Richard Knowles, Knolles or Knollys may refer to:
Richard Knollys (died 1596) (1548–1596), MP Richard Knolles (c. 1540–1610), English historian Richard Brinsley Knowles (1820–1882), nineteenth-century British journalist Dick Knowles (1917–2008), British politician Richard T. Knowles (1916–2013), United States Army general