Richard Holmes may refer to:
- Richard Holmes (actor) (born 1963), American actor
- Richard Holmes (biographer) (born 1946), British biographer
- Richard Holmes (military historian) (1946–2011), British soldier and military historian
- Richard Holmes (organist) (1931–1991), American jazz organist known as Richard "Groove" Holmes
- Richard Holmes (ornithologist), American ornithologist
- Richard Holmes (producer) (born 1963), independent film producer
- Richard E. Holmes (born 1944), first African-American student to enroll at Mississippi State University
- Richard Holmes (Canadian football) (born 1952), former Canadian Football League running back
- Richard Holmes (footballer) (born 1980), former footballer for Notts County
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“Words convey the mental treasures of one period to the generations that follow; and laden with this, their precious freight, they sail safely across gulfs of time in which empires have suffered shipwreck and the languages of common life have sunk into oblivion.”
—Anonymous. Quoted in Richard Chevenix Trench, On the Study of Words, lecture 1 (1858)