Multiple people with the same name •
Richard Andersen (disambiguation) •
Richard Anderson (disambiguation) •
Richard Black (disambiguation) •
Richard Burton (disambiguation) •
Richard Cartwright (disambiguation) •
Richard Chase (disambiguation) •
Richard Cole (disambiguation) •
Richard Connell (disambiguation) •
Richard Dale (disambiguation) •
Richard Gibson (disambiguation) •
Richard Gough (disambiguation) •
Richard Green (disambiguation) •
Richard Greene (disambiguation) •
Richard Griffith (disambiguation) •
Richard Griffiths (disambiguation) •
Richard Harris (disambiguation) •
Richard Leonard (disambiguation) •
Richard Marks (disambiguation) •
Richard Rodgers (disambiguation) •
Richard Rogers (disambiguation) •
Richard Seymour (disambiguation) •
Richard Walsh (disambiguation) •
Richard Welch (disambiguation) •
Richard Wilkins (disambiguation) •
Richard Wilson (disambiguation) •
Richard Worley (disambiguation) Rulers and heads of state •
Richard, Duke of Burgundy (858–921) •
Richard I of Normandy (933–996), Duke of Normandy •
Richard II, Duke of Normandy (died 1026), son of Richard I of Normandy •
Richard I of Capua (died 1078), King of Capua and Count of Aversa •
Richard I of England or Richard the Lionheart (1157–1199) •
Richard of Cornwall (1209–1272), 1st Earl of Cornwall, elected King of Germany •
Richard II of England (1367–1400) •
Richard III of England (1452–1485) •
Richard Cromwell (1626–1712), son and successor of Oliver Cromwell, Protector of England
Aristocrats and non-ruling royals •
Richard, Count of Évreux (died 1067), a Norman aristocrat •
Richard, Count of Molise (died c. 1170), a Norman nobleman •
Richard, Count of Acerra (died 1196), an Italo-Norman nobleman •
Richard fitz Gilbert (before 1035 – c. 1090), Norman lord involved in the conquest of England •
Richard de Clare, 6th Earl of Gloucester (1222–1262) •
Richard of Conisburgh, 3rd Earl of Cambridge •
Richard Óg de Burgh, 2nd Earl of Ulster (1259–1326) •
Richard Orsini (died 1304), Count Palatine of Cephalonia and Zakynthos, Count of Gravina, Bailli of Achaea •
Richard Neville, 5th Earl of Salisbury (1400–1460), Yorkist leader in the Wars of the Roses •
Richard of York, 3rd Duke of York (1411–1460), a principal participant in the Wars of the Roses •
Richard Neville, 5th Earl of Salisbury •
Richard Neville, 16th Earl of Warwick (1428–1471), wealthy English magnate and major protagonist in the Wars of the Roses •
Richard of Shrewsbury, 1st Duke of York (1473 – c. 1483), who would have been King Richard IV of England if he had lived •
Richard Boyle, 3rd Earl of Burlington (1694–1753), instrumental in the revival of Palladian architecture •
Richard Temple-Nugent-Brydges-Chandos-Grenville, 1st Duke of Buckingham and Chandos •
Richard Temple-Nugent-Brydges-Chandos-Grenville, 2nd Duke of Buckingham and Chandos (1797–1861), noted for squandering his great wealth •
Richard Temple-Nugent-Brydges-Chandos-Grenville, 3rd Duke of Buckingham and Chandos (1823–1889), British soldier, politician and administrator •
Prince Richard von Metternich (1829–1895), Austrian diplomat •
Richard, 4th Prince of Sayn-Wittgenstein-Berleburg (1882–1925), in present-day Germany •
Richard, 6th Prince of Sayn-Wittgenstein-Berleburg (1934–2017), German-Swedish aristocrat and landowner, husband of Princess Benedikte of Denmark •
Prince Richard, Duke of Gloucester (born 1944), British royal
Religious figures •
Saint Richard (disambiguation), several saints •
Richard (Dean of Armagh), early 13th century
Dean of Armagh, Ireland •
Richard (first abbot of Fountains) (died 1139), an English Benedictine and Cistercian •
Richard (II), bishop of Bayeux (early 12th century), France •
Richard (III), bishop of Bayeux (12th century), France •
Richard I (bishop of Dunkeld) (died 1178), Scotland •
Richard the Chaplain (died 1178), chaplain of Malcolm IV of Scotland •
Richard (bishop of the Isles), late 13th century Bishop of the Isles, Scotland •
Richard Abbey (1805–1891), American Methodist minister •
Richard Baxter (1615–1691), English Puritan church leader, poet and hymn-writer •
Richard Beeard (1552–1578)), Tudor clergyman, poet, and hymn writer •
Richard of Dover (died 1184), Benedictine monk and Archbishop of Canterbury •
Richard Foxe (c. 1448 – 1528), Bishop of Exeter, Bath and Wells, Durham, and Winchester, Lord Privy Seal, and founder of Corpus Christi College, Oxford •
Richard Furman (1755–1825), American Baptist leader, first president of the Triennial Convention, the first nationwide Baptist association •
Richard von Greiffenklau zu Vollrads (1467–1531), Archbishop-Elector of Trier from 1511 to 1531 •
Richard of Poitiers (died c. 1174), French monk, author of historical works, treatises and poems •
Richard Poore (died 1237), Bishop of Salisbury and Durham, who helped found Salisbury Cathedral in its present location •
Richard Swinefield (died 1317), Bishop of Hereford
In politics and government •
Richard Acland (1906–1990), one of the founders of the British Common Wealth Party and the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament •
Richard B. Adkisson (1932–2011), chief justice of the Arkansas Supreme Court •
Richard Aluwihare (1895–1976), Sri Lankan diplomat •
Dick Armey (born 1940), American politician, member US House of Representatives from Texas (1985–2003) •
Richard Armitage (politician) (1945–2025), American government official, Deputy Secretary of State (2001–2005) •
Richard Arrington Jr. (born 1934), first African-American mayor of the city of Birmingham, Alabama •
R. B. Bennett (1870–1947), Canadian politician, Prime Minister of Canada (1930–1935) •
Richard Blumenthal (born 1946), American politician, US Senator from Connecticut (2010–present) •
Richard Boyle, 1st Earl of Burlington (1612–1698), Lord High Treasurer of Ireland and a cavalier •
Richard Leslie Brohier (1892–1980), Sri Lankan
Burgher land surveyor and author •
Richard Burr (born 1955), American politician, US Senator from North Carolina (2005–present) •
Dick Cheney (1941-2025), American politician, Congressman from Wyoming (1979–1989), Secretary of Defense (1989–1993) and Vice President (2001–2009) •
Dick Clark (senator) (1928–2023), American politician, US Senator from Iowa (1973–1979) •
Richard Cotton (1923–2010), Western Australian politician, mayor of Fremantle from (1976–1978) •
Richard Court (born 1947), Australian politician, Premier of Western Australia (1993–2001) •
Richard J. Daley (1902–1976), American politician, Mayor of Chicago (1955–1976) •
Richard M. Daley (born 1942), American politician, Illinois state senator (1972–1980) and Mayor of Chicago (1989–2011) •
Richard Dallam (1865–1939), American politician, Secretary State of Maryland (1896–1899) •
Richard Darman (1943–2008), American politician, White House Staff Secretary (1981–1985), Deputy Secretary of the Treasury (1985–1987) and OMB Director (1989–1993) •
Dick Durbin (born 1944), American politician, US senator from Illinois (1997–present), Democratic Senate Whip (2005–present) •
Richard Grenville-Temple, 2nd Earl Temple (1711–1779), British politician and associate and brother-in-law of William Pitt •
Richard J. Gordon (born 1945), Filipino politician and broadcaster •
Richard Glück (born 1992), Slovak politician •
Richard Haldane, 1st Viscount Haldane, British nobleman and politician •
Richard Hatfield (1931–1991), Canadian politician, Premier of New Brunswick (1970–1987) •
Richard Helms (1913–2002), American government official, Director of Central Intelligence (1966–1973), US Ambassador to Iran (1973–1977) •
Junius Richard Jayewardene (1906–1996), President of Sri Lanka from 1978 to 1989 •
Richard Johnson (judge) (1937–2019), Irish jurist, President of the Irish High Court (2006–2009) •
Richard Jones, 1st Earl of Ranelagh (1641–1712), Irish peer, and politician both in the Parliaments of England and Ireland •
Richard Charles Kannangara (1920–1946), Sri Lankan Sinhala representative in the
State Council of Ceylon for
Morawaka •
Richard W. Kunkel (born 1934), American politician, member of the North Dakota House of Representatives (1991–1998) •
Richard Lovell Edgeworth (1744–1817), Anglo-Irish politician, writer and inventor •
Richard Lugar (1932–2019), American politician, US Senator from Indiana (1977–2011) •
Richard Albert McKinley (1886–1951), Director of the Indiana Department of Financial Institutions •
Richard Mentor Johnson (1780–1850), American politician, US Congressman from Kentucky (1807–19 and 1829–33), US Senator from Kentucky (1819–1829) and Vice President (1837–41) •
Richard Morefield (1929–2010), American diplomat •
Dick Murphy (born 1942), American politician who served as the 33rd mayor of San Diego, California •
Richard L. Murphy (1875–1936), Democratic US Senator from Iowa •
Richard W. Murphy (born 1929), American diplomat and career member of the foreign service •
Richard Nixon (1913–1994), American politician, President of the United States (1969–1974) and Vice President (1953–1961) •
Richard Pathirana (1938–2008), Sri Lankan Sinhala politician and educationist •
Richard Pelpola (1898–1971), Sri Lankan Sinhala politician,
Speaker of the Parliament of Sri Lanka •
Richard Perle (born 1941), American government official and foreign policy specialist, Assistant Secretary of Defense for Global Strategic Affairs 1981–1987 •
Richard F. Pettigrew (1848–1926), American lawyer, surveyor, and land developer •
Richard Abusua-Yedom Quarshie, Ghanaian businessman and diplomat •
Richard Radl (1911-1977), American politician, member of the Iowa House of Representatives (1965-197) •
Richard Raši (born 1971), Slovak politician •
Richard Rush (1780–1859), American politician, US Attorney General (1814–1817) and Secretary of the Treasury (1825–1829) •
Richard "Rick" Santorum, American politician, attorney and political commentator •
Rick Scott (born 1952), American politician, US Senator from Florida (2019–present), Governor of Florida (2011–2019) •
Richard Seddon (1845–1906), New Zealand politician, Prime Minister of New Zealand (1893–1906) •
Richard Gotabhaya Senanayake (1911–1970), Sri Lankan Sinhala Cabinet Minister •
Richard Shelby (born 1934), American politician, US Senator from Alabama (1987–present) •
Richard Stockton (U.S. senator) (1764–1828), American politician, US Senator from New Jersey (1796–1799), Member of the US House of Representatives (1813–1815) •
Richard Henry Marthen Sualang (born 1973), Indonesian politician who has served as Deputy Mayor of Manado •
Richard Sulík (born 1968), Slovak politician •
Richard Takáč (born 1982), Slovak politician •
Dick Thornburgh (1932–2020), American politician, Governor of Pennsylvania (1979–1987) and US Attorney General (1988–1991) •
Richard Tötterman (1926–2020), Finnish diplomat •
Richard Udugama (1911–1995), major general, Commander of the Sri Lanka Army from 1964 to 1966, politician •
Richard von Weizsäcker (1920–2015), German politician, Governing Mayor of West Berlin (1981–1984) and President of the Federal Republic of Germany (1984–1994) •
Richard Wellesley, 1st Marquess Wellesley (1760–1842), Anglo-Irish Governor-General of India, Foreign Secretary in the British Cabinet and Lord Lieutenant of Ireland •
Richard Wells (politician), American politician •
Richard C. Wilbur (1936–2020), judge of the United States Tax Court •
Richard Wild (judge) (1912–1978), New Zealand jurist, Chief Justice of New Zealand (1966–1978)
In business •
Richard L. Bloch (1929–2018), American investor, real estate developer, banker, and philanthropist •
Richard Branson (born 1950), British businessman and founder of the Virgin Group of companies •
Richard Deeb (1924–1990), American real estate developer •
Richard DeVos (1926–2018), American businessman and co-founder of Amway •
Richard Jacobs (businessman) (1925–2009), American real estate businessman and owner of the Cleveland Indians baseball team •
Richard W. Kent, American businessman and baseball team proprietor •
Richard Morefield (1929–2010), American diplomat •
Richard Oetker (born 1951), German businessman, CEO of Dr. Oetker since 2010 •
Richard Rawlings (born 1969), star of American television show ''Fast N' Loud'', owner of Gas Monkey garage, Gas Monkey Bar N' Grill and Gas Monkey Live •
Richard Warren Sears (1863–1914), co-founder of Sears, Roebuck and Company, and considered a promotional genius •
Richard Velazquez (born 1973), PepsiCo executive and first automotive designer at Porsche AG (Germany) of Puerto Rican descent •
Richard Wilding, British businessman and academic
In music Composers •
Rich Batsford (born 1969), English pianist, composer and singer-songwriter •
Richard Rodney Bennett (1936–2012), English composer •
Richard Dybeck (1811–1877), Swedish lyricist who wrote the national anthem of Sweden •
Richard Heuberger (1850–1924), Austrian composer of operas and operettas, music critic, and teacher •
Richard D. James (musician) (born 1971), British composer and electronic musician, records music as Aphex Twin, among other monikers •
Richard Mohaupt (1904–1957), German-American composer and conductor •
Dick Oatts, American jazz saxophonist, multi-instrumentalist, composer, and educator •
Richard Rodgers (1902–1979), American composer •
Richard Strauss (1864–1949), German composer and conductor •
Richard Wagner (1813–1883), German composer, writer, conductor and theatre director
Singers and musicians •
Richard "Big Daddy Ritch" Anderson, lead vocalist for American red dirt metal band Texas Hippie Coalition •
Richard Ashcroft (born 1971), former singer with The Verve •
Rick Astley (born 1966), English singer best known for his 1987 song "
Never Gonna Give You Up", which became an internet meme known as
Rickrolling •
Ritchie Blackmore (born 1945), lead guitarist of Deep Purple, Rainbow, Blackmore's Night •
Richard Butler (singer) (born 1956), lead singer of the Psychedelic Furs •
Richard Carpenter (musician) (born 1946), one half of The Carpenters •
Rick Chertoff, American music producer •
Richard Clayderman (born 1953), French pianist •
Rick Danko (1943–1999), bassist and singer for The Band •
Rick Davies (1944) musician, singer, songwriter, formerly of
Supertramp • Richard Sulogowski (born 1955), American heavy metal bassist known as
Rik Fox •
Richie Havens (1941–2013), American singer-songwriter and guitarist •
Richard Henshall (born 1984), main composer, guitarist and keyboardist of Haken •
Richard Kruspe (born 1967), lead guitarist of Rammstein •
Richard Manuel (1943–1986), pianist and vocalist of The Band •
Richard Marx (born 1963), American singer-songwriter •
Richard Lewis (tenor) (1914–1990), British tenor •
Richard McCracken (born 1948), bassist with Irish rock group 'Taste' • Richard Theodore Otcasek (1944–2019), known as
Ric Ocasek, frontman for the Cars •
Richard Patrick (born 1968), lead singer and guitarist of
Filter • Richard Wayne Penniman (1932–2020), birth name of
Little Richard, American rock and roll singer •
Rich Perry, American jazz tenor saxophonist • Richard Starkey (born 1940), birth name of
Ringo Starr, drummer of The Beatles •
Richard Tauber (1891–1948), Austrian tenor •
Richard Thompson (musician) (born 1949), singer, songwriter and guitarist •
Richard Thurston (born 1973), American musician •
Ritchie Valens (1941–1959), singer, songwriter and guitarist •
Richard Wright (musician) (1943–2008), keyboard player for Pink Floyd • Richard "Richie" Giese, known as
Social Repose, American singer-songwriter and YouTube personality •
Wiley (musician), full name Richard "Wiley" Cowie (born 1979), pioneer of grime music
Actors •
Richard Berry (born 1950), French actor •
Richard Bohringer (born 1942), French actor •
Richard Brake (born 1964), Welsh and American actor •
Richard Darbois (born 1951), French-Canadian voice actor •
Richard Dean Anderson (born 1950), American actor •
Richard Armitage (actor) (born 1971), English actor •
Richard Attenborough (1923–2014), English actor, director, producer and entrepreneur •
Richard Ayoade (born 1977), English comedian, actor, writer and director •
Richard Belzer (1944–2023), American actor, author, and stand-up comedian •
Richard Beymer (born 1938), American actor, filmmaker and artist •
Richard Biggs (1960–2004), American television and stage actor •
Richard Boone (1917–1981), American actor •
Richard Brake (born 1964), Welsh-American actor •
Richard Brancatisano (born 1983), Australian actor and musician •
Richard Burbage (1568–1619), English actor and theatre owner •
Richard Burton (1925–1984), Welsh actor •
Dick Cavett (born 1936), American television talk show host •
Richard Chamberlain (1934–2025), American actor •
Dick Clark (1929–2012), American radio and television personality •
Richard Crenna (1926–2003), American actor •
Richard Curtis (born 1956), British screenwriter, music producer, actor and film director •
Richard Dreyfuss (born 1947), American actor •
Richard Ely (1945–2019), American actor, singer and voice actor •
Richard Dysart (1929–2015), American actor •
Richard Fleeshman (born 1989), English actor and singer •
Richard Franklin (actor) (1936–2023), English actor, writer, director and political activist •
Richard Gere (born 1949), American actor •
Richard Gomez (born 1966), Filipino athlete, television presenter, actor, director and politician •
Richard E. Grant (born 1957), English actor •
Richard Grieco (born 1965), American actor •
Richard Gutierrez (born 1984), Filipino actor •
Richard Harris (1930–2002), Irish actor, singer-songwriter, theatrical producer, film director and writer •
Richard Heffer (born 1946), British television and film actor •
Richard Steven Horvitz (born 1966), American actor and comedian •
Richard Jaeckel (1926–1997), American actor •
Richard Kiel (1939–2014), American actor •
Richard Kind (born 1956), American actor •
Richard Libertini, American actor •
Richard Madden (born 1986), Scottish actor •
Cheech Marin (Richard Anthony Marin, born 1946), American actor and comedian, known for the comedy duo Cheech & Chong •
Richard Pryor (1940–2005), American stand-up comedian and actor •
Richard Roundtree (1942–2023), American actor •
Richard Roxburgh (born 1962), Australian actor • Richard Schulefand (1923–1987), American actor and comedian professionally known as
Dick Shawn •
Peter Sellers (1925–1980), British actor born Richard Henry Sellers •
Richard Herbert Seneviratne (1925–1998), Sri Lankan Sinhala actor and filmmaker •
Richard Simmons (actor) (1913–2003), American actor •
Richard Simmons (1948–2024), American fitness personality and actor •
Richard Speight, Jr. (born 1970), American actor •
Richard Thomas (actor) (born 1951), American actor •
Richard Todd (1919–2009), Irish-born English actor •
Dick Van Dyke (born 1925), American actor, comedian, writer and producer •
Richard H. Wasai (1932–2003), American politician •
Richard Widmark (1914–2008), American actor •
Richard Yap (born 1967), Filipino actor, singer, and model
In film and television •
Richard James Branda (1935–1993), American actor and writer •
Richard Donner (1930–2021), American film director and producer •
Richard Edlund (born 1940), American special effects cinematographer •
Richard Hatch (actor) (1945–2017), American actor, writer and producer •
Richard Hatch (Survivor contestant) (born 1961), American television personality, winner of
Survivor: Borneo •
Richard Hammond (born 1969), British television presenter •
Richard Hunt (puppeteer) (1951–1992), American puppeteer who performed a number of the Muppets •
Richard M. Isackes, American theatre scholar and stage designer •
Richard Juan (born 1992), Hong Kong model and television host based in the Philippines •
Richard Lester (born 1932), American film director based in the UK •
Richard Linklater (born 1960), Texas filmmaker •
Richard Osman (born 1970), British television presenter and author •
Rich Vos (born 1957), American comedian •
Richard Wenk (born 1956), American director and screenwriter •
Richard Whiteley (1943–2005), British television personality and journalist •
Richard Whitley (born 1948), American screenwriter and producer •
Richard Williams (animator) (1933–2019), Canadian-British animator •
Richard D. Zanuck (1934–2012), American film producer
Explorers •
Richard R. Arnold (born 1963), American astronaut •
Richard Francis Burton (1821–1890), British geographer, explorer, translator, writer, soldier, orientalist, cartographer, ethnologist, spy, linguist, poet, fencer and diplomat •
Richard E. Byrd (1888–1957), US Navy rear admiral, aviator and explorer • Richard Masters (aka
William Marsters), English sailor, cooper, trader and explorer •
Dick Rutkowski, American diving medicine pioneer
Scientists •
Richard Lee Armstrong (1937–1991), American-Canadian geologist •
Richard Barohn, American neurologist •
Richard Dawkins (born 1941), English ethologist, evolutionary biologist and author •
Richard Feynman (1918–1988), American Nobel Prize-winning physicist •
Richard Hall (archaeologist) (1949–2011), English archaeologist •
Richard D. Hansen, American archaeologist •
Richard D. James (scientist) (born 1952), American mechanician and materials scientist •
Richard Klophaus (born 1965), German economist •
Richard von Krafft-Ebing (1840–1902), Austro-German baron, psychiatrist and author of the foundational work
Psychopathia Sexualis •
Richard Lauwaars (born 1940), Dutch law professor and judge •
Richard Leakey (1944–2022), Kenyan politician, paleoanthropologist and conservationist •
Richard Royal Lunt (born 1982), American chemical engineer and physicist •
Richard Lydekker (1849–1915), English naturalist, geologist and writer •
Richard Pokorný (born 1979), Czech paleontologist and speleologist •
Richard Pringle, American psychologist and professor •
Richard Beck (scholar) (1897–1980), American literary historian •
Richard von Mises (1883–1953), Austrian-American scientist and mathematician •
Richard Bruce Paris (1946–2022), British mathematician •
Richard F. Post (1918–2015), American physicist •
Richard A. Rachubinski, Canadian cell biologist and academic •
Richard Smalley (1943–2005), American chemist •
Richard Swedberg (born 1948), Swedish sociologist at Cornell University • •
Richard Tully (born 1943), Canadian-born American astronomer •
Richard Ulevitch, Chairman Emeritus of the Department of Immunology at The Scripps Research Institute. •
Richard R. Wilk (born 1953), American anthropologist
In sports •
Richard (footballer, born 1991), Richard de Oliveira Costa, Brazilian football goalkeeper •
Richard (footballer, born 1994), Richard Candido Coelho, Brazilian football defensive midfielder •
Richard (footballer, born 1999), Richard Alexandre Birkheun Rodrigues, Brazilian football winger •
Richard (footballer, born 2003), Richard dos Santos de Almeida, Brazilian football left back •
Dick Attlesey (1929–1984), American hurdler •
Dick Ault (1925–2007), American Olympian •
Rink Babka (1936–2022), American discus thrower •
Dick Barber (1910–1983), American long jumper •
Richard Bleier (born 1987), major league baseball pitcher for the New York Yankees and Baltimore Orioles •
Dick Butkus (1942–2023), American footballer and actor •
Richard Charland (born 1956), Canadian professional wrestler •
Richard Chelimo (1972–2001), Kenyan long-distance runner •
Richard Childress (born 1945), NASCAR Cup Series team owner and former American race car driver •
Dick Davis (running back) (born 1946), American football player •
Dick Davis (defensive end) (1938–2021), American football player •
Richard Kirk Dunwell (born 1971), English footballer •
Richard Fellers (born 1959), American Olympic equestrian •
Dick Fencl (1910–1972), American football player • Richard Fliehr (born 1949), American professional wrestler known as
Ric Flair •
Richard Freitag (born 1991), German ski jumper •
Richard Gasquet (born 1986), French tennis player •
Richard Giachetti, former NASCAR Cup Series team owner •
Richard Gleeson (born 1987), English cricketer • Sir
Richard Hadlee, New Zealand cricketer •
Rick Hansen (born 1957), Canadian paraplegic athlete, activist and philanthropist •
Rickey Henderson (born 1958), American baseball left fielder •
Rich Houston (1945–1982), American football player •
Richard Howell (born 1990), American-Israeli basketball player in the Israeli Basketball Premier League •
Richard Jacob (born 1958), American basketball coach •
Richard Jarvis (American football) (born 1995), American football player •
Richard Johansson (1882–1952), Swedish figure skater, silver medalist at the 1908 Olympics •
Dick Johnson (racing driver) (born 1945), Australian touring car driver & team owner •
Richard Jordan (American football) (born 1972), American football player •
Richard Kilty (born 1989), English sprinter •
Richard Kingi (born 1989), Australian-New Zealand rugby union player •
Richard Krajicek (born 1971), Dutch professional tennis player, Wimbledon winner in 1996 •
Rick Lackman (1910–1990), American football player •
Richard Limo (born 1980), Kenyan long-distance runner •
Richard Mateelong (born 1983), Kenyan runner •
Richard Medlin (born 1987), American football player •
Richard Moguena (born 1986), Chadian basketball player •
Richard Mullaney (born 1993), American football player •
Richard Nerurkar (born 1964), British long-distance runner •
Richard Newland (cricketer) (1713–1778), English cricketer •
Richard Ord (born 1970), English former footballer •
Richard Petruška (born 1969), Slovak-Italian basketball player •
Richard Petty (born 1937), former NASCAR driver •
Richard Piñanez (born 1991), former Paraguayan footballer •
Dick Pound (born 1942), Canadian swimmer, first president of the World Anti-Doping Agency, and former vice-president of the International Olympic Committee • Richard Raskind, changed name to
Renée Richards (born 1934), tennis player •
Dick Savitt (1927–2023), American tennis player •
Richard Sears (tennis) (1861–1943), winner of seven consecutive US tennis championships •
Richard Sewu (born 1996), Ghanaian footballer •
Richard Sherman (American football) (born 1988), defensive back for the Seattle Seahawks •
Richard Sosa (born 1972), Uruguayan footballer •
Dick Stanfel (1927–2015), American football player •
Rich Stotter (1945–2015), American football player •
Dick Schweidler (1914–2010), American football player •
Richard Swann (born 1991), American professional wrestler •
Dick Tayler (born 1948), New Zealand long-distance runner •
Richard Thompson (sprinter) (born 1985), Trinidadian sprinter •
Richard Todd (American football) (born 1953), American football player in the NFL •
Richard Virenque (born 1969), French cyclist •
Richard Washington (born 1955), American basketball player •
Richárd Weisz (1879–1945), Hungarian Olympic champion Greco-Roman wrestler •
Richie Williams (basketball) (born 1987), American basketball player •
Richard Williams (tennis coach) (born 1942), American tennis coach, the father of Venus and Serena Williams •
Richard Witschge (born 1969), Dutch footballer •
Richard Wojciak (born 1982), British ice hockey forward
Soldiers, pilots, other military/security •
Richard Baer (1911–1963), German Nazi SS concentration camp commandant •
Richard Binder (1839–1912), Kingdom of Württemberg born American Medal of Honor recipient •
Richard de Crespigny (born 1957), Australian commercial airline pilot •
Richard von Conta, German general, notable for his participation in the
Battle of Belleau Wood •
Richard S. Ewell (1817–1872), American Civil War Confederate general •
Richard F. Gordon Jr. (1929–2017), American naval officer and aviator, chemist, test pilot, and NASA astronaut, and an American football executive •
Richard FitzAlan, 10th Earl of Arundel (c. 1306–1376), English military leader •
Richard FitzAlan, 11th Earl of Arundel (1346–1397), English military commander •
Richard G. Graves, lieutenant general in the United States Army, commander of III Corps and Fort Hood •
Richard J. Flaherty (1945–2015), United States Army captain •
Richard H. Truly (born 1937), US Navy fighter pilot, engineer, former astronaut for both the US Air Force and NASA, and NASA's Administrator •
Richard Howe, 1st Earl Howe (1726–1799), British naval commander in the American War of Independence and the French Revolutionary Wars •
Rick Husband (1957–2003), American astronaut and fighter pilot •
Rich Knighton (born 1969), senior officer in the RAF and Chief of the Defence Staff for the UK. •
Richard M. Linnehan (born 1957), United States Army veterinarian and a NASA astronaut •
Richard Lizurey (born 1958), French National Gendarmerie general •
Richard Marcinko (1940–2021), US Navy SEAL commander and Vietnam War veteran •
Richard Coke Marshall Jr. (1879–1961), American brigadier general •
Richard Michael Mullane (born 1945), American engineer and aircraft pilot, a retired USAF officer •
Richard Myers (born 1942), US Air Force general, Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff (2000–2001) and Chairman (2001–2005) •
Richard N. Richards (born 1946), American naval officer and aviator, test pilot, chemical engineer, and a former NASA astronaut •
Richard Ruoff, general in the Wehrmacht of Nazi Germany •
Richard H. Rush (1825–1893), American military officer •
Richard O'Connor (1889–1981), British Army officer and military commander •
Richard O. Covey (born 1946), United States Air Force officer and former NASA astronaut •
Richard Savage, 4th Earl Rivers (c. 1660 – 1712), English army officer and noted rake •
Dick Scobee (1939–1986), American pilot, engineer and astronaut, killed while commanding the Space Shuttle Challenger •
Richard A. Searfoss (1956–2018), American aviator who was United States Air Force colonel, NASA astronaut and test pilot •
Richard Sorge (1895–1944), Soviet World War II spy •
Richard Taylor (Confederate general) (1826–1879), American Civil War Confederate general •
Richard Thomalla (1903–1945), SS commander of Nazi Germany, civil engineer, head of the SS Central Building Administration •
Richard Udugama (1911–1995), 6th Commander of the Sri Lanka Army •
Richard von Hegener (1905–1981), German official, primary organizer of Action T4 Nazi euthanasia program •
Richard Winters (1918–2011), US Army major and Second World War veteran •
Richard von Schubert, German army commander
Writers and journalists •
Richard Adams (1920–2016), English author, best known for the novel
Watership Down •
Richard Argall ( 1621), a poet, of whom little is known and whose existence is disputed •
Richard Armstrong (author) (1903–1986), English author, recipient of the 1948 Carnegie medal for children's literature •
Richard Baier (born 1926), German former journalist and radio presenter •
Richard Bernabe, American photographer and author •
Richard N. Billings, American writer and reporter •
Richard Bovet (1641-?), English author •
Dick Brennan (journalist), American local TV news anchor/reporter •
Richard Cull Jr. (1914–1992), American journalist •
Richard Engel (born 1973), American journalist and author •
Richard Herrmann (journalist) (1919–2010), Norwegian journalist, writer and radio personality •
Richard Hole (1746–1803), English poet and priest •
Richard Marfuggi, American author and plastic surgeon •
Rick Riordan (born 1964), American author, creator of the series
Percy Jackson & the Olympians •
Richard Rudgley (born 1961), British anthropologist and writer on paganism •
Richard Scarry (1919–1994), American children's author and illustrator, known for his "
Busytown" fictional
universe and
multimedia franchise • Richard Templar, pen name of
Richard Craze (1950–2006), British author and editor •
Richard Wright (author) (1908–1960), American novelist, poet, essayist, short story writer •
Richard Yates (1926–1992) American novelist and short story writer •
Richard de Zoysa (1958–1990), Sri Lankan journalist, author, human rights activist and actor who was abducted and murdered
Crime •
Richard Angelo (born 1962), American serial killer and former nurse •
Richard H. Barter (1833–1859), Canadian fugitive and murder victim •
Richard Baumhammers (born 1965), American former immigration attorney and spree killer •
Richard Biegenwald (1940–2008), American serial killer •
Richard Cain (1931–1973), Chicago police officer who worked with organized crime •
Richard Michael Cartwright (1974–2005), American murderer •
Richard Chase (1950–1980), American cannibalistic serial killer, mass murderer, and necrophile •
Richard Chung (1951–1992), American Benedictine monk who committed suicide after police investigated into his possible sexual abuse of a boy •
Richard Clarey (born 1960), German-American murderer and self-confessed serial killer •
Richard Cooey (1967–2008), American murderer •
Richard Cottingham (born 1946), American serial killer •
Richard Allen Davis (born 1954), American career criminal and convicted killer of Polly Klaas' •
Richard Delage (born 1944), American murderer •
Richard Djerf (born 1969), American mass murderer •
Richard Evonitz (1963–2002), American serial killer, kidnapper, and rapist • Richard Farley (born 1948), American stalker and perpetrator of the
Sunnyvale ESL shooting •
Richard Hauptmann (1899–1936), perpetrator of the Lindbergh kidnapping •
Richard Hickock (1931–1965), American mass murderer who killed the Clutter family with Perry Smith •
Richard James (1957–1975), convicted murderer in Singapore •
Richard "Ricky" Kasso Jr (1967–1984), American murderer •
Richard Kuklinski (1935–2006), American hitman and serial killer •
Richard Lee Richards (1960–2021), American man who was fatality shot by a police officer •
Richard Laurence Marquette (born 1934), American convicted serial killer •
Richard Matt (1966–2015), American convicted murderer and prison escapee •
Richard Ramirez (1960–2013), American serial killer, rapist, and burglar •
Richard Speck (1941–1991), American rapist and mass murderer
Other •
Richard Ahiagbah, Ghanaian politician •
Richard R. Arnold (born 1963), American educator and astronaut •
Dick Assman (1934–2016), Canadian gas station owner •
Richard Avedon (1923–2004), American fashion and portrait photographer •
Richard Bergh (1858–1919), Swedish painter •
Richard Bertinet, baker and teacher •
Richard Blackwell (1922–2008), American fashion critic best known for his annual "worst dressed" lists •
Richard Blahut (born 1937), American engineer •
Richard Blass (1945–1975), Canadian gangster and a multiple murderer •
Richard Tyler Blevins (born 1991), American gamer and YouTube personality •
Richard M. Candee, American historian and preservationist •
Richard Corneil, Canadian academic administrator. •
Richard von Coudenhove-Kalergi (1894–1972), Austrian-Japanese count, founding president of the Paneuropean Union •
Richard S. Crossin (1933–2003), collector and ornithologist •
Richard J. Estes, academic •
Richard Everitt (1979–1994), victim of a racially motivated murder in London •
Richard A. Florsheim (1916–1979), American painter •
Richard Garriott (born 1961), British-American video game developer, entrepreneur and private astronaut •
Richard Gerstl (1883–1908), Austrian painter •
Richard Gurnon, president of Massachusetts Maritime Academy •
Richard Gutekunst (1870–1961), German art dealer •
Richard Harris (anaesthetist), Australian anaesthetist and cave diver •
Richard Heber (1773–1833), English book collector •
Richard Helms (naturalist) (1842–1914), Australian naturalist •
Richard Hemming, Singapore-based Master of Wine and educator •
Richard Hieb (born 1955), American astronaut •
Richard Hirschbäck (1937–2007), Austrian painter •
Richard Holder (born 1974), Belizean visual artist •
Richard Gerald Jordan (1946–2025), American convicted murderer •
Richard Ling (born 1954), Shaw Foundation professor of Media Technology at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore •
Richard Lugner (born 1932), Austrian entrepreneur and Viennese society figure •
Richard Lyne (1570–1600), English painter and engraver •
Richard Mastracchio (born 1960), American engineer and astronaut •
Richard Maury (1882–1950), American naturalized Argentine engineer •
Richard McLean (Australia), Australian illustrator, writer, musician, artist and digital artist •
Richard Mishaan, American interior designer •
Richard Murphy (Captain) (1838–1916), American fishing schooner captain •
Richard A. Pauling (1809–1881), portrait and landscape artist •
Richard Picker (1915–1983), American numismatist •
Richard Price-Williams (1827–1916), British engineer •
Richard Rorty (1931–2007), American philosopher •
Richard Samuel (1770–1786), English portrait painter •
Richard Stallman (born 1953), American free software movement activist and programmer •
Dick Turpin (1705–1739), English Highwayman •
Richard Ulrich (born 1942), German board game designer •
Richard von Volkmann (1830–1889), German surgeon and author of poetry and fiction •
Richard Wurmbrand, Romanian Evangelical Lutheran priest and professor
Fictional characters • Richard, title character of the 2017 animated film
Richard the Stork • Richard, a character in 1989 American independent coming of age comedy movie ''
She's Out of Control'' • Richard, a character in the 2013 American black comedy crime film
Life of Crime • Richard, a character in the TV series
Peg + Cat • Richard, a character in the TV series
Unikitty! • Richard Ashenden, main character in the 1936 Hitchcock film
Secret Agent (1936 film) • Richard Blaine, main character in the 1942 film
Casablanca • Richard Blaney, main character in the film
Frenzy • Richard Burke, recurring character in NBC show
Friends, played by
Tom Selleck • Richard Cobb, one of the main characters in the 1940 American horror science fiction film
The Invisible Man Returns • Richard Cole, a character in the film
Liar Liar • Richard Cole, a journalist in
The Power Of Five Series, and Matthew Freeman's best friend and protector •
Dick Dastardly, a character from various Hanna-Barbera cartoons •
Rick Deckard, the title character in the film
Blade Runner •
Richard Diamond, private detective protagonist of
Richard Diamond, Private Detective, which aired on radio from 1949 to 1953, and on television from 1957 to 1960 • Richard Fenton, in the 1994 miniseries,
Scarlett (miniseries) •
Richard John "Dick" Grayson, the first Robin, Batman's sidekick •
Richard Hannay, main character in the novel
The Thirty Nine Steps •
Richard Hillman, serial killer in the British soap opera
Coronation Street •
Richard Kimble, lead character in 1963 American TV series
The Fugitive • Dr. Richard Kimble, as the main character played by
Harrison Ford in the 1993 American action thriller movie
The Fugitive • Richard Kneeland, a character in the movie
13 Going on 30 • Richard Mayhew, main character in the television series
Neverwhere • Richard Michaels, a character in the 1989 American science-fiction drama movie
Beyond the Stars • Richard Rank, a character in the 1997 American science fiction drama movie
Contact •
Richie Rich (character), main character of the Richie Rich series •
Richard Richard, one of the protagonists of British sitcom
Bottom •
Richie Ryan (Highlander), one of the main characters on
Highlander: The Series, played by Stan Kirsch •
Richard "Rick" Sanchez, main character on
Rick and Morty • Richard Sharpe, main character in the
Sharpe novel series, portrayed by Sean Bean in TV adaptations •
Richard Splett, a character in
Veep, portrayed by Sam Richardson • Richard Bluedhorn "Rick" or "Ricky" Stratton, the main character in the American TV sitcom
Silver Spoons •
Richard "Richie" Tozier, one of the protagonists in 1986 novel
It • Richard Vincent, in the 2001 miniseries
The SoulTaker, the father of the title character • Richard Watterson, a character from the 2011 TV series
The Amazing World of Gumball • Richard Wharfinger, fictional playwright of "The Courier's Tale" in
Thomas Pynchon's
The Crying of Lot 49 • Richard Wheatley, a villain from the TV series
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit • Prince Richard, a character in the 1992 Nintendo Game Boy game
Kaeru no Tame ni Kane wa Naru • Richard Ranasinghe de Vulpian, née Claremont, the titular character of
The Case Files of Jeweler Richard == Cognates/transliterations ==