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Richard Duffin

Richard Duffin was an American mathematician at Carnegie Mellon University known for the Duffin–Schaeffer conjecture, geometric programming, and network theory, and winner of the 1982 John von Neumann Theory Prize.

Richard Dunne

Richard Dunne, Irish centre-back (born 1979, Dublin), played for Everton, Manchester City, Aston Villa, QPR; 80 Ireland caps; holds Premier League records for most own goals (10) and most red cards (8, shared).

Richard Durand

Richard Durand, born Richard van Schooneveld in 1976, is a Dutch trance DJ and producer known for remixing Tiësto and the In Search of Sunrise series.

Richard Durbin (geneticist)

Richard Durbin, born 1960, is a British computational genomics researcher, Al Kindi Professor of Genetics at Cambridge, who jointly led the 1000 Genomes Project and developed bwa.

Richard Dysart

Richard Dysart (1929–2015), American character actor; Emmy-winning Leland McKenzie on L.A. Law (1986–94, 171 episodes), Drama Desk-winning Coach in That Championship Season, founding member of American Conservatory Theater.

Richard E. Balzhiser

Richard E. Balzhiser (1932–2012) was an American chemical and nuclear energy engineer who led the Electric Power Research Institute as president and CEO from 1988 to 1996.

Richard E. Behrman

Richard E. Behrman was an American pediatrician and neonatologist who earned the first US board certification in neonatology and edited the Nelson Textbook of Pediatrics.

Richard E. Byrd

Richard Evelyn Byrd Jr., known as Admiral Byrd, was an American naval aviator and polar explorer who claimed the first flights over both poles and led five Antarctic expeditions.

Richard E. Champlin

Richard E. Champlin is an American hematologist and stem cell transplantation pioneer who chaired MD Anderson's Department of Stem Cell Transplantation and Cellular Therapy from 1998 to 2020.

Richard E. Dickerson

Richard E. Dickerson (1931–2025) was an American X-ray crystallographer who computed the myoglobin Fourier map in Kendrew's laboratory and solved the first single-crystal structure of B-DNA at Caltech in 1980.

Richard E. Emmert

Richard E. Emmert is an American chemical engineer who retired from DuPont as Vice President-Electronics and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1985.

Richard E. Goodman

Richard E. Goodman (1935–2025) was a geological engineer and UC Berkeley professor who built its geological engineering program and joined the National Academy of Engineering in 1991.

Richard E. Grant

Richard E. Grant (Richard Grant Esterhuysen, born 1957, Mbabane, Eswatini) is a Swazi-born British actor, writer, and director known for Withnail and I, Bram Stoker's Dracula, Gosford Park, and his Oscar-nominated role in Can You Ever Forgive Me?.

Richard E. Green

Richard E. Green is a professor of biomolecular engineering at UC Santa Cruz who led sequencing the Neanderthal genome and founded the genomics company Dovetail Genomics.

Richard E. Kerber

Richard E. Kerber (1939–2016) was an American cardiologist at the University of Iowa for 45 years whose defibrillation research shaped the AHA's CPR guidelines and public access defibrillation.

Richard E. Korf

Richard E. Korf is an American computer scientist and UCLA professor emeritus whose 1985 IDA algorithm enabled memory-efficient heuristic search, yielding the first optimal Rubik's Cube solutions.

Richard E. Kuntz

Richard E. Kuntz is an American interventional cardiologist known for large coronary stenting trials, who founded the Harvard Clinical Research Institute and spent 15 years at Medtronic.

Richard E. Ladner

Richard E. Ladner is an American computer scientist and professor emeritus at the University of Washington, known for Ladner's 1975 theorem and for co-founding AccessComputing.

Richard E. Lenski

Richard E. Lenski is an American evolutionary biologist and professor at Michigan State University, best known for the Long-Term Evolution Experiment, in which E. coli populations have evolved since 1988.

Richard E. Myers II

Richard E. Myers II, also known as Richard Ernest Myers, II, is an American jurist serving as a district judge in the Eastern District of North Carolina since 2019.

Richard E. N. Federico

Richard Edward Neel Federico is an American jurist serving as a judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit since 2023, appointed by President Biden.

Richard E. Nisbett

Richard E. Nisbett is an American social psychologist at the University of Michigan known for research on cultural differences in reasoning and on teaching statistical reasoning.

Richard E. P. Winpenny

Richard E. P. Winpenny (Richard Eric Parry Winpenny) is a British inorganic chemist, Professor at the University of Manchester since 2000, known for polymetallic cage complexes and molecular qubits.

Richard E. Pagano

Richard E. Pagano is a cell biologist known for using fluorescent lipid analogs to trace lipid movement in living cells, at the Carnegie Institution and later Mayo Clinic.

Richard E. Palmer

Richard E. Palmer is a British nanoscale physicist and materials scientist, head of the Nanomaterials Lab at Swansea University and professor at Nanjing University, known for size-selected atomic clusters and nanocatalysis.

Richard E. Stearns

Richard Edwin Stearns (1936–2026) was an American computer scientist who, with Juris Hartmanis, founded computational complexity theory in their 1965 paper, work recognized by the 1993 Turing Award.

Richard E. Taylor

Richard E. Taylor (1929–2018) was a Canadian experimental particle physicist at Stanford University and SLAC who shared the 1990 Nobel Prize in Physics with Jerome Friedman and Henry Kendall.

Richard E. Zeebe

Richard E. Zeebe is a professor of oceanography at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa who studies the carbon cycle and CO2 in Earth's climate.

Richard Eastell

Richard Eastell, born 1953, is a British physician-scientist and Professor of Bone Metabolism at the University of Sheffield, known for osteoporosis research, bone turnover markers, and major drug trials.

Richard Easterlin

Richard Easterlin (1926–2024) was an American economist and demographer at the University of Southern California whose 1974 paper founded happiness economics and gave name to the Easterlin paradox.