Robert Fletcher Shaw CC (16 February 1910 – 22 March 2001) was a Canadian businessman, academic, civil servant and deputy commissioner general of the Universal and International Exhibition of 1967.

Born in Montreal, Quebec, he was raised in Revelstoke, British Columbia.

He received a degree in engineering from McGill University in 1933.

In 1937 he started as an engineer with the Foundation Company of Canada, rising to become its president.

Their only son, Robert Jr., a commercial airline pilot, was killed in a plane crash in 1966.