Robert Andrew Howie (4 June 1923 – 10 March 2012) was a notable English petrologist.
He went to Trinity College, Cambridge (Chemistry, Geology and Mineralogy) after the RAF, graduating in 1950.
He was Lecturer at Manchester University after 1953, and Reader and later Professor at King's College London after 1962.
He was appointed Lyell Professor of Geology at Royal Holloway, University of London in 1986.
W A Deer, R A Howie and J Zussman authored the series 'Rock-Forming Minerals', a widely known mineralogy textbook (1 ed.