Colonel Francis Cecil Ricardo, CVO, CBE (3 July 1852 – 17 June 1924) was a British Army officer, police officer, and philanthropist. Ricardo was born at at Guildford in Surrey, the son of Percy Ricardo (1820–1892) and his wife, Matilda Mawdesley Hensley (1826–1880), the daughter of John Isaac Hensley of Holborn in Middlesex. He was the brother of both Colonel Horace Ricardo (1850–1935) and of Amy Gordon-Lennox, Countess of March (1847–1879). He was educated at Eton College and followed his older brother, Horace, into the Grenadier Guards in 1872.