Robert Harry Stover (2 December 1926 – 25 February 2003) was a Canadian-Honduran phytopathologist specializing in Musa crops and their fungal diseases. Stover graduated from University of Guelph with a B.S. in agricultural bacteriology in 1947, from 1949 to 1951 a phytopathologist for the Canadian Department of Agriculture in Harrow, Ontario, specifically being head of their investigations of tobacco diseases. During the winters of those years he was a graduate student of D. L. Bailey at University of Toronto, and in 1950 he received a PhD in phytopathology and mycology. He moved the next year to La Lima, Honduras, to work for United Fruit on Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. cubense/Panama disease.