Robert Kennedy (1801 – June 21, 1889) was a hotel manager, businessman and politician who served as the second town president of Saint Paul, Minnesota.
He moved to Wisconsin in 1839 and from there to Minnesota in 1844, settling in the frontier town of Dakotah (today part of Stillwater, Minnesota).
He ran a series of hotels in the Minnesota Territory's early towns before moving to Saint Paul, Minnesota in 1848 to run a hotel called the Central House.
In 1851 he was elected the president of St. Paul's town board, serving one term.
Kennedy pursued several other business interests including a stagecoach line and a successful venture gold mining in Montana, but remained most well known for his heavy involvement in the hotel business.