'Robert Palmer may refer to:
- Robert Anthony Maurice Palmer (1920–1944), British bomber pilot and recipient of the Victoria Cross
- Robert Palmer (writer) (1945–1997), U.S. music writer and blues producer
- Robert Palmer (singer) (1949–2003), English singer-songwriter and musician
- Robert Palmer (computer businessman) (born 1940), CEO of Digital Equipment Corporation
- Robert Palmer (MP) (1793–1872), English Conservative Member of Parliament
- Robert Palmer, 1st Baron Rusholme (1890–1977), General Secretary of the British Co-operative Union and member of the House of Lords
- Robert Roswell Palmer (1909–2002), historian
- Robert E.A. Palmer or R. E. A. Palmer (1933–2006), classical scholar and ancient historian
- Robert Moffat Palmer (1915–2010), American composer
- Robert W. Palmer, land appraiser for Madison Guaranty; pleaded guilty in Whitewater controversy
- Robert Palmer (vintner) (1934–2009), American advertising executive and vintner
- Robert Palmer (cricketer) (born 1960), Hong Kong-born former English cricketer
- Robert Palmer (skier) (born 1947), New Zealand Olympic skier
- Robert Palmer, pseudonym of Cyriel Buysse (1859–1932), Flemish author
Famous quotes containing the words robert and/or palmer:
“He’s in the other room getting stiffer than the bodies he demonstrates.”
—Philip MacDonald, and Robert Wise. Landlord, The Body Snatcher, directing Gray to the drunken Dr. MacFarland (1945)
“We must be generously willing to leave for a time the narrow boundaries in which our individual lives are passed ... In this fresh, breezy atmosphere ... we will be surprised to find that many of our familiar old conventional truths look very queer indeed in some of the sudden side lights thrown upon them.”
—Bertha Honore Potter Palmer (1849–1918)