Ricardo E. Latcham

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| name = Ricardo E. Latcham

| image = Ricardo E. Latcham c. 1910.png

| caption = Latcham, circa 1910

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| birth_date = {{birth-date|5 March 1869}}

| birth_place = Thornbury, U.K.

| death_date = {{death-date and age|16 October 1943|5 March 1869}}

| death_place = Santiago, Chile

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| employer = Chilean National Museum of Natural History

| occupation = Archaeologist, ethnologist

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Ricardo Eduardo Latcham Cartwright (Thornbury, England, 5 March 1869 – Santiago, Chile, 16 October 1943) was an English-Chilean archaeologist, ethnologist, folklore scholar and teacher.

Born and raised near Bristol, England, as Richard Edward Latcham, he immigrated as a young man to Chile. There he became known for his ethnological and archeological work related to the indigenous Mapuche, Diaguita{{cite book |last=Ampuero Brito |first=Gonzalo |title=Ancient Cultures of the Norte Chico |url=http://www.memoriachilena.cl/archivos2/pdfs/MC0000930.pdf |year=1991 |publisher=Museo Chileno de Arte Precolombino }} and Chango peoples.

He worked for the Chilean National Museum of Natural History. Based on his contributions, he was selected as a member of the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland.

Latcham married in Chile and had a son with his wife. Their son is Ricardo A. Latcham, known as an Anglo-Chilean writer and historian.