Richard

People named Richard

Rulers and heads of state

• Richard, Duke of Burgundy
• Richard I, Duke of Normandy
• Richard II, Duke of Normandy, son of Richard I of Normandy
• Richard I of Capua, King of Capua and Count of Aversa
• Richard I of England or Richard the Lionheart
• Richard, 1st Earl of Cornwall, elected King of Germany
• Richard II of England
• Richard III of England
• Richard Cromwell, son of Oliver Cromwell, and his successor as Lord Protector of England

  In politics and government

• Richard Acland, one of the founders of the British Common Wealth Party and the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament
• Dick Armey, American politician, member US House of Representatives from Texas
• Richard Armitage , American government official, Deputy Secretary of State
• Richard Arrington Jr., first African-American mayor of the city of Birmingham, Alabama
• Richard Bedford "R.B." Bennett, Canadian politician, Prime Minister of Canada.
• Richard Boyle, 1st Earl of Burlington, Lord High Treasurer of Ireland and a cavalier.
• Richard Burr, American politician, US Senator from North Carolina
• Richard "Dick" Cheney, American politician, Member of the US House of Representatives from Wyoming, Secretary of Defense and Vice President
• Dick Clark , American politician, US Senator from Iowa
• Richard Court, Australian politician, Premier of Western Australia
• Richard J. Daley, American politician, Mayor of Chicago
• Richard M. Daley, American politician, Illinois state senator and Mayor of Chicago
• Richard Darman, American businessman and government official, White House Staff Secretary, Deputy Secretary of the Treasury and Director of the Office of Management and Budget
• Richard Grenville-Temple, 2nd Earl Temple, British politician and associate and brother-in-law of William Pitt
• Richard J. Gordon Filipino politician and broadcaster
• Richard Haldane, 1st Viscount Haldane, British nobleman and politician
• Richard Hatfield, Canadian politician, Premier of New Brunswick
• Richard Helms, American government official, Director of Central Intelligence, US Ambassador to Iran
• Richard Johnson , Irish jurist, President of the Irish High Court
• Richard Jones, 1st Earl of Ranelagh, Irish peer, and politician both in the Parliaments of England and Ireland
• Richard Lovell Edgeworth Anglo-Irish politician, writer and inventor
• Richard Lugar, American politician, US Senator from Indiana
• Richard Mentor Johnson, American politician, Member of the US House of Representatives from Kentucky, US Senator from Kentucky and Vice President
• Dick Murphy, American politician who served as the 33rd Mayor of San Diego, California
• Richard L. Murphy, Democratic US Senator from Iowa
• Richard W. Murphy, American diplomat and career member of the foreign service
• Richard Nixon, American politician, President of the United States and Vice President
• Richard Perle, American government official and foreign policy specialist, Assistant Secretary of Defense for Global Strategic Affairs 1981–1987
• Richard F. Pettigrew, American lawyer, surveyor, and land developer
• Richard Rush, American politician, US Attorney General and Secretary of the Treasury
• Richard Seddon, New Zealand politician, Prime Minister of New Zealand
• Richard Shelby, American politician, US Senator from Alabama
• Richard Stockton, American politician, US Senator from New Jersey, Member of the US House of Representatives
• Dick Thornburgh, American politician, Governor of Pennsylvania and US Attorney General
• Richard von Weizsäcker, German politician, Governing Mayor of West Berlin and President of the Federal Republic of Germany
• Richard Wellesley, 1st Marquess Wellesley, Anglo-Irish Governor-General of India, Foreign Secretary in the British Cabinet and Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, brother of the 1st Duke of Wellington
• Richard Wild , New Zealand jurist, Chief Justice of New Zealand

  Aristocrats and non-ruling royals

• Richard fitz Gilbert, Norman lord involved in the conquest of England
• Richard de Clare, 6th Earl of Gloucester
• Richard of Conisburgh, 3rd Earl of Cambridge
• Richard Óg de Burgh, 2nd Earl of Ulster
• Richard Orsini, Count Palatine of Cephalonia and Zakynthos, Count of Gravina, Bailli of Achaea
• Richard Neville, 5th Earl of Salisbury, Yorkist leader in the Wars of the Roses
• Richard of York, 3rd Duke of York, a principal participant in the Wars of the Roses
• Richard Neville, 5th Earl of Salisbury
• Richard Neville, 16th Earl of Warwick, wealthy English magnate and major protagonist in the Wars of the Roses
• Richard of Shrewsbury, 1st Duke of York, who would have been King Richard IV of England if he had lived
• Richard Boyle, 3rd Earl of Burlington, instrumental in the revival of Palladian architecture
• Richard Temple-Nugent-Brydges-Chandos-Grenville, 2nd Duke of Buckingham and Chandos, noted for squandering his great wealth
• Richard Temple-Nugent-Brydges-Chandos-Grenville, 3rd Duke of Buckingham and Chandos, British soldier, politician and administrator
• Prince Richard von Metternich, Austrian diplomat, son of the illustrious diplomat Prince Klemens von Metternich
• Richard, 6th Prince of Sayn-Wittgenstein-Berleburg, German-Swedish aristocrat and landowner, husband of Princess Benedikte of Denmark
• Prince Richard, Duke of Gloucester, British royal, grandson of King George V and 1st cousin of Queen Elizabeth II

  Business people

• Richard L. Bloch, American investor, real estate developer, banker, and philanthropist.
• Richard Branson, British businessman and founder of the Virgin Group of companies
• Richard DeVos, American businessman and co-founder of Amway
• Richard Jacobs , real estate businessman and owner of the Cleveland Indians baseball team
• Richard Oetker, German businessman, CEO of Dr. Oetker since 2010
• Richard Rawlings, 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, co-founder of Sears, Roebuck and Company, and considered a promotional genius
• Richard Velazquez, PepsiCo executive and first automotive designer at Porsche AG of Puerto Rican descent
• Richard Wilding, British businessman and academic

  Religious figures

• Saint Richard
• Richard Baxter English Puritan church leader, poet, hymn-writer
• Richard of Dover, Benedictine monk and Archbishop of Canterbury
• Richard Foxe, Bishop of Exeter, Bath and Wells, Durham, and Winchester, Lord Privy Seal, and founder of Corpus Christi College, Oxford
• Richard of Poitiers, monk of the Benedictine abbey of Cluny, and author of historical works, treatises and poems
• Richard Poore, Bishop of Salisbury and Durham, who helped found Salisbury Cathedral in its present location

  In music

Composers

• Richard Dybeck, Swedish lyricist who wrote the national anthem of Sweden
• Richard Heuberger, Austrian composer of operas and operettas, music critic, and teacher
• Richard D. James, British composer and electronic musician, records music as Aphex Twin, among other monikers.
• Richard Mohaupt, German-American composer and conductor
• Richard Strauss, German composer and conductor
• Richard Wagner, German composer, writer, conductor and theatre director
• Rich Batsford pianist, composer and singer songwriter

  Singers and musicians

• Richard "Big Daddy Ritch" Anderson, lead vocalist for American red dirt metal band Texas Hippie Coalition
• Richard Ashcroft, former singer with The Verve
• Richard "Ritchie" Blackmore, lead guitarist of Deep Purple, Rainbow, Blackmore's Night
• Richard Butler, lead singer of the Psychedelic Furs
• Richard Carpenter, one half of The Carpenters
• Richard "Rick" Chertoff, American Grammy-nominated music producer
• Rick Danko, bassist for The Band
• Richard Sulogowski, American heavy metal bassist known as Rik Fox
• Richard Henshall, main composer, guitarist and keyboardist of Haken
• Richard Kruspe, lead guitarist of Rammstein
• Richard Manuel, pianist and vocalist of The Band
• Richard Lewis , British tenor
• Richard Wayne Penniman, birth name of Little Richard, American rock and roll singer
• Richard Starkey, birth name of Ringo Starr, drummer of The Beatles
• Richard Tauber, Austrian tenor
• Richard Thompson, singer, songwriter and guitarist
• Ritchie Valens, singer, songwriter and guitarist
• Richard Wright , keyboard player for Pink Floyd
• Richard "Richie" Giese, known as Social Repose, American singer-songwriter and YouTube personality
• Richard "Wiley" Cowie, pioneer of grime music.

  Actors

• Richard Dean Anderson, American actor
• Richard Armitage , English actor
• Richard Attenborough, English actor, director, producer and entrepreneur
• Richard Ayoade, English comedian, actor, writer and director
• Richard Belzer, American actor, author, and stand-up comedian
• Richard Beymer, American actor, filmmaker and artist
• Richard Biggs, American television and stage actor
• Richard Burbage, English actor and theatre owner
• Richard Burton, Welsh actor
• Dick Cavett, American television talk show host
• Richard Chamberlain, American actor
• Dick Clark was an American radio and television personality
• Richard Curtis, British screenwriter, music producer, actor and film director. One of Britain's most successful comedy screenwriters
• Richard Dreyfuss, American actor
• Richard Dysart, American actor
• Richard Fleeshman, English actor and singer
• Richard Franklin,, English actor, writer, director and political activist
• Richard Gere, American actor
• Richard Grieco, American actor
• Richard Gutierrez, Filipino actor
• Richard Harris, Irish actor, singer-songwriter, theatrical producer, film director and writer
• Richard Jaeckel, American actor
• Richard Kind, American actor
• Richard Madden, Scottish actor
• Cheech Marin, American actor and comedian, known for the comedy duo Cheech & Chong
• Richard Pryor an American stand-up comedian and actor
• Richard Roundtree, American actor
• Richard Schulefand, American actor and comedian professionally known as Dick Shawn
• Peter Sellers, British actor born Richard Henry Sellers
• Richard Simmons , American actor
• Richard Simmons, American fitness personality and actor
• Richard Speight, Jr., American actor
• Richard Thomas , American actor
• Richard Todd, Irish born English actor
• Dick Van Dyke, American actor, comedian, writer and producer
• Richard "Rick" Yune, Korean-American actor

  In film and television

• Richard Donner, American film director and producer
• Richard Edlund, American special effects cinematographer
• Richard Lawrence Hatch, American actor, writer and producer
• Richard Holman Hatch, American television personality, winner of Survivor: Borneo
• Richard Hammond, British television presenter
• Richard Hwan, Hong Kong model and television host based in the Philippines
• Richard Lester, American film director based in the UK
• Richard Ira "Rich" Vos, American comedian
• Richard Whiteley, former Countdown host and UK television personality
• Richard Whitley, American screenwriter and producer
• Richard Williams , Canadian-British animator
• Richard D. Zanuck, American film producer

  Explorers

• Richard R. Arnold, American astronaut
• Richard Francis Burton, British geographer, explorer, translator, writer, soldier, orientalist, cartographer, ethnologist, spy, linguist, poet, fencer and diplomat
• Richard E. Byrd, US Navy rear admiral, aviator and explorer
• Richard Masters, English sailor, cooper, trader and explorer
• Dick Rutkowski, diving medicine pioneer

  Scientists

• Richard Lee Armstrong, American-Canadian geologist
• Richard Dawkins, English ethologist, evolutionary biologist and author
• Richard Feynman, American Nobel Prize-winning physicist
• Richard D. Hansen, American archaeologist
• Richard D. James , American mechanician and materials scientist
• Richard Klophaus, German economist
• Richard von Krafft-Ebing, Austro-German baron, psychiatrist and author of the foundational work Psychopathia Sexualis.
• Richard Leakey, politician, paleoanthropologist and conservationist
• Richard Pringle, American psychologist and professor
• Richard Beck , American literary historian
• Richard von Mises, Austrian-American scientist and mathematician, brother of Ludwig von Mises
• Richard Swedberg, Swedish sociologist at Cornell University

  Soldiers

• Richard Baer, German Nazi SS concentration camp commandant
• Richard O'Connor, British Army officer and military commander
• Richard FitzAlan, 10th Earl of Arundel, English military leader
• Richard FitzAlan, 11th Earl of Arundel, English military commander
• Richard G. Graves, retired lieutenant general in the United States Army, commander of III Corps and Fort Hood
• Richard Howe, 1st Earl Howe, British naval commander in the American War of Independence and the French Revolutionary Wars
• Richard Marcinko, US Navy SEAL commander and Vietnam War veteran
• Richard Myers, US Air Force general, Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and Chairman
• Richard Savage, 4th Earl Rivers, soldier and noted rake
• Richard Taylor, American Civil War Confederate general
• Richard Udugama, 6th Commander of the Sri Lanka Army
• Richard Winters, US Army major and Second World War veteran

  In sports

• Dick Attlesey, American hurdler
• Dick Ault, American Olympian
• Rink Babka, American discus thrower
• Dick Barber, American long jumper
• Richard Bleier, major league baseball pitcher for the New York Yankees and Baltimore Orioles
• Dick Butkus, American footballer and actor
• Richard Chelimo, Kenyan long-distance runner
• Richard Childress, NASCAR Cup Series team owner and former American race car driver.
• Dick Davis , American football player
• Dick Davis , American football player
• Dick Fencl, American football player
• Richard Fliehr, American professional wrestler known as Ric Flair
• Richard Freitag, German ski jumper
• Richard Gasquet, French tennis player
• Richard Giachetti, former NASCAR Cup Series team owner
• Sir Richard Hadlee, New Zealand cricketer
• Rick Hansen, Canadian paraplegic athlete, activist and philanthropist
• Rickey Henderson, American baseball left fielder
• Rich Houston, American football player
• Richard Jarvis , American football player
• Richard Johansson, Swedish figure skater, silver medalist at the 1908 Olympics
• Dick Johnson , Australian touring car driver & team owner
• Richard Jordan , American football player
• Richard Kilty, English sprinter
• Richard Kingi, Australian-New Zealand rugby union player
• Richard Krajicek, Dutch professional tennis player, Wimbledon winner in 1996
• Rick Lackman, American football player
• Richard Limo, Kenyan long-distance runner
• Richard Mateelong, Kenyan runner
• Richard Medlin, American football player
• Richard Moguena, Chadian basketball player
• Richard Mullaney, American football player
• Richard Nerurkar, British long-distance runner
• Richard Newland , English cricketer
• Richard Ord, English former footballer, played as a defender
• Richard "Dick" Pound, Canadian swimmer, first president of the World Anti-Doping Agency, and former vice-president of the International Olympic Committee
• Richard Petruška, Solvak-Italian basketball player
• Richard Petty, former NASCAR driver
• Richard Raskind, changed name to Renée Richards, tennis player
• Richard "Dick" Savitt, American tennis player
• Richard Sears , winner of seven consecutive US tennis championships
• Richard Sherman , Defensive back for the Seattle Seahawks
• Dick Stanfel, American football player
• Rich Stotter, American football player
• Dick Schweidler, American football player
• Richard Swann, American professional wrestler
• Dick Tayler, New Zealand long-distance runner
• Edward Richard "Ted" Terry, Tasmanian schoolboy athlete
• Richard Thompson , Trinidadian sprinter
• Richard Todd , American football player in the NFL
• Richard Washington, American basketball player
• Richard Williams , American basketball player
• Richard Witschge, Dutch footballer who played as midfielder

  Writers and journalists

• Richard Adams, English author, best known for the novel Watership Down.
• Richard Argall, a poet, of whom little is known and whose existence is disputed
• Richard Armstrong , English author, recipient of the 1948 Carnegie medal for children's literature.
• Richard Herrmann , Norwegian journalist, writer and radio personality
• Richard Scarry, American children's author and illustrator
• Richard Wright , novelist, poet, essayist, short story writer
• Richard de Zoysa, Sri Lankan journalist, author, human rights activist and actor who was abducted and murdered.

  Crime

• Richard Angelo, American serial killer and former nurse.
• Richard Biegenwald, American serial killer.
• Richard Chase, American cannibalistic serial killer, mass-murderer, and necrophile.
• Richard Cottingham, American serial killer.
• Richard Allen Davis, American career criminal and convicted killer of Polly Klaas.
• Richard Farley, American stalker, later mass-murderer and workplace-shooter.
• Richard Hauptmann, perpetrator of the Lindbergh kidnapping.
• Richard "Dick" Hickock, American mass-murderer who killed the Clutter family with Perry Smith.
• Richard Kuklinski, American hitman and serial killer.
• Richard Laurence Marquette, American convicted serial killer.
• Richard Matt, American convicted murderer and prison escapee.
• Richard Ramirez, American serial killer, rapist, and burglar.
• Richard Speck, American rapist and mass-murderer.

  Other

• Richard R. Arnold, American educator and a NASA astronaut
• Richard "Dick" Assman, Canadian gas station owner
• Richard Bergh, Swedish painter
• Richard Tyler Blevins, American professional gamer, Mixer streamer and YouTube personality
• Richard Chase, several people
• Richard von Coudenhove-Kalergi, Austrian-Japanese count, founding president of the Paneuropean Union
• Richard O. Covey, United States Air Force officer and former NASA astronaut
• Richard Everitt, victim of a racially motivated murder in London
• Richard Garriott, British-American video game developer, entrepreneur and private astronaut
• Richard F. Gordon Jr., American naval officer and aviator, chemist, test pilot, and NASA astronaut, and an American football executive.
• Richard von Hegener, German official, primary organizer of Action T4 Nazi euthanasia program
• Richard Helms , Australian naturalist
• Richard Hieb, former NASA astronaut and a veteran of three space shuttle missions
• Rick Husband, American astronaut and fighter pilot
• Richard Ling, Shaw Foundation professor of Media Technology at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.
• Richard M. Linnehan, United States Army veterinarian and a NASA astronaut
• Richard Lugner, Austrian entrepreneur and Viennese society figure
• Richard Mastracchio, American engineer and former NASA astronaut
• Richard Maury, American naturalized Argentine engineer
• Richard Michael Mullane, engineer and aircraft pilot, a retired USAF officer
• Richard Murphy , Gloucester, Massachusetts fishing schooner captain
• Richard N. Richards, retired American naval officer and aviator, test pilot, chemical engineer, and a former NASA astronaut
• Richard Samuel, English portrait painter.
• Richard "Dick" Scobee, American pilot, engineer and astronaut, killed while commanding the Space Shuttle Challenger.
• Richard A. Searfoss, American aviator who was United States Air Force colonel, NASA astronaut and test pilot
• Richard Sorge, Soviet World War II spy
• Richard Thomalla, SS commander of Nazi Germany, civil engineer, head of the SS Central Building Administration.
• Richard H. Truly, retired Vice Admiral in the United States Navy, a former fighter pilot, engineer, former astronaut for both the United States Air Force and NASA, and the eighth Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration from 1989 to 1992.
• Dick Turpin, English Highwayman
• Richard von Volkmann, German surgeon and author of poetry and fiction

  Fictional characters

• Richard Ashenden, the main character in the 1936 Hitchcock film Secret Agent
• Richard Blaine, the main character in the 1942 film Casablanca
• Richard Blaney, the main character in the film Frenzy
• Richard Cobb, character in the film The Invisible Man Returns
• Richard Fenton, character in the 1994 miniseries, Scarlett
• Richard "Dick" Grayson, the first Robin, Batman's side-kick
• Richard Hannay, the main character in the novel The Thirty Nine Steps
• Richard Hillman, serial killer in the UK soap opera Coronation Street
• Richard, title character of the 2017 animated film Richard the Stork
• Richard Mayhew, the main character in the television series Neverwhere
• Richie Rich, main character of the Richie Rich series
• Richie Ryan, one of the main characters on Highlander: The Series played by Stan Kirsch]
• Rick Sanchez, Main character on Rick and Morty
• Richard Sharpe, the main character in the Sharpe novel series and in portrayed by Sean Bean in the TV adaptation
• Richard Vincent, character in the 2001 miniseries The SoulTaker, in which he is the father of the title character
• Prince Richard, character in the 1992 Nintendo Gameboy game, For the Frog the Bell Tolls.
• Richard, a character in the LEGO show, Unikitty!

  Cognates/transliterations

In Indo-European languages

Baltic

• Latvian: Ričards, Rihards, Rišārs
• Lithuanian: Ričardas

  Celtic

• Breton: Richarzh
• Cornish: Richard
• Irish: Risteárd, Riocard
• Manx: Rigard
• Scottish Gaelic: Ruiseart
• Welsh: Rhisiart

  Germanic

• Afrikaans: Riekert, Ryk, Rigard, Righard, Reghard
• Danish: Rikard, Richard
• Dutch: Rijkert, Rikkert, Rigard, Richard, Rick, Reichard
• Gothic: RekkareÞ
• Icelandic: Ríkharð, Ríkharður
• German: Rikert, Richard
• Norwegian: Rikard, Richard
• Swedish: Rikard, Richard

  Romance

• Catalan: Ricard
• Occitan: Ricard
• French: Richard, pronounced as /ʁi.ʃaʁ/
• Italian: Riccardo
• Latin: Ricardus, or Richardus
• Portuguese: Ricardo
• Spanish: Ricardo

  Slavic

• Belarussian: Рычард
• Croatian: Rikard
• Czech: Richard
• Polish: Ryszard
• Russian: Ричард
• Slovak: Richard
• Slovene: Rihard
• Ukrainian: Річард

  Other

• Albanian: Riçard
• Armenian: Հռիքարտոս
• Basque: Rikard
• Greek: Ριχάρδος
• Persian: ریچارد

  In Semitic languages

• Arabic: ريتشارد
• Hebrew: ריצ'רד

  In Turkic languages

• Azerbaijani: Riçard
• Turkish: Rişar

  In Uralic languages

• Estonian: Richard
• Finnish: Rikhard, Riku
• Hungarian: Richárd
• Saami: Rikkar

  In other languages

• Chinese: 理查德, 理查
• Esperanto: Rikardo
• Japanese: リチャード
• Korean: 리처드
• Māori: Riki

  Short forms

• Cornish: Hicca
• Czech: Ríša
• Dutch: Ries
• English: Rick, Rich, Richi, Dick, Dickie, Rik, Ric, Dickon
• Estonian: Riho
• Esperanto: Rikĉjo
• Finnish: Riku
• Greek: Στούκος
• Hungarian: Ricsi, Ricsike, Rics
• Icelandic: Rikki
• Latvian: Ričs
• Lithuanian: Ryčka, Rytis
• Polish: Rysio, Rysiek, Ryś
• Portuguese: Rico, Ric
• Slovak: Rišo, Riško, Riči
• Spanish: Cayo

  Nicknames

• English: Ricky, Rickie, Rikki, Richie, Richi, Richy, Rich, Hick, Dick, Dickie, Ritchie, Dickon