David Richard Hunt (25 September 1938 – 20 May 2019) was an English botanist and taxonomist.
Hunt was married to organist Margaret Phillips and co-founder of the English Organ School and Museum in Milborne Port.
The species epithet of the carnivorous plant Utricularia huntii from the genus of bladderworts has been awarded in his honour.
Volume 13 of the Flora Novo-Galiciana, published by R. McVaugh, Hunt contributed the chapter on the plant family Commelinaceae (University of Michigan Herbarium, pages 130–201).
To volume 6 of the flora mesoamericana (subtitle "Alismataceae to Cyperacaea", first published in March 1994) he also contributed the chapter on the plant family Commelinaceae.