Charles Robert Scrivener ISO (2 November 1855 – 26 September 1923) was an Australian surveyor, and the person who surveyed numerous sites in New South Wales for the selection of a site for the Australian Capital Territory and Australia's capital city, Canberra.

[1] On 9 July 1880, the government gazette announced that he had been licensed as a surveyor by the Surveyor-General.

Scrivener's contour map of the selected site was used as the basis for entries in the Canberra design competition.

He was appointed first director of Commonwealth lands and surveys in 1910 and retired in 1915.

The Scrivener Dam on Lake Burley Griffin is named in his honour.