Louis Claude Richard

Louis Claude Marie Richard (September 19, 1754 - June 6, 1821) was a French botanist.

Richard was born at Versailles. Between 1781 and 1789 he collected botanical specimens in Central America and the West Indies. On his return he became a professor at the Ecole de medicine in Paris.

His books included Demonstrations botaniques (1808), De Orchideis europaeis (1817), Commentatio botanica de Conifereis et Cycadeis (1826) and De Musaceis commentatio botanica (1831).

The standard botanical author abbreviation Rich. is applied to species he described.