Robert Hunter FRS (c. 1666 – 31 March 1734) was a British army officer, playwright and colonial administrator who successively served as the governors of New York, New Jersey and Jamaica.

He became an officer in 1689 who rose to become a general, and married a woman of high rank.

He was a man of business whose first address to the New Jersey Assembly was barely 300 words long.

He was then appointed Governor of New York and sailed to America with 3,000 Palatine refugees as settlers in 1710.

While in Jamaica, Hunter waged an unsuccessful war against the Jamaican Maroons.