Robert Sheriff Black (1868 – 4 January 1939) was Mayor of Dunedin from 1929 to 1933.

Black was born in Liverpool in 1868 and migrated to Melbourne in Victoria, Australia.

He came to New Zealand in 1897, where he entered the trade of exporting rabbit skins.

[2] He first stood for the Dunedin mayoralty in 1919, but was beaten by William Begg.

[1][2] He stood in the 1931 election in the Dunedin North electorate as an independent candidate in support of the United Party, but withdrew shortly before the election, too late for his name to be removed from the ballot.