Richard Thompson may refer to:

• Richard Thompson (animator) (1914–1998), Warner Bros. cartoon animator in the 1950s
• Richard Thompson (cartoonist) (1957–2016), cartoonist who also worked as an illustrator
• Richard Thompson (musician) (born 1949), songwriter and musician
• Richard Earl Thompson (1914–1991), artist
• Rick Thompson (Falling Skies), a character from the television seriesFalling Skies

• Sir Richard Thompson, 1st Baronet (1912–1999), British Conservative politician
• Richard Thompson (Australian politician) (1832–1906), New South Wales politician
• Richard Thompson (Maine politician) (born 1947), attorney and Democratic member of the Maine House of Representatives
• Richard Thompson (MP for Reading) (died c. 1735), British Whig politician
• Richard E. Thompson (1871–1928), member of the Mississippi State Senate
• Richard Frederick Thompson (1873–1949), farmer and political figure in Saskatchewan, Canada
• Richard Henry Thompson (1906–1964), Australian politician and Methodist lay preacher
• Richard W. Thompson (1809–1900), United States Secretary of the Navy

• Richard Thompson (priest) (1648–1685), Dean of Bristol
• Richard Thomson (theologian) (died 1613), or Thompson, 17th-century theologian
• Richard L. Thompson (1947–2008), American author and Gaudiya Vaishnava religious figure

• Richard Thompson (cricket administrator) (born 1966), Chairman of the England and Wales Cricket Board
• Richard Thompson (footballer, born 1969), English football player
• Richard Thompson (footballer, born 1974), English football player
• Richard Thompson (sprinter) (born 1985), Trinidad and Tobago sprinter
• Rich Thompson (outfielder) (born 1979), American baseball player
• Rich Thompson (pitcher, born 1984), Australian baseball player
• Rich Thompson (pitcher, born 1958), American baseball player
• Richard Thompson (triple jumper) (born 1969), American triple jumper, All-American for theGeorgia Tech Yellow Jackets track and field team

• Richard Thompson (marine biologist), director of the Marine Institute at the University of Plymouth, coined the term "microplastics"
• Richard Thompson (physician) (born 1940), president of the Royal College of Physicians and formerly physician to the Queen
• Richard Thompson (Royal Navy officer) (born 1966), British admiral
• Richard F. Thompson (1930–2014), American behavioral neuroscientist
• Richard H. Thompson (philatelist) (1903–1985), American philatelist
• Richard Horner Thompson (1926–2016), U.S. Army general
• Richard M. Thomson (born 1933), Canadian banker
• Richard W. Thompson (journalist) (1865–1920), journalist and public servant in Indiana and Washington, D.C.
• Richard Thompson, former prosecutor and current president ofThomas More Law Center
• Richard Thompson, mathematician for whom the infiniteThompson groups are named

• Dick Thompson (disambiguation)
• Rich Thompson (disambiguation)
• Richard Thomson (disambiguation)
• Richard Tomson, British sailor
• Thompson (surname)

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