Richard Owen Currey (1816–1865) was an American academic, physician and Presbyterian minister.

Richard Owen Currey was born on July 28, 1816[citation needed] in Nashville, Tennessee.

[2] By 1858, he joined the faculty at Shelby Medical College, also located in Nashville, followed by the Daughter's Collegiate Institute in Knoxville.

[2] He was also the co-founder of a hospital and medical school in Knoxville, and the owner of an apothecary shop in Nashville.

[2] Over the course of his career, Currey published and edited many journals, including the Southern Agriculturist, the Southern Journal of the Medical and Physical Sciences and the Nashville Monthly Record of Medical and Physical Sciences.