Sir Richard Rustom Kharsedji Sorabji, (born 8 November 1934), is a British historian of ancient
Western philosophy and Professor of Philosophy Emeritus at
King's College London. He has written his own 'Intellectual Autobiography' in his
Festschrift: R. Salles ed.,
Metaphysics, Soul and Ethics in Ancient Thought (Oxford, 2005), 1–36. He is the nephew of
Cornelia Sorabji, the first woman to practice law in Britain and India.