Robert Dow may refer to: Robert Michael Dow Jr. (born 1965), United States federal judge Robert Dow (fencer) (born 1945), American Olympic fencer Robert Dow (music copyist) (1553–1588), English Renaissance academic from Oxford, author of the Dow Partbooks Robert Dow (poet), American poet with a work included in The Best American Poetry 1997 Rob Dow, head coach of the Penn State Nittany Lions men's soccer team