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Richard Madden
Richard Madden (born 1986) is a Scottish actor known as Robb Stark in Game of Thrones, Golden Globe winner for Bodyguard, John Reid in Rocketman, Ikaris in Eternals, and Mason Kane in Citadel.
Richard Madeley
Richard Madeley, English TV presenter, journalist and novelist, one half of 'Richard and Judy' with wife Judy Finnigan; hosted ITV's This Morning (1988-2001), Channel 4's Richard & Judy, and Good Morning Britain; known for Alan Partridge comparisons and novels like Father's Day.
Richard Manuel
Richard Manuel (1943–1986), Canadian singer, pianist, and songwriter of the Band; joined the Hawks in 1961, sang lead on Music from Big Pink, co-wrote "Tears of Rage" with Dylan, died in Winter Park, Florida, in 1986.
Richard Marais
Richard Marais is a British cancer biologist known for his work on the BRAF kinase in melanoma, and was Director of the Cancer Research UK Manchester Institute from 2012.
Richard March Hoe
Richard March Hoe (1812–1886) was an American inventor and press manufacturer of New York City who patented the type-revolving "lightning" rotary press in 1846, transforming newspaper printing.
Richard Marcinko
Richard Marcinko (1940–2021), US Navy SEAL commander, founded and led SEAL Team Six from 1980 after Operation Eagle Claw; later convicted of contract fraud and author of Rogue Warrior.
Richard Marles
Richard Marles is an Australian Labor Party politician who serves as Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Defence, and is a member of parliament for the party.
Richard Marquand
Richard Marquand, full name Richard Alfred Marquand, was a Welsh film and television director best known for Return of the Jedi (1983) and Jagged Edge (1985).
Richard Marsh (brewer)
Richard Marsh was a Faversham brewer who leased the Court Street brewery in 1678 and bought it outright in 1698, the founding date of Shepherd Neame, Britain's oldest brewer.
Richard Martel
Richard Martel is a Canadian chemist and professor at Université de Montréal who helped build the first carbon nanotube transistors at IBM's T.J. Watson Research Center.
Richard Marx
Richard Marx (Richard Noel Marx, born 1963, Chicago) is an American pop-rock singer-songwriter; his 1987 debut yielded four chart-topping singles, "Right Here Waiting" hit No. 1 in 1989, and he won the 2004 Song of the Year Grammy for "Dance with My Father."
Richard Matheson
Richard Burton Matheson (1926–2013), American horror, fantasy, and science fiction author and screenwriter; author of I Am Legend, The Shrinking Man, and Hell House, and writer of sixteen original Twilight Zone episodes and Spielberg's Duel.
Richard Matt
Richard Matt (1966–2015), Tonawanda, New York murderer and repeat escapee; with David Sweat he cut out of Clinton Correctional Facility's Honor Block in June 2015, triggering a $23 million manhunt ending in his death in Malone.
Richard Mayeux
Richard Mayeux is an American neurologist and genetic epidemiologist at Columbia University who studies the epidemiology and genetics of Alzheimer's disease, leading the WHICAP cohort since 1989.
Richard McCabe
Richard McCabe (born 1960) is a Scottish actor and RSC Associate Artist who won the 2013 Olivier Award and 2015 Tony Award for playing Harold Wilson in The Audience alongside Helen Mirren.
Richard McCourt
Richard McCourt (born 1976, Sheffield), known as Dick of Dick and Dom with Dominic Wood, is an English children's TV presenter, host of Dick and Dom in da Bungalow (2002–2006), double BAFTA winner, later actor, DJ, and author.
Richard McCoy Jr.
Richard McCoy Jr., also known as Richard Floyd McCoy Jr., was an American skydiver who hijacked a 1972 United Airlines flight, extorted $500,000, and parachuted over Utah.
Richard McCray
Richard McCray, known to colleagues as Dick McCray, was an American theoretical astrophysicist at JILA in Boulder, Colorado, and an authority on supernovae and stellar winds.
Richard McKelvey
Richard McKelvey (1944–2002) was an American political scientist and social choice theorist at Caltech, best known for his chaos theorems on majority-rule cycling and agenda control.
Richard McLean Badger
Richard McLean Badger (1896–1974) was an American physical chemist at Caltech known for molecular spectroscopy and Badger's rule, relating bond length to bond strength; he joined the National Academy of Sciences in 1952.
Richard Meade
Richard Meade (1938–2015), British three-day eventing rider; won three Olympic golds (team 1968, team and individual 1972 on Laurieston), the only Briton with individual Olympic eventing gold, plus Badminton and Burghley titles.
Richard Meinertzhagen
Richard Meinertzhagen (1878–1967), British soldier, spy, and ornithologist, donated about 20,000 bird specimens to the Natural History Museum; many were stolen and relabeled, the greatest ornithological fraud.
Richard Melrose
Richard Melrose is a mathematician and Simons Professor at MIT, known for the b-calculus and scattering calculus for partial differential equations on manifolds with boundary.
Richard Mentor Johnson
Richard Mentor Johnson (1780-1850), Kentucky congressman and War of 1812 colonel, ninth US vice president (1837-41) and the only one chosen by the Senate, after falling one electoral vote short in 1836; famed for the unproven Tecumseh claim.
Richard Mille
Richard Mille is a Swiss ultra-luxury watchmaker founded by Richard Mille and Dominique Guenat in 1999, known for the highest average prices in the Swiss watch industry.
Richard Misrach
Richard Misrach (born 1949) is an American photographer based in Berkeley, California, known for large-format color photographs of the American West and his ongoing Desert Cantos series.
Richard MK Adanu
Richard MK Adanu is a Ghanaian obstetrician-gynecologist and epidemiologist who researches safe childbirth care and violence against women, and leads the Ghana College of Physicians and Surgeons.
Richard Moll
Richard Moll (1943-2023) was an American character actor who played bailiff Bull Shannon on NBC's Night Court (1984-1992) and voiced Two-Face in Batman: The Animated Series; he died in Big Bear Lake, California.
Richard Mollier
Richard Mollier (1863–1935) was a German physicist and mechanical engineer, professor of technical thermodynamics at Dresden, who devised the enthalpy-entropy chart for steam, the Mollier diagram, named for him in 1923.
Richard Montagu
Richard Montagu, also spelled Mountague, was an Anglican controversialist and bishop of Chichester from 1628 and Norwich from 1638 whose writings triggered the first English accusations of Arminianism.