Myrtle Leila Richmond (September 30, 1882 – January 2, 1973) was an American astronomical researcher, a computer who worked at the Mount Wilson Observatory from 1913 to 1947.

[5] Richmond taught mathematics at the University of Denver,[4] and worked at Chamberlin Observatory in Colorado in 1909.

[6] She was a fellow in mathematics and astronomy at Goodsell Observatory in 1912,[7] where she worked on Variable stars[8] and a comet's orbit.

[9] Richmond joined the Mount Wilson Observatory computing department in 1913, and retired in 1947, after she "ably assisted in a large number of stellar and solar investigations.

[17] She contributed to several observatory publications,[18][19] including A photometric study of the pleiades (1931, with Harlow Shapley), Mean distribution of stars according to apparent magnitude and galactic latitude (1925), The mean color-index of stars of different apparent magnitudes.