Richard Stewart Dobbs, son of Richard Stewart Dobbs and Harriet Macauley, was a British civil servant. He served as the first Superintendent of Chittledroog (Chitradurga) Division, in the princely state of Mysuru (Mysore), British India, from 1834 to 1861. Tumakuru was the then headquarters of this division. He later became a Major-General in the 9th Regiment of the Madras Native Infantry. A small town, Dobbspet, located in the Nelamangala taluk of Bengaluru district, is named after him.