Robert Ward may refer to:

• Robert Ward (blues musician) (1938–2008), American blues guitarist and singer
• Robert Ward (composer) (1917–2013), American composer of classical music
• Robert Ward (novelist) (active since 1972), American author and screenwriter
• Robert Ward (travel writer) (active since 2002), Canadian author
• Robert Ward, the name of several Australian cinema proprietors in the family who owned cinemas in the Melbourne suburb of Brighton

• Robert Ward (1754–1831), Irish MP for Wicklow Borough, Killyleagh and Bangor

• Robert Ward (British politician) (1871–1942), British Conservative party politician
• Robert Ward (MP for City of York)
• Robert Plumer Ward (1765–1846), English novelist and politician

• Robert Ward (American politician) (1952–2021), American lawyer and politician
• Robert Ward (Jersey politician)
• Robert W. Ward (1929–1997), Secretary of State of Alaska, 1969–1970

• Bob Ward (footballer) (1881–?), Scottish footballer
• Bob Ward (American football, born 1927) (1927–2005), former player and head coach of the University of Maryland Terrapins
• Bob Ward (American football, born 1933) (1933–2021), coach for the Dallas Cowboys
• Bobby Ward (born 1958), Scottish football player (Celtic, Newport County)
• Robert Ward (active 1914–15), owner of the Brooklyn Tip-Tops, an American baseball team
• Robbie Ward (born 1995), English rugby league footballer

• Robert Ward (British Army officer) (born 1935)
• Robert Ward (scholar), English scholar active in the seventeenth century
• Robert DeCourcy Ward (1867–1931), American climatologist and eugenics proponent
• Robert George Ward (1928–2013), Australian metallurgist
• Robert Joseph Ward (1926–2003), American judge
• Bob Ward (communications director) (active since 2008), policy and communications director of the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment

• USCGC Robert Ward, a U.S. Coast Guard cutter launched in 2018

• Robert de La Ward, 1st Baron De La Ward (died 1306)