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Richard Harris (anaesthetist)
Richard 'Harry' Harris SC OAM is an Adelaide anaesthetist and cave diver who sedated and medically cleared the 12 boys rescued from Thailand's Tham Luang cave in 2018, then became joint 2019 Australian of the Year and Lieutenant Governor of South Australia.
Richard Harrow
Richard Harrow is the disfigured World War I sniper and hitman of HBO's Boardwalk Empire, played by Jack Huston, half his face hidden by a tin mask; introduced in season 1, promoted to series regular, killed in the season 4 finale.
Richard Hatch (actor)
Richard Hatch (1945-2017), American actor; Captain Apollo in original Battlestar Galactica (1978-79) and Tom Zarek in the Syfy reboot (2004-2009); also All My Children and The Streets of San Francisco.
Richard Hatch (Survivor contestant)
Richard Holman Hatch Jr. (born 1961) is the winner of Survivor: Borneo, the first US Survivor season, known for inventing the voting-alliance strategy and for a 51-month tax evasion sentence over his $1,000,000 prize.
Richard Hauptmann
Bruno Richard Hauptmann, German carpenter in the Bronx, convicted 1935 and executed 1936 for the Lindbergh baby kidnap-murder; evidence included ransom money, handwriting, and ladder wood, with guilt still debated.
Richard Hawley
Richard Hawley, English singer-songwriter and guitarist born 1967 in Sheffield; ex-Longpigs and Pulp touring guitarist; solo albums Coles Corner, Standing at the Sky's Edge; Olivier-winning musical.
Richard Haydn
Richard Haydn (George Richard Haydon, 1905-1985), British character actor noted for a nasal, pompous manner; played Max Detweiler in The Sound of Music, voiced the Caterpillar in Alice in Wonderland (1951), and appeared in Ball of Fire and Young Frankenstein.
Richard Hayes (statistical epidemiologist)
Richard Hayes, also known as Richard J Hayes, is a British statistical epidemiologist at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine known for HIV and tuberculosis trials in Africa.
Richard Hayes (Texas politician)
Richard Hayes is an American politician and Republican member of the Texas House of Representatives from District 57 in Denton County, elected in 2022 and a founding partner of a North Texas law firm.
Richard Held
Richard Held (1922–2016) was an American experimental psychologist and neuroscientist at MIT and Brandeis University whose 1963 kitten-carousel study showed that perception is built from self-produced movement.
Richard Hell
Richard Hell (Richard Meyers, born 1949) is a New York punk pioneer of Television and the Voidoids, creator of Blank Generation, and originator of the safety-pin punk look, later a novelist.
Richard Hell and the Voidoids
Richard Hell and the Voidoids, formed 1976 in New York by Richard Hell, Robert Quine, Ivan Julian, and Marc Bell, were a first-wave New York punk band. Albums Blank Generation (1977) and Destiny Street (1982); Hell's spiked hair and torn shirts shaped punk's image.
Richard Helms
Richard McGarrah Helms (1913–2002), American intelligence officer, Director of Central Intelligence 1966–1973 and US Ambassador to Iran 1973–1976; first career clandestine officer to lead the CIA, later convicted over Chile testimony.
Richard Henderson (structural biologist)
Richard Henderson, born 1945, is a Scottish structural biologist at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology who shared the 2017 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for cryo-electron microscopy.
Richard Henry Friend
Sir Richard Henry Friend is a British physicist at Cambridge who created the first polymer LEDs, founded plastic electronics, and won the 2010 Millennium Technology Prize.
Richard Henry Lee
Richard Henry Lee (1732–1794), Virginia statesman, introduced the June 7, 1776 independence resolution, signed the Declaration, presided over Congress in 1784, and served as US senator until 1792.
Richard Herd
Richard Herd (1932-2020), American character actor from Boston; played Mr. Wilhelm on Seinfeld, Supreme Commander John in V, Captain Sheridan on T.J. Hooker, and Admiral Owen Paris in Star Trek: Voyager.
Richard Hermer, Baron Hermer
Richard Hermer, Baron Hermer: British barrister, Labour life peer, and Attorney General for England and Wales from 5 July 2024 to 20 July 2026; former head of Matrix Chambers, silk 2009, Doughty Street alumnus.
Richard Herring
Richard Keith Herring (born 1967) is an English comedian, writer and podcaster, half of Lee and Herring (Fist of Fun), creator of RHLSTP, the Leicester Square Theatre Podcast, dubbed 'The Podfather', and a Taskmaster series 10 contestant. Not the actor Richard Riehle.
Richard Hertwig
Richard Hertwig (1850–1937) was a German zoologist and founder of experimental zoology who held the Munich zoology chair for forty years and studied sea urchin fertilization with his brother Oscar.
Richard Hesse
Richard Hesse (1868–1944) was a German zoologist, professor at Berlin, who demonstrated fibrils in visual cells later confirmed as microvilli and pioneered ecological zoogeography with his 1924 book.
Richard Heydarian
Richard Javad Foronda Heydarian, Manila-based political scientist and columnist on Asia-Pacific affairs, Philippine politics, and the South China Sea; author of The Rise of Duterte and The Indo-Pacific; weekly Philippine Daily Inquirer columnist.
Richard Hickock
Richard Eugene Hickock (1931-1965), American murderer who with Perry Smith killed the Clutter family in Holcomb, Kansas, on November 15, 1959; convicted 1960, hanged April 14, 1965; subject of Capote's In Cold Blood.
Richard Hilleary
Richard Hilleary is an American plant biologist at Duke University who studies long-distance calcium signaling and how heat stress weakens plant immunity, co-authoring the 2014 calcium-wave discovery.
Richard Ho
Richard Ho is a pediatric hematologist-oncologist and stem cell transplant physician at Vanderbilt University Medical Center who received a Presidential Early Career Award in 2013 for his drug transporter research.
Richard Hobbs (medical researcher)
Richard Hobbs, born 1953, is a British primary care and cardiovascular researcher, Mercian Professor at Oxford and formerly a Birmingham general practitioner, whose large trials changed international guidelines.
Richard Holbrooke
Richard Holbrooke (1941–2010), American diplomat and Obama's envoy to Afghanistan and Pakistan, brokered the 1995 Dayton Peace Accords ending the Bosnian war; served as assistant secretary, ambassador to Germany, and UN representative.
Richard Holden (Conservative politician)
Richard Holden is a British Conservative politician, MP for Basildon and Billericay since 2024 and Shadow Secretary of State for Transport, after serving as a government transport minister.
Richard Holloway
Richard Holloway (born 1933) is a Scottish writer, broadcaster, and retired Anglican bishop, Bishop of Edinburgh from the mid-1980s to 2000 and Primus of the Scottish Episcopal Church.
Richard Hong
Richard Hong (1929–2023) was an American pediatric immunologist at Wisconsin and Vermont known for thymus transplantation for immunodeficiency and early human bone marrow transplantation at Minnesota.