Richard Sanders Rogers (2 December 1861 – 28 March 1942) was a distinguished Australian medical doctor, and world authority on Australasian orchids.

He may have been the first to practise hypnotism during surgery, allowing him to remove a cyst from a woman's breast without anaesthetics "while she was still awake and talking to assistants and witnesses standing nearby.

In that year he also married Jean Scott Patterson in Edinburgh before returning to Australia and starting to practise medicine as a general practitioner.

In spite of having no formal training in botany, he published 25 papers on the subject between 1906 and 1932, collected more than 5,200 specimens, built his own herbarium and corresponded with orchid experts in England, Holland and America.

[5] Rogers corresponded with other orchidologist such as Herman Rupp, Edith Coleman, William Nicholls, Cyril Wright and Rudolf Schlechter and the descriptions of many species, named by others, were influenced by him.