Robert Patten (18 January 1859 – 17 September 1940) was an English-born Australian politician. He was a member of the New South Wales Legislative Council from 1908 to 1910 and a Commonwealth Liberal Party member of the Australian House of Representatives for the electorate of Hume from 1913 to 1917. In May 1917, he was appointed as a manager by the Commonwealth Government to the London staff of the Australian Munitions and War Workers. He relocated to Victoria c. 1928 and lived at Barwon Heads from c. 1932. He died at Geelong in 1940 and was buried at Geelong's Eastern Cemetery.