Robert Edward John Layton PC (December 25, 1925 – May 9, 2002) was a Canadian politician who served as the minister of State from 1984 to 1986.
He spent much of his professional career running an engineering consulting business in Montreal.
In the 1980s, he joined the Progressive Conservative Party, and was elected to the Parliament of Canada in the 1984 election from the Quebec riding of Lachine, covering suburban communities on the west end of the island of Montreal.
Layton served as Minister of State for Mines in the federal cabinet of Prime Minister Brian Mulroney from 1984 to 1986, after which he served as National Caucus Chairman until 1993 when he decided to retire from politics after being diagnosed with prostate cancer.
He is the grandfather of Toronto City Councillor Mike Layton.