Robert Burton Gooden (September 18, 1874 – August 24, 1976) was a suffragan bishop in the Episcopal Diocese of Los Angeles.

He came to the United States in 1888 and attended the High School in Ventura, California.

He also earned a Doctor of Canon Law in 1966 from Church Divinity School of the Pacific.

[2] Gooden was ordained deacon on June 8, 1904 by Bishop Chauncey B. Brewster of Connecticut in the Church of the Holy Trinity, Middletown, Connecticut, and priest on April 18, 1905 by Bishop Joseph Horsfall Johnson of Los Angeles in Trinity Episcopal Church, Santa Barbara, California.

He helped found the Gooden Center, a residential facility in Pasadena for recovery from alcohol and drug addiction.