Robin Hood: Quick Facts

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Oct. 6, 2026

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Hugh Jackman aims an arrow as Robin Hood in a scene from the 2026 film The Death of Robin Hood.

Bronze sculpture depicting Robin Hood and Little John fighting on a wooden bridge.

Illustration shows Friar Tuck carry Robin Hood on his back taken from the story of Robin Hood book.

A colourful illustration depicts King Robin Hood and Maid Marian dressed in elegant period attire, capturing a scene from the book Robin Hood and His Merry Men.

Actors Russell Crowe and Cate Blanchett ride horses side by side in a village, dressed in medieval-era attire, in a publicity still from Robin Hood 2010.

The Major Oak, a massive, ancient oak tree with a broad trunk and spreading branches supported by posts, stands in a grassy clearing in Sherwood Forest, Nottinghamshire.

Robin shooteth his Last Shaft, drawing by Howard Pyle for The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood, 1883.

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