Richard Smyth or Smythe may refer to:

• Richard Smyth (theologian) (1499/1500–1563), Regius Professor of Divinity at the University of Oxford
• Richard Smyth (minister) (1826–1878), minister of the Presbyterian Church in Ireland and politician
• Richard Smyth (cricketer, born 1950), English cricketer
• Richard Smyth (cricketer, born 1951), English school headmaster and cricketer
• Richie Smyth, director of the advertisement Anticipation
• Sir Richard Smythe (1563–1628), MP for Heytesbury and Hythe

• Richard Smith (disambiguation)
• Richard, given name
• Smyth, surname
• Smythe (disambiguation), surname