Robert William Hanmer Everett DSO (29 May 1901 – 26 January 1942) was a British jockey and a Royal Navy Volunteer Reserve pilot during the Second World War.

In 1941, as a Fleet Air Arm pilot, he achieved the first "kill" by a rocket-launched fighter, shooting down a long-range Focke-Wulf Fw 200 Condor over the Atlantic.

After the war, he working as a farmer in South Africa, before moving to the United Kingdom in 1927 to become a National Hunt jockey.

[2] At the same time, Everett had become an amateur pilot and jointly owned, with his father, a De Havilland Puss Moth, a relatively high-performance aircraft of its day.

I did a quick turn to port and opened up just abaft the beam I fired five second burst at this range and my guns were empty").

He was flying a Hurricane from Belfast to Abingdon when it came down in shallow water close to the beach at Llanddona, Anglesey, Wales.