Robert Anderson Hall Jr. (April 4, 1911 – December 2, 1997) was an American linguist who specialized in Romance languages.

[1] He then began an MA at the University of Chicago, where he studied linguistics with Harry Hoijer and Leonard Bloomfield and classical Indo-European languages (Greek, Latin, Sanskrit, Avestan, and Old Persian) with Carl Darling Buck and George Bobrinskoy.

[1] In 1943, he went to work at U.S. Armed Forces Institute (USAFI) in Washington, where he helped to produce textbooks for French, Italian, Spanish, and Portuguese as part of the "Spoken Language" series.

[1] At the invitation of J Milton Cowan, Hall joined the faculty at Cornell in 1946 and helped to found the Division of Modern Languages there.

[1] He died from Parkinson's disease at the Cayuga Medical Center in Ithaca, New York, on December 2, 1997, at the age of 86.