Richard Burke, 8th Earl of Clanricarde PC (Ire) (English: /klænˈrɪkɑːrd/ klan-RIK-ard; died 1709); styled Lord Dunkellin (/dʌnˈkɛlɪn/ dun-KEL-in) until 1687; was an Irish peer who served as Custos Rotulorum of Galway.

Richard was the elder son of William Burke, 7th Earl of Clanricarde and appears to have been the first of the family to conform (to the Protestant faith), as Charles II wrote to his father congratulating him on "being thoroughly instructed in the protestant religion as it stands established, having forsaken that of Rome which hath always given jealousies to the crown".

[1] Clanricarde was appointed Governor and Custos Rotulorum of County Galway, and commanded a regiment of infantry during the Williamite War in Ireland.

His younger brother, Ulick, commanded a regiment of foot at the Battle of Aughrim where he was killed, aged twenty-two.

They had a daughter: Secondly, he married Anne Cheke, Dowager Countess of Warwick, the daughter of Sir Thomas Cheke (d.1659), and widow of Richard Rogers and Robert Rich, 3rd Earl of Warwick (1611-59).