Robert Fisk was an English writer and journalist.

He had been Middle East correspondent intermittently since 1976 for various media; since 1989 was correspondent for The Independent, primarily based in Beirut. Fisk held numerous British and international journalism awards, including the Press Awards Foreign Reporter of the Year seven times.

He published a number of books and reported on several wars and armed conflicts. An Arabic speaker, he was one of a few Western journalists to have interviewed Osama bin Laden, which he did on three occasions between 1993 and 1997. Fisk died in October 2020.