Robert Franklin Lewis is a retired American basketball player. Lewis grew up in Northwest Washington, DC and developed a lot of his skills at the Jelleff's Boys Club in Georgetown,under the tutelage of Joe Branzell. He played in high school at DC's St. John's College High School, playing for coach Joe Gallagher. In his junior year, Lewis averaged 25.4 ppg, scoring a season high 40 vs the Georgetown frosh, and was named first team All Met. In his Sr year, Lewis was the Daily News SSA Player of the Year, named first team All Met for the second year in a row, and capped it off with an appearance on the Ed Sullivan Show as a Parade Magazine All American for 1963. He then played for Dean Smith at the University of North Carolina, where he played an integral role on the 1967 ACC Champion and Final Four team. He averaged 27.4 points per game in 1966, the second-highest single-season average in UNC history. On December 16, 1965, he scored 49 points against Florida State, the most ever for a UNC player. He currently ranks tenth all time in scoring at UNC with 1,836 career points. He was an All-ACC and All-America selection in 1966 and 1967. 

March 20th, 1945 in Washington, D.C. (Age 79)