Robert Atkinson OBE (1 August 1883 – 26 December 1952) was an English architect primarily working in the Art Deco style.

Atkinson was born in Wigton in Cumberland and studied at University College Nottingham, and afterwards in Paris, Italy and America.

In turn he illustrated many of the town planning and garden designs of Thomas Hayton Mawson, included in the latter's books The Art and Craft of Garden Making, and Civic Art (1911), to which he contributed a number of skilled perspective views.

[2] Described as the "first luxury cinema on the American model", it was really a recreation centre, in which one could also "take tea", eat or dance.

[3] Atkinson did a lot of work in the Art Deco style, but found that commercial considerations meant that he had to forgo his artistic aspirations.