Robert Maxwell Ogilvie (5 June 1932 – 7 November 1981) was a British scholar of Latin literature and classical philology.

[1] His parents were Sir Frederick Wolff Ogilvie (1893–1949), director-general of the BBC from 1938 to 1942, and Lady (Mary) Ogilvie (née Macaulay) (1900–1990), principal of St Anne's College, Oxford, from 1953 to 1966.

[3][4] Ogilvie became a Fellow of Balliol College in 1957 and from 1957 to 1970 tutored students.

From 1975 Ogilvie was professor of Humanity (Latin) at the University of St. Andrews.

[3] He died suddenly in St Andrews on 7 November 1981.