Watson Robertson Sperry (June 25, 1842 – February 13, 1926) was an American newspaper editor and diplomat.

Sperry was born on June 25, 1842, in Sauquoit, New York, the son of Methodist Episcopal minister Rev.

He won a number of literary prizes, was chairman of the Yale Literary Magazine editorial board,[2] and was a member of Gamma Nu, Delta Beta Xi, Delta Kappa Epsilon, Skull and Bones, and Phi Beta Kappa.

[4] In 1892, President Benjamin Harrison appointed Sperry American Minister Resident and Consul General to Persia.

Sperry divorced Julia in January 1913, and within a week he married Anna Maria Pletsch Lippold of Dresden, Germany.