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Richard Bedford
Richard Bedford is a British vocalist and lyricist from Halifax, England, known as the "voice of trance" for his work with Above & Beyond and Armin van Buuren.
Richard Beesly
Richard Beesly was a British rower who won Olympic gold in the coxless fours at the 1928 Amsterdam Games and rowed in three winning Cambridge Boat Race crews.
Richard Bellman
Richard Ernest Bellman (1920–1984) was an American applied mathematician who invented dynamic programming at the RAND Corporation in 1953 and later taught at the University of Southern California.
Richard Belzer
Richard Belzer (1944-2023), American stand-up comedian and actor, best known as Detective John Munch on Homicide: Life on the Street and Law & Order: SVU, a role he played across 10 or 11 series from 1993 to 2016; also SNL warm-up comic, author of conspiracy books.
Richard Benjamin
Richard Benjamin (born May 22, 1938, New York City) is an American actor and director, husband of Paula Prentiss, Golden Globe winner for The Sunshine Boys, star of Westworld and Roth adaptations, and director of My Favorite Year.
Richard Benjamin Harrison
Richard Benjamin Harrison Jr. was an American pawnbroker who co-founded the Gold & Silver Pawn Shop in Las Vegas and starred on Pawn Stars as "the Old Man".
Richard Bennett
Richard John Bennett (1932-2011), Trinidad and Tobago Flying Dutchman sailor; 30th at the 1960 Rome Olympics for the West Indies Federation with Gerald Bird, 28th at Munich 1972 with David Farfan.
Richard Bentley
Richard Bentley (1662–1742) was an English classical scholar and Anglican theologian, Master of Trinity College, Cambridge, from 1700, remembered for proving the Epistles of Phalaris spurious.
Richard Benton
Richard Benton, born in 1977, is a British neuroscientist and professor at the University of Lausanne known for discovering ionotropic receptors, a family of insect smell receptors.
Richard Berg
Richard H. Berg (1943-2019), "The Pope of Wargaming," American board wargame designer of 140+ games including Terrible Swift Sword, The Campaign for North Africa, SPQR, and Men of Iron; distinct from designer Richard Borg.
Richard Berndt
Richard Berndt is a German experimental physicist and professor at Kiel University since 1999, known for STM studies of light emission from single molecules, including a 1993 Science paper.
Richard Bersohn
Richard Bersohn (1925–2003) was an American physical chemist and longtime Columbia University professor known for experimental and theoretical work on how molecules break apart when they absorb light.
Richard Beymer
Richard Beymer, American actor and filmmaker known as Tony in West Side Story (1961) and Benjamin Horne in Twin Peaks (1990–91, 2017); born in Avoca, Iowa, later an independent documentary and experimental filmmaker living in Iowa.
Richard Blackwood
Richard Blackwood (born 1972) is an English stand-up comedian, actor and presenter, host of The Richard Blackwood Show, Vincent Hubbard in EastEnders 2015-2018 and Felix Westwood in Hollyoaks 2020-2024.
Richard Blahut
Richard E. Blahut, born 1937, is an American information theorist known for the Blahut–Arimoto algorithm, a 30-year IBM career, and professorship at the University of Illinois.
Richard Blais
Richard Blais, American chef and TV personality, winner of Top Chef All-Stars (season 8) and co-host of Fox's Next Level Chef; trained at el Bulli and The French Laundry, founder of Trail Blais, author of Try This at Home.
Richard Blumenthal
Richard Blumenthal, also known as Dick Blumenthal, is an American Democratic politician and lawyer who has served as a US Senator from Connecticut since 2011, after five terms as Connecticut's Attorney General.
Richard Blundell
Richard Blundell, also known as Richard W. Blundell, is a British economist and econometrician at University College London, known for panel data methods and knighted in 2014.
Richard Bona
Richard Bona, born Bona Pinder Yayumayalolo, is a Cameroonian bassist, singer, and composer whose jazz fusion is built on makossa rhythms; he won a Grammy with the Pat Metheny Group.
Richard Bong
Richard Ira Bong, known as Dick Bong, was an American fighter ace who shot down 40 enemy planes in the Pacific during World War II, more than any other American pilot.
Richard Bonneau
Richard Bonneau is a computational biologist and Professor of Biology and Computer Science at NYU's Courant Institute who leads machine learning for drug discovery at Genentech, where he co-founded Prescient Design.
Richard Boone
Richard Allen Boone (1917–1981), American actor born in Los Angeles, starred as Paladin in Have Gun—Will Travel (1957–63), led Medic and The Richard Boone Show, earned five Emmy nominations, and died in St. Augustine, Florida.
Richard Borcherds
Richard Borcherds, born in Cape Town in 1959, is a British mathematician at UC Berkeley who won the 1998 Fields Medal for proving the Monstrous Moonshine conjecture.
Richard Borshay Lee
Richard Borshay Lee is a Canadian anthropologist and University Professor Emeritus at the University of Toronto, known for fieldwork among the Ju/'hoansi-!Kung San of Botswana and Namibia.
Richard Bourne (Royal Navy officer)
Captain Richard Bourne was a Dublin shipowner and former Royal Navy officer who co-founded the Peninsular Steam Navigation Company in 1835, the business that became P&O.
Richard Boyd Barrett
Richard Boyd Barrett is an Irish socialist politician, TD for Dún Laoghaire since 2011 and parliamentary leader of People Before Profit-Solidarity, known for anti-war campaigning, Palestine advocacy, and four consecutive election victories from 2011 to 2024.
Richard Brake
Richard Brake (Richard Colin Brake, born 1964, Ystrad Mynach, Wales) is a Welsh character actor known for Joe Chill in Batman Begins, Doom-Head in 31, the Night King in Game of Thrones, and four Rob Zombie films.
Richard Brandon
Richard Brandon (died 20 June 1649) was London's common hangman, son of Gregory Brandon, and the traditional executioner of Charles I; he also beheaded Strafford and Laud, and his identification rests on contested 1649 pamphlets.
Richard Branson
Sir Richard Branson is a British entrepreneur who founded the Virgin Group in 1970 as a mail-order record business, building it into a brand-licensing group of about 80 companies.
Richard Brauer
Richard Dagobert Brauer was a German-American algebraist, born in 1901, who created modular representation theory, the Brauer group, and the finite simple groups classification program.