Sir Richard Kyrle (c.1610 – 31 August 1684) was an English politician who briefly served as Governor of the Province of Carolina in 1684.
By 1659 he had moved to Ireland and was recorded in a town census in County Cork.
On 19 May 1661 he was knighted, and the same year he was elected to the Irish House of Commons as a Member of Parliament for Cork City.
[1] On 29 April 1684, Kyrle was made a landgrave and commissioned to be governor by the Lords Proprietors of the Province of Carolina.
[2] He and his wife, Mary Jephson, arrived in the colony in late July or early August, but his short tenure as governor was ended by his death at the end of August 1684.