Robert Don Oliver (17 March 1895 – 6 October 1980) was a Royal Navy officer who was appointed Deputy Chief of the Naval Staff.

Oliver served in World War I taking part in the Battle of the Falkland Islands in 1914, fighting at Gallipoli in 1915 and then undertaking mine-laying off the German and Belgian coast.

[2] He also served in World War II and was commanding HMS Devonshire,[3] a heavy cruiser, on 21 November 1941, when he was informed that codebreakers had determined that German U-boats were going to be surfacing near him, to refuel from a merchant raider, the Hilfskreuzer (cruiser) Atlantis.

[2] His last appointment, in 1947, was as Flag Officer commanding the 5th Cruiser Squadron,[2] before he retired on 26 September 1948, and was promoted to vice-admiral on the same day.

[6] Following the death of his first wife, he married Mrs M.J. Glendinning van der Velde in 1965.