Leo Robert

Leo Robert, born in Montreal on January 16, 1921, and died on November 28, 2016, at the age of 95, was a Canadian bodybuilder who won the 1955 Mr. Universe and was at one time billed as America's most muscular man. As a boy he was profoundly interested in sports, particularly hockey, and learned the value of sportsmanship and hard work. He was introduced to bodybuilding by the former bodybuilder Ben Weider, realized that he did not want to be cooped up in an office anymore, and competed very successfully in bodybuilding throughout the 1950s and early 1960s. He had two brothers and two sisters, and his father was an auto mechanic who owned his own garage.