Richard Shute (6 November 1849 – 22 September 1886) was a British classicist and logician.
He was educated at Eton College, and matriculated at Trinity Hall, Cambridge in 1868.
At the time of his death he had been appointed professor of logic at Bombay.
[1] Shute's Discourse on Truth (1877) was adapted into German by Goswin Karl Uphues.
[2] Shute's Conington Prize essay on the Aristotelian writings was published posthumously: there Shute held that the surviving works were not written by Aristotle himself, but had been "filtered at least through other minds".