Thomas Richards may refer to:

• Thomas Richards (priest) (c. 1687–1760), Welsh priest and writer
• Thomas Richards (cricketer) (1855–1923), Australian cricketer
• Thomas Richards (film editor) (1899–1946), American film editor
• Thomas Richards (historian) (1878–1962), Welsh historian, author and librarian
• Thomas Richards (mayor) (born 1943), mayor of Rochester, New York
• Thomas Richards (Tasmania) (1800–1877), Welsh surgeon and journalist who emigrated to Australia
• Thomas Richards (Welsh politician) (1859–1931), Welsh Labour Party Member of Parliament
• Thomas Richards of Coychurch (c. 1710–1790), Welsh curate and lexicographer
• Thomas C. Richards (1930–2020), United States Air Force general
• Thomas R. Richards (born 1947), United States Navy admiral
• Thomas Frederick Richards (1863–1942), British Member of Parliament for Wolverhampton West, 1906–1910
• Thomas Addison Richards (1820–1900), American landscape artist
• Thomas F. Richards, a victim of the Lynchings of Mer Rouge, Louisiana, in 1922

• Tom Richards (disambiguation)
• Thomas Richardson (disambiguation)
• Richards (surname)