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Ricardo Palma
Ricardo Palma (1833–1919) was a Peruvian writer, journalist, and librarian, author of the Tradiciones peruanas, who rebuilt and directed the National Library of Peru from 1883 to 1912.
Ricardo Pepi
Ricardo Pepi (born 2003, El Paso, Texas) is an American striker for PSV Eindhoven and the USMNT; FC Dallas Homegrown, record transfer to FC Augsburg in 2022, Groningen loan, PSV from 2023.
Ricardo Pereira (footballer, born 1993)
Ricardo Domingos Barbosa Pereira, Portuguese right-back born 1993 in Lisbon; ex-Sporting academy, Porto, Nice; Leicester City 2018-2025, 2021 FA Cup and 2023-24 Championship winner, seven Portugal caps, released 2025.
Ricardo Pérez Godoy
Ricardo Pío Pérez Godoy was a Peruvian army general who led the July 1962 coup deposing President Manuel Prado Ugarteche and headed the governing junta until his removal in March 1963.
Ricardo Piglia
Ricardo Piglia (Ricardo Emilio Piglia Renzi) was an influential Argentine novelist and literary critic whose novels include Respiración artificial (1980), Plata quemada (1997), and Blanco nocturno (2010).
Ricardo plc
Ricardo plc was a British engineering and environmental consultancy headquartered at Shoreham-by-Sea, West Sussex, founded by Sir Harry Ricardo in 1915 and acquired by WSP Global in 2025.
Ricardo Prado
Ricardo Prado (Pradinho), Brazilian swimmer born 1965 in Andradina, São Paulo; 1984 Olympic silver medalist and 1982 world champion and world record-holder (4:19.78) in the 400 m individual medley.
Ricardo Quaresma
Ricardo Quaresma, born 1983 in Lisbon, Portuguese winger famed for the trivela (outside-of-the-foot strike); Sporting, Barcelona, Porto, Inter (2010 Champions League), Beşiktaş; EURO 2016 winner; retired 2022. Not the Sporting defender Eduardo Quaresma.
Ricardo Reis
Ricardo Reis, born 1978, is a Portuguese macroeconomist who holds the A.W. Phillips Professorship at the London School of Economics and is known for the sticky-information model of price setting developed with N. Gregory Mankiw.
Ricardo Rodriguez (wrestler)
Ricardo Rodriguez (Jesús Rodríguez, b. 1986), Mexican American wrestler and ring announcer; Alberto Del Rio's personal ring announcer in WWE 2010–2014, later Spanish commentator, MLW wrestler, and 3LW promoter.
Ricardo Rojas
Ricardo Rojas (1882–1957) was an Argentine historian and essayist who created the first university chair of Argentine Literature and served as rector of the University of Buenos Aires.
Ricardo Rosselló
Ricardo Rosselló Nevares (born 1979) is a Puerto Rican scientist-politician, son of Pedro Rosselló, who governed Puerto Rico 2017-2019 as a statehood PNP governor and resigned in August 2019 after Chatgate protests, the first governor to resign.
Ricardo S. Martinez
Ricardo S. Martinez, born 1951 in Mercedes, Texas, is a senior United States district judge for the Western District of Washington, appointed by George W. Bush in 2004.
Ricardo Salinas Pliego
Ricardo Salinas Pliego is a Mexican billionaire businessman who controls Grupo Salinas, has chaired TV Azteca since 1993, rebuilt Grupo Elektra, and founded Banco Azteca.
Ricardo Santos (footballer, born 1995)
Ricardo Santos, full name Ricardo Alexandre Almeida Santos, is a Cape Verdean center-back born in 1995 who captained Bolton Wanderers before joining Sheffield Wednesday in 2026.
Ricardo Sequerra Amram
Ricardo Sequerra Amram is a Portuguese venture capitalist and Partner at Point Nine, a Berlin early-stage firm focused on B2B marketplaces and SaaS, since August 2019.
Ricardo Trevilla Trejo
Ricardo Trevilla Trejo (born 1961, Ciudad del Carmen, Campeche) is a Mexican General de División DEM and Secretary of National Defense since 1 October 2024 under Claudia Sheinbaum, succeeding Luis Cresencio Sandoval; former Jefe del Estado Mayor Conjunto.
Ricardo Zonta
Ricardo Zonta (Ricardo Luiz Zonta), Brazilian racing driver born 1976 in Curitiba; 1997 F3000 and 1998 FIA GT champion, 67 F1 starts with BAR, Jordan and Toyota, now racing in Brazilian Stock Car and NASCAR Brasil.
RICCADSA trial
RICCADSA (Randomized Intervention with CPAP in Coronary Artery Disease and Sleep Apnea) was a Swedish randomized trial of 244 revascularized CAD patients with nonsleepy OSA; CPAP showed no significant intention-to-treat cardiovascular benefit (HR 0.80) but benefit with ≥4 h/night use.
Riccardo Bacchelli
Riccardo Bacchelli (1891–1985) was an Italian novelist, poet, playwright, and critic who championed Renaissance and 19th-century narrative styles against modernist experiment, best known for the trilogy Il mulino del Po.
Riccardo Calafiori
Riccardo Calafiori (born 2002, Rome) is an Italian defender at Arsenal and Italy, a Roma academy product who rose via Basel and Bologna to a £42m 2024 Premier League transfer; a ball-carrying inverted full-back, second-youngest defender to play for Italy at a European Championship.
Riccardo Comin
Riccardo Comin is an Italian condensed matter physicist and MIT associate professor, trained at Trieste and the University of British Columbia, known for ARPES studies of charge order in kagome metals.
Riccardo Cortese
Riccardo Cortese (1944–2017) was an Italian molecular biologist who led EMBL's Gene Expression program, founded the IRBM institute in Pomezia, and pioneered chimpanzee-adenovirus vaccine vectors.
Riccardo Dalla-Favera
Riccardo Dalla-Favera, born 1951 in Legnano, Italy, is a cancer geneticist who identified the c-MYC and BCL6 oncogenes in B-cell lymphomas and directs Columbia University's Institute for Cancer Genetics.
Riccardo Giacconi
Riccardo Giacconi was an Italian-born astrophysicist who founded X-ray astronomy, discovering Scorpius X-1 in 1962 and winning half of the 2002 Nobel Prize in Physics.
Riccardo Giovanelli
Riccardo Giovanelli (1946–2022) was an Italian-born radio astronomer at Cornell University who, with his wife Martha Haynes, led the ALFALFA survey of 31,500 gas-bearing galaxies and won the 1989 Henry Draper Medal.
Riccardo Montolivo
Riccardo Montolivo, Italian midfielder born 1985; Fiorentina captain 2005–2012, then AC Milan captain and 2016 Supercoppa winner; 66 Italy caps, Euro 2012 runner-up; retired 2019.
Riccardo Paletti
Riccardo Paletti was an Italian Formula One driver with the small Osella team in 1982, killed that June at the Canadian Grand Prix in Montreal.
Riccardo Patrese
Riccardo Patrese (born 1954, Padua) is an Italian former F1 driver, 1974 karting world champion, who raced 1977-1993 in 256 Grands Prix, winning six including Monaco 1982, and finishing 1992 championship runner-up with Williams-Renault.
Riccardo Scamarcio
Riccardo Scamarcio (born 1979, Trani) is an Italian actor and producer, star of Tre metri sopra il cielo, Romanzo criminale, and John Wick: Chapter 2; Silver Ribbon 2018 for Loro, Venice Orizzonti Best Actor 2026 for I figli della scimmia.