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Dick Hyland
Dick Hyland (Frank William Hyland, Jr., 1900-1981), American rugby player who won gold at the 1924 Paris Olympics, later a Stanford football halfback, Hollywood technical director, and Los Angeles sportswriter.
Dick in a Box
"Dick in a Box" (also "A Special Christmas Box") is a 2006 SNL Digital Short by The Lonely Island with Justin Timberlake, an early-1990s R&B parody that went viral uncensored online and won a 2007 Emmy.
Dick Joyce
Dick Joyce (Richard John Joyce), New Zealand rower born 1946 in Wellington, won Olympic gold in the coxed four at Mexico City 1968 and the men's eight at Munich 1972; distinct from the 1965 baseball pitcher Dick Joyce.
Dick K.P. Yue
Dick K.P. Yue is an American mechanical and ocean engineer at MIT, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2020 and originator of MIT OpenCourseWare.
Dick Landon
Dick Landon (Richmond Wilcox Landon; 1898–1971) was an American high jumper who won the 1920 Olympic gold medal at Antwerp, setting an Olympic record, and competed for Yale.
Dick LeBeau
Dick LeBeau (Charles Richard LeBeau), born 1937, is an American former football player and coach, a Hall of Fame Lions cornerback and creator of the zone blitz.
Dick Menzies
Dick Menzies is a Canadian respirologist and tuberculosis researcher at McGill University who led 2018 trials showing four months of rifampin treats latent TB as effectively as nine months of isoniazid.
Dick Meredith
Dick Meredith (Richard Otis Meredith, 1932-2025), American ice hockey wing and Minnesota Gopher; won 1956 Olympic silver and 1960 Olympic gold with the United States, then worked for the Minnesota North Stars.
Dick Miller
Dick Miller (1928–2019), American character actor from the Bronx, a Roger Corman stock player (A Bucket of Blood, Little Shop of Horrors) later cast by Dante, Scorsese, and Cameron; subject of the 2014 documentary That Guy Dick Miller.
Dick Morris
Dick Morris (born 1946) is an American political consultant and pollster who devised Clinton's 1996 "triangulation" strategy, resigned in a 1996 call-girl scandal, and later advised Trump and worked for Fox News.
Dick Murdoch
Dick Murdoch (Hoyt Richard Murdoch, 1946–1996), Texan pro wrestler, half of The Texas Outlaws with Dusty Rhodes, WWF Tag Team Champion with Adrian Adonis, Professional Wrestling Hall of Fame 2013.
Dick Murphy
Dick Murphy (Richard Frederick Murphy, 1931-2023), American Naval Academy rower who won gold in the men's eights at the 1952 Helsinki Olympics; distinct from baseball, basketball, and boxing namesakes.
Dick Parke
Dick Parke (Richard Averell Parke, 1893-1950), American bobsledder and Cornell graduate who won 1928 St. Moritz Olympic gold in the five-man event with Billy Fiske's recruited, inexperienced USA 2 crew.
Dick Parry
Dick Parry (Richard Parry, 1942–2026) was an English saxophonist from Kentford, Suffolk, and lifelong friend of David Gilmour who played the solos on Pink Floyd's Money, Us and Them, Shine On You Crazy Diamond and Wearing the Inside Out.
Dick Portillo
Dick Portillo is an American restaurateur who founded Portillo's in Villa Park, Illinois, in 1963 and sold the Chicago chain for about $1 billion in 2014.
Dick Pound
Dick Pound (Richard Pound), Canadian lawyer, Rome 1960 Olympic swimmer, IOC member since 1978, founding WADA president 1999-2007, architect of the World Anti-Doping Code and the IOC's TOP sponsorship program.
Dick Powell
Dick Powell (Richard Ewing Powell, 1904–1963), American singer, actor, producer, and director; Warner Bros. musical star of 42nd Street, film noir lead in Murder, My Sweet, and president of Four Star Television.
Dick Quax
Dick Quax (Theodorus Jacobus Leonardus Quax, 1948–2018), Dutch-born New Zealand distance runner; 1976 Olympic 5000m silver, 1970 Commonwealth 1500m silver, 1977 5000m world record 13:12.86, later coach and Auckland councillor.
Dick Rodenhiser
Dick Rodenhiser (Richard Peter Rodenhiser, born 1932, Malden, Massachusetts), American ice hockey center; Boston University All-American; won 1956 Olympic silver at Cortina d'Ampezzo and 1960 Olympic gold at Squaw Valley; later Loring Arena manager.
Dick Roth
Dick Roth (Richard William Roth, 1947–2025), American swimmer who won the first Olympic 400 m individual medley at Tokyo 1964 in a world-record 4:45.4 while recovering from appendicitis; later a Hall of Fame honoree.
Dick Rowland
Dick Rowland (born c. 1902, birth name Jimmie Jones, dubbed "Diamond Dick" by Tulsa's white press) was a Black Tulsa shoe shiner whose 1921 false arrest for assaulting elevator operator Sarah Page sparked the Tulsa Race Massacre.
Dick Rutan
Richard Glenn "Dick" Rutan was an American aviator and Air Force pilot who, with Jeana Yeager, flew the first nonstop, unrefueled flight around the world in 1986.
Dick Sargeant
Dick Sargeant (James Fred Robert Sargeant, born 1936, Kobe, Japan) is an Australian Olympic sailor, gold medalist in the 5.5-metre class on Barrenjoey at Tokyo 1964, Australia's first sailing gold, and fourth in the Flying Dutchman at Mexico City 1968; also 1962 America's Cup Gretel crew.
Dick Sargent
Dick Sargent (Richard Stanford Cox, 1930–1994), American actor, second Darrin Stephens on ABC's Bewitched 1969–1972 after Dick York; films included Operation Petticoat; came out gay on National Coming Out Day 1991; died of prostate cancer.
Dick Schaap
Dick Schaap, born Richard Jay Schaap, was an American sportswriter and broadcaster who worked in print, radio, and television, and hosted ESPN's The Sports Reporters from 1988 until 2001.
Dick Schoof
Dick Schoof (born 1957), Dutch nonpartisan civil servant and Prime Minister 2024-2026; ex-NCTV, ex-AIVD chief, ex-Justice secretary-general; led PVV-VVD-NSC-BBB cabinet that fell over asylum policy.
Dick Scobee
Dick Scobee, formally Francis Richard Scobee, was an American astronaut and Air Force test pilot who commanded the ill-fated final flight of the Space Shuttle Challenger in 1986.
Dick Shawn
Dick Shawn (Richard Schulefand, 1923–1987), American comedian and actor of It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World and The Producers, pioneer of absurdist one-man shows who died on stage in San Diego.
Dick Sheldon
Dick Sheldon (Richard Sheldon, 1878-1935), American shot putter and discus thrower for Yale and NYAC; won 1900 Paris Olympic shot put gold (14.10 m) and discus bronze; brother of Lewis Sheldon; not born 1880.
Dick Sheppard (priest)
Dick Sheppard (1880–1937) was an Anglican priest and Vicar of St Martin-in-the-Fields, known as the BBC's "radio parson" and as founder of the Peace Pledge Union, whose antiwar pledge drew over 100,000 British members by 1936.