Richard Cox may refer to:
- Richard Cox (actor) (born 1948), American actor
- Richard Cox (bishop) (c. 1500–1581), English clergyman, Dean of Westminster and Bishop of Ely
- Richard Cox (horticulturist) (1766–1845), British horticulturist, created Cox's Orange Pippin apple
- Sir Richard Cox, 1st Baronet (1650–1733), Lord Chancellor of Ireland, 1703–1707
- Richard Colvin Cox (born 1928), American West Point cadet who disappeared in 1950
- Richard Ian Cox (born 1973), Welsh-Canadian voice actor
- Richard L. Cox (born 1970), American author
- Richard Threlkeld Cox (1898–1991), American physicist
- Richard Cox (cricketer) (1830–1865), Australian cricketer
Famous quotes containing the word richard:
“If thee thy brittle beauty so deceives,
Know then the thing that swells thee is thy bane;
For the same beauty doth, in bloody leaves.
The sentence of thy early death contain.”
—Sir Richard Fanshawe (1608–1666)