Richard Emanuel Klugman (18 January 1924 – 21 February 2011) was an Australian doctor, activist and politician.

He attended Hurlstone Agricultural High School and the University of Sydney, where he studied science and medicine.

[1] In 1947 he was charged with using indecent language, assaulting a policeman, and resisting arrest in relation with a demonstration outside the Dutch consulate during the Indonesian War of Independence.

[1] In 1969, Klugman was elected to the Australian House of Representatives as the Labor member for the new seat of Prospect, a western-Sydney constituency.

A firm anti-communist, he was one of the few federal parliamentarians who in 1976 boycotted the House of Representatives' tributes to the recently deceased Chairman Mao.