Sir Richard Hughes Trainor,, is an academic administrator and historian. He served as vice-chancellor of the University of Greenwich from 2000 to 2004, as principal and latterly president of King's College London from 2004 to 2014, and as rector of Exeter College at the University of Oxford between 2014 and 2024. From 2025 to 2026, he served as interim warden of Rhodes House and CEO of the Rhodes Trust.