Alfred Richard Layman (24 April 1858 – 8 November 1940) was an English amateur cricketer. He was a right-handed batsman and a wicket-keeper who played in one first-class cricket match for Kent County Cricket Club. Layman worked as an auctioneer and as a surveyor. He was a freemason, a member of the Worshipful Company of Turners and became a Freeman of the City of London in 1913. He married Annie Pooles in 1913. Layman died at Beckenham in 1940 aged 82.