Robert Hippolyte Chodat (4 June 1865, Moutier – 28 April 1934) was a Swiss botanist and phycologist who was a professor and director of the botanical institute at the University of Geneva.
He studied medicine and botany at Geneva, where he was later a lecturer of pharmacy.
[1] Chodat was a leading authority of the botanical family Polygalaceae.
In 1914, with Emil Hassler (1864–1937), he collected plants in Región Oriental of Paraguay.
He was made Chevalier de la Légion d'Honneur in 1909.