Rikard Sigmund Long (January 23, 1889 – December 16, 1977) was a Faroese teacher, writer, and politician for the People's Party.

[1] He enrolled at the University of Copenhagen in 1909, initially studying medicine and later switching to languages, but he never took any exams.

[2] He was a teacher at the Tórshavn Nautical School (Faroese: Tórshavnar skiparaskúli) from 1914 to 1916 and from 1919 to 1920, and then taught at the Faroese Middle and High School (Faroese: Føroya Millum- og Realskúli) from 1921 to 1954.

He served as a board member of Varðin press from 1919 to 1950 and headed it from 1935 to 1950.

Lang served in the Faroese Parliament as a representative from the South Streymoy (Faroese: Suðurstreymoy) district from 1943 to 1958, and he was also a member of Kristian Djurhuus's first administration (1950–1954).