Joseph "Joe" Richardson (birth registered July?September 1879 – 19 November 1904) was an English professional rugby league footballer who played in the 1900s.
He played at representative level for Cheshire, and at club level for Runcorn RFC, as a stand-off, or scrum-half, i.e.
number 6, or, 7, he was taken ill while travelling by train to play Hull F.C.
at The Boulevard, Kingston upon Hull on Saturday 5 November 1904, and died 2-weeks later from pleurisy, and pneumonia.