Robert Crofton Brown (16 May 1921 – 3 September 1996) was an English Labour Party politician.^{[citation needed]}

Brown was a district gas inspector with the Northern Gas Board and a branch secretary of the National Union of General and Municipal Workers. He was secretary of his Constituency Labour Party and a councillor on Newcastle upon Tyne Borough Council.^{[citation needed]}

Brown was elected as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Newcastle upon Tyne West in 1966, then following boundary changes, for Newcastle upon Tyne North from 1983, retiring in 1987.