Richard Holmes may refer to:

Entertainment

• Richard Holmes (biographer) (born 1946), British biographer

• Richard Holmes (organist) (1931–1991), American jazz organist known as Richard "Groove" Holmes

• Rick Holmes (born 1963), American actor

• Richard Holmes (producer) (born 1963), independent film producer

• Rick Holmes (disc jockey) (1936–2015), American jazz disc jockey

Sports

• Richard Holmes (cricketer) (born 1952), English cricketer

• Richard Holmes (Canadian football) (born 1952), former Canadian Football League running back

• Richard Holmes (footballer) (born 1980), former footballer for Notts County

• Richard G. Holmes (born 1947), former Paralympic athlete and psychologist

Other

• Richard Rivington Holmes (1835–1911), British archivist and courtier

• Richard Holmes (military historian) (1946–2011), British soldier and military historian

• Richard E. Holmes (born 1944), first black student to enroll at Mississippi State University

• Richard T. Holmes, American ornithologist

• Richard Winn Holmes (1923–1999), associate justice of the Kansas Supreme Court