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Richard K. Lubin

Richard K. Lubin is a private equity investor who co-founded Boston's Berkshire Partners in 1986, now a Senior Advisor, after a partnership at the Thomas H. Lee Company.

Richard K. Morgan (born 1965) is a British science fiction and fantasy author, creator of the Takeshi Kovacs trilogy starting with Altered Carbon (2002), winner of the Philip K. Dick, Campbell, and Arthur C. Clarke Awards, adapted as a Netflix series.

Richard Kadison

Richard Kadison (1925–2018) was an American mathematician who spent most of his career at the University of Pennsylvania, worked in operator algebras, and posed the Kadison–Singer problem, solved in 2013.

Richard Karn

Richard Karn (Richard Karn Wilson, born 1956, Seattle) is an American actor and host, famous as Al Borland on ABC's Home Improvement (1991–1999) and as host of Family Feud (2002–06) and Bingo America, later reuniting with Tim Allen on Assembly Required and More Power.

Richard Kefford

Richard Frederick Kefford is an Australian medical oncologist and clinician-scientist known for melanoma genetics and helping bring targeted melanoma drug therapies into clinical use, including the first-time-in-human dabrafenib trial.

Richard Keith (actor)

Richard Keith is the stage name of Keith Thibodeaux (born 1950), American actor and drummer, the last surviving I Love Lucy cast member as Little Ricky, later of The Andy Griffith Show, the band David and the Giants, and Ballet Magnificat.

Oct 10, 2026

Richard Keith Ellis

Richard Keith Ellis is a British theoretical particle physicist whose calculations helped establish quantum chromodynamics as the theory of the strong interaction; he led Fermilab's Theory Department before joining Durham University.

Richard Keogh

Richard Keogh (born 1986, Harlow) is an Irish former centre-back, 26 Ireland caps, 356 Derby County games as captain, sacked 2019 after a car crash, later MK Dons, Huddersfield, Blackpool; now Walsall assistant coach.

Richard Kerby

Richard Kerby is an American venture capital investor who co-founded the New York City seed-stage firm Equal Ventures in 2019 and later founded Field Ventures.

Richard Keys

Richard Keys, English sports presenter born 1957 in Coventry, anchored Sky Sports' Super Sunday and Monday Night Football from 1992, resigned in the 2011 Sian Massey sexism row, and later presented the Keys and Gray show on beIN Sports in Doha.

Richard Kiel

Richard Kiel (1939-2014), American actor, 7 ft 2 in due to acromegaly, played steel-toothed Jaws in The Spy Who Loved Me (1977) and Moonraker (1979), the only Bond henchman in two films; also Eegah, The Longest Yard, Pale Rider, Happy Gilmore.

Richard Kiley

Richard Paul Kiley (1922-1999), American stage, television, and film actor and baritone singer; two-time Tony winner, best known as the original Don Quixote in Man of La Mancha and the first to sing The Impossible Dream, also an Emmy-winning TV actor and documentary narrator.

Richard Kind

Richard Kind (born 1956) is an American character actor known for Mad About You, Spin City, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Bing Bong in Inside Out, and A Serious Man; Northwestern graduate and Second City-trained, with over 300 screen credits.

Richard Kinder

Richard Kinder, known as Rich Kinder, is an American energy executive who co-founded Kinder Morgan in 1997, owns roughly 11 percent of it, and takes a $1 annual salary.

Oct 21, 2026

Richard Klatt

Richard Klatt is an American former swimmer who won gold and set a world record in the 4 × 200-meter freestyle relay at the 1973 World Championships.

Richard Klein (paleoanthropologist)

Richard G. Klein is a Stanford paleoanthropologist and zooarchaeologist known for analyzing animal bones from South African Stone Age sites and for arguing that modern humans spread from Africa about 50,000 years ago.

Richard Kleindienst

Richard Gordon Kleindienst (1923–2000), Arizona lawyer and Republican, 68th U.S. Attorney General under Nixon (1972–1973); resigned in the Watergate scandal and in 1974 pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor for false confirmation-hearing testimony about the ITT antitrust case.

Richard Kline

Richard Kline (born Richard Klein, 1944) is an American actor and director known as Larry Dallas on Three's Company (1977-84, 131 episodes) and both spin-offs, plus Broadway work and Blue Bloods.

Richard Koch

Richard Koch (1921–2011) was an American pediatric medical geneticist known as "Dr. PKU" who lobbied for mandatory PKU newborn screening and led the Maternal Phenylketonuria Collaborative Study.

Sep 20, 2026

Richard Kolesnick

Richard N. Kolesnick is a physician-scientist and molecular pharmacologist at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center whose laboratory discovered the sphingomyelin/ceramide signaling pathway, a stress response triggering cell death.

Richard Kone

Richard Kone (Koné), Ivorian striker; 2019 Homeless World Cup entrant, Athletic Newham non-league graduate, Wycombe's 2024/25 League One Player of the Season (18 goals), signed by QPR in August 2025 for a reported €3.2 million.

Richard Koon

Richard Nagbe Koon (born 1970, Monrovia) is a Liberian Unity Party politician, representative of Montserrado District 11 and Speaker of the House of Representatives since 21 November 2024, re-elected 13 May 2025 after a Supreme Court ruling voided his first election.

Richard Krajicek

Richard Krajicek, Dutch tennis player born 1971 in Rotterdam, won the 1996 Wimbledon title by beating Pete Sampras and MaliVai Washington, the first Dutch Grand Slam champion, later ABN AMRO tournament director.

Richard Krämer

Richard Krämer, also known as Richard H. Kramer, is a cellular and molecular neuroscientist and professor at UC Berkeley known for inventing photoswitches, light-sensitive molecules that control ion channels.

Richard Kramlich

Richard Kramlich, known as Dick Kramlich (1935–2025), was an American venture capitalist who co-founded New Enterprise Associates in 1977 and was an early investor in Apple Computer.

Richard Kraus

Richard Gordon Kraus is an American experimental high-pressure physicist at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory who studies matter at terapascal pressures and won a 2017 PECASE award.

Richard Kruspe

Richard Kruspe (born Zven Kruspe, 1967, Wittenberge) is Rammstein's lead guitarist and founder, and the singer-guitarist of the English-language side project Emigrate, with four albums since 2007.

Richard Kuhn

Richard Kuhn was an Austrian-born German biochemist who won the 1938 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for work on carotenoids and vitamins, and directed the Kaiser-Wilhelm-Institut in Heidelberg.

Richard Kuklinski

Richard Kuklinski, "The Iceman" (1935–2006), New Jersey murderer convicted of five killings plus a police detective's murder, sentenced to consecutive life terms; his claims of 100+ Mafia hits were widely disputed. Not the Polish spy Ryszard Kukliński.