Robert Love (11 May 1760 – 17 July 1845) was an American Revolutionary War soldier from Virginia and a political leader in North Carolina.
After the Revolution and with his parents being dead, he moved to what was then Washington County, North Carolina but is now part of Tennessee.
A wealthy man, in 1809 Love donated land in Haywood County, North Carolina, for a courthouse, jail and town square and formed Mount Prospect which was renamed Waynesville, North Carolina, after General Anthony Wayne.
Love helped to establish the final state boundary line between North Carolina and Tennessee in 1821.
He was nominated for Presidential Elector in 1816 in the first political convention held in North Carolina history.