Richard Woolnough (born 1964) is a fund manager with M&G in the United Kingdom who in 2014 was the highest paid person in Prudential plc, M&G's former parent company, earning at least ã15.3 million in pay and bonuses, compared to the ã11.8 million earned by the chief executive Tidjane Thiam that year. Woolnough was paid ã17.5 million in 2013.
Woolnough was born in Chesterfield and educated at the London School of Economics. Before starting at M&G, Woolnough worked for Lloyds Merchant Bank, the Italian insurer Assicurazioni Generali, Old Mutual and SG Warburg. Woolnough runs four funds at the investment manager M&G, which was demerged from Prudential plc in 2019.