All articles starting with R

Richard Paterson

Richard Paterson (Glasgow, 1949), 'The Nose', is a Scottish master blender of Scotch whisky: third-generation, Whyte & Mackay chief blender from 1975, five decades behind The Dalmore, Shackleton whisky re-creator, OBE, later co-founder of Wolfcraig Distillers.

Richard Patrick

Richard Michael Patrick, American rock musician from Bay Village, Ohio; Nine Inch Nails' first touring guitarist (1989–1993) and founder/frontman of industrial rock band Filter, known for "Hey Man Nice Shot" and "Take a Picture," plus Army of Anyone and A Place to Kill.

Richard Pazdur

Richard Pazdur is an American medical oncologist who led the FDA's Oncology Center of Excellence and shaped United States cancer drug approval for over 25 years.

Richard Perry

Richard Van Perry (1942–2024), American record producer behind "You're So Vain," "Without You," Ringo's 1973 album with all four Beatles, and Rod Stewart's Great American Songbook; founder of Planet Records, Grammy Trustees Award 2015.

Sep 20, 2026

Richard Peto

Sir Richard Peto, born 1943, is a British medical statistician and epidemiologist at Oxford, known for tobacco epidemiology, the logrank test, meta-analysis of randomized trials, and Peto's paradox.

Richard Petty

Richard Petty (born July 2, 1937, Level Cross, NC), "The King," NASCAR Cup driver 1958–1992; record 200 wins, 7 championships (tied with Earnhardt and Johnson), 7 Daytona 500s, 123 poles, No. 43 STP Plymouth.

Richard Pfeiffer (physician)

Richard Pfeiffer (1858–1945) was a German physician and bacteriologist of Robert Koch's school who discovered the influenza bacillus, coined "endotoxin", and described the Pfeiffer phenomenon.

Richard Phillips (merchant mariner)

Richard Phillips, also known as Captain Richard Phillips, is an American merchant mariner held hostage by Somali pirates off Somalia in 2009 and rescued by Navy SEALs.

Richard Pitino

Richard Pitino, son of Rick Pitino, is an American college basketball coach: head coach at Xavier since 2025, formerly FIU, Minnesota (2014 NIT title), and New Mexico; 262-204 career record.

Sep 20, 2026

Richard Platt (physician-epidemiologist)

Richard Platt is a physician-epidemiologist and Harvard Medical School professor who led the FDA's Sentinel System, using electronic health data from more than 175 million people for drug-safety surveillance.

Richard Posner

Richard Posner is an American jurist and legal scholar who served on the Seventh Circuit from 1981 to 2017 and led the law and economics movement.

Richard Powers

Richard Powers is an American novelist who fuses scientific and technical subject matter with literary narrative. He is best known for The Overstory, the 2019 Pulitzer Prize winner.

Richard Preston

Richard Preston (born 1954) is an American author and New Yorker contributor known for The Hot Zone, The Demon in the Freezer, and The Cobra Event, narrative nonfiction on Ebola, smallpox, and bioterrorism that influenced U.S. biodefense policy.

Richard Price (writer)

Richard Price, who also writes as Harry Brandt, is an American novelist and screenwriter born in New York in 1949, known for Clockers, Lush Life, and The Wire.

Richard Prince

Richard Prince (born 1949, Panama Canal Zone) is an American appropriation artist of the Pictures Generation known for rephotographed Marlboro Cowboys, Spiritual America, Jokes, and Instagram New Portraits, and for copyright cases including Cariou, Graham, and McNatt.

Richard Proenneke

Richard (Dick) Proenneke, American naturalist and craftsman (1916-2003), built a spruce-log cabin by hand at Upper Twin Lake in Lake Clark National Park, Alaska, and lived there about 30 years, documenting his life in 255 journals and 16 mm film.

Richard Pryor

Richard Pryor (1940–2005), American stand-up comedian, actor, and writer from Peoria, Illinois; five Grammys, first Mark Twain Prize, Live in Concert (1979), Blazing Saddles co-writer.

Oct 3, 2026

Richard Pryor: Live in Concert

Richard Pryor: Live in Concert is a 1979 concert film of Pryor's December 29, 1978 Terrace Theater show in Long Beach, directed by Jeff Margolis, grossing over $30 million and entering the National Film Registry in 2021.

Richard Q. Twiss

Richard Quentin Twiss (1920–2005) was a British mathematician who supplied the theory for intensity interferometry, giving his name to the Hanbury Brown–Twiss effect in quantum optics.

Richard Quest

Richard Austin Quest, born in Liverpool in 1962, is a British journalist and news anchor who serves as CNN International's chief business correspondent and anchors Quest Means Business.

Richard R. Burgess

Richard R. Burgess is an American molecular biologist at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, known for discovering the E. coli sigma factor, the first positive transcription factor, in 1968.

Sep 27, 2026

Richard R. Clifton

Richard R. Clifton, born in 1950, is an American jurist serving as a senior United States circuit judge of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals since 2016.

Richard R. Ernst

Richard R. Ernst (1933–2021) was a Swiss physical chemist at ETH Zurich who won the 1991 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for developing Fourier transform and two-dimensional NMR spectroscopy.

Richard R. Hough

Richard R. Hough (1917–1992) was an American electrical engineer and telecommunications executive who led the introduction of electronic telephone switching into the Bell System, winning the 1980 IEEE Alexander Graham Bell Medal.

Richard R. Liberthson

Richard R. Liberthson is an American cardiologist known for work on sudden cardiac death and for founding the Adult Congenital Heart Disease Program at Massachusetts General Hospital.

Richard R. Nelson

Richard R. Nelson (1930–2025) was an American economist who co-founded modern evolutionary economics; with Sidney Winter he wrote the 1982 book An Evolutionary Theory of Economic Change.

Richard R. Schrock

Richard R. Schrock, born in 1945, is an American organometallic chemist who shared the 2005 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for developing olefin metathesis catalysts at MIT.

Richard Rado

Richard Rado (1906–1989) was a German-born British mathematician who fled Nazi Germany in 1933, worked with Paul Erdős on partition calculus, and is known for the Rado graph and Rado's theorem.

Richard Ramirez

Richard Ramirez (Ricardo Leyva Muñoz Ramirez), the Night Stalker, American serial killer and burglar who committed nighttime home invasions in California 1984–1985, convicted of 13 murders in 1989, sentenced to death, died of B-cell lymphoma at San Quentin in 2013.