Datuk Seri Panglima Stephen Robert Evans (1935–2017) SPDK, JP was a politician, public administrator and author from Sabah, Malaysia.
Evans was born in Kampong Bariawa Laut, a small village populated by ethnic Dusun people predominantly of the Bundu-Liwan tribe in Keningau District, North Borneo (now Sabah) and was a Eurasian of mixed Dusun (of the Kwijau tribe from another part of Keningau district known as Bingkor hailing from the village of Kampung Bandukan Lama) and British descent.
His father was Richard F. Evans, a colonial District Officer and later Resident of the West Coast Division for the North Borneo Chartered Company administration, which ruled North Borneo until the 1942 Japanese invasion in World War II who intermarried a local native woman from the said village.
After the war ended, he furthered his secondary education in several Catholic mission schools at Sandakan, Kuching, Sarawak as well as in Jesselton (now Kota Kinabalu).
Evans was awarded a PGDK, Commander of the Order of Kinabalu (second class Datukship: Datuk) by the State Government in 1977 and in 1989 he was conferred the State's highest award, SPDK, Grand Commander of the Order of Kinabalu (first class Datukship: Datuk Seri Panglima).