Richard Ward may refer to:

• Richard Ward (footballer) (born 1973), former English footballer
• Richard Ward (British Army officer) (1917–1989)
• Richard Ward (actor) (1915–1979), African American actor
• Richard Ward (businessman) (born 1957), British businessman
• Richard Ward (governor) (1689–1763), governor of the Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations
• Richard Ward (priest), Archdeacon of Cardigan, 1951–1962
• Richard Ward (judge) (1916–1977), Australian jurist and politician
• Richard S. Ward (born 1951), professor of mathematics at Durham University
• Richard F. Ward (born 1951), American storyteller and professor
• Richard Ward (c.1990-2022), unarmed man killed by police at Liberty Point International Middle School
• Rich Ward (born 1969), guitarist
• Dick Ward (1909–1966), baseball player
• Rick Ward III (born 1982), Louisiana politician
• Sir Richard Warde or Ward (died 1578), English politician and royal official

• USS J. Richard Ward (DE-243), named for James R. Ward

• James R. Ward (James Richard Ward, 1921–1941), US Navy sailor who died on board the battleship USS Oklahoma (BB-37) during the attack on Pearl Harbor
• Richard Ward Pelham (1815–1876), American blackface performer
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