Richard Lee Gelb (June 8, 1924 – April 4, 2004) was an American businessman from New York City.
He was a consultant and director of various corporations and not-for-profit entities, and from 1960 to his retirement in 1995 was a senior executive at Bristol-Myers Squibb Company.
Gelb was born in New York City, graduated from Phillips Andover, Yale University, and Harvard Business School, and lived most of his life in New York's Upper East Side.
Gelb was director emeritus of Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, former director of the Council on Foreign Relations, former vice chairman of the Board of Overseers and Board of Managers of Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, a member of the board of directors of the Citizens Crime Commission of New York City and trustee emeritus of the New York Racing Association.
He helped to found the New York City Police Foundation with Mayor John V. Lindsay.