Richard Carmichael MRCSI MRIA (February 1779 – 8 June 1849) was an Irish surgeon, medical writer and philanthropist.
On the 23rd of August, 1803, he was appointed a Surgeon to the House of Industry Hospitals—institutions which he raised greatly in public estimation by his teaching, and to which his admirable cliniques attracted large classes.
In 1810 his appointment as a Surgeon to the Lock Hospital gave him ample opportunities to observe that disease with the history of the diagnosis and treatment of which Carmichael's name will be for ever associated.
Carmichael desired to see a separation of the prescribing from the compounding of medicines, and he advocated the complete education of the student, so as to qualify him to practise in any department of the healing art.
[2] He drowned while riding his horse across the sands to his summer residence in Sutton, near Dublin, and was buried in St. George's Churchyard, Whitworth Road.