Sir Robert Crane, 1st Baronet (1586 – February 1643) of Chilton, Suffolk and of Buckenham Tofts, Norfolk, was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons variously between 1614 and 1643.

[2] In 1614 Crane was elected Member of Parliament for Sudbury and held the seat until 1620.

He sat until 1629 when King Charles decided to rule without parliament for eleven years.

He had married firstly Dorothy Hobart, daughter of Sir Henry Hobart, 1st Baronet Lord Chief Justice of the Court of Common Pleas, by whom he had no issue.

They had four daughters - Mary who married Sir Ralph Hare, 1st Baronet, Anne who married firstly Sir William Armine, 2nd Baronet, and secondly John Belasyse, 1st Baron Belasyse, Susan who married Sir Edward Walpole, and Katherine who married Edmund Bacon, nephew of Sir Robert Bacon, 3rd Baronet.