Robert P. Manookin (1918–1997) was a Latter-day Saint composer. Manookin studied under Frank W. Asper, Alexander Schreiner, B. Cecil Gates and J. Spencer Cornwall. Manookin holds a master's degree from the University of Illinois and a doctorate from the University of Utah. He first moved to Utah County in 1952. In 1980 Manookin served an LDS mission in New Zealand with his wife Helene.