Robert Shirkie (1868 – 15 August 1954) was a British trade unionist.
[2] Shirkie worked as a colliery engineman for twenty years, both in Scotland in the Transvaal Colony.
He joined the United Enginekeepers' Mutual Protective Association of Scotland, becoming its chairman, and then during the 1910s was elected as secretary of the National Federation of Colliery Enginemen and Boilermen.
[3][4] The United Enginekeepers became the Scottish Colliery Enginemen, Boilermen and Tradesmen's Association, and Shirkie was additionally elected as its secretary.
He attended the Paris Peace Conference, 1919, on the invitation of the British government, and in 1935 was made an Officer of the Order of the British Empire.