Michael Strang Robinson (1910–1999) was Keeper of Pictures at the National Maritime Museum, London, England.
As a child, he was a frequent sailor, and as a student at London University, he took a job cataloguing prints for the Royal Naval College in Greenwich.
Robinson joined the King's Royal Rifle Corps in 1930, and during World War II he served in the Special Boat Section of the British Royal Navy.
He was captured in Leros, and eventually taken to Stalag IV-B, where he started to learn Dutch.
Returning to the National Maritime Museum after the war, Robinson became head of department in 1947.