Robert Lindsay (born 13 December 1949) is a British actor who is best known for his Tony and Olivier Award winning role as Bill Snibson in the musical Me and My Girl, and for his television work, especially his roles in Citizen Smith, Hornblower, G.B.H. and My Family.

Lindsay was born Robert Lindsay Stevenson in Ilkeston, Derbyshire, the son of Norman and Joyce Stevenson. After leaving Gladstone Boys school, Lindsay enrolled in the drama department of Clarendon college in Nottingham, intending to become a drama teacher. However, friends at Nottingham Playhouse encouraged him to apply to Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA), and in 1968 he was accepted there with the aid of a government grant. After he graduated, he took a job as a dialect coach for a repertory company in Essex, and then joined a regional theatre group.

Lindsay first came to prominence as the cockney layabout Jakey Smith in ITV comedy series Get Some In!, and he appeared in the fourth series of the BBC sitcom The Good Life. He was then given the starring role as incompetent revolutionary Wolfie Smith in the BBC sitcom Citizen Smith. He followed this with roles in a number of the BBC Television Shakespeare productions, including Benedick in Much Ado About Nothing, and as Edmund in King Lear opposite Sir Laurence Olivier in 1983.

Robert Lindsay was born in Ilkeston, Derbyshire on 13 December 1949.