Richard White Bernard Ellis FRSE OBE MID (25 August 1902 – 15 September 1966) was a British paediatrician.
During this period he campaigned to obtain part of the £200,000 endowment left by Caleb Diplock to "the children of Sussex" and succeeded in gaining 10% of this sum for Guy's.
From 1940 he served in the Royal Air Force Medical Service, with the rank of Wing Commander (but is not thought to have had any pilot training).
For his role as Medical Adviser to the Mediterranean Allied Air Force he was awarded the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in 1945.
He continued to travel after the war, giving educational programmes on child-health in Africa, India and Indonesia.