John David Alexander Robb (24 February 1932 – 13 February 2018) was a surgeon from Ballymoney in County Antrim, Northern Ireland who served for seven years a member of Seanad Éireann, the upper house of the Oireachtas (the legislature of the Republic of Ireland).
A liberal Protestant in the all-Ireland tradition,[1] Robb was educated at Rockport School, Holywood, County Down, and at Merchiston Castle School, Edinburgh.
He then trained in medicine at Queen's University, Belfast and later specialised in surgery.
[2] In the early 1980s he founded the New Ireland Group, which sought to promote a new vision of Ireland which would radically differ both from the Unionist viewpoint and from the Catholic and Gaelic vision.
In 1982, he was nominated by the Taoiseach Charles Haughey to be a member of the 16th Seanad.