Richard Samuel Kem (August 9, 1934 – April 1, 2016) was a United States Army major general who served as Commander, U.S. Army Engineering Center at Fort Belvoir. His final assignment before his October 1990 retirement was as deputy commander of the Army Corps of Engineers. Kem commanded the 577th Engineer Battalion in Vietnam and the 7th Engineer Brigade in Germany. He commanded the Corps of Engineers' Ohio River Division from 1981 to 1984.