Richard Boyle may refer to:

Nobility

Richard Boyle, 1st Earl of Cork (1566–1643), Lord High Treasurer of Ireland

Richard Boyle, 1st Earl of Burlington (1612–1698), and 2nd Earl of Cork, Lord High Treasurer of Ireland and a cavalier

Richard Boyle, 2nd Viscount Shannon (1675–1740), British military officer and statesman

Richard Boyle, 3rd Earl of Burlington (1694–1753), and 4th Earl of Cork

Richard Boyle, 2nd Earl of Shannon (1727–1807), Irish peer and Member of Parliament

Richard Boyle, 4th Earl of Shannon (1809–1868), British politician

Richard Boyle, 9th Earl of Cork (1829–1904), British politician

Richard Boyle, 6th Earl of Shannon (1860–1906), politician in Canada's Northwest Territories

Sports

Richard Boyle (canoeist) (born 1961), New Zealand sprint canoeist

Richard Boyle (rowing) (1888–1953), British rowing coxswain; medallist at the 1908 Summer Olympics

Dickie Boyle (1869–?), Scottish professional footballer for Everton

Dick Boyle (American football), American football player and coach

Politics

Richard Boyle (MP, died 1665), Irish MP for County Cork

Richard Boyle (MP, died 1711), Irish MP for Old Leighlin

Religion

Richard Boyle (archbishop of Tuam) (c. 1574–1644), Archbishop of Tuam

Richard Boyle (bishop of Ferns and Leighlin) (died 1682), Anglican bishop

Other people

Richard Boyle (astronomer) (born 1943), astronomer at the Vatican Observatory

Richard Boyle (journalist) (1942–2016), American screenwriter and protagonist for the 1986 film Salvador

Richard Boyle (soldier) (died 1649), Anglo-Irish Royalist officer

Richard Boyle (whistleblower), an employee at the Australian Tax Office who exposed unethical practices in 2017

Richard Vicars Boyle (1822–1908), Irish civil engineer