Richard Holt

• Richard Holt (MP for Langbaurgh), British Conservative Member of Parliament
• Richard Holt (cricketer), English cricketer
• Sir Richard Durning Holt, British Liberal Party politician, MP for Hexham
• Richard Holt (died 1710), MP for Lymington, and for Petersfield
• Ric Holt, computer science professor
• Ashton Dearholt, American silent film actor