Richard Taylor is the name of:

• Richard Taylor (general) (1826–1879), Confederate general in the American Civil War
• Richard Taylor (Medal of Honor), American Civil War soldier and Medal of Honor recipient
• Richard Taylor (philosopher) (1919-2003)
• Richard R. Taylor (1922-1978), American surgeon general
• Richard E. Taylor (born 1929), Canadian winner of the 1990 Nobel Prize in Physics
• Richard Taylor (UK politician) (born 1934), IKHH Member of Parliament
• Richard Taylor (skater) (1981-2004), Welsh skater
• Richard Taylor (movies), head of Weta Workshop
• Richard Taylor (musician), former member of Gin Blossoms
• Richard Taylor (mathematician), involved in completing the proof of Fermat's last theorem
• Richard S. Taylor, Nazarene theologian.

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