Alan Richardson, KBE (1905–1975^[1]) was a British Anglican priest and academic. From 1964 to 1975, he served as Dean of York.

Richardson was educated at Liverpool University, Exeter College, Oxford and Ridley Hall, Cambridge.^[2]

Ordained in 1928^[3] his first post was as a curate at St Saviour's Liverpool. He was Vicar of Cambo and then Secretary of the Student Christian Movement. Later he was a canon of Durham Cathedral then Professor of Christian Theology at the University of Nottingham from 1953 until 1964 when he accepted the position as Dean of York, a post he held until his death.^[4][5]

Richardson published extensively. Among his books were:

• Creeds in the Making (1935), reprint 1980
• The Redemption of Modernism (1935)
• History and the Kingdom of God (1939)
• The Miracle Stories of the Gospels (1941)
• Christian Apologetics (1947)
• A Theological Word Book of the Bible (editor) (1950)
• The Gospel And Modern Thought (1950)
• The Teacher's Commentary, revised edition, (co-editor) (1955), published in North America by Harper & Bros. as The Twentieth Century Bible Commentary
• An Introduction to the Theology of the New Testament (1958) revised 1972 (ISBN 978-0334007098)
• History, sacred and profane, 1962 Bampton Lectures (1964)
• A Dictionary of Christian Theology (1969), revised by John Bowden (1983) (ISBN 978-0664227487)
• The Political Christ (1973)

• Mr Alan Richardson (1905–1928)
• The Revd Alan Richardson (1928–1943)
• The Revd Canon Alan Richardson (1943–1953)
• The Revd Professor Alan Richardson (1953–1964)
• The Very Revd Alan Richardson (1964–1975)