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Richard Rudolph
Richard Rudolph, born 1946 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, is an American songwriter and record producer who co-wrote "Lovin' You", Minnie Riperton's 1974 worldwide number-one hit, and co-produced her album Perfect Angel.
Richard Rush
Richard Rush (1780–1859), American statesman and diplomat, son of Benjamin Rush; U.S. Attorney General 1814–1817, acting Secretary of State who concluded the Rush-Bagot Agreement, minister to Britain 1817–1825, Treasury Secretary under John Quincy Adams, and minister to France 1847–1849.
Richard Russell Jr.
Richard Russell Jr., also known as Richard Brevard Russell Jr., was a Democratic senator from Georgia who served from 1933 until his death in 1971.
Richard S. Blumberg
Richard S. Blumberg is an American physician-scientist in mucosal immunology at Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women's Hospital, elected to the National Academy of Medicine in 2018.
Richard S. Castellano
Richard S. Castellano (1933–1988), American character actor, Broadway Tony nominee, Oscar-nominated for Lovers and Other Strangers, played Peter Clemenza in The Godfather; distinct from Richard C. Castellano (1954–2015).
Richard S. Engelbrecht
Richard S. Engelbrecht (1926–1996) was an American environmental engineer at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign who researched waterborne virus disinfection and led major international water organizations.
Richard S. Finkel
Richard S. Finkel is an American pediatric neurologist who directs the Center for Experimental Neurotherapeutics at St. Jude and led the nusinersen and risdiplam trials in spinal muscular atrophy.
Richard S. Finn
Richard S. Finn is an American medical oncologist and professor at UCLA known for leading clinical development of palbociclib in breast cancer and atezolizumab plus bevacizumab in liver cancer.
Richard S. Fuld Jr.
Richard S. Fuld Jr., known as Dick Fuld, is an American banker who led Lehman Brothers from 1994 until its 2008 bankruptcy, the largest in US history.
Richard S. Hamilton
Richard S. Hamilton, full name Richard Streit Hamilton (1943–2024), was an American mathematician at Columbia University who introduced the Ricci flow, the tool behind the proof of the Poincaré conjecture.
Richard S. Hotchkiss
Richard S. Hotchkiss is an American physician-scientist, professor at Washington University in St. Louis, internationally known for showing that immune cell death, not inflammation alone, drives sepsis mortality.
Richard S. Irwin
Richard S. Irwin is an American pulmonologist and Professor of Medicine at UMass Chan Medical School, known for the anatomic diagnostic protocol for chronic cough and describing cough-variant asthma in 1979.
Richard S. Legro
Richard S. Legro is an American reproductive endocrinologist and University Chair of Obstetrics and Gynecology at Penn State, known for research on polycystic ovary syndrome and infertility trials.
Richard S. Lewis
Richard S. Lewis is a Stanford molecular and cellular physiologist known for calcium signaling research and for the 2013 disease-in-a-dish study of familial hypertrophic cardiomyopathy using patient-specific stem cells.
Richard S. Mann
Richard S. Mann is a molecular biologist and Higgins Professor at Columbia University who studies how Hox transcription factors recognize DNA shape and control body pattern formation in fruit flies.
Richard S. Pierce
Richard S. Pierce, full name Richard Scott Pierce, was an American algebraist in ring and module theory who taught at Washington, Hawaii, and Arizona and wrote Associative Algebras.
Richard S. Rivlin
Richard S. Rivlin is an American physician-scientist in internal medicine and nutrition who studied vitamin B2 metabolism and later built a research program on garlic compounds as potential cancer chemopreventive agents.
Richard S. Schottenfeld
Richard S. Schottenfeld is an American psychiatrist and addiction-medicine researcher known for clinical trials of buprenorphine and methadone for opioid dependence, first at Yale and since 2017 at Howard University.
Richard S. Tedder
Richard S. Tedder, also known as Richard Tedder, is a British medical virologist and UCL professor whose 2014 hepatitis E study led to universal screening of English blood donations.
Richard S.j. Tol
Richard S.J. Tol is a Dutch-trained economist at the University of Sussex known for the FUND integrated assessment model and his meta-analyses of the social cost of carbon.
Richard Sackler
Richard Sackler, son of Purdue co-founder Raymond Sackler, was Purdue Pharma's president and board co-chairman who directed OxyContin marketing, backed concealing the drug's strength from doctors, and faced decades of opioid litigation and settlements.
Richard Salter Storrs
Richard Salter Storrs (1821–1900) was an American Congregationalist minister, pastor of Brooklyn's Church of the Pilgrims from 1846 to 1899, who presided over the Brooklyn Bridge opening ceremonies.
Richard Sandrak
Richard Sandrak, "Little Hercules," born 1992 in Ukraine, was a child bodybuilding star famed as the World's Strongest Boy, later a Universal Studios stuntman, whose abusive father Pavel was imprisoned in 2003 and deported.
Richard Sandstrom
Richard Sandstrom is an American engineer who co-founded Cymer in San Diego in 1986, holding 155 patents in excimer laser and EUV light-source design for nanoscale chip manufacturing.
Richard Santulli
Richard Santulli is an American aviation entrepreneur who created fractional jet ownership, built Executive Jet into NetJets, and sold it to Berkshire Hathaway in 1998.
Richard Sapper
Richard Sapper (1932–2015) was a German industrial designer based in Milan who created the Tizio lamp for Artemide and the original IBM ThinkPad, and served as IBM's chief design consultant.
Richard Scarry
Richard Scarry (1919-1994), American children's author and illustrator of Busytown books with Lowly Worm and Huckle Cat; Best Word Book Ever (1963) sold 7 million copies; over 100 million books sold worldwide.
Richard Schiff
Richard Schiff (born 1955, Bethesda, Maryland) is an American character actor, Emmy winner in 2000 as Toby Ziegler on The West Wing, later Dr. Aaron Glassman on The Good Doctor; former off-Broadway director, husband of Sheila Kelley.
Richard Schlegel
Richard Schlegel is an American viral oncologist and pathologist at Georgetown University Medical Center, known for work underpinning the HPV vaccine and for co-developing conditional reprogramming, a cell culture method.
Richard Schmalensee
Richard Schmalensee is an American economist, MIT Sloan professor and dean emeritus, a pioneer of multisided platform economics, and an expert witness in U.S. v. Microsoft.