Richard Plant Bower (March 1, 1905 – 1996) was a Canadian diplomat.

He was appointed Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to Venezuela[1] then to Argentina[2] and concurrently to Paraguay and Uruguay.

He joined the Canadian diplomatic corps in 1926 and was posted to the Netherlands as a trade commissioner.

Subsequent postings included the then Dutch East Indies, New Zealand, Australia, Newfoundland (at that time an independent dominion within the British Commonwealth) and the United Kingdom.

In 1956, on his appointment as ambassador to Venezuela, Bower transferred from the Department of Industry, Trade and Commerce to the Department of External Affairs.