Admiral Sir Robert Smart, KCB, KH (September 1796 – 10 September 1874) was a Royal Navy officer who went on to be Commander-in-Chief, Mediterranean Fleet.

Smart joined the Royal Navy and was promoted to lieutenant in 1820.

[1] He was promoted to vice admiral in December 1863 and was required to assess the damage caused by the volcanic disturbances in the neighbourhood of Santorini in Spring 1866[2] before handing over his command in April 1866.

[1] He was promoted to full admiral in 1869 and retired the following year.

[1] Smart's daughter, Isabella Dora Smart, married first J. H. Anderson; and after his death she remarried in August 1902 Henry Francis Wilson, CMG, Colonial Secretary to the Orange River Colony.