Robert Hood Saunders CBE QC (May 30, 1903 – January 16, 1955) was mayor of Toronto from 1945 to 1948, and then president of the Canadian National Exhibition, and chairman of the Ontario Hydro (formally named the Hydro Electric Power Commission of Ontario (HEPCO)).

He was defeated in several attempts to be elected to the Toronto Board of Control before returning to city council as an alderman for Ward 4 in 1940.

On his death, Fred Gardiner, chairman of Metropolitan Toronto Council, had this to say: Newsboy, athlete, successful lawyer, mayor to the city, chairman of Hydro, president of the Exhibition, and the one man most responsible for the St. Lawrence Seaway, Bob Saunder's life was a series of successes which only a man of his dynamic energy and ability could accomplish.

On this occasion, Premier Frost said, ... he was a person of kindness and understanding; a very human being in many capacities and in many ways.

In Toronto the Robert H. Saunders Memorial, a bas relief on stone marker was completed in 1957 by Emanuel Hahn on University Avenue south of College Street.