Richard Fontaine Maury (Philadelphia, 18 December 1882 – Córdoba, 10 July 1950) was an American railway engineer and naturalized Argentine.

He became known for the project of the Argentine "Ramal C-14" of the Ferrocarril General Manuel Belgrano and the touristic Tren a las Nubes.

[5] In 1921, the "Ramal C-14" Salta-Socompa, a project to build a rail line to the Chilean border was approved.

On July 12, 1928, he was appointed honorary professor at the National University of Tucumán, where he also published, in 1929, he published Manual para el trazado de ferrocarriles (i.e. "Manual for the railway tracks").

[1][3] Richard Maury died in Córdoba in 1950 and, since 1957, his remains are buried at the foot of a monument dedicated to him in the station of Campo Quijano,[7] a town near Salta in the Salta–Antofagasta railway.