Rob Harris
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- For the curler see Rob Harris (curler)
Rob Harris (December 17, 1966 - December 14, 1995) was the skysurfing world champion of 1994 and 1995. He died in a skysurfing accident while shooting a Mountain Dew commercial, when the lines of his secondary parachute became tangled and his reserve parachute failed as well. The script had called for losing his primary parachute earlier in the jump. That accident is the topic of an urban legend, which states that footage of the fatal jump were used in the commercial. This is actually untrue - while the commercial did get released eventually, all shots used were from earlier takes of the jump.
The song Fall Free from Alan Parsons's 1996 release On Air is dedicated in the legendary skysurfer's memory.
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