Sir Richard George May (12 November 1938 – 1 July 2004) was a British judge.
Following national service with the Durham Light Infantry, he studied law at Selwyn College, Cambridge.
In 1971 May was elected to Westminster City Council, where he led the Labour Group from 1974 to 1977.
He stood down from the council in 1978 to concentrate on his legal career but was still able to stand in the 1979 contest in Margaret Thatcher's Finchley constituency, when she first came to power as Prime Minister.
He was knighted in June 2004 and died at his home in Oxfordshire a few weeks later of a brain tumour.