Robert Plumptre (1723–1788) was an English churchman and academic, who served as President of Queens' College, Cambridge from 1760 until his death in 1788.

[1] In 1752 he was instituted to the rectory of Wimpole, Cambridgeshire, on the presentation of Philip Yorke, 1st Earl of Hardwicke; at the same time he held the vicarage of Whaddon.

He was a member of the syndicate appointed on 17 February 1774 to devise a scheme for carrying them out, which was rejected on 19 April of the same year.

His Latin poetry appears among the congratulatory verses published by the university in 1761 for the 1762 marriage of George III, on the birth of a Prince of Wales, and in 1763 on the restoration of peace.

His daughter Annabella (or Bell) wrote the book Domestic Management; or, the Healthful Cookery-book: to which is prefixed, a treatise on diet (London: B.