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Richard Schmidt
Richard Schmidt (born 1987, Trier) is a German rower, 2012 Olympic gold and 2016/2021 silver medalist in the men's eight, six-time world champion in the Deutschland Achter, 2024 Thomas Keller Medal recipient, now a hydrogen energy researcher at Wilo.
Richard Schoen
Richard Schoen, born 1950, is an American mathematician who co-founded geometric analysis, proved the positive mass theorem with Shing-Tung Yau, and resolved the Yamabe problem.
Richard Schuil
Richard Schuil (born 1973, Leeuwarden) is a Dutch volleyball player who won 1996 Atlanta Olympic gold indoors, then partnered Reinder Nummerdor in beach volleyball, winning three European titles and nine World Tour golds before retiring in 2013.
Richard Scott, 10th Duke of Buccleuch
Richard Walter John Montagu Douglas Scott (born 1954), 10th Duke of Buccleuch and 12th Duke of Queensberry, Chief of Clan Scott, is a major Scottish landowner and public official, KT and KBE, whose estate holdings were downsized about 40 percent after 2018.
Richard Seager
Richard Seager is a climate scientist at Columbia University's Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory known for work on drought and hydroclimate, including his 2007 projection of a drier American Southwest.
Richard Sears (geophysicist)
Richard A. Sears is an American geophysicist who spent 33 years at Shell, rising to vice president for global deepwater technical services, before advising the Deepwater Horizon commission.
Richard Seefelder
Richard Seefelder (1875–1949) was a German-born Austrian ophthalmologist who led the Innsbruck university eye clinic from 1919 and served as the university's rector in 1929/30.
Richard Serra
Richard Serra (1938–2024), American sculptor of monumental site-specific Cor-Ten steel works and early molten-lead process pieces; creator of Tilted Arc (removed 1989), Torqued Ellipses, and The Matter of Time at Guggenheim Bilbao.
Richard Seymour
Richard Seymour, NFL defensive lineman (Patriots 2001-08, Raiders 2009-12), sixth overall pick in 2001, three Super Bowl titles, seven Pro Bowls, 57.5 sacks, Pro Football Hall of Fame Class of 2022, later a Raiders minority owner.
Richard Shelby
Richard C. Shelby, Alabama senator 1987–2023 and House member 1979–1987; Democrat until his November 9, 1994 party switch; chaired Intelligence, Banking, Rules, and Appropriations; succeeded by Katie Britt.
Richard Shepherd (pathologist)
Richard Shepherd is a British forensic pathologist who spent over 30 years on the Home Office register, performed more than 23,000 postmortems, and wrote the memoir Unnatural Causes.
Richard Sherman (American football)
Richard Sherman, NFL cornerback (2011-2021) with Seattle, San Francisco, and Tampa Bay; Stanford product, Super Bowl XLVIII champion, three-time first-team All-Pro, and PFF's best cornerback of the 2010s.
Richard Shope
Richard Shope (1901–1966) was an American virologist at the Rockefeller Institute who showed swine influenza needs both a virus and a bacterium, and discovered the first virus proved to cause cancer in a mammal.
Richard Sidman
Richard Leon Sidman (1928–2024) was an American neuroscientist at Harvard Medical School known for timing neuron birth and migration with autoradiography and for the staggerer mutant mouse.
Richard Simmons
Richard Simmons (Milton Teagle Simmons, 1948-2024), American aerobics instructor and TV personality; founder of SLIMMONS, creator of Sweatin' to the Oldies and Deal-A-Meal; Emmy-winning show, 20M+ videos sold, withdrew in 2014, died July 2024 after a fall.
Richard Simon
Richard Simon (1638–1712) was a French Oratorian priest and Hebraist known as the father of biblical criticism; his 1678 Histoire critique du Vieux Testament was suppressed and he was expelled from the Oratory.
Richard Sipe
A.W. Richard Sipe (1932–2018) was an American Benedictine monk, Catholic priest, and psychotherapist whose 25-year study of clergy produced widely cited estimates on celibacy and abuse.
Richard Skalak
Richard Skalak (1923–1997) was an American biomedical engineer known for research on blood flow and bone growth, with a long career at Columbia University and then UC San Diego.
Richard Smalley
Richard Errett Smalley (1943–2005) was an American chemist at Rice University who co-discovered the fullerenes, sharing the 1996 Nobel Prize in Chemistry and pioneering carbon nanotechnology.
Richard Šmehlík
Richard Šmehlík, Czech ice hockey defenseman born 1970 in Ostrava; Buffalo Sabres draftee (97th overall, 1990), Olympic gold 1998 and bronze 1992, Stanley Cup 2003 with New Jersey Devils.
Richard Smith (chemist)
Richard D. Smith is an American chemist and mass spectrometry researcher who spent 1976 to 2024 at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, becoming a Battelle Fellow.
Richard Socher
Richard Socher is a computer scientist and AI entrepreneur who earned a Stanford PhD in 2014, served as Salesforce's chief scientist, founded You.com, and co-founded Recursive in 2026.
Richard Söderberg
Richard Söderberg (1895–1979) was a Swedish-born American power engineer who led steam turbine design at Westinghouse and later served as Dean of Engineering at MIT.
Richard Sogge
Richard Sogge is an engineer who co-founded Data General Corporation in Hudson, Massachusetts, in 1968, after leaving Digital Equipment Corporation to build the Nova minicomputer.
Richard Solomon (psychologist)
Richard Solomon was an American experimental psychologist at the University of Pennsylvania, elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1968, best known for opponent-process theory.
Richard Sorge (Рихард Зорге)
Richard Sorge (Рихард Зорге), codename Ramsay, 1895–1944, Soviet GRU spy in Tokyo posing as a German journalist; reported Barbarossa's date and Japan's 1941 decision not to attack the USSR; hanged in Tokyo, named Hero of the Soviet Union in 1964.
Richard Southwood
Sir Richard Southwood, known as T.R.E. Southwood or Dick Southwood, was a British entomologist and ecologist, Oxford's Professor of Zoology and Vice-Chancellor, who chaired the 1989 Southwood Report on BSE.
Richard Speck
Richard Speck (1941–1991), American mass murderer who killed eight student nurses in Chicago on July 13–14, 1966; survivor Corazon Amurao identified him; convicted 1967, died in Stateville prison of a heart attack.
Richard Speight Jr.
Richard Speight Jr. (born 1970, Nashville) is an American actor and director known as Sgt. Skip Muck in Band of Brothers and Archangel Gabriel in Supernatural, where he also directed 11 episodes, and for Kings of Con.
Richard Stallman
Richard Stallman (Richard Matthew Stallman, known as RMS) is an American programmer who founded the free software movement, announced the GNU operating system in 1983, and wrote the GNU General Public License.