Richard Standish (21 October 1621 – March 1662) was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons in 1659 and 1660.
He was a colonel in the Parliamentarian army in the English Civil War.
Standish was the son of Thomas Standish of Duxbury, the MP for Preston and his wife Anne Wingfield, daughter of Sir Richard Wingfield of Letheringham, Suffolk.
He was re-elected MP for Lancashire in 1656 for the Second Protectorate Parliament.
[2] He was re-elected in March 1660 for Preston in the Convention Parliament, but the election was declared void on 20 June.