Robert Lovell Reid, FRSE (11 April 1921 – 23 September 1996) was an Australian agricultural scientist.
His family then moved to Sydney in 1928 where he was educated at Fort Street High School.
He then studied Agricultural Science at the University of Sydney, graduating BSc.
His proposers were George Boddie, Arthur Wannop, Sir Stephen J. Watson, and John Stamp.
[2] He was the founding professor of Agricultural Science at La Trobe University in 1968.