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Richard A. Zager
Richard A. Zager is an American nephrologist and physician-scientist at Fred Hutch and the University of Washington known for research on acute kidney injury mechanisms.
Richard Abegg
Richard Abegg (1869–1910) was a German chemist who formulated the rule that an element's maximum positive and negative valences sum to eight, a forerunner of the octet rule.
Richard AC Hughes
Richard A. C. Hughes is a British neurologist and Emeritus Professor at King's College London known for research on Guillain–Barré syndrome and identifying Campylobacter jejuni infection as a trigger.
Richard Adams
Richard Adams was an English novelist born in 1920, known for Watership Down and The Plague Dogs. He was also a lifelong animal welfare campaigner and author of Shardik.
Richard Adjei
Richard "Richy" Adjei (1983–2020), German bobsledder and former NFL Europa American football player; won two-man silver with Thomas Florschütz at Vancouver 2010 and four-man world gold with Manuel Machata in 2011; first Black athlete in a German bob.
Richard Akonnor
Richard Akonnor (ريتشارد أوكونور), born 2004 in Accra, is a Ghanaian-Emirati left-back for Göztepe on loan from Al-Jazira; UAE international since 2025, decisive penalty taker at the 2025 FIFA Arab Cup. Not the Ghana coach C.K. Akonnor.
Richard Alba
Richard Alba (1942–2025) was an American sociologist and demographer at the CUNY Graduate Center who revived assimilation theory, argued immigrant descendants integrate into mainstream society, and questioned the majority-minority future.
Richard Alexander Gibbs
Richard Alexander Gibbs, known as Richard A. Gibbs, is an Australian-born geneticist who founded Baylor College of Medicine's Human Genome Sequencing Center, a Human Genome Project site.
Richard Allen
Richard James Allen (1902-1969), Indian field hockey goalkeeper, Anglo-Indian, won Olympic gold with British India in 1928, 1932, and 1936, conceding only three goals total; played for Port Commissioners, Calcutta.
Richard Allen (bishop)
Richard Allen (1760–1831) was an American Methodist minister born enslaved in Philadelphia who bought his freedom, founded Mother Bethel Church, and became the first bishop of the African Methodist Episcopal Church in 1816.
Richard Allen Davis
Richard Allen Davis (born 1954), California career criminal who kidnapped and murdered 12-year-old Polly Klaas in Petaluma in 1993; convicted 1996, sentenced to death; case spurred California's three-strikes law.
Richard Alpert (Lost)
Richard Alpert is a fictional ageless advisor character on ABC's Lost, played by Nestor Carbonell (2007-2010), also called Ricardo or Richardus. Born 1827-1837 in Tenerife, he arrived as a slave on the Black Rock in 1867 and served Jacob.
Richard and Mary Parker
Richard and Mary Parker are fictional Marvel Comics characters, the deceased parents of Spider-Man's Peter Parker. Debuting in Amazing Spider-Man Annual #5 (1968), they are spies who died in a plane crash, leaving Peter with Ben and May Parker.
Richard and Maurice McDonald
Richard (Dick) and Maurice (Mac) McDonald, New Hampshire-born brothers, founded McDonald's Bar-B-Que in San Bernardino in 1940 and invented the 1948 Speedee Service System, the assembly-line, self-service fast-food model, before selling the name and system to Ray Kroc for $2.7 million in 1961.
Richard Anderson
Richard Anderson (1926–2017), American actor, played Oscar Goldman on The Six Million Dollar Man and The Bionic Woman simultaneously (1976–78); MGM contract player, Paths of Glory, Perry Mason, three daughters.
Richard Arkwright
Richard Arkwright (1732–1792), English inventor and cotton manufacturer. Patented the roller-spinning water frame in 1769 and built Cromford Mill (1771), the model water-powered cotton mill; patents annulled 1785, knighted 1786.
Richard Armitage (actor)
Richard Crispin Armitage (born 1971, Leicester) is an English actor known for John Thornton in North & South, Thorin Oakenshield in The Hobbit, Dolarhyde in Hannibal, and Netflix's The Stranger.
Richard Armitage (government official)
Richard Lee Armitage (1945–2025) was an American diplomat, Vietnam veteran, and Deputy Secretary of State (2001–2005) under Colin Powell; he delivered the post-9/11 ultimatum to Pakistan and admitted being the Valerie Plame leak source.
Richard Arnold (presenter)
Richard Andrew Arnold (born 1969) is an English TV presenter, Entertainment Editor of ITV's Good Morning Britain, formerly GMTV's TV critic, a 2012 Strictly contestant, and distinct from the NASA astronaut and Manchester United executive of the same name.
Richard Arnowitt
Richard Arnowitt (1928–2014) was an American theoretical physicist who co-developed the ADM formulation of general relativity and later co-founded supergravity grand unification at Texas A&M University.
Richard Arvin Overton
Richard Arvin Overton (1906–2018) was an American supercentenarian and World War II veteran who was the oldest US man and oldest American WWII veteran at his death at 112.
Richard Ashcroft
Richard Ashcroft (ריצ'רד אשקרופט), born 1971 in Wigan, is an English singer-songwriter, frontman of The Verve and a solo artist known for "Bitter Sweet Symphony".
Richard Askey
Richard Askey (1933–2019) was an American mathematician who spent his career at the University of Wisconsin–Madison and was known for special functions, orthogonal polynomials, and the Askey–Wilson polynomials.
Richard Attenborough
Richard Attenborough, Baron Attenborough (1923–2014), English actor, Oscar-winning director and producer of Gandhi (1982), star of Brighton Rock, The Great Escape and Jurassic Park, BFI chairman, knighted 1976, life peer 1993.
Richard Avedon
Richard Avedon (1923–2004), American fashion and portrait photographer for Harper's Bazaar, Vogue, and The New Yorker; known for white-background portraiture, In the American West (1985), and two Met shows.
Richard Averitt
Richard D. Averitt is an American physicist at UC San Diego who works on terahertz metamaterials and uses intense terahertz fields to drive phase transitions in quantum materials like vanadium dioxide.
Richard Axel
Richard Axel, born 1946 in New York, is an American molecular biologist and neuroscientist at Columbia University, best known for discovering the odorant receptor gene family.
Richard Ayoade
Richard Ellef Ayoade (born 1977) is a British comedian, actor, writer, director and author, Cambridge Footlights president and 2001 Perrier winner, known as Moss in The IT Crowd (2014 BAFTA), for Garth Marenghi's Darkplace, and for directing Submarine (2010) and The Double (2013).
Richard B. Alley
Richard B. Alley is an American glaciologist and climate scientist at Penn State, known for work on Antarctic ice streams and abrupt climate change recorded in Greenland ice cores.
Richard B. Bernstein
Richard Barry Bernstein was an American chemical physicist who founded the use of molecular beam scattering as a quantitative method for measuring atomic and molecular forces.