Robert Alexander Bryden (7 July 1841 – 14 April 1906) was a Scottish architect, prominent in the second half of the 19th century.

He was mainly active in the west of Scotland, where he designed schools, churches and municipal buildings.

[1] He was educated at Arthur's Academy in Dunoon, Argyll, and Kirkcaldy Grammar School.

[1][2] He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Institute of British Architects in 1878.

They had at least one child, a son named Andrew Francis Stewart Bryden (1876–1917), who also became a noted architect and a Fellow of RIBA.