Clinton Richard Dawkins, FRS, FRSL (born 26 March 1941), known as Richard Dawkins, is a British ethologist, evolutionary biologist and author. He is an emeritus fellow of New College, Oxford, and was the University of Oxford's Professor for Public Understanding of Science from 1995 until 2008.

Dawkins came to prominence with his 1976 book The Selfish Gene, which popularised the gene-centered view of evolution and introduced the term meme. In 1982, he introduced into evolutionary biology an influential concept, presented in his book The Extended Phenotype, that the phenotypic effects of a gene are not necessarily limited to an organism's body, but can stretch far into the environment, including the bodies of other organisms.

Dawkins is an atheist and humanist, a Vice President of the British Humanist Association and supporter of the Brights movement. He is well known for his criticism of creationism and intelligent design. In his 1986 book The Blind Watchmaker, he argued against the watchmaker analogy, an argument for the existence of a supernatural creator based upon the complexity of living organisms. Instead, he described evolutionary processes as analogous to a blind watchmaker. He has since written several popular science books, and makes regular television and radio appearances, predominantly discussing these topics. He has been referred to in the media as "Darwin's Rottweiler," a reference to English biologist T. H. Huxley, who was known as "Darwin's Bulldog" for his advocacy of Charles Darwin's evolutionary ideas. In his 2006 book The God Delusion, Dawkins contends that a supernatural creator almost certainly does not exist and that religious faith is a delusion—a fixed false belief. As of January 2010, the English-language version had sold more than two million copies and had been translated into 31 languages, making it his most popular book to date.

클린턴 리처드 도킨스(Clinton Richard Dawkins)는 영국의 동물행동학자, 진화생물학자 및 대중과학 저술가이다. 그는 1995년부터 2009년까지 옥스퍼드 대학교에서 대중의 과학이해를 위한 찰스 시모니 석좌교수 직과 옥스퍼드 대학교 뉴 칼리지의 교수직을 맡았으며 2009년에 정년 퇴임하였다. 그는 많은 저명한 언론매체의 편집장으로 일했으며 엔카르타 백과사전과 진화백과사전의 편집위원으로 활동했다. 그는 또 무신론적 박애주의자들이 발간하는 잡지의 수석편집위원으로 칼럼을 쓰고 있으며 과학적 회의론 잡지의 창립멤버로 편집이사회의 멤버이기도 하다. 그는 영국왕실이 수여하는 패러데이 상의 심사위원, 영국TV 아카데미상 심사위원을 맡고 있으며 영국과학발전협회의 생물학 부문 수장이기도 하다.