| Richard Thomas Lowe | |
| Birth Date: | 1802 |
| Death Date: | 1874 |
| Death Place: | Isles of Scilly |
| Citizenship: | United Kingdom |
| Nationality: | English |
| Fields: | botany, ichthyology, malacology |
| Alma Mater: | Christ's College, Cambridge |
Richard Thomas Lowe (1802–1874) was an English scientist, a botanist, ichthyologist, malacologist, and a clergyman. In 1825 he graduated from Christ's College, Cambridge, and in the same year he took holy orders. In 1832 he became a clergyman in the Madeira Islands, where he was also a part-time naturalist, extensively studying the local flora and fauna. He wrote a book on the Madeiran flora. He died in 1874 when the ship he was on was wrecked off the Isles of Scilly.
Lowe named and described numerous molluscan taxa, including: