Robert Russell Race (28 November 1907 – 15 April 1984) was a British medical doctor and human geneticist.

He was Director of the Medical Research Council Blood Group Unit, of the Lister Institute of Preventive Medicine.

[1][2] The serum unit moved to Cambridge at the beginning of the Second World War, and in 1941 Race and Arthur Mourant began investigating the family of Rh antigens.

[3] Together Race and Sanger published Blood Groups in Man in 1950,[5] which eventually spanned six editions.

Race retired in 1973, and Sanger was named as director of the MRC Blood Group Unit.