Sir Richard John Randall (13 October 1906 – 15 November 1982) was a senior Australian public servant.
[1] He attended Wynnum State High School, then qualified as a wool classer and worked in rural Queensland.
[2] He moved to Sydney and had a job with the Commonwealth Wool and Produce Co. Ltd. Having left high school after two years, he matriculated at age 26, studied accounting and then enrolled at the University of Sydney where he completed an economics degree.
[3] Randall joined the Commonwealth public service in 1940, taking up a post at the Department of the Treasury.
[3] The following year, on 27 May,[4] he enlisted to the Australian Imperial Force, spending most of the war in Western Australia and demobilising in November 1945.