Richard Wells

Richard Wells may refer to:
 * Sir Richard Wells (Royal Navy officer) (1833–1896), British admiral
 * Sir Richard Wells, 1st Baronet (1879–1957), Conservative Member of Parliament for Bedford
 * Richard Wells (nurse) (1950–1993), British nurse, nursing adviser and health care administrator
 * Richard M. Wells (born 1929), Major General of United States Army, director of Defense Mapping Agency
 * Richard Wells (composer), British film, TV and games composer
 * C. Richard Wells, American evangelical pastor, theologian, and college president
 * Richard Wells (cricketer) (born 1956), Rhodesian-born English cricketer
 * Richard W. Wells, Australian herpetologist