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Richard Donald Lewis (born 1930) is a British linguist, cross-cultural communication consultant, and author.

Lewis was born in Billinge Higher End, Lancashire in 1930. He has degrees in languages from a British university and a diploma in culture and civilisations from the Sorbonne, and speaks 10 European and 2 Asiatic languages. His students have included Sean Connery, Honor Blackman, Gary Lineker, Lasse Virén and the Prime Minister of Finland, and Empress Michiko of Japan.

His firm, Richard Lewis Communications plc, has offices in over a dozen countries. His When Cultures Collide is a practically oriented book concerning intercultural issues, now in its third edition.