Richard Edwin Dolby, OBE, HonDMet, FREng, FIMMM, HonFWeldI (born 7 July 1938 in Sheffield) is a metallurgist and former Director of Research and Technology at The Welding Institute (TWI) in Cambridge, UK.
He is a past President at the Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining and a current Distinguished Research Fellow at the University of Cambridge Department of Materials Science and Metallurgy.