Robert Arthur Gardner (20 November 1916 – 2002) was an Australian politician and community organiser.
He was born in Carlton to accountant Robert Stanley Gardner and Dorothy Elizabeth Jones.
He edited the Caulfield Mercury from 1937 to 1939 and in 1939 was inaugural general secretary of the Opportunity Club.
In 1945 he was elected to the Victorian Legislative Assembly as the independent member for Ivanhoe, but he was defeated in 1947.
He held a wide variety of other positions in local community and business groups.