Richard Pfeiffer Tamburo (February 6, 1930 – February 24, 2020) was an American college football player and coach and athletics administrator. A native of New Kensington, Pennsylvania, he played college football for the Michigan State Spartans football team and was selected by the Associated Press, the International News Service and the Central Press Association as a first-team player on the 1952 College Football All-America Team. He later went into coaching and intercollegiate athletic administration. He served as the athletic director at Texas Tech (1978–1980), Arizona State University (1980–1985), and the University of Missouri (1988–1992). Tamburo died in Phoenix on February 24, 2020, aged 90.