Robert Harper Shumaker (born May 11, 1933) is a retired rear admiral and naval aviator in the United States Navy.

He attended Northwestern University for a year and then the United States Naval Academy, graduating with a Bachelor of Science degree in 1956.

After flight training, Shumaker eventually joined VF-32, a fighter squadron in Jacksonville, Florida.

[3] Lieutenant Commander Shumaker was an F-8D pilot assigned to VF-154 on board the carrier USS Coral Sea.

Shumaker's aircraft, a F-8 fighter, was shot down by 37mm cannon fire on February 11, 1965 in the province of Quang Binh.

Upon arrival in Hanoi, a white-smocked North Vietnamese gave him a cursory examination before dozens of photographers yet did not give him any medical attention.

Shumaker's final assignment was as director of the Tactical Air, Surface & Electronic Warfare Development Division in the Office of the Chief of Naval Operations at the Pentagon from June 1986 until his retirement from the navy on February 1, 1988, at the rank of rear admiral.

In April 2011 Shumaker was presented with the Distinguished Graduate Award from the United States Naval Academy.