Richard Kandt (17 December 1867, in Posen – 29 April 1918, in Nuremberg; original name Kantorowicz) was a German physician and explorer of Africa.

Richard Kandt started as a psychiatrist in Bayreuth and Munich.

[1] In July 1897 he started from Bagamoyo and in July 1898 Richard Kandt discovered one of the Nile-sources in the Nyungwe Forest of Rwanda, the essential Nile-source in his opinion.

Kandt tells about this in his book Caput Nili, a deliberately more fancy than erudite work.

On 2 July 1917 Kandt suffered a gas poisoning in World War I on the eastern front.