Robert Henry Johnston

Robert Henry Johnston (26 May 1924 – 7 May 1995) was an Australian industrialist and businessman who was the President of Toyota Australia from 1986 to 1994 and was the Chairman of the Australian Trade Commission (Austrade) between 1993 and 1995.

Robert Johnston was born in 1924 in Camperdown in Sydney, New South Wales. After retiring from Toyota in December 1994, the final year of his life was consumed by consistent bouts of ill health and cancer diagnoses. Ultimately, following Johnston's death in May 1995, at the age of 70, Prime Minister Paul Keating remarked in a press release that Johnston was a "true captain of Australian industry" and through his actions, had strengthened Australia's economic ties with the emerging markets of Japan and China.

In the 1994 Australia Day Honours List, Johnston was awarded with the Officer of the Order of Australia (AO) for service to manufacturing particularly in relation to the automotive industry.