All articles starting with R

Richard of Conisburgh, 3rd Earl of Cambridge

Richard of Conisburgh, 3rd Earl of Cambridge (1385–1415), son of Edmund of Langley, Duke of York, married Anne Mortimer, fathered the 3rd Duke of York, and was beheaded in 1415 for the Southampton Plot against Henry V.

Richard of Dover

Richard of Dover (died 1184) was a Norman-born Benedictine monk who served as archbishop of Canterbury from 1174 to 1184, the immediate successor to Thomas Becket.

Richard of Shrewsbury, Duke of York

Richard of Shrewsbury, Duke of York (1473–1483?), second son of Edward IV and younger Prince in the Tower, disappeared in the Tower of London in summer 1483 under his uncle Richard III; fate unproven.

Richard of St. Victor

Richard of St. Victor (died 1173) was a Scottish or English theologian and mystic, prior of the Abbey of Saint-Victor in Paris, known for his works on the Trinity and contemplation.

Richard of York, 3rd Duke of York

Richard of York, 3rd Duke of York (1411-1460), also Richard Plantagenet, was the richest English magnate, Protector under Henry VI, and Yorkist claimant killed at Wakefield, father of Edward IV.

Richard Ojeda

Richard Ojeda (Richard Neece Senator Ojeda II, born 1970) is a retired Army major, former West Virginia state senator, 2018 WV-03 House nominee who lost to Carol Miller, brief 2020 presidential candidate, 2020 Senate primary loser, and 2026 Democratic nominee for North Carolina's 9th District.

Richard Olise

Richard Olise, born 2004, is an English right-back and younger brother of France winger Michael Olise. Scouted by Chelsea at six, he spent a decade in the academy and was released in June 2026.

Richard Osman

Richard Osman (born 1970, Billericay) is a British TV presenter, producer, and novelist: Creative Director at Endemol UK, accidental co-host of Pointless, host of House of Games, author of The Thursday Murder Club series.

Richard Osman's House of Games

Richard Osman's House of Games is a BBC Two celebrity quiz show launched 4 September 2017, hosted by Richard Osman through Series 9 and then Michael Sheen, with five rounds daily, Double Points Friday, and novelty prizes.

Richard Otto (physician)

Richard Otto (1872–1952) was a German physician and bacteriologist at the Robert Koch institute in Berlin, known for work on serum hypersensitivity and plague immunization with Wilhelm Kolle.

Richard Owen

Sir Richard Owen (1804–1892), English comparative anatomist and palaeontologist; coined Dinosauria in 1842, defined homology and the vertebrate archetype, founded London's Natural History Museum, and opposed Darwin's natural selection.

Richard P. Binzel

Richard P. Binzel is an American planetary scientist at MIT known for linking asteroids to meteorites and for inventing the Torino Scale, which communicates asteroid impact risk to the public.

Richard P. Boyce

Richard P. Boyce is a molecular biologist whose 1964 experiment with Paul Howard-Flanders showed that E. coli removes ultraviolet-induced thymine dimers from DNA, establishing nucleotide excision repair.

Richard P. Evershed

Richard P. Evershed is a British chemist at the University of Bristol known for organic residue analysis of archaeological pottery and direct radiocarbon dating of ceramics.

Richard P. Feynman

Richard P. Feynman (1918–1988) was an American theoretical physicist at Caltech, known for Feynman diagrams and the path integral, who shared the 1965 Nobel Prize in Physics.

Richard P. Harvey

Richard P. Harvey is an Australian developmental biologist best known for discovering the transcription factor Nkx2-5, which opened the molecular era of heart development research.

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Richard P. Lifton

Richard P. Lifton, also known as Richard Lifton, is an American human geneticist who identified genes causing inherited blood pressure disorders and pioneered exome sequencing for clinical diagnosis.

Richard P. Mattick

Richard P. Mattick is an Australian drug and alcohol researcher and Honorary Professor at the National Drug and Alcohol Research Centre, University of New South Wales in Sydney.

Richard P. Novick

Richard P. Novick is an American microbiologist at NYU Grossman School of Medicine known for discovering staphylococcal plasmids, the agr quorum-sensing system controlling virulence, and the SaPIs that spread toxic shock toxin.

Richard P. O'Neill

Richard P. O'Neill is an American energy economist at ARPA-E who was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2022 for designing natural gas and electricity markets.

Richard P. Stanley

Richard P. Stanley, born 1944, is an American combinatorist who spent most of his career at MIT, known for algebraic and enumerative combinatorics and the standard two-volume Enumerative Combinatorics.

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Richard P. Van Duyne

Richard P. Van Duyne (1945–2019) was an American analytical chemist at Northwestern University who led surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy, invented nanosphere lithography, and developed LSPR biosensing.

Richard P. Wenzel

Richard P. Wenzel (R. P. Wenzel) is an American infectious diseases physician who built the field of hospital epidemiology and quantified the toll of hospital-acquired infections.

Richard P. Woychik

Richard P. Woychik is an American mammalian geneticist who served as Director of the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences and the National Toxicology Program from 2020 to 2025.

Richard Padovan

Richard Padovan (born 1935) is a British architect, teacher, and writer on architectural proportion, known for the Padovan sequence and his books on Dom Hans van der Laan.

Richard Page (musician)

Richard Page (born 1953, Keokuk, Iowa) is the American singer-bassist who fronted Mr. Mister, not the Ottawa saxophonist or Jimmy Page. Pages and Mr. Mister hits "Broken Wings" and "Kyrie"; later songwriter for Madonna and All-Starr Band member.

Richard Painter

Richard W. Painter (born 1961) is an American law professor, S. Walter Richey Professor of Corporate Law at the University of Minnesota, and former chief White House ethics lawyer under George W. Bush (2005–2007), later a CREW vice chair, Trump ethics critic, and 2018 DFL Senate candidate.