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Richard Corts
Richard Corts (Friedrich Richard Corts, 1905-1974), German sprinter from Remscheid; silver medalist in the 4x100 m relay at the 1928 Amsterdam Olympics, twice German 100 m champion (1925, 1928), ran 10.4, later ran his father's knife factory.
Richard Cory
"Richard Cory" is a narrative poem by Edwin Arlington Robinson, first published in 1897, in which a wealthy man admired by his town dies by suicide.
Richard Cottingham
Richard F. Cottingham, the 'Torso Killer' or 'Times Square Killer' (born 1946), an American serial killer active in New York and New Jersey from the 1960s to 1980; convicted of 11 homicides, later confessed to many more, claiming up to 100 victims.
Richard Courant
Richard Courant was a German-born American mathematician known for work on partial differential equations and minimal surfaces, who built the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences at New York University.
Richard Coyle
Richard Coyle (born 1972, Sheffield) is an English actor trained at Bristol Old Vic, known for Jeff in Coupling, Father Blackwood in Chilling Adventures of Sabrina, Aberforth Dumbledore in Fantastic Beasts, and West End stage roles.
Richard Crashaw
Richard Crashaw (c. 1612/13–1649) was an English poet and clergyman who converted to Roman Catholicism, known for the sensuous sacred verse of Steps to the Temple (1646).
Richard Crenna
Richard Donald Crenna (1926-2003), American radio, TV, and film actor; Walter Denton on Our Miss Brooks, Luke McCoy on The Real McCoys, Colonel Trautman in the first three Rambo films; Emmy winner for The Rape of Richard Beck.
Richard Cromwell
Richard Cromwell was an English statesman, the second and final Lord Protector, who succeeded his father Oliver Cromwell in 1658 and fell from power in May 1659.
Richard Cromwell (actor)
Richard Cromwell (LeRoy Melvin Radabaugh, 1910-1960) was an American film actor, star of Tol'able David (1930) and The Lives of a Bengal Lancer (1935), and the first husband of Angela Lansbury; not to be confused with Oliver Cromwell's son.
Richard Curtis
Richard Curtis (born 1956, Wellington, New Zealand) is a British screenwriter and director of Four Weddings and a Funeral, Notting Hill, Bridget Jones's Diary, and Love Actually, co-creator of Blackadder and Mr. Bean, and co-founder of Comic Relief.
Richard D. Alexander
Richard D. Alexander (1929–2018) was an American evolutionary biologist and entomologist at the University of Michigan who studied cricket communication and the evolution of social behavior and morality.
Richard D. Bardgett
Richard D. Bardgett is a British soil ecologist and professor of ecology at Lancaster University who studies how plants, roots, and soil microbes regulate biogeochemical cycles.
Richard D. Bennett
Richard D. Bennett, born 1947 in Baltimore, is a senior United States district judge for the District of Maryland, appointed by President George W. Bush in 2003.
Richard D. Berlin
Richard D. Berlin was an American physician and cell biologist known for showing that the cell surface stops endocytosis during mitosis, and led UConn Health's cell biology department from 1973 to 2006.
Richard D. Braatz
Richard D. Braatz is the Edwin R. Gilliland Professor of Chemical Engineering at MIT, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2019 for work on manufacturing control.
Richard D. Clover
Richard D. Clover (died 2017) was an American physician and public health leader who served as founding dean of the University of Louisville School of Public Health and Information Sciences.
Richard D. Cummings
Richard D. Cummings is a glycobiologist who directs the National Center for Functional Glycomics and the Harvard Medical School Center for Glycoscience at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center.
Richard D. Gelber
Richard D. Gelber is a biostatistician at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Harvard professor who has led breast cancer, leukemia, and AIDS trials since 1977 and developed the Q-TWiST and STEPP methods.
Richard D. James
Richard D. James, also published as R. D. James, is a mechanician and mathematician, Distinguished McKnight University Professor at Minnesota, known for shape-memory materials and the 2013 low-hysteresis alloy.
Richard D. James Album
Richard D. James Album, also called the RDJ album, is Aphex Twin's fourth studio album, released 4 November 1996 on Warp Records; 10 tracks, 32 minutes, fusing drill 'n' bass breakbeats with childlike melodies, his last Aphex Twin LP until Drukqs (2001).
Richard D. Klausner
Richard D. Klausner is an American cell biologist and physician who directed the National Cancer Institute from 1995 to 2001 and is a founder of Altos Labs.
Richard D. Kolodner
Richard D. Kolodner is an American molecular biologist at UC San Diego known for identifying the human mismatch repair genes MSH2 and MLH1, whose inherited defects cause Lynch syndrome.
Richard D. Krugman
Richard D. Krugman is an American pediatrician in child abuse and neglect medicine who served as dean of the University of Colorado School of Medicine from 1992 to 2015.
Richard D. McCullough
Richard D. McCullough (born 1959) is an American chemist who invented practical syntheses of regioregular polythiophenes for plastic electronics and became Florida State University's 16th president in 2021.
Richard D. Palmiter
Richard D. Palmiter (born 1942) is an American biochemist and neuroscientist at the University of Washington, known for the 1982 transgenic "super mouse" and dopamine-deficient mice studies.
Richard D. Schaller
Richard D. Schaller is an American ultrafast spectroscopist at Northwestern University and Argonne National Laboratory, known for the 2004 report of efficient carrier multiplication in lead selenide quantum dots.
Richard D. Tabors
Richard D. Tabors is an American energy-systems economist whose theory of spot pricing of electricity became the basis for locational marginal pricing and financial transmission rights.
Richard D. Tilley
Richard D. Tilley is a materials chemist and professor at UNSW Sydney, previously at Victoria University of Wellington, known for single-atom electrocatalysts, nanoparticle synthesis, and MRI contrast agents.
Richard D. Vierstra
Richard D. Vierstra is an American plant biologist at Washington University in St. Louis, known for his research on plant protein degradation and phytochrome light perception.
Richard D. Wolff
Richard D. Wolff (born 1942, Youngstown, Ohio) is an American Marxian economist, UMass Amherst professor emeritus, Democracy at Work co-founder, and Economic Update host known for his surplus-labor class theory with Stephen Resnick and advocacy of worker self-directed enterprises.