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Richard Montañez
Richard Montañez, former PepsiCo vice president of multicultural sales, claims he invented Flamin' Hot Cheetos as a Frito-Lay janitor; Frito-Lay and a 2021 Los Angeles Times investigation dispute the claim, and his 2024 lawsuit was struck under anti-SLAPP with leave to amend.
Richard Mooney
Richard Mooney is an American neuroscientist at Duke University who studies how the brain learns vocal behavior, elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2024.
Richard Moore (NASA scientist)
Richard Moore is a Research Physical Scientist at NASA's Langley Research Center who studies how aerosols affect air quality, clouds, and climate, and received the 2019 PECASE award.
Richard Morris (neuroscientist)
Richard G. M. Morris, born 1948, is a British neuroscientist at the University of Edinburgh, best known for the watermaze and for showing that NMDA receptors are required for learning.
Richard Mulligan
Richard Mulligan (1932-2000), American comic character actor, Emmy winner as Burt Campbell in Soap and Dr. Harry Weston in Empty Nest; brother of director Robert Mulligan.
Richard Murray (American control theorist)
Richard M. Murray is an American control theorist and bioengineer, the Everhart Professor at Caltech, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2013 for contributions to control theory.
Richard Musgrave (economist)
Richard Musgrave (1910–2007) was a German-born American economist widely regarded as the founder of modern public finance, known for his three-branch framework of allocation, distribution, and stabilization.
Richard Myers
Richard B. Myers (born 1942, Kansas City, Missouri) is a retired US Air Force general, 15th Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff (2001-2005), acting Chairman on 9/11, first Vice Chairman to succeed his predecessor.
Richard N. Aslin
Richard N. Aslin, born in 1949, is an American developmental psychologist at Yale and Haskins Laboratories whose research showed that infants extract language structure from mere exposure, earning election to the National Academy of Sciences.
Richard N. Bergman
Richard N. Bergman is an American biomedical engineer and physiologist known for the minimal model of glucose regulation and the disposition index, key tools of diabetes research.
Richard N. Goodwin
Richard N. Goodwin (Richard Naradof Goodwin, 1931–2018) was an American speechwriter and adviser to Presidents Kennedy and Johnson who coined "the Great Society" and wrote LBJ's "We Shall Overcome" voting rights speech; distinct from other Goodwins.
Richard N. Haass
Richard N. Haass, American diplomat and foreign policy scholar, CFR president for twenty years, director of policy planning under Colin Powell, and author of A World in Disarray and The Bill of Obligations.
Richard N. Perham
Richard N. Perham (1937–2015) was a British structural biochemist who spent his career at Cambridge, pioneering the redesign of enzyme coenzyme specificity and studying multienzyme complexes.
Richard N. Pierson
Richard N. Pierson III is an American cardiac surgeon-scientist at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard whose xenotransplantation research prepared the ground for the first pig-to-human heart transplant.
Richard N. White
Richard Norman White (1933–2009) was an American structural engineer and Cornell professor, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1992 and president of the American Concrete Institute in 1997–98.
Richard N. Zare
Richard N. Zare, born in 1939 in Cleveland, Ohio, is an American physical chemist at Stanford known for laser-induced fluorescence and showing that reactions accelerate in microdroplets.
Richard Neal
Richard E. Neal is an American Democratic politician who has represented Massachusetts's 1st congressional district in the U.S. House since 2013, after serving the 2nd district from 1989.
Richard Neutze
Richard Neutze (1969–2026) was a New Zealand-born biochemist and biophysicist, Professor of Biochemistry at the University of Gothenburg, known for the diffraction-before-destruction principle behind serial femtosecond crystallography.
Richard Neville, 16th Earl of Warwick
Richard Neville, 16th Earl of Warwick, 'the Kingmaker' (1428-1471), English magnate who placed Edward IV on the throne in 1461, restored Henry VI in 1470, and died at Barnet.
Richard Ney
Richard Ney (1916-2004), American actor and investment adviser; played Vin Miniver in Mrs. Miniver (1942), married Greer Garson 1943-1947, then wrote The Wall Street Jungle and predicted the 1962 crash.
Richard Nixon
Richard Nixon, also known as Richard Milhous Nixon, was the 37th president of the United States and the first president to resign, in 1974, after the Watergate scandal.
Richard Nixon 1972 presidential campaign
Richard Nixon's 1972 presidential campaign was his successful Republican re-election bid, defeating Senator George McGovern with 60.7 percent of the vote and every state but Massachusetts.
Richard Norman Shaw
Richard Norman Shaw (1831–1912) was a British architect who led the English Domestic Revival and popularized the Queen Anne style, designing Bedford Park and New Scotland Yard.
Richard Norton (actor)
Richard Norton (1950-2025), Australian martial artist, actor, and fight choreographer; co-creator of Zen Do Kai; villain in The Octagon and Hong Kong films with Jackie Chan and Sammo Hung; Prime Imperator in Mad Max films.
Richard O. Cannon
Richard O. Cannon III (born 1950) is an American cardiologist who spent forty years at the National Institutes of Health, leading a 1994 trial showing imipramine relieved chest pain.
Richard O. Hynes
Richard O. Hynes (1944–2026) was a cell and cancer biologist at MIT who discovered the fibronectin and integrin families of cell adhesion molecules, work honored with the 2022 Lasker Award.
Richard O'Brien
Richard O'Brien (Richard Timothy Smith, born 1942, Cheltenham) is an English-New Zealand actor and writer who created The Rocky Horror Show (1973), played Riff Raff in the 1975 film, and hosted The Crystal Maze.
Richard O'Rawe
Richard O'Rawe, Belfast-born former IRA prisoner and PRO for the 1981 hunger strikers in the Maze H-Blocks; author of Blanketmen (2005) and Afterlives (2010) alleging the IRA leadership vetoed a deal to end the strike, plus crime novels and Gerry Conlon biography.
Richard O'Sullivan
Richard O'Sullivan (1944-2026), British comic actor and former child star, played Robin Tripp in Man About the House and Robin's Nest, Dick Turpin, and Me and My Girl; his sitcom format inspired Three's Company.
Richard Oakes (activist)
Richard Oakes (1942–1972), Akwesasne Mohawk activist and Red Power leader, organized the 1969 occupation of Alcatraz Island, led Fort Lawton and Pit River campaigns, and was killed in 1972.