Royce Abbey AO, DCM (8 June 1922 – 20 February 2014) was an Australian who was President of Rotary International in 1988–89.

[1] Royce Abbey was educated at state primary and secondary schools in Footscray, Victoria.

When he left school in his mid-teens he worked as a shoeshine boy and messenger at a shoe shop and then in a real estate agency.

[1][2][3] After the war, he joined his brother in a family-owned window shades manufacturing business, Dural Leeds, which was later taken over by the multinational company Hunter Douglas.

His time as president included the continued development of the Polio Plus campaign for Poliomyelitis eradication and the re-establishment of Rotary Clubs in countries from the former Soviet Union.