Richard Michael McGeagh (March 11, 1944 – September 9, 2021) was an American competition swimmer and water polo player in his youth, and later a real estate appraiser.

[1][2] He attended Herbert Hoover High School in Glendale,[3] where he won the 100-yard backstroke event at the CIF Southern Section championships three consecutive times from 1960 to 1962.

[3][4] McGeagh participated in the 1963 Pan American Games, winning a gold medal in the 4×100 m medley relay.

[6] He was also part of the American team that established the long course world record of 4:00.1 in the same event at a meet in Osaka that year.

Although McGeagh, Virgil Luken, Walter Richardson, and Bob Bennett were described by the Associated Press as "a second‐string team", they established an Olympic record of 4:05.1.