Dr Robert Richardson FRSE (1779–5 November 1847) was an early 19th-century Scottish physician remembered as a travel writer.
He was educated at Stirling High School then studied medicine at the University of Glasgow.
After spending some years as a general practitioner in Dumfriesshire he became travelling companion and personal physician to Charles John Gardiner, 1st Earl of Blessington (Viscount Mountjoy).
Later in Palestine, Richardson claimed to be the first Christian visitor to Solomon's mosque in Gaza.
His proposers were Sir James Hall, Henry Mackenzie, and Lt Col Patrick Tytler.