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Richard Rau
Richard Rudolf Rau (1889-1945), German sprinter and hurdler of SC Charlottenburg, 1912 Stockholm Olympian, fourth in the 200 m, anchor of the German 4x100 relay that set a 42.3 world record but was disqualified in the final; later an SS Hauptsturmbannführer who died in the Tumanovo POW camp.
Richard Rawlings
Richard Rawlings is a Dallas entrepreneur who founded Gas Monkey Garage in 2004 and turned it into the Discovery Channel series Fast N' Loud, leaving television in 2020.
Richard Raymond (Texas politician)
Richard Peña Raymond, born 1960 in Alice, Texas, is an American Democratic politician who has represented Laredo and Webb County in the Texas House of Representatives since 2001.
Richard Redmayne
Sir Richard Augustine Studdert Redmayne (1865–1955) was a British mining engineer, the UK's first Chief Inspector of Mines, who led the 1913 Senghenydd disaster inquiry.
Richard Reid
Richard Colvin Reid, known as the "shoe bomber," is a British citizen who tried to detonate explosives hidden in his shoes on American Airlines Flight 63 in December 2001.
Richard Réti
Richard Réti (Richard Selig Reti, 1889–1929), Czechoslovak chess master, hypermodern theorist, author of Modern Ideas in Chess, creator of the Réti Opening, and victor over Capablanca at New York 1924.
Richard Rich, 1st Baron Rich
Richard Rich, 1st Baron Rich (1496/7-1567), English lawyer and lord chancellor under Edward VI; solicitor-general under Henry VIII, whose sole testimony at Thomas More's 1535 trial fixed his reputation for perjury and opportunism.
Richard Ridings
Richard Ridings (born 1958, Henley-on-Thames) is an English actor, the voice of Daddy Pig in Peppa Pig (2004–2025) and Mr. Bumble in Dickensian; also seen in Erik the Viking and The Pianist.
Richard Riemerschmid
Richard Riemerschmid (1868–1957) was a German painter, architect, and furniture designer who led Munich Jugendstil, co-founded the Deutscher Werkbund in 1907, and planned the garden city Hellerau.
Richard Riordan
Richard J. Riordan (1930–2023) was an American attorney and venture capitalist who served as the 39th mayor of Los Angeles from 1993 to 2001, the last Republican to hold the office.
Richard Rishi
Richard Rishi (Richard Sharaf Babu) is an Indian actor in Tamil and Telugu cinema, a former child artist whose leads include Kadhal Virus, Draupathi, Rudra Thandavam, and Veera Simha Kadavarayan in Draupathi 2 (2026).
Richard Rive
Richard Moore Rive was a South African short-story writer and teacher in Cape Town who wrote against apartheid and authored the 1986 novel 'Buckingham Palace', District Six.
Richard Robson (chemist)
Richard Robson, born 1937, is an Australian coordination chemist at the University of Melbourne who founded coordination polymers and won the 2025 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
Richard Rockefeller
Richard Gilder Rockefeller (1949-2014), American family physician and philanthropist, son of David Rockefeller; founded Health Commons Institute, chaired MSF-USA advisory board and Rockefeller Brothers Fund; died piloting a plane in Westchester County, NY.
Richard Rodgers
Richard Rodgers (1902–1979), American Broadway composer of Oklahoma!, Carousel, South Pacific, The King and I, and The Sound of Music; partnered with Lorenz Hart then Oscar Hammerstein II; first PEGOT winner.
Richard Rodgers (tight end)
Richard Rodgers (Richard Christopher Rodgers II, born 1992) is a former NFL tight end from California, drafted 98th overall by Green Bay in 2014, known for the 61-yard Hail Mary catch, the Miracle in Motown, and 15 career touchdowns.
Richard Rodgers Theatre
Richard Rodgers Theatre, formerly Chanin's 46th Street Theatre and 46th Street Theatre, is a 1,319-seat Nederlander Broadway house at 226 West 46th Street, built 1924 by Herbert J. Krapp for the Chanins, landmarked, home of Hamilton.
Richard Rodney Bennett
Sir Richard Rodney Bennett (1936–2012), English composer and pianist, worked in serialist concert music, Oscar-nominated film scores such as Murder on the Orient Express, and jazz cabaret; New York-based from 1979, knighted 1998.
Richard Roeper
Richard Roeper (born 1959) is a Chicago film critic and columnist, co-host of Ebert & Roeper (2000-2008), longtime Chicago Sun-Times columnist until 2025, now at RogerEbert.com and NBC 5 Chicago.
Richard Rogers
Richard Rogers, Baron Rogers of Riverside (1933–2021), British Pritzker-winning high-tech architect of the Centre Pompidou with Renzo Piano, Lloyd's of London, the Millennium Dome, and Barajas T4; chaired the UK Urban Task Force.
Richard Rogerson
Richard Rogerson is an American macroeconomist and labor economist at Princeton University, known for the home production model of business cycles and search-theoretic labor market research.
Richard Rohr
Richard Rohr is an American Franciscan friar ordained a Roman Catholic priest in 1970, author of more than 30 books, and founder of the Center for Action and Contemplation in Albuquerque, New Mexico.
Richard Roll
Richard Roll, also known as Richard W. Roll, is an American finance economist, Linde Institute Professor at Caltech, known for Roll's Critique and a 1984 bid-ask spread measure.
Richard Roma
Richard (Ricky) Roma is the top real estate salesman in David Mamet's Glengarry Glen Ross, first played by Jack Shepherd in 1983 and Joe Mantegna on Broadway in 1984, and by Al Pacino in the 1992 film.
Richard Rorty
Richard Rorty (1931–2007), American neopragmatist philosopher, author of Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature; attacked representationalist epistemology, advanced epistemological behaviorism, liberal irony, and solidarity.
Richard Rostel
Richard Röstel (born 1872) was a German artistic gymnast of TiB Berlin who won two team gold medals at the 1896 Athens Olympics, was unplaced in four individual events, and was last recorded alive in 1936.
Richard Rothe
Richard Rothe (1799–1867) was a German Lutheran theologian at Heidelberg and Bonn, one of the most influential Protestant thinkers of the 19th century, known for his Theologische Ethik.
Richard Rotunno
Richard Rotunno is an American meteorologist and Senior Scientist at NCAR in Boulder, Colorado, known for research on tornadoes, supercells, and squall lines; he was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2023.
Richard Roundtree
Richard Roundtree (1942-2023), American actor, played Detective John Shaft in Shaft (1971), becoming one of the first Black action heroes; also Roots, Se7en, and the 2000 and 2019 Shaft films.
Richard Roxburgh
Richard Roxburgh (born 1962, Albury, NSW) is an Australian actor, director and co-creator of Rake, known for Cleaver Greene, Blue Murder's Roger Rogerson, Moulin Rouge!, Van Helsing, and directing Romulus, My Father.