Major General Richard Allen Yudkin (15 March 1919 – 13 December 2004) was a United States Air Force (USAF) officer.

His acceptance of a scholarship for graduate study was deferred to permit him to enter active duty with the U.S. Army Air Corps as a Second lieutenant in August 1940.

He was assigned originally to the Ninth Bomb Group at Mitchel Field, New York, and accompanied that unit to Panama when it was relocated there in late 1940.

In 1960, Yudkin was assigned to Headquarters Pacific Air Forces where he served as assistant chief of staff, plans.

His office maintained close relationship with research and development activities and it sponsored specific programs designed to encourage communication and inter-action with appropriate political, academic and industrial communities.

In 1991, President George H. W. Bush appointed him to the board of visitors of the United States Air Force Academy.

[10] His military decorations and awards include the Legion of Merit and the Army Commendation Ribbon with oak leaf cluster.