Richard Cockburn Maclaurin (/ˈkoʊbərn/ KOH-bərn; June 5, 1870 – January 15, 1920)[2][3] was a Scottish-born U.S. educator and mathematical physicist.

During his tenure as president of MIT, the Institute moved across the Charles River from Boston to its present campus in Cambridge.

Earlier, he was a foundation professor of the then Victoria College of the University of New Zealand from 1899 to 1907.

A collection of lecture theatres at the Kelburn campus of that university were named after him.

His brother James Scott Maclaurin (1864–1939) was a noted chemist, who invented a process for extracting gold with cyanide.