Vernon Richards (19 July 1915 – 10 December 2001) was an Anglo-Italian anarchist, editor, author and companion of Marie-Louise Berneri.

He was born Vero Recchioni in London in 1915. He was educated at Emanuel School, and King's College London, where he trained as a civil engineer. He helped his father Emidio Recchioni with propaganda work against Benito Mussolini, was arrested in Paris in January 1935 and extradited from France. In 1936, he published in collaboration with Camillo Berneri, a bilingual anarchist and antifascist, the paper Italia Libera/Free Italy. Richards died in Hadleigh, Suffolk in 2001.