Robert Dudley is the name of:

Surname

  • Robert Dudley (actor) (1869–1955), American dentist and film character actor
  • Robert Dudley (explorer) (1574–1649), illegitimate son of the 1st Earl of Leicester
  • Robert Charles Dudley (1826–1909) watercolours and lithographs
  • Bob Dudley (born 1955), former president & CEO of TNK-BP (2003–08) and group CEO of BP (2010–20)
  • Robert Dudley, 1st Earl of Leicester (1532–1588), favourite of Queen Elizabeth I of England
  • Robert Dudley alias Sutton (died 1539), English politician
  • Robert H. Dudley (1933–2023), Justice of the Arkansas Supreme Court

Middle name

  • Robert Dudley Baxter (1827–1875), English economist
  • Robert Dudley Edwards (1909–1988), Irish historian