Richard Antony Varvill (born 23 September 1961) is a British engineer, famous as the former Chief Designer (Technical Director) at Reaction Engines Limited.
He is the son of Mark Varvill, a naval architect, and Elizabeth Agar, and has a younger sister.
His great-great-great-great grandfather on his mother's side is Hucks Gibbs, 1st Baron Aldenham.
He read Mechanical Engineering at the University of Bristol, where he did an undergraduate apprenticeship at Rolls-Royce.
He worked on preliminary ideas for what could have become the RB545 air-breathing rocket engine for HOTOL.