Richard Alexander Robb FRSE (1901–1977) was a Scottish mathematician, statistician and astronomer.
He was educated at Queen's Park School and in 1918 entered Glasgow University to study Mathematics and Natural Philosophy (Physics).
Winning a further Euing Scholarship and Commonwealth Fund Fellowship allowed him to do postgraduate studies at the University of Michigan 1926 to 1928.
His proposers were Thomas Murray MacRobert, John McWhan, Donald McArthur and William Arthur.
He spent some time at the University of Lund in Sweden, studying astronomy and on his return was awarded his first doctorate (DSc) by Glasgow in 1936.