August Robert Meyer (August 20, 1851 – December 1, 1905) was an American mining engineer, founding organizer of Leadville, Colorado, and developed the park and boulevard system for Kansas City, Missouri as first president of the Commission of Parks.

[1] They were residents of Hamburg, Germany, and immigrated to the United States before their marriage on July 29, 1844, in St. Louis, Missouri.

Heinrich Meyer was an enterprising man: by 1850, the Federal Census shows he was manufacturing lard oil and boneblack.

He and other investors including Horace Austin Warner Tabor founded Leadville and Fairplay, Colorado.

[2] His home in Leadville, called Healy House, is on the National Register of Historic Places and is a museum.

A bronze bas-relief sculpture by Daniel Chester French on an 18-foot (5.5 m) high Knoxville marble marker honoring Meyer was dedicated on June 2, 1909, four years after his death.