Richard John Samworth (born May 1978) is a Professor of Statistics in the Statistical Laboratory, University of Cambridge,and a Teaching Fellow of St John's College, Cambridge. He is also the Honorary Secretary of the Research Section Committee of the Royal Statistical Society, Associate Editor of Annals of Statistics, Journal of Royal Statistical Society Series B, and has been Associate Editor of Biometrika and Statistica Sinica.

He was educated at the St John's College, Cambridge. Currently, his main research interests are in nonparametric and high-dimensional statistics. Particular topics include shape-constrained density and other nonparametric function estimation problems, nonparametric classification, clustering and regression, the bootstrap and high-dimensional variable selection problems.He received Guy Medal in Bronze from Royal Statistical Society in 2012.