1920s. In the 1930s, he moved on to Philadelphia, where he became a local star as the singing master of ceremonies at the elegant Cafe Marguery in the old Adelphia Hotel. He helped to start many early television game shows, such as Name That Tune (1954-59). He appeared as the emcee of Bonnie Maid's Versatile Varieties (1950-51) and Your Pet Parade (1951), and was the announcer on the quiz show Time Will Tell (1954).

He retired from the limelight to Sarasota, Florida, where he kept busy as Reservation Manager at the Aku Tiki Inn on Lido Key, and later at the Meadows Golf and Tennis Resort.

Bob Russell and his wife, Mignon Simpson Russell, had one child, a daughter, Ingrid.

Robert "Bob" Russell (b. February 5, 1955 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada) is a retired Canadian professional ice hockey player.

Bob Russell is a politician in Alberta, a former leader of the Liberal Party of Alberta, and a former municipal councillor in St. Albert, Alberta.

A realtor by profession, Russell first came to prominence by running for the leadership of the Liberal Party in 1966. He was defeated by Calgary lawyer Adrian Berry, but nevertheless ran in the 1967 provincial election as a Liberal in the riding of St. Albert. He finished second of four candidates, 527 votes behind Keith Everitt of Social Credit. In 1969 he ran for the party's leadership again, losing this time to another Calgarian, John T. Lowery. The party had no seats in the legislature at this point, and Lowery responded by exploring coalition options with Social Credit. These explorations were opposed by much of the party's membership, including Russell, and Lowery resigned from the leadership without contesting an election. This time, Russell was successful in becoming Liberal leader.

He led the party in the 1971 election, in which it was unsuccessful in winning any seats. Russell himself finished third in St. Albert. Two years later, in a Calgary Foothills by-election resulting from the death of Len Werry, Russell placed a distant fourth. Following this defeat, he resigned the party leadership in 1974 and was succeeded by Nick Taylor. After leaving provincial politics, Russell became the President of the Liberal Party of Canada in Alberta.

During the 1984 federal election, Russell ran as a Liberal in the riding of Pembina. He finished third, as Progressive Conservative Peter Elzinga received more than seventy percent of the vote.

In 1986, Russell turned his attention to municipal politics and ran for St. Albert City Council. He finished ninth of thirteen candidates (the top six were elected), which prompted him to comment that he might be finished with politics. However, he ran again in 1989, and was this time elected. In 1992, he ran against incumbent Anita Ratchinsky for mayor. He was defeated, but returned to city council as an alderman in 1995, and was re-elected in 1998.

During the 2000 federal election, Russell ran as a Liberal in the riding of St. Albert. He finished a distant second to incumbent Canadian Alliance Member of Parliament John G. Williams, receiving fewer than half the number of votes that Williams did.

During his second stint on city council, Russell reversed himself on the West Regional Road debate. While he had previously supported the so-called "west bypass" alignment that would have seen a bridge cross the Sturgeon River near the mouth of Big Lake, an eleven thousand name petition opposing the alignment apparently convinced him to support the alternative Ray Gibbon Drive alignment, which crossed the river further from the mouth of the lake and was the recommendation of the CityPlan process, a months long municipal planning initiative initiated by council in part in response to the petition. This incurred the wrath of S.E.N.S.I.B.L.E. Choice, a lobby group that publicly endorsed a set of pro-bypass candidates in the 2001 election; Russell, along with fellow pro-Ray Gibbon incumbents Paul Chalifoux, Penny Reeves, and Jim Starko, was defeated. He sought unsuccessfully to return to city council in the 2004 municipal election, and has announced that he intends to run again in the 2007 election.

Since leaving municipal politics, Russell has held a number of community and political positions, including president of the Liberal riding association in Edmonton—St. Albert, Director of the St. Albert Senior Citizens Club, co-chair of the Standing Committee on Agriculture of the Liberal Party of Canada in Alberta, and President of the Big Lake Environmental Support Society.