Robert Stanard (August 17, 1781 – May 14, 1846) was a Virginia lawyer, judge and political figure.

In 1798, he attended the College of William and Mary,[1] where he studied law.

Stanard subsequently began the private practice of law, and eventually became a notable figure in the Richmond legal community.

In 1839, he was elected to the Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals, upon the death of Judge William Brockenbrough.

His son, Robert Craig Stanard, was a childhood friend of poet Edgar Allan Poe, and Jane Stith Craig was the subject of Poe's poem "To Helen".