Richard von Schirach (born 11 February 1942 in Munich) is a German sinologist and author.
He studied at LMU, where he earned a doctorate in Chinese literature in 1974. In 1973 he published a German version of the autobiography of Chinese Emperor Puyi. Richard von Schirach is a member of the noble Sorbian Schirach family and a son of the Nazi war criminal Baldur von Schirach. He has also published a book about his father. He is the father of the philosopher Ariadne von Schirach and of the author Benedict Wells.