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Richard J. Sullivan
Richard J. Sullivan, born 1964, is an American jurist serving as a United States circuit judge on the Second Circuit since 2018, appointed by President Trump.
Richard J. Ulevitch
Richard J. Ulevitch is an American immunologist who spent more than 50 years at Scripps Research, where he discovered lipopolysaccharide binding protein and helped define Toll-like receptor signaling.
Richard J. Walker
Richard J. Walker is an American isotope geochemist and cosmochemist at the University of Maryland, known for isotopic studies of siderophile elements such as osmium and tungsten, elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2022.
Richard J. Warburton
Richard J. Warburton is a professor of physics at the University of Basel who leads its Nano-Photonics Group, developing quantum dots and spin-photon interfaces for quantum information.
Richard J. Webby
Richard J. Webby, also known as Richard Webby, is a New Zealand-born virologist at St. Jude in Memphis who studies how influenza viruses move from animals into humans.
Richard J. Whitley
Richard J. Whitley is an American pediatric infectious-disease physician-scientist at the University of Alabama at Birmingham whose clinical trials established modern antiviral treatment of herpes simplex encephalitis and neonatal herpes.
Richard J. Wurtman
Richard Jay Wurtman (1936–2022) was an American physician and neuroscientist who spent decades at MIT studying melatonin, nutrition and the brain, and developed Souvenaid for early Alzheimer's disease.
Richard J. Youle
Richard J. Youle is an NIH Distinguished Investigator at NINDS in Bethesda, Maryland, known for discovering the PINK1/Parkin mitophagy pathway and winning the 2021 Breakthrough Prize.
Richard J.H. Smith M.D.
Richard J.H. Smith, M.D., is an American physician-scientist in otolaryngology and genetics at the University of Iowa, known for work on hereditary hearing loss and complement-mediated kidney disease.
Richard Jaeckel
Richard Hanley Jaeckel (1926–1997), American character actor of war films and westerns; Oscar-nominated for Sometimes a Great Notion; played Sgt. Bowren in The Dirty Dozen and Lt. Ben Edwards on Baywatch.
Richard Jed Wyatt
Richard Jed Wyatt (1937 or 1939 – 2002) was an American biological psychiatrist who spent his career at NIMH and championed a biological basis for schizophrenia.
Richard Jefferson
Richard Jefferson, born 1980, is a retired NBA forward (2001-2018) who played for eight teams including the Nets and Cavaliers, won the 2016 NBA title, and is now an ESPN lead game analyst.
Richard Jeni
Richard Jeni (Richard John Colangelo, 1957-2007), American stand-up comedian and actor from Brooklyn; Showtime and HBO specials including Platypus Man, CableACE winner, The Mask co-star, died by suicide in 2007.
Richard Jenkins
Richard Jenkins (born 1947, DeKalb, Illinois) is an American character actor, Trinity Rep artistic director 1990-1994, Six Feet Under's Nathaniel Fisher, Oscar-nominated for The Visitor and The Shape of Water, Emmy winner for Olive Kitteridge.
Richard Jewell
Richard Jewell (born Richard White, 1962-2007), American security guard who found the 1996 Centennial Olympic Park bomb, was wrongly named an FBI suspect, cleared October 1996; real bomber Eric Rudolph; 2019 Eastwood film.
Richard Jewell (film)
Richard Jewell (2019) is Clint Eastwood's biographical drama, written by Billy Ray, about the security guard falsely suspected in the 1996 Atlanta Olympics bombing, starring Paul Walter Hauser, Sam Rockwell, Kathy Bates, Olivia Wilde, and Jon Hamm; it drew controversy over its portrayal of reporter Kathy Scruggs.
Richard Joel Russell
Richard Joel Russell (1895–1971) was an American geomorphologist and climatologist who spent his career at Louisiana State University and was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1959.
Richard Johnson (actor)
Richard Keith Johnson (1927–2015), English stage and screen actor, RSC founding associate artist, star of The Haunting and Khartoum, who declined James Bond in Dr. No; not the American character actors of the same name.
Richard Jones
Richard Jones refers to several athletes: a Guyanese 400 m 1996 Olympian (PB 45.65), New Zealand weightlifter Richard Hugh Jones (1956 Olympics), US and Trinidadian runners, an American bodybuilder, and an ABA/NBA forward.
Richard Jones (The Feeling)
Richard Jones, The Feeling bassist, English founding member of the British pop rock band The Feeling (met Dan Sells at BRIT School 1995); also Sophie Ellis-Bextor's husband and bassist; distinct from Stereophonics' Richard Jones.
Richard Jordan
Richard Jordan (Robert Anson Jordan Jr., 1937-1993), American Harvard-educated stage and screen actor; Golden Globe winner for Captains and Kings, played Duncan Idaho in Dune and Armistead in Gettysburg; distinct from namesakes Robert Jordan and Michael B. Jordan.
Richard Jordan Gatling
Richard Jordan Gatling (1818–1903) was an American inventor from Hertford County, North Carolina, who held 43 patents and created the hand-cranked multi-barrel Gatling gun, patented in 1862.
Richard Joseph Jackson
Richard Joseph Jackson is an American pediatrician and epidemiologist at UCLA who led the CDC's environmental health center and linked community design to chronic disease.
Richard Joshua Reynolds
Richard Joshua Reynolds (1850–1918) was an American tobacco manufacturer who founded the R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Company in Winston, North Carolina, in 1875 and introduced Camel cigarettes.
Richard Jozsa
Richard Jozsa, born in Melbourne, is an Australian mathematical physicist and Emeritus Leigh Trapnell Professor at Cambridge, known for the Deutsch–Jozsa algorithm, quantum teleportation, and quantum information theory.
Richard K. Assoian
Richard K. Assoian is an American cell biologist at the University of Pennsylvania known for work on peptide growth factors and adhesion-dependent cell cycle control, including matrix stiffness in arterial aging.
Richard K. Bruick
Richard K. Bruick is a biochemist and Professor of Biochemistry at UT Southwestern Medical Center whose 2001 discovery of the HIF prolyl hydroxylases underpinned the 2019 Nobel Prize-honored oxygen-sensing pathway.
Richard K. Burt
Richard K. Burt is an American physician-scientist who built and led Northwestern University's stem-cell transplantation program for autoimmune diseases, then retired and now practices hematology in La Jolla, California.
Richard K. Eaton
Richard K. Eaton (born 1948) is an American jurist serving as a senior judge of the United States Court of International Trade since 2014, appointed by President Bill Clinton in 1999.
Richard K. Gershon
Richard K. Gershon (1932–1983) was an American immunologist at the Yale School of Medicine who discovered suppressor T cells, thymus-derived lymphocytes that restrain immune responses. He was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1980.