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Richard Edson
Richard Edson (born 1954, New Rochelle, New York) is an American actor and musician, Sonic Youth's original drummer 1981-82 and a Konk trumpet player, best known as Eddie in Stranger Than Paradise and Vito in Do the Right Thing.
Richard Egan (actor)
Richard Egan (1921-1987), sometimes credited Richard Eagan, American film and television leading man; starred in A Summer Place, Pollyanna, The 300 Spartans, Love Me Tender with Elvis Presley, and the TV Western Empire; died of cancer in 1987.
Richard Egan (businessman)
Richard Egan, known as Dick Egan, was an American engineer who co-founded EMC Corporation in 1979 and served as US Ambassador to Ireland from 2001 to 2003.
Richard Eisenberg
Richard Eisenberg is an American inorganic chemist at the University of Rochester known for metal complex photochemistry and noble-metal-free systems that generate hydrogen from water using sunlight.
Richard Elfman
Richard Elfman (born 1949, Los Angeles) is an American filmmaker and musician, older brother of composer Danny Elfman; founder of the Mystic Knights of the Oingo Boingo and director of the 1980 cult musical Forbidden Zone and later films including Shrunken Heads, Modern Vampires, and Bloody Bridget.
Richard Ellis (astronomer)
Richard S. Ellis is a British observational cosmologist, Professor of Astrophysics at University College London, known for high-redshift galaxies, weak gravitational lensing, and the discovery of the accelerating Universe.
Richard Ellis (pediatrician)
Richard White Bernard Ellis (1902–1966) was a British pediatrician and professor of child life and health at the University of Edinburgh, best known for co-describing Ellis–van Creveld syndrome in 1940.
Richard Elman (commodities trader)
Richard Elman is a British commodities trader who founded Noble Group in Hong Kong in 1986 and built it into Asia's biggest commodity trader before its 2018 collapse.
Richard Engel
Richard Engel (born 1973/1974, New York) is NBC News' chief foreign correspondent since 2008, known for covering the Iraq War from Baghdad, the Arab Spring, Syria, and Ukraine, and for his 2012 kidnapping in Syria.
Richard Epcar
Richard Epcar (born 1955) is an American voice actor and ADR director known as Batou in Ghost in the Shell, Raiden in Mortal Kombat, the Joker in Injustice, and Ansem in Kingdom Hearts.
Richard Epstein
Richard A. Epstein, American legal scholar; University of Chicago and NYU law professor, Hoover fellow; author of Takings (1985), Simple Rules for a Complex World (1995), and The Classical Liberal Constitution (2014), third most cited US legal scholar 2009-2013.
Richard Erdman
Richard Erdman (born John Richard Erdmann, 1925-2019), American character actor of more than 175 productions; barracks chief Hoffy in Stalag 17, Patrick McNulty in The Twilight Zone's "A Kind of a Stopwatch," and Leonard on Community. Not the sculptor or other namesakes.
Richard Erickson
Richard Erickson, known as Richie, is an American quantitative ecologist at the USGS Upper Midwest Environmental Sciences Center in La Crosse, Wisconsin, who received a 2025 PECASE award.
Richard Estes
Richard Estes (born 1932, Kewanee, Illinois) is an American painter considered a founding practitioner of Photorealism, known for meticulous, depopulated New York cityscapes rich in reflections.
Richard Evans Schultes
Richard Evans Schultes (1915–2001) was an American ethnobotanist at Harvard, considered the father of modern ethnobotany for over a decade of fieldwork in the Colombian Amazon.
Richard Evonitz
Richard Marc Evonitz (1963–2002) was an American serial killer who murdered three girls in Spotsylvania County, Virginia, in 1996–1997; identified in 2002 after Kara Robinson escaped his South Carolina abduction, he died by suicide and was never tried.
Richard F. Boulware II
Richard F. Boulware II, born 1968, is an American jurist serving as a United States district judge for the District of Nevada since 2014, appointed by President Barack Obama.
Richard F. Heck
Richard F. Heck was an American chemist at the University of Delaware who shared the 2010 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for palladium-catalyzed cross couplings in organic synthesis.
Richard F. Kay
Richard F. Kay is a paleoanthropologist and Professor Emeritus of Evolutionary Anthropology at Duke University, known for primate molar anatomy, dental microwear diet analysis, and South American primate evolution.
Richard F. Suhrheinrich
Richard F. Suhrheinrich is an American jurist and senior judge of the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals, appointed by President George H.W. Bush in 1990.
Richard F. Thompson
Richard F. Thompson (1930–2014) was an American behavioral neuroscientist at the University of Southern California who showed the cerebellum is essential for classical conditioning and was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1977.
Richard Fairbrass
Richard Fairbrass (born 1953) is a British singer and bassist, frontman of Right Said Fred with brother Fred; their 1991 debut single I'm Too Sexy hit number one in the US and about 30 countries.
Richard Farnsworth
Richard Farnsworth (1920-2000), American actor and stuntman from Los Angeles; over 300 films as a stunt double, then Oscar-nominated for Comes a Horseman (1978) and The Straight Story (1999), the oldest Best Actor nominee at the time.
Richard Faulds
Richard Faulds (born 1977, Guildford) is a British double trap shooter, MBE, who won Olympic gold at Sydney 2000 in a shoot-off with Russell Mark and competed at five Olympics from 1996 to 2012, later running Owls Lodge Shooting School.
Richard Feachem
Sir Richard Feachem, born in 1947, is a public health scientist who led the Global Fund from 2002 to 2007 and is a UCSF professor emeritus.
Richard Fenno
Richard Fenno (1926–2020) was an American political scientist at the University of Rochester who studied Congress closely and identified Fenno's Paradox, that voters distrust Congress but reelect their own representatives.
Richard Firtel
Richard A. Firtel is an American cell and developmental biologist, Distinguished Professor Emeritus at UC San Diego, known for using the social amoeba Dictyostelium to study how cells sense direction and move.
Richard Fishel
Richard Fishel is an American cancer biologist and professor at Ohio State University known for identifying the hMSH2 mismatch repair gene behind hereditary nonpolyposis colon cancer, now called Lynch syndrome.
Richard FitzHugh
Richard FitzHugh (1922–2007) was an American biophysicist at the National Institutes of Health who created the FitzHugh–Nagumo model, a two-variable simplification of the Hodgkin–Huxley nerve equations widely used in computational neuroscience.
Richard Flanagan
Richard Flanagan, born in Tasmania in 1961, is an Australian novelist who won the 2014 Booker Prize for The Narrow Road to the Deep North.