Richard Sopris (1813–1893) was an American politician who served as the mayor of Denver, Colorado from 1878 to 1881.

He was married near Philadelphia to Elizabeth Allen of Trenton, New Jersey on June 3, 1836, and they moved to Indiana that year.

[2] He was President of the Gregory Association of Miners and a member of the Mammoth Quartz Lead Mining Company.

[3] In 1860, he traveled back to Michigan City, Indiana and returned to Colorado with his family via train to Atchison, Kansas and then by covered wagon.

[2] He represented Colorado in the Kansas territorial legislature and helped draft mining laws.

[2][3] Richard Sopris died on April 7, 1893, and was buried at the Riverside Cemetery in Denver.