title: Robert Townsend
text: # Robert Townsend
  
  Robert Townsend may refer to:
  
  * Robert Townsend (spy) (1753–1838), American spy
  * Robert Townsend (captain) (1819–1866), United States Navy
  * Robert Townsend (author) (1920–1998), American author, CEO of Avis Rent a Car
  * Ed Townsend (swimmer) (Robert Edward Townsend Jr., born 1943), American swimmer
  * Rob Townsend (born 1947), English rock drummer
  * Robert M. Townsend (born 1948), professor of economics at MIT
  * Robert Townsend (actor) (born 1957), American actor and filmmaker
  