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Richard Gadd
Richard Gadd (born 1989, Wormit, Fife, Scotland) is a Scottish writer, actor, and comedian, creator and star of Netflix's Baby Reindeer (2024), winner of three Primetime Emmys, and of the 2026 BBC/HBO Max series Half Man with Jamie Bell.
Richard Garfield
Richard Channing Garfield (born 1963), American mathematician and game designer, creator of Magic: The Gathering, Netrunner, RoboRally, King of Tokyo, and KeyForge; Ph.D. in combinatorial mathematics.
Richard Garriott
Richard Garriott, aka Lord British (born 1961), American game designer, creator of Ultima, Ultima Online, Akalabeth, Origin Systems, Tabula Rasa, and Shroud of the Avatar; 2008 space tourist now reclaiming Ultima rights from EA.
Richard Garwin
Richard Garwin was an American physicist who designed the first hydrogen bomb in 1951, spent four decades at IBM, and advised US presidents on nuclear policy.
Richard Gasquet
Richard Gasquet, French tennis player (born 1985), one-handed backhand specialist; youngest ATP match winner (2002 Monte Carlo, age 15), 16 titles, career-high No. 7, 609 wins, retired at Roland Garros 2025.
Richard Gaster, MD, PhD
Richard Gaster, MD, PhD, is a physician and Managing Partner at venBio, a San Francisco Bay Area biotech venture firm, after Stanford MD-PhD training, Harvard surgical residency, and Third Rock Ventures.
Richard Gentry (Florida politician)
Richard Gentry is an American politician and Republican member of the Florida House of Representatives from the 27th district, who worked on housing, growth, and utility policy before entering the legislature.
Richard Gere
Richard Gere (Richard Tiffany Gere, born 1949, Philadelphia) is an American actor and Tibetan Buddhist activist, star of American Gigolo, An Officer and a Gentleman, Pretty Woman, and Chicago, with a Golden Globe and no Oscar nomination.
Richard Gibson
Richard Gibson (born 1954, Kampala, Uganda) is the British actor who played Gestapo officer Herr Otto Flick in BBC sitcom 'Allo 'Allo! (1982–1992, series 1–8), later a voice artist and podcaster; distinct from other people named Richard Gibson.
Richard Giegé
Richard Giegé is a French biochemist who spent his career at CNRS in Strasbourg, known for the crystal structure of yeast tRNA and for tRNA identity elements.
Richard Gilbertson
Richard J. Gilbertson is a British cancer biologist and pediatric oncologist, Li Ka Shing Chair of Oncology at Cambridge, known for showing medulloblastoma comprises distinct molecular subtypes.
Richard Gilliland
Richard Gilliland (1950-2021), American character actor from Fort Worth, Texas; played J.D. Shackelford on Designing Women, where he met wife Jean Smart; also Operation Petticoat, The Waltons, Just Our Luck.
Richard Girnt Butler
Richard Girnt Butler (1918–2004) was an American white supremacist and Christian Identity minister who took over the Church of Jesus Christ Christian and built it into the Aryan Nations at Hayden Lake, Idaho.
Richard Glazebrook
Sir Richard Tetley Glazebrook (1854–1935) was a British physicist who made a definitive redetermination of the ohm and served as the first Director of the National Physical Laboratory.
Richard Glossip
Richard Glossip, Oklahoma death row prisoner twice convicted of arranging the 1997 murder-for-hire killing of motel owner Barry Van Treese on Justin Sneed's testimony; conviction overturned by the Supreme Court in Glossip v. Oklahoma (2025), released on bail May 2026, retrial pending.
Richard Goldschmidt
Richard Benedict Goldschmidt (1878–1958) was a German-born American geneticist who worked on sex determination, proposed the "hopeful monster" concept, and dissented from classical gene theory.
Richard Gomez
Richard Gomez (Richard Frank Icasiano Gomez, born 1966, Manila) is a Filipino actor, épée fencer, and politician, Leyte 4th district representative since 2022 and former Ormoc City mayor, known for Hihintayin Kita sa Langit and The Janitor.
Richard Gorlin
Richard Gorlin was an American cardiologist who devised the Gorlin formula, still the standard for measuring stenotic heart valves, and chaired medicine at Mount Sinai from 1974 to 1992.
Richard Greene
Richard Greene (Richard Marius Joseph Greene, 1918-1985), English actor born in Plymouth, star of 143 episodes of The Adventures of Robin Hood (ITV 1955-59) and over 40 films including The Hound of the Baskervilles; 27th Lancers officer in World War II.
Richard Gregory
Richard Langton Gregory (1923–2010) was a British psychologist who studied visual perception, argued that perceptions are hypotheses, wrote Eye and Brain, and founded the journal Perception.
Richard Gregson
Richard Gregson (1930–2019), British talent agent, film producer, and screenwriter; Oscar-nominated co-writer of The Angry Silence, producer of Downhill Racer, and second husband of Natalie Wood, father of Natasha Gregson Wagner.
Richard Greil
Richard Greil (born 1957 in Salzburg) is an Austrian oncologist and hematologist, professor emeritus at Paracelsus Medical University Salzburg, best known for the KEYNOTE-048 immunotherapy trial.
Richard Grenell
Richard (Ric) Grenell: American diplomat, longest-serving US spokesman at the UN (2001-2008); Trump's ambassador to Germany 2018-2020, acting Director of National Intelligence 2020, Serbia-Kosovo envoy, special missions envoy, and Kennedy Center president 2025-2026.
Richard Grenville
Sir Richard Grenville (1542–1591) was an English naval commander and explorer who led the first English colonists to Roanoke Island in 1585 and died fighting a Spanish fleet.
Richard Grey
Richard Grey: name shared by several medieval Englishmen in the enrolled chancery rolls, 1221 to 1506, chiefly Richard de Grey of Codnor (d. by 1271), the fourth Baron Grey of Codnor (d. 1418/19), and Sir Richard Grey (d. 1483).
Richard Grieco
Richard Grieco (born 1965, Watertown, New York) is an American actor known as Officer Dennis Booker on 21 Jump Street and its spin-off Booker, later an indie film actor, director, and musician.
Richard Griffiths
Richard Thomas Griffiths (1947–2013) was an English actor of stage, film, and television, known for Hector in The History Boys (Tony and Olivier Awards), Uncle Monty in Withnail & I, and Vernon Dursley in five Harry Potter films.
Richard Gutierrez
Richard Gutierrez (Richard Kristian Rama Gutierrez), born 1984 in Los Angeles, is a Filipino-American actor and son of Eddie Gutierrez and Annabelle Rama; GMA fantasy-era star of Mulawin and Captain Barbell, later ABS-CBN action leads The Iron Heart, Incognito, and Blood vs Duty.
Richard Guyon
Richard Guyon (Guyon Richárd, 1813–1856) was an English-born Hungarian honvéd general in the 1848–49 War of Independence, later a lieutenant general in the Ottoman army.
Richard H. Aster
Richard H. Aster (1930–2026) was an American hematologist who led the Milwaukee Blood Center for decades, published about 400 papers on platelet immunology, and won the Wallace H. Coulter Award.