Richard Parkinson

Richard Parkinson may refer to:


 * Richard Parkinson (agriculturist) (1748–1815), English, consultant for George Washington
 * Richard Parkinson (explorer) (1844–1909), Danish, also anthropologist
 * Richard Parkinson (neurosurgeon), Australian
 * Richard B. Parkinson (born 1963), British archaeologist & academic
 * Richard Parkinson (priest) (1797–1858), English clergyman, college principal, theologian and antiquarian