Robert John Dunn (July 14, 1946–April 24, 2003), known as Bob Dunn, died of cancer aged 56 he was a British Conservative Party politician.
Having been involved in the Conservative Party in his hometown of Eccles, Dunn was elected a councillor in the London Borough of Southwark in May 1974.
He was Member of Parliament (MP) for Dartford from 1979 to 1997 and was a junior education minister for a short time. He lost his seat to Howard Stoate at the 1997 general election.
Bob Dunn Way was named in his memory during 2004, this being a northern by-pass of Dartford town for which he had campaigned, previously known as University Way in the expectation of a higher education campus being built. When the former naval college at Greenwich, London became available to the University of Greenwich, its need for a campus north of Dartford disappeared.