Robert Home, CB, FRGS (29 December 1837 – 29 January 1879) was an English officer in the British Army, rising to the rank of colonel in the Royal Engineers.

After ably reporting on the defence of the Canadian frontier in 1864, impressing the authorities, he was appointed deputy-assistant quartermaster-general at Aldershot in 1866 and secretary of the Royal Engineers standing scientific committee in 1870, and entered the topographical department of the War Office in 1871.

After his promotion to captain on 9 December 1864 he was sent to Canada, where he wrote a very able report on the defence of the frontier against American invasion, which attracted the attention of the authorities in England.

According to Robert Hamilton Vetch, Home "proved himself as able in the field as at the desk, his energy and force of character enabling him to overcome manifold difficulties".

[3] The work of opening a road from Cape Coast Castle, through the dense forest, preparing the way for the march to Coomassie, and providing huts to shelter the British troops at night in that pestilential climate, was performed by Major Home with remarkable ability and energy.

[3] During the Russo-Turkish War, when there was risk of the United Kingdom being drawn into the struggle, Home's opinion was frequently sought, and great weight attached to it in military circles.

… It will be found that most of the statesmen who have been engaged in the difficult work of the last few years attribute no small importance to the assistance derived from Colonel Home's genius and grasp of facts.

His principal work, A Précis of Modern Tactics, was at the time of its publication (1873) one of the very few English books on the subject, and it remained for some years the best, becoming an official textbook.