Arthur Charles Jeston Richardson (23 February 1872 – 3 April 1939) was an Australian cyclist and mining engineer, who became the first person to circumnavigate the continent of Australia on a bicycle.
As the first man to pedal the Nullabor, Richardson's ride was widely reported in Australian newspapers and periodicals of the day.
Heavy rain slowed his progress in Western Australia, and later in the north, where the black-soil plains were unrideable for several days.
Richardson's ride was something of a race, as he beat out three other competing Australians – Alex and Frank White, and Donald Mackay, who were simultaneously attempting to circumnavigate the continent in a counter-clockwise direction from Brisbane.
He left Fremantle, Western Australia on 13 March 1900 with a bicycle donated by a local agent for use as a dispatch rider.
Richardson died on 3 April 1939 at his home in Scarborough, North Yorkshire of a self-inflicted gunshot wound, after first shooting his wife.