Robert Liveing FRCP (1834–1919) was an English physician and pioneer of dermatology.

[2] Robert Liveing matriculated in 1852 at Christ's College, Cambridge, graduating there BA in 1856, MA in 1860, MB in 1861, and MD in 1865.

[2] In 1872, Liveing was elected FRCP (Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians).

[4] According to the dermatologist Henry Renwick Vickers (1911–1993), the first four appointments of dermatologists to teaching hospitals in the UK were: Sir William Jenner in 1859, Tilbury Fox in 1860, Robert Liveing in 1879, and Sir Malcolm Morris in 1882.

On 15 August 1866 in Blendworth, Hampshire, Robert Liveing married Adelaide Mary Dorothea Hawker (1832–1906), a daughter of Admiral Edward Hawker and his first wife Joanna Naomi, née Poore.