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Richard Layfield
Richard A. Layfield is a British inorganic chemist and Professor of Inorganic Chemistry at the University of Sussex, known for lanthanide and uranium single-molecule magnetism.
Richard Laymon
Richard Laymon (1947-2001), American horror novelist also published as Carl Laymon and Richard Kelly, author of The Cellar and the Beast House Chronicles, president of the Horror Writers Association, posthumous Bram Stoker winner.
Richard le Grant
Richard le Grant, also called Richard le Grand or Richard Magnus, was the 45th Archbishop of Canterbury from 1229 to 1231, provided by Pope Gregory IX after the monks' election was quashed.
Richard Leach Maddox
Richard Leach Maddox (1816–1902) was an English physician and amateur photographer who invented the first practicable gelatin dry plate in 1871, freeing photography from wet collodion.
Richard Leakey
Richard Leakey (1944-2022), Kenyan paleoanthropologist, son of Louis and Mary Leakey; led Koobi Fora expeditions that found Turkana Boy (KNM-WT 15000), headed Kenya Wildlife Service, burned 12 tons of ivory, and served in Kenyan politics.
Richard Lee McNair
Richard Lee McNair (born 1958) is an American murderer and repeat prison escapee who broke out three times (1988, 1992, 2006), once by mailing himself out of USP Pollock in a mailbag pallet, and was recaptured in Canada in 2007.
Richard Lee Tabler
Richard Lee Tabler (1979-2025), Texas death row inmate executed February 13, 2025 for the 2004 Killeen murders of Mohamed-Amine Rahmouni and Haitham Zayed; also confessed to killing Tiffany Dotson and Amanda Benefield; triggered 2008 prison lockdown via smuggled cell phone.
Richard Leibler
Richard A. Leibler (1914–2003) was an American mathematician and cryptanalyst who spent most of his career at the NSA and co-authored the 1951 paper introducing the Kullback–Leibler divergence.
Richard Leman
Richard Leman (Richard Alexander Leman, born 1959, East Grinstead) is an English field hockey forward, East Grinstead HC, Olympic bronze 1984 and gold 1988 with Great Britain, England/GB captain 1988-1990, record 228 caps, OBE 2018.
Richard Leo Wahl
Richard Leo Wahl is an American nuclear medicine physician-scientist at Washington University known for developing the PERCIST criteria for measuring cancer treatment response on PET scans.
Richard Lester
Richard Lester (Richard Lester Liebman, born 1932, Philadelphia), US-born British-based film director of the Beatles films A Hard Day's Night (1964) and Help! (1965), also The Three Musketeers, Petulia, and Superman II and III; retired 1991.
Richard Lewis (comedian)
Richard Lewis (1947–2024), American stand-up comedian and actor nicknamed the Prince of Pain, star of Anything But Love and Larry David's foil on Curb Your Enthusiasm; specials I'm in Pain, I'm Exhausted, I'm Doomed.
Richard Lewontin
Richard Charles Lewontin (1929–2021) was an American evolutionary biologist who helped found molecular population genetics, showed most human genetic variation lies within populations, and became a prominent critic of genetic determinism.
Richard Li
Richard Li, also known as Li Tzar-kai, is a Hong Kong businessman, the younger son of tycoon Li Ka-shing, who founded Star TV and FWD Group and chairs PCCW.
Richard Libertini
Richard Libertini (1933–2016), American character actor from Cambridge, Massachusetts, Second City alumnus known for accents; played General Garcia in The In-Laws, Frank Walker in Fletch, and voiced Dijon in DuckTales.
Richard Ligon
Richard Ligon (c. 1585–1662) was an English royalist and writer whose 1657 book on Barbados became a principal source on its sugar economy and plantation slavery.
Richard Lilford
Richard J. Lilford is a British professor of public health at the University of Birmingham who began in obstetrics and led the 2016 Lancet slum health series.
Richard Lim (林仁俊)
Richard Lim (林仁俊) is a venture capitalist who co-founded GSR Ventures in 2004, making first-check investments in Qunar and DiDi, and founded Informed Ventures around 2025.
Richard Lindzen
Richard Lindzen is an American dynamical meteorologist, MIT's Alfred P. Sloan Professor of Meteorology from 1983 until 2013, known for his low satellite-based estimates of climate sensitivity.
Richard Linklater
Richard Linklater, Austin, Texas-based American director of Slacker, Dazed and Confused, the Before trilogy, School of Rock, and the 12-year Boyhood, known for experiments with cinematic time.
Richard Linn
Richard Linn, born in 1944, is an American jurist serving as a senior judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit since 2012.
Richard Liu (Liu Qin)
Richard Liu, born Liu Qin, is a Chinese venture capitalist who co-founded 5Y Capital in 2007 and is best known as Xiaomi's first institutional investor.
Richard Long (actor)
Richard McCord Long (1927–1974), American actor known as Dick Long; star of ABC's The Big Valley, Nanny and the Professor, Bourbon Street Beat, and 77 Sunset Strip, with film roles from The Egg and I to House on Haunted Hill.
Richard Lorne Ehman
Richard Lorne Ehman is a Canadian-born American radiologist at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, best known as the inventor of magnetic resonance elastography and a 2010 member of the National Academy of Medicine.
Richard Losick
Richard Losick is a Harvard molecular biologist who spent more than five decades studying Bacillus subtilis, discovering how sigma factors direct spore formation and how biofilms divide labor.
Richard Lovelace
Richard Lovelace (1617 or 1618–1657) was an English poet and army officer, the archetypal cavalier poet, remembered for 'To Lucasta, going to the Wars' and 'To Althea, from Prison'.
Richard Lugar
Richard Lugar (1932-2019), Republican mayor of Indianapolis (1968-1975) and six-term U.S. Senator from Indiana (1977-2013), co-authored the 1991 Nunn-Lugar Cooperative Threat Reduction Program and was defeated in the 2012 GOP primary by Richard Mourdock.
Richard Lumsden
Richard James Lumsden, born 1965 in Lancashire, is an English actor, writer, and composer known for roles in Sense and Sensibility (1995), Darkest Hour (2017), and Sugar Rush.
Richard Lunt
Richard R. Lunt is an American chemical engineer at Michigan State University known for inventing transparent solar cells and co-founding Ubiquitous Energy to commercialize them.
Richard Lynch
Richard Hugh Lynch (1940–2012, some sources 1936) was an American character actor famous for villain roles in horror and sci-fi films like The Sword and the Sorcerer, Invasion U.S.A., and Halloween, scarred by a 1967 LSD-related fire.