Richard Newton may refer to: Richard Newton (caricaturist) (1777–1798), English caricaturist A. Richard Newton (1951–2007), electrical engineer Richard Newton (academic) (1676–1753), English academic, Principal of Hertford College, Oxford Richard Newton (actor), American film and television actor, see Matlock Richard Newton (justice) (died 1448), English justice Richard Orr Newton (1905–1963), politician in British Columbia, Canada Richard Blake Newton (1801–1868), English landowner Richard Bullen Newton (1854–1926), British paleontologist R. Heber Newton (1840–1914), American Episcopalian priest and writer Richard Newton, justice on the Supreme court of Victoria, see John David Phillips Richard Legh, 5th Baron Newton, a Baron in the peerage of the United Kingdom