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Richard Brautigan
Richard Brautigan (1935-1984), American novelist and poet of the 1960s counterculture, author of Trout Fishing in America, In Watermelon Sugar, and Revenge of the Lawn; died by suicide in 1984.
Richard Brent Gillespie
Richard Brent Gillespie is a mechanical engineer and roboticist, professor at the University of Michigan, whose Haptix Lab studies haptic interfaces and neuroprosthetic hand control.
Richard Briers
Richard Briers (1934–2013), English actor, CBE, star of The Good Life, Marriage Lines, and Ever Decreasing Circles; later played Shakespearean roles in Kenneth Branagh's films and voiced Fiver in Watership Down.
Richard Briggs
Richard William Briggs is a USGS research geologist in Golden, Colorado, known for reconstructing earthquake prehistories on major faults, mapping seafloor deformation with coral microatolls, and receiving a PECASE award.
Richard Bright (actor)
Richard James Bright (1937-2006), American character actor known as Al Neri in all three Godfather films; also Panic in Needle Park, Marathon Man, The Sopranos; killed by a bus in Manhattan in 2006.
Richard Brimacombe
Richard Brimacombe is a molecular biologist known for experimentally determining the structure of ribosomal RNA in the E. coli ribosome, working for most of his career at the Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics in Berlin.
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1751–1816) was an Irish-born playwright and Whig politician who wrote The Rivals and The School for Scandal and managed the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane.
Richard Brooke Roberts
Richard Brooke Roberts (1910–1980) was an American biophysicist at the Carnegie Institution of Washington who co-discovered delayed neutrons in 1939 and helped prove protein synthesis occurs on ribosomes in E. coli.
Richard Brooks
Richard Brooks (Reuben Sax, 1912–1992) was an American screenwriter-director of Blackboard Jungle, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Elmer Gantry (Oscar winner), The Professionals, and In Cold Blood; distinct from the Law & Order actor of the same name.
Richard Brooks (actor)
Richard Brooks (Richard Lee Brooks, born 1962) is an American actor, singer, and director from Cleveland, Ohio, known as ADA Paul Robinette on Law & Order, Jubal Early on Firefly, and Chief Simpson on 9-1-1, distinct from the Oscar-winning screenwriter of the same name.
Richard Bruck
Richard Hubert Bruck (1914–1991) was a Canadian-born mathematician at the University of Wisconsin–Madison known for Bruck loops, the Bruck–Ryser–Chowla theorem, and his 1958 monograph A Survey of Binary Systems.
Richard Bruynoghe
Richard Bruynoghe (1881–1957) was a Belgian physician and bacteriologist at the University of Louvain who, with Joseph Maisin, published the first report on treating human infections with bacteriophages in 1921.
Richard Bucala
Richard Bucala is an American immunologist and rheumatologist who is Chief of Rheumatology at Yale School of Medicine, known for cloning macrophage migration inhibitory factor and discovering the fibrocyte.
Richard Budgett
Richard Budgett (born 1959, Glasgow) is a British physician and Olympic rower who won coxed-four gold at Los Angeles 1984 with Steve Redgrave, then served as IOC Medical and Scientific Director 2012–2024 after leading Team GB and London 2012 medical services.
Richard Bull (actor)
Richard Bull (1924–2014), American character actor, played shopkeeper Nels Oleson in all nine seasons of Little House on the Prairie (1974–1983, 147 episodes) and was the Seaview's doctor on Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea.
Richard Burgi
Richard Burgi (Richard William Burgi, born 1958, Montclair, New Jersey) is an American actor known as Det. Jim Ellison on The Sentinel and Karl Mayer on Desperate Housewives, with soap roles on Another World, Days of Our Lives, General Hospital, and The Young and the Restless.
Richard Burns
Richard Burns (1971–2005), English rally driver, 2001 World Rally Champion with Subaru and co-driver Robert Reid; 10 WRC wins, 34 podiums; died of an astrocytoma in 2005.
Richard Burr
Richard Burr (born 1955) is a retired American Republican politician, U.S. senator from North Carolina 2005–2023 and House member 1995–2005, who chaired the Senate Intelligence Committee and was investigated, without charges, over 2020 stock sales.
Richard Burton
Richard Burton (Richard Walter Jenkins, 1925–1984), Welsh stage and film actor from Pontrhydyfen, mentored by Philip Burton; seven Oscar nominations without a win, famous for Hamlet, Cleopatra, and Elizabeth Taylor.
Richard Butler (singer)
Richard Butler (born 1956, Kingston upon Thames) is the English singer, songwriter, and painter who co-founded the Psychedelic Furs in 1977, fronted Love Spit Love, released a 2006 solo album, and returned with Made of Rain (2020).
Richard C. Alkire
Richard C. Alkire is an American chemical engineer at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1988 for research on electrodeposition and corrosion.
Richard C. Atkinson
Richard C. Atkinson is an American experimental psychologist known for mathematical models of memory and for serving as president of the University of California from 1995 to 2003.
Richard C. Blum
Richard C. Blum was a San Francisco investor who founded Blum Capital Partners, co-chaired Newbridge Capital, founded the American Himalayan Foundation, and was married to Senator Dianne Feinstein.
Richard C. Boucher
Richard C. Boucher is an American physician-scientist at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill whose research showed cystic fibrosis begins with dehydration of the airway surface.
Richard C. Hoagland
Richard C. Hoagland, born 1945 in Morristown, New Jersey, is an American science writer best known for promoting the 'Face on Mars' as an artificial monument from a lost civilization.
Richard C. Scherrer
Richard C. Scherrer (1919–2018) was an American aeronautical engineer elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2010 for stealth designs that led to the F-117A.
Richard C. Starr
Richard Cawthorn Starr (1924–1998) was an American phycologist who founded and directed the UTEX Culture Collection of Algae and was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1976.
Richard C. Strohman
Richard C. Strohman (1927–2009) was an American molecular biologist and professor emeritus at UC Berkeley, known for pioneering muscle development research and for essays criticizing genetic determinism.
Richard C. Talamo
Richard C. Talamo was an American pediatrician and pulmonary researcher, a Johns Hopkins professor and later Tufts pediatrics chairman, known for alpha1-antitrypsin deficiency and cystic fibrosis research.
Richard C. Tallman
Richard C. Tallman, born 1953, is an American jurist serving as a senior judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit since 2018.