Richard Newton may refer to:
- Richard Newton (caricaturist) (1777 – 1798), English caricaturist
- A. Richard Newton (1951 - 2007), electrical engineer
- Richard Newton (educational reformer) (1676-1753), see John Conybeare
- Richard Newton (actor), American film and television actor, see Matlock (TV series)
- Richard Newton (Beethoven), fictional character in Beethoven's 3rd
- Richard Newton (justice), British justice
- Richard Newton (Australian jurist), justice on the Supreme court of Victoria, see John Phillips (jurist)
- Richard Orr Newton (1905-1963), politician in British Columbia, Canada
Famous quotes containing the words richard and/or newton:
“I am not what is called a civilized man, professor. I have done with society for reasons that seem good to me. Therefore I do not obey its laws.”
—Earl Felton, and Richard Fleischer. Captain Nemo (James Mason)
“The next Augustan age will dawn on the other side of the Atlantic. There will, perhaps, be a Thucydides at Boston, a Xenophon at New York, and, in time, a Virgil at Mexico, and a Newton at Peru. At last, some curious traveller from Lima will visit England and give a description of the ruins of St Paul’s, like the editions of Balbec and Palmyra.”
—Horace Walpole (1717–1797)