Rodney David Driver (July 1, 1932 – January 16, 2022) was a British-born American mathematician known for research on differential equations, and a former Democratic member of the Rhode Island House of Representatives.

He and his family lived in London during the Battle of Britain and The Blitz beginning in 1940 but were fortunate in surviving the bombardment and widespread destruction of the city during the war.

Shortly after V-E Day in 1945, the Driver family was able to travel to the United States where they established residency in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

His research involved delay differential equations and their applications, including the prediction and modeling of the path of ionic particles in electromagnetic fields.

[2] Since 1951, Driver devoted much effort toward peace and human rights in Southeast Asia, Latin America and the Middle East.

[4] He is a member of Amnesty International, the American Friends Service Committee, SEARCH for Justice and Equality in Palestine/Israel,[5] and the Sierra Club.

He routinely opposed proposed longer prison sentences for non-violent offenses, and he was a leader in the eventually-successful efforts to ban smoking in schools and to strengthen the law against selling tobacco products to children.

Driver wrote the law which banned craps, blackjack, roulette and similar games in Rhode Island – creating a big hurdle for developers who wanted to build a full-fledged gambling casino in the state.