Richard Bruce may refer to:
Richard Bruce Nugent (1906–1987), also Richard Bruce, writer and painter in the Harlem Renaissance Richard Isaac Bruce (1840–1926), English colonial officer and administrator Richard Bruce, pseudonym used by Robert Bache Smith (1875–1951), American librettist and lyricist Richard Bruce, or The Life That Now Is (1891) a work by the Christian preacher, Charles Sheldon
See also Richard Francis-Bruce (born 1948), Australian film editor