Richard Harold Wendorf (born 17 March 1948) is an art historian, literary critic, and museum and library director.
He has served as the director of the American Museum in Britain now the American Museum & Gardens since January 2010. Wendorf was formerly the Stanford Calderwood Director and Librarian of the Boston Athenaeum, the Librarian (director) of Harvard University's Houghton Library, and Professor of English and art history at Northwestern University.
His book on Sir Joshua Reynolds won the biennial Annibel Jenkins Biography Prize from the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies.
In 2017 he published Growing Up Bookish: An Anglo-American MemoirOakKnoll