Robert Allan (4 November 1774 – 1 June 1841) was a Scottish poet.
Early in life he began to write songs, chiefly in the Scottish dialect.
As time progressed, Robert Archibald Smith set to music many of his Scotch songs and published them in the Scottish Minstrel in 1820.
Allan reared a large family, and was poor, old, and discontented, when, in opposition to the advice of his friends, he sailed for the United States, where his youngest son was a portrait-painter of promise.
He died in New York City on 1 June 1841, six days after landing.