Robert Paus Platt OBE (born 1905 in England, died 22 July 1946 in Jerusalem) was a British diplomat and colonial administrator.
He joined the Colonial Administrative Service as a cadet in 1927, serving in Kenya until 1938.
[3][4] He later became undersecretary in the mandatory government of the British Mandate of Palestine and was killed in the King David Hotel bombing.
His maternal grandfather Christopher Paus, who was a first cousin of Henrik Ibsen, was a Norwegian-born businessman who moved to England.
He was a nephew of the British Consul in Oslo, Christopher Lintrup Paus.