Richard Muhumuza Gafabusa (born 3 August 1977) is a Ugandan environmentalist, administrative lawyer and politician.

He is the elected Member of Parliament for Bwamba County[1] and a representative for NRM, the ruling political party in Uganda.

[5] Gafabusa was born in Bwamba, Bundibugyo District on 3 August 1977 in an Anglican family of the Baamba.

His father Fabiano Gafabusa was a peasant farmer and his mother Alice Butamanya, a clinical midwife specialist.

In 2012, he worked as a SAGE technical officer in the Ministry of Gender, Labour and Social Development and also as a project officer for the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) up until 2015 when he resigned to join elective politics.