Richard Joseph Hughes CBE (5 March 1906 – 4 January 1984) was an Australian journalist who spent much of his life in the Far East as correspondent for The Times, The Economist and the Far Eastern Economic Review.

He was the inspiration for the fictional character Dikko Henderson in Ian Fleming's James Bond novel You Only Live Twice, and for "Old Craw" in John le Carré's The Honourable Schoolboy.

[6] In 1956 he achieved a major international scoop when he located and interviewed the British spies and former diplomats Guy Burgess and Donald Maclean in Moscow, who in 1951 had defected to the Soviet Union.

[7][2] Variously described as "flamboyant"[4] and "larger than life",[8] Hughes spent forty years reporting from the Far East.

[8][2] Hughes authored several books, including Hong Kong, Borrowed Place, Borrowed Time (1968), which opens with his oft-quoted description of the Hong Kong of that period as "a rambunctious, free-booting colony, naked and unashamed, devoid of self pity, regrets or fear of the future".