Richard Johnson OBE (born 21 July 1977) is a retired English National Hunt jockey.

[1] In 1996 Johnson won his first Grade 1 race, the Heineken Gold Cup aboard Billygoat Gruff, trained by David Nicholson.

Flagship Uberalles won the 2000 Tingle Creek Chase and would become one of the most fruitful horses in Johnson's career.

He won the 2000 Cheltenham Gold Cup with Looks Like Trouble and the 2002 Queen Mother Champion Chase with Flagship Uberalles.

In April 2003, Johnson became the eighth National Hunt jockey to ride 1,000 winners in Britain on Quedex at Stratford.

[5] In this period Johnson saw further success, riding 100 winners each season but continued to finished second to Tony McCoy in the Jockeys Championship.

The 2010 season brought victory in the Punchestown Gold Cup, riding Planet of Sound who was trained by Philip Hobbs.

For five years Johnson lived with the Queen's granddaughter Zara Phillips, a relationship that created a great deal of media interest.

They have three children and as of 2018, Looks Like Trouble lived with them as a "family pet" in the words of Johnson who joked that he "gained a wife and a father-in-law and everything else out of it".

[9] Johnson was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2019 New Year Honours for services to Horse Racing.