Richard Davenport-Hines (born 1953) is a British writer, best known for his biography of the poet W. H. Auden.

An alumnus of Cambridge University, he has taught at the London School of Economics, and began writing business history. He was the 1985 winner of the Wolfson Prize for History and Biography. He now writes and reviews in a number of literary journals, he is a noted contributor to the Dictionary of National Biography, as of March 2009 he had contributed 152 biographies.

He has also written on the history of the Gothic. He is a member of the Athenaeum Club in London and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and the Royal Historical Society.

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