Robert John McGhee (born 1941) is a Canadian archaeologist and author, specializing in the archaeology of the Arctic.
He went on to study the remains of Martin Frobisher's expedition searching for the Northwest Passage, a 2000-year-old village in the Siberian peninsula and an Inuit village at Resolute, Nunavut.
He was then named emeritus curator, but lost this status in 2012 when his wife, Patricia Sutherland, was let go by the museum.
[1] He was awarded the Massey Medal of the Royal Canadian Geographical Society in 2000.
[2] McGhee is a former president of the Canadian Archaeological Association and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada.