"Richard the Red"; d. c. AD 1260) was a Cornish Franciscan scholastic philosopher and theologian.
Rufus was one of the first medieval philosophers to write on Aristotle and his commentaries are the earliest known among those which have survived.
Roger Bacon was a fervent critic of Rufus, claiming that his fame was greatest with the ignorant multitude; on the other hand, Thomas of Eccleston praised him as an excellent lecturer.
Adam de Marisco describes him in a letter to Grosseteste as "a man lacking in command of the English tongue, yet of most honest conversation and unblemished reputation, learned in human and divine literature."
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