Sir Richard Temple Rennie (1839 – 14 April 1905) was a British barrister and judge who served in China and Japan.

[citation needed] Rennie was called to the bar of the Inner Temple in 1860, having qualified by immediately commencing a pupilage after leaving school.

He and practiced on the Western Circuit before moving to Hong Kong, where his brother, William Hepburn Rennie, was serving as Auditor-General.

In 1896, Rennie was appointed by a special Order in Council Acting Judge of the British Supreme Consular Court in Constantinople to hear two cases.

The first related to alleged improper conduct by the Vice-Consul, Mr Phillip Sarell, in obtaining a loan from the Constantinople Building Society.