Richard Gennys Fanshawe (22 June 1906 – 14 April 1988) was a British horse rider who competed in the 1936 Summer Olympics.

He was born at Rathmore, Naas, Kildare, third son of Lieutenant-General Edward Arthur Fanshawe (1859–1952), K.C.B., of the Royal Artillery, and Frances Rose, daughter of Sir James Macaulay Higginson, K.C.B., Governor of British Mauritius from 1851 to 1857, formerly Governor of Antigua 1847 to 1850.

In 1932 Fanshawe married Ruth Violet Mary, daughter of Sir Walter Farquhar, 5th Baronet, and maternal granddaughter of Thomas Bateson, 1st Baron Deramore.

Before they divorced in 1961, they had two sons:[5] In 1963 Fanshawe married secondly Araby Diana, daughter of Philip Ransom.

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