Richard Newton may refer to:
- Richard Newton (justice) (died 1448), English justice
- Richard Orr Newton (1905âÂÂ1963), politician in British Columbia, Canada
- Richard Blake Newton (1801âÂÂ1868), English landowner
- Richard Bullen Newton (1854âÂÂ1926), British paleontologist
- R. Heber Newton (1840âÂÂ1914), American Episcopalian priest and writer
- Richard Newton, justice on the Supreme court of Victoria, see John David Phillips
- Richard Legh, 5th Baron Newton, a Baron in the peerage of the United Kingdom