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Richard D. Wood
Richard D. Wood is an American molecular biologist at MD Anderson Cancer Center known for rebuilding nucleotide excision repair, the process that removes UV damage from DNA.
Richard D. Woods (scientist)
Richard D. Woods (1935–2021) was an American geotechnical engineer at the University of Michigan who helped establish soil dynamics and co-authored the 1970 textbook Vibrations of Soils and Foundations.
Richard D. Zanuck
Richard D. Zanuck (1934-2012), American film producer and 20th Century Fox production chief; with David Brown produced Jaws, The Sting; won best picture Oscar for Driving Miss Daisy; produced six Tim Burton films.
Richard Dalitz
Richard Dalitz (1925–2006) was an Australian-born theoretical particle physicist who spent his career at Oxford and is known for the Dalitz plot and Dalitz pairs.
Richard Darwin Keynes
Richard Darwin Keynes (1919–2010) was a British physiologist who showed with Alan Hodgkin in 1955 that potassium ions move through nerve membranes in single file.
Richard Davalos
Richard Davalos (1930–2016), American actor also billed as Dick Davalos, played Aron Trask opposite James Dean in East of Eden (1955), Blind Dick in Cool Hand Luke, and appeared on Smiths album covers.
Richard Dawkins
Richard Dawkins (born 1941), British evolutionary biologist emeritus at Oxford, author of The Selfish Gene (1976), The Extended Phenotype, and The God Delusion; defender of the gene's-eye view, coiner of 'evolvability', and antagonist of Gould and E.O. Wilson.
Richard Dawson
Richard Dawson (Colin Lionel Emm, 1932–2012), English-born actor and game show host; Corporal Newkirk on Hogan's Heroes and original host of Family Feud (1976–85, 1994–95), Emmy winner 1978, famous for kissing contestants.
Richard de Clare, 2nd Earl of Pembroke
Richard de Clare, called Strongbow (c. 1130–1176), second Earl of Pembroke and Strigoil, Anglo-Norman lord who married Aoife MacMurrough, led the 1170 landing at Waterford, became lord of Leinster, and died as Henry II's representative in Ireland.
Richard Deacon (actor)
Richard Lewis Deacon (1922–1984), American character actor known as Mel Cooley on The Dick Van Dyke Show and Fred Rutherford on Leave It to Beaver; over 100 films, Broadway Hello Dolly, gourmet chef.
Richard Dean Anderson
Richard Dean Anderson (born 1950, Minneapolis) is an American actor, star of MacGyver (ABC, 1985–1992) and Colonel Jack O'Neill on Stargate SG-1 (from 1997, also executive producer), founder of Gekko Film Corp, later a fan-convention regular.
Richard Dearlove
Sir Richard Dearlove, KCMG OBE, was Chief ('C') of Britain's Secret Intelligence Service (MI6) from 1999 to July 2004, covering 9/11 and the Iraq WMD dossier controversy, then Master of Pembroke College, Cambridge.
Richard Dedekind
Richard Dedekind (1831–1916) was a German mathematician who defined the real numbers through Dedekind cuts and founded the theory of ideals in algebraic number theory.
Richard Denning
Richard Denning, born Louis Albert Heindrich Denninger Jr., was an American actor who played Hawaii's governor on "Hawaii Five-0" and starred with Lucille Ball on radio.
Richard Dent
Richard Dent (Richard Lamar Dent), NFL defensive end for the Chicago Bears (1983-93), 1983 eighth-round pick from Tennessee State; 137.5 career sacks, Super Bowl XX MVP, Hall of Fame Class of 2011.
Richard DeVos
Richard Marvin DeVos (1926–2018) was an American businessman who co-founded the direct-selling company Amway with Jay Van Andel in 1959 and owned the NBA's Orlando Magic.
Richard Diamond, Private Detective
Richard Diamond, Private Detective (aka Call Mr. D) was a Four Star half-hour American private-eye series starring David Janssen, developed by Dick Powell from Blake Edwards' 1949 radio character, airing on CBS and NBC 1957–1960 in 77 episodes.
Richard Diebenkorn
Richard Diebenkorn (1922–1993), American California painter of the Bay Area Figurative Movement and Ocean Park abstract series; BA Stanford, MA New Mexico; also known as Richard Clifford Diebenkorn Jr.; alternated abstraction and figuration from 1955 to 1988.
Richard Dimbleby
Richard Dimbleby (1913–1965), BBC's first news observer and first war correspondent, reported Belsen in 1945, commentated the 1953 Coronation for 20 million viewers, anchored Panorama, and inspired the Richard Dimbleby Lecture.
Richard Dixon (plant biochemist)
Richard A. Dixon is a plant biochemist, elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2007 and the Royal Society in 2018, known for lignin biosynthesis and metabolic engineering.
Richard Dixon Oldham
Richard Dixon Oldham (1858–1936) was a British geologist who identified P, S, and surface waves and used earthquake travel times to demonstrate in 1906 that Earth has a central core.
Richard Dodds
Richard Dodds (Richard David Allan Dodds, born 1959, York) is an English field hockey midfielder, Southgate club player, 79 England and 65 GB caps, who captained Great Britain to 1988 Seoul Olympic gold after 1984 bronze, and later became a surgeon.
Richard Doell
Richard Doell (1923–2008) was an American geophysicist and paleomagnetist who, with Allan Cox and G. Brent Dalrymple, proved Earth's magnetic field has reversed polarity and dated those reversals over the last four million years.
Richard Doll
Richard Doll (1912–2005) was a British physician and epidemiologist at Oxford who showed in 1950 that smoking causes lung cancer, and also established asbestos and radiation as cancer hazards.
Richard Donner
Richard Donner (Richard Donald Schwartzberg, 1930–2021), American director of The Omen, Superman (1978), The Goonies, and the four Lethal Weapon films; fired from Superman II, later honored by the 2006 Donner Cut.
Richard Dormer
Richard Dormer (born 1969, Portadown, Northern Ireland) is an RADA-trained actor and playwright known for Beric Dondarrion in Game of Thrones, Sheriff Dan Anderssen in Fortitude, Terri Hooley in Good Vibrations, and IFTA-winning Gerry Cliff in Blue Lights.
Richard Dragon
Richard Dragon (Richard Drakunovski) is a DC Comics martial artist created by Dennis O'Neil and Jim Berry in the 1974 novel Dragon's Fists, adapted into the 1975-1977 comic Richard Dragon, Kung-Fu Fighter; mentor to the Question, Huntress, and Bruce Wayne, later replaced by the villain Ricardo Diaz.
Richard Dreyfuss
Richard Dreyfuss, American actor born 1947 in Brooklyn, star of Jaws, Close Encounters, American Graffiti; won the 1978 Best Actor Oscar for The Goodbye Girl as its youngest male recipient.
Richard Dronskowski
Richard Dronskowski is a German inorganic and materials chemist, born in 1961, who holds the Chair of Solid-State and Quantum Chemistry at RWTH Aachen University.
Richard Duckett
Richard Louis Duckett (1885-1972), Canadian lacrosse player and coroner; won 1908 Olympic gold with Canada (14-10 over Great Britain), played one season with the inaugural 1909-10 Montreal Canadiens, later Montreal coroner.