Robyn Scott, (born January 9, 1981) is a British-born journalist and writer.
She studied at Auckland University and Cambridge University. She was a Gates Scholar. Her first book, Twenty Chickens for a Saddle, a memoir about growing up in Botswana, was published in March 2008. She is currently working on a second book about a group of maximum security prisoners in South Africa who have adopted AIDS orphans.
Born in England, Scott moved with her parents to New Zealand briefly and then Botswana, where she spent most of her childhood. She attended high school in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe and subsequently studied Bioinformatics at the University of Auckland.