Frank-Richard Hamm (8 October 1920 — 11 November 1973) was a 20th-century Indologist and Tibetologist.
His family moved to Hamburg two years later where he graduated from the Kirchenpauer Gymnasium in 1939.
From 1948 to 1952 he was a tutor of Indology at Hamburg, and from 1952 to 1954 he was a member of the International Academy of Indian Culture in Nagpur, India.
He worked as an academic in Hamburg, Berlin, and Bonn, where he remained as a professor from 1965 until his death.
His works were devoted to Jainism, the transmission of Sanskrit Buddhist texts in Tibetan, and the biography and poetry of the Tibetan saint Milaräpa.