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Richard C. Thompson
Richard C. Thompson is a British marine biologist, professor at the University of Plymouth, who coined the term 'microplastics' in 2004 and advises on global plastics policy.
Richard C. Trembath
Richard C. Trembath is a British physician-scientist and Professor of Medical Genetics at King's College London, known for identifying disease genes in pulmonary arterial hypertension and psoriasis.
Richard C. Wesley
Richard C. Wesley, born 1949, is an American jurist serving as a senior judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit since 2016.
Richard Cant
Richard Cant (born 1964, Dartford, Kent) is a British actor, son of presenter Brian Cant, known for Midsomer Murders' Dennis Rainbird, Doctor Who's "Blink", Mary Queen of Scots, Stan & Ollie, and RSC and National Theatre stage work.
Richard Carapaz
Richard Carapaz (born 1993, El Carmelo, Ecuador), nicknamed La Locomotora, is an Ecuadorian climber, first Ecuadorian Grand Tour winner (Giro 2019), Tokyo 2020 Olympic road race champion, and 2026 Tour de France King of the Mountains.
Richard Carlson (actor)
Richard Carlson (Richard Dutoit Carlson, 1912-1977) was an American actor, director, and screenwriter, star of It Came from Outer Space, Creature from the Black Lagoon, and the TV series I Led 3 Lives.
Richard Carpenter (musician)
Richard Lynn Carpenter (born 1946, New Haven) is the American pianist, arranger, and producer of the Carpenters duo with sister Karen; 100 million records, three Grammys, solo albums Time and Piano Songbook.
Richard Casaburi
Richard Casaburi is an American physician-scientist in pulmonary medicine who directs the Rehabilitation Clinical Trials Center at Harbor-UCLA and established exercise training and anabolic therapy as treatments for COPD.
Richard Castle
Richard Castle (Richard Edgar Castle, born Richard Alexander Rodgers) is the fictional mystery novelist played by Nathan Fillion on ABC's Castle (2009-2016), NYPD consultant partnered with Detective Kate Beckett, and a real-world bestselling author via Hyperion's Nikki Heat novels written by Tom Straw.
Richard Cerione
Richard A. Cerione is an American biochemist and cancer biologist at Cornell University known for work on the Rho GTPase Cdc42 and protein modifications in cancer cells.
Richard Chace Tolman
Richard Chace Tolman (1881–1948) was an American mathematical physicist and statistical mechanics authority who spent his last twenty-six years at Caltech and advised on the Manhattan Project.
Richard Chaisson
Richard E. Chaisson is an American infectious-disease physician and epidemiologist at Johns Hopkins University, where he directs the Center for Tuberculosis Research, which he founded in 1998.
Richard Challoner
Richard Challoner (1691–1781) was an English Catholic bishop who led the London District for forty years and revised the Douay–Rheims Bible between 1749 and 1752.
Richard Chamberlain
Richard Chamberlain (George Richard Chamberlain, 1934–2025), American actor and singer, teen idol as Dr. Kildare (1961–66) and "king of the miniseries" in Shōgun (1980) and The Thorn Birds (1983); three Golden Globes, came out in his 2003 memoir Shattered Love.
Richard Chang (semiconductor executive)
Richard Chang, or Zhang Rujing (张汝京), is a Chinese-American semiconductor executive born in 1948 who founded and led SMIC, China's largest chip foundry, from 2000 to 2009.
Richard Chao-Fan Chu
Richard Chao-Fan Chu, known as Dick Chu, was a Chinese-born American mechanical engineer at IBM who pioneered electronic cooling, holding over 200 patents and elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1987.
Richard Chase
Richard Trenton Chase, the "Vampire of Sacramento" or "Dracula Killer," murdered six people in Sacramento, California, December 1977 to January 1978, drank victims' blood, was found sane at trial, sentenced to death, and died by suicide at San Quentin in 1980.
Richard Chaves
Richard John Chaves (born 1951) is an American character actor, Vietnam veteran, and Tracers ensemble playwright known as Poncho in Predator (1987) and Colonel Paul Ironhorse in War of the Worlds (1988–89).
Richard Cheese
Richard Cheese, stage name of Mark Jonathan Davis (born 1965), is a Los Angeles comedy lounge act performing swing versions of rock and rap hits with Lounge Against the Machine; 30+ albums since 2000, songs in Dawn of the Dead and Army of the Dead.
Richard Childress Racing
Richard Childress Racing (RCR) is a NASCAR stock car racing team founded in 1969 in Welcome, North Carolina, which won six Cup Series championships with Dale Earnhardt.
Richard Christy
Richard Christy (born 1974, Fort Scott, Kansas) is an American drummer and radio personality, drummer on Death's The Sound of Perseverance and Control Denied's The Fragile Art of Existence, Iced Earth drummer 2000-2004, and Howard Stern Show staffer since 2004, now leading Charred Walls of the Damned.
Richard Clarke Cabot
Richard Clarke Cabot (1868–1939) was an American physician and Harvard medical educator who founded the first in-hospital medical social work department at Massachusetts General Hospital in 1905.
Richard Clayderman
Richard Clayderman, stage name of Philippe Pagès (born 1953, Paris), French easy-listening pianist; "Ballade pour Adeline" sold 22 million copies in 38 countries; over 90 million records and 267 Gold discs; popular especially in Asia.
Richard Cloward
Richard Cloward (1926–2001) was an American sociologist and social-work educator at Columbia University who, with his wife Frances Fox Piven, proposed the welfare-rights strategy known as the Cloward–Piven strategy.
Richard Coles
Richard Coles, also known as Reverend Richard Coles, is a British Anglican priest and broadcaster who was an instrumentalist in the 1980s band the Communards.
Richard Collinson Inlet
Richard Collinson Inlet, a large shallow inlet on the north coast of Victoria Island, Nunavut, between Barnard Point and Loch Point; named for Arctic explorer Sir Richard Collinson, with ringed seals and spring polar bear habitat.
Richard Collom Singleton
Richard Collom Singleton (c. 1928 – 2007) was an American mathematical statistician and computer scientist who spent 39 years at SRI International and published mixed-radix fast Fourier transform algorithms.
Richard Commey
Richard "RC" Commey (Richard Oblitey Commey, born 1987, Accra, Ghana) is a Ghanaian former IBF lightweight world champion; record 31-5-1 (28 KOs), lost the title to Teofimo Lopez in 2019.
Richard Conte
Richard Conte was an American actor whose career spanned the late 1930s to the mid-1970s. He is best known for his roles in film noir and The Godfather.
Richard Cordray
Richard Cordray is an American lawyer and Democratic politician who served as the first Director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau from 2012 to 2017, after being Ohio Attorney General.