Alfred Olahan Robards was a 19th-century slave trader and grocer of Kentucky, United States.

[1] Alfred O. Robards sometimes worked at slave trading in partnership with his brother Lewis C.

[7] At the time of the 1860 census, Robards was a resident of the fourth ward of Lexington, Kentucky, occupation trader.

[8] At the time of the 1870 and 1880 censuses he was married with a family, and working as a grocer in Harrodsburg, Kentucky.

"[12] Robards died in 1884 after a "long and painful illness" and was buried in Spring Hill Cemetery in Harrodsburg, Kentucky.