Robert R. Livingston (November 27, 1746 - February 26, 1813), of New York, was a delegate to the New York state constitutional convention and a member of the Committee of Five that drafted the Declaration of Independence, although he was recalled by his state before he could sign the final version of the document. Livingston served as Secretary of Foreign Affairs from 1781 to 1783, under the Articles of Confederation. In 1789, as Chancellor of the State of New York, he administered the first term oath of office to George Washington, the first President of the United States, at Federal Hall in the City of New York. Washington is the only President to have taken the oath of office in New York City, which was then the capital of the United States.

Livingston was a candidate for governor of New York in 1798. As U.S. Minister to France from 1801 to 1804, he negotiated the Louisiana Purchase. After the signing of the Louisiana Purchase agreement in 1803, Livingston made this famous statement:

"We have lived long but this is the noblest work of our whole lives...The United States take rank this day among the first powers of the world" .

After the adoption of the New York State Constitution in 1777, Livingston became the state's first Chancellor, the title given to the chief justice of the state's Chancery Court. At that time, it was the state's highest ranking judicial office. Under the title, he became universally known; it remained his nickname even after he left the office in 1802.

During his time as Minister to France, Livingston met Robert Fulton, with whom he developed the first viable steamboat, the Clermont, whose home port was at the Livingston family home of Clermont Manor in the town of Clermont, New York. Its first voyage left New York City, stopped briefly at Clermont Manor, and continued on to Albany up the Hudson River, completing in just under 60 hours a journey which had previously taken nearly a week by sloop.

Robert R. Livingston was the eldest son of Judge Robert Livingston and Margaret Beekman Livingston. He had nine brothers and sisters, all of whom wed and made their homes on the Hudson River near the family seat of Clermont Manor. The Chancellor built a home for himself and wife Mary Stevens Livingston just south of Clermont, called Belvedere, which was burned to the ground along with Clermont in 1777 by the British Army. In 1794 he built a new home, called New Clermont but subsequently named Arryl House (phonetic spelling of his initials "RRL") which was deemed "the most commodious home in America" and contained a library of 4,000 volumes. After his trip to France, he added an orangerie to the grounds.

Livingston attended King's College, the predecessor to today's Columbia University. He was a Freemason, and in 1784, he was appointed the first Grand Master of the Grand Lodge of New York. He retained this title until 1801. The Grand Lodge's library in Manhattan bears his name. The Bible Livingston used to administer the oath of office to President Washington is owned by St. John’s Lodge No. 1. It is still used today when the Grand Master is sworn in, and, by request, when a President of the United States is sworn in.

At his death, Livingston was laid to rest in Tivoli, New York.

Livingston County, Kentucky, Livingston Parish, Louisiana and Livingston County, New York are named for him.

His nephew by marriage was Robert Fulton.

Robert Livingston (December 16, 1708-November 27, 1790) was the third Lord of Livingston Manor. He was son of Philip Livingston (1686-1749) and was a member of the assembly for the manor from 1737 to 1758.

Upon his death in 1790, Livingston Manor was divided among his four younger sons and the children of his eldest son, Peter R. Livingston, of whom he disapproved. As the lands were further divided by their heirs, the Livingston’s political and economic power was subsequently diminished.

Robert R. Livingston (1718 - December 9, 1775), was a prominent politician, and the leading Whig in New York in his day. He was the son of Robert Livingston (1688-1775) of Clermont and married Margaret Beekman, heir to immense tracts of land in Dutchess and Ulster counties. Margaret was the niece of the wife of Gilbert Livingston, Robert's uncle.

He was a member of the provincial assembly from 1759 to 1768. He served as judge of the admiralty court from 1760 to 1763 and as justice of the colonial supreme court in 1763. He was a delegate to the Stamp Act Congress of 1765, and, in 1775, a member of the Committee of One Hundred, which briefly governed New York City.

He died at his estate in Clermont, New York.

Robert Livingston (July 24, 1688-June 27, 1775) of New York, known as Robert of Clermont, son of Robert Livingston the Elder (1654-1728) and father of Robert Livingston (1718-1775). He married Margaret Howarden (1693-1758) in 1717. He was a member of New York colonial assembly, 1726-27.

Following the death of his father, the first Lord of Livingston Manor, in 1728, most of the manor was inherited by the eldest son Philip Livingston, but 13,000 acres (53 km²) in the southwest corner, later named Clermont, was willed to Robert Livingston (1688-1775), a younger son.

Robert Livingston was born in New York City in January 1933. He grew up in New York, California and Texas, and graduated from Cornell University. He spent two years in Japan and Korea in the U.S. Army in the early 1950s, and studied and travelled in Europe after his Army discharge. After three years as a registered representative of the New York Stock Exchange, he returned to Europe where he was head of an international financial services corporation for ten years. He then retired from the business world and began practising Zen with Master Taisen Deshimaru in Paris.

He became a close disciple of Deshimaru, who made Livingston a Zen teacher. Before his death in 1982, Deshimaru asked him to go to America and open a Zen dojo and teach true Zen practice in the United States. Livingston Roshi founded the American Zen Association and the New Orleans Zen Temple in 1983, and has been teaching in this country ever since.

Robert Livingston (9 December, 1904 - 7 March, 1988), was an American film actor. He appeared in 135 films between 1921 and 1975.

Often billed as "Bob Livingston," he was the original "Stony Burke" in the "Three Mesquiteers" Western B-movie series, a role later played by John Wayne for eight films. He also portrayed the Lone Ranger in a mysterious 1939 serial directed by William Witney and co-starring Chief Thundercloud as Tonto, most of which is currently believed to be lost.

Livingston was born in Quincy, Illinois and died in Tarzana, California from emphysema.

Robert Cambridge Livingston (November 3, 1908 - April 2, 1974) was an American ice hockey player who competed in the 1932 Winter Olympics.

In 1932 he was a member of the American ice hockey team, which won the silver medal.

He died in New Canaan, Connecticut.

Bob Livingston's father was a newspaper editor in Quincy, Illinois. As a reporter for the Los Angeles Daily News Bob did a story on the Pasadena Playhouse, and that got him interested in acting. In his mid-20s, he was doing bit parts for Universal and Fox and went from there to romantic roles with MGM. His first real success came with Republic, in 1936, as a masked hero in the serial Vigilantes Are Coming, The (1936). That led to more cowboy roles and the leading role in the "Three Mesquiteer" series. He had more appearances (29) in that series than anyone else. He played other cowboy roles (Zorro in Bold Caballero, The (1936)), worked with Al St. John in the "Lone Rider" Series (1941-43) and finished up in a number of character parts in Gene Autry (I) and Roy Rogers (I) movies.