- Younger cousin of Stephen Amell, star of CW's Arrow (2012).
- Got engaged to girlfriend of six years, actress Italia Ricci, on August 20, 2014.
- Has twice been involved in projects with the name "Scooby", in which he played "Fred" of the Mystery Gang, and appeared in How I Met Your Mother (2005), as a character named "Scooby", who had many dog-like qualities.
- Father, with wife Italia Ricci, of son Robert Amell (V) (b. September 12, 2019).
- His maternal step-great-grandfather, Henry John "Hank" Burden, was a World War I flying ace who was officially credited with 16 victories; Henry was a grandson of Timothy Eaton (1834-1907), the Northern Irish immigrant who founded the famous Canadian store Eaton's in Toronto in 1869.
- He is of English, Scottish, German, Irish, one sixteenth French-Canadian, and more distant Welsh and Dutch, descent. His family's surname, "Amell", was spelled "Hamel" several generations back, and originates in France.
- He and his wife Italia Ricci became American citizens in 2020.
- Robbie's great-great-great-grandfather, Benjamin Devitt, was Mayor of Waterloo, Ontario, while Robbie's great-great-grandfather, Louis Jacob Breithaupt, was a manufacturer and political figure in Ontario, who was Mayor of Berlin, Ontario (now Kitchener, Ontario), as was Louis's own father. Robbie's great-great-uncle, Louis's son Louis Orville Breithaupt, was an MP in the Canadian Parliament, and then a Lieutenant Governor of Ontario from 1952 to 1957.
- Graduated Armour Heights Public School in 2000.
- First cousin, twice removed, of Progressive Conservative politician Bill Davis, who was Premier of Ontario, from March 1, 1971 to February 8, 1985. Robbie's paternal great-great-grandparents, John William Hewetson and Eliza Jackson, were also Bill's maternal grandparents.
- Is the second ever actor to officially play the iconic Scooby-Doo character of "Fred Jones" in live-action.
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