Richard Thomas Lowe (1802–1874) was an English botanist, ichthyologist, malacologist, and clergyman.

In 1825 he graduated from Christ's College, Cambridge, and in the same year he took holy orders.

[1] In 1832 he became a clergyman in the Madeira Islands, where he was also a part-time naturalist, extensively studying the local flora and fauna.

Lowe named and described numerous molluscan taxa, including: This Madeira-related article is a stub.

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