All articles starting with R

Richard Stanley (director)

Richard Stanley (born 1966) is a South African cult film director of Hardware (1990), Dust Devil (1992), and Color Out of Space (2019), known for his firing from The Island of Dr. Moreau and his myth-focused documentaries.

Oct 21, 2026

Richard Stebbins

Richard Vaughn "Dick" Stebbins (born 1945, Los Angeles), American sprinter; 1964 Tokyo Olympic gold medalist in the 4x100m relay (world record 39.0) running third leg for Grambling State; also 7th in the 200m.

Oct 22, 2026

Richard Steele

Sir Richard Steele (1672–1729) was an Irish writer, soldier, and politician who, with Joseph Addison, created the English periodical essay through The Tatler and The Spectator.

Sep 19, 2026

Richard Steeves

Richard Steeves is a healthcare entrepreneur who founded Synergy Health in Swindon in 1991, built it into a leading sterilization provider, and sold it to STERIS for $1.9 billion.

Richard Sterban

Richard Sterban (born 1943, Camden, New Jersey) is the bass singer of the Oak Ridge Boys since 1972, formerly of the Stamps Quartet backing Elvis Presley, known for the "Elvira" bass line.

Richard Steven Horvitz

Richard Steven Horvitz (born 1966, Los Angeles) is an American actor and voice director known as Zim in Invader Zim, Billy in Billy & Mandy, Daggett, Alpha 5, Raz in Psychonauts, and Moxxie in Helluva Boss.

Richard Stilgoe

Sir Richard Stilgoe (born 1943, Camberley, Surrey) is an English songwriter, lyricist and broadcaster, lyricist for Cats, Starlight Express and The Phantom of the Opera, a Nationwide and That's Life topical-song television personality, and founder of the Orpheus Centre for young disabled performers.

Richard Stone

Richard Stone was a British economist and statistician at Cambridge who won the 1984 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences for developing systems of national accounts.

Richard Strachey

Sir Richard Strachey (1817–1908) was a British army officer and geologist who surveyed Kumaon and Tibet, directed irrigation in India, chaired the East Indian Railway, and won the Royal Medal in 1897.

Richard Strauss

Richard Strauss (1864–1949), German composer and conductor, unrelated to the Strauss waltz family; famed for tone poems like Also sprach Zarathustra, operas Salome, Elektra and Der Rosenkavalier with Hofmannsthal, and late works Metamorphosen and the Four Last Songs.

Sep 27, 2026

Richard Stuart

Richard Stuart, born 1964, is an American Republican politician and former Marine and prosecutor who has represented Virginia's 25th Senate district since 2008.

Richard Sullivan (oncologist)

Richard Sullivan (born 1968) is a British oncologist, Professor of Cancer and Global Health at King's College London and Director of its Institute of Cancer Policy.

Richard Sutton

Richard Sutton is a computer scientist and founding figure of reinforcement learning, co-recipient of the 2024 Turing Award with Andrew Barto and author of "The Bitter Lesson".

Richard Swan

Richard Swan was a mathematician at the University of Chicago known for the Serre–Swan theorem, identifying vector bundles with projective modules, and for work in algebraic K-theory.

Richard Swan (author)

Richard Swan is a British author of fantasy and science fiction, best known for the Sunday Times bestselling Empire of the Wolf trilogy published by Orbit Books.

Richard Swanson

Richard Swanson, born 1945 in Davenport, Iowa, is an American electrical engineer who developed the back-contact silicon solar cell, founded SunPower in 1985, and named Swanson's law.

Richard Szeliski

Richard Szeliski is a computer vision researcher, now a Distinguished Scientist at Google DeepMind, known for panoramic image stitching, Photosynth, and his widely used textbook Computer Vision: Algorithms and Applications.

Richard T. Ely

Richard T. Ely, full name Richard Theodore Ely, was an American economist who founded the American Economic Association in 1885 and built Wisconsin's graduate social science program.

Richard T. Ford

Richard T. Ford is an American legal scholar, the George E. Osborne Professor of Law at Stanford Law School, known for books on race and civil rights law.

Richard T. Jones

Richard T. Jones (Richard Timothy Jones, born 1972, Kobe, Japan) is an American actor known for Bruce Van Exel on Judging Amy, Slim in The Wood, Mike in Tyler Perry's Why Did I Get Married? films, and Wade Grey on ABC's The Rookie since 2018.

Richard T. Lahey Jr.

Richard T. Lahey Jr. is an American nuclear engineer, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1994, and Professor Emeritus at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.

Sep 20, 2026

Richard T. Lee (cardiologist)

Richard T. Lee is an American cardiologist and stem cell biologist who leads Harvard's cardiovascular stem cell program and is known for research on GDF11 and the aging heart.

Richard T. Miyamoto

Richard T. Miyamoto is an American pediatric otolaryngologist and cochlear implant researcher who chaired otolaryngology at Indiana University for 27 years and is a member of the National Academy of Medicine.

Richard T. Smith

Richard T. Smith (1924–2014) was an American immunologist known for research on tumor immunity and T-cell biology and founding chair of pediatrics at the University of Florida.

Richard T. Wetherald

Richard T. Wetherald was an American meteorologist at NOAA's Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory in Princeton, co-author of the 1967 paper giving the first sound estimate of warming from doubled CO2.

Richard T. Whitcomb

Richard T. Whitcomb (1921–2009) was an American aeronautical engineer at NACA and NASA's Langley Research Center who conceived the area rule, the supercritical wing, and winglets, winning the 1954 Collier Trophy.

Sep 27, 2026

Richard Takáč

Richard Takáč is a Slovak politician of Smer-SD and one of its deputy leaders, serving as Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development after local and regional offices in Prievidza and the Trenčín region.

Richard Tandy

Richard Tandy (1948–2024), English keyboardist of Electric Light Orchestra; joined as bassist, switched to keyboards in 1972; Minimoog, Clavinet, Mellotron on ELO 2 through Time; vocoder on Mr. Blue Sky; Rock and Roll Hall of Fame 2017.