Robert Sparke Hutchings (11 April 1781 – 20 April 1827) was an English clergyman who initiated the founding in 1816 of Penang Free School, one of the oldest English-medium schools in Southeast Asia, in Penang in present-day Malaysia. He was also involved with the founding of the Raffles Institution, the oldest school in Singapore, in 1823 and revised the first complete Bible translation in Malay.