Robert Lorne Richardson (June 28, 1860 – November 6, 1921) was a Canadian journalist, editor, newspaper owner, author, and politician.

Born in Balderson, Lanark County, Canada West, the son of Joseph Richardson and Harriet Thompson, Richardson was educated at the Balderson Public School and in 1879 became a journalist working for the Montreal Star and briefly for the Toronto Globe.

He moved to Winnipeg in 1881 was the city editor for the Daily Sun until the paper stopped publishing in 1890.

In 1890, he founded with Duncan Lloyd McIntyre the Winnipeg Daily Tribune and was its editor.

By-election: On Mr. Richardson's election being declared void, 20 July 1901