All articles starting with R

Richard Taylor (mathematician)

Richard Lawrence Taylor, born 1962, is a British-American number theorist at Stanford University who helped complete the proof of Fermat's Last Theorem and proved the Sato-Tate conjecture.

Richard Thoma

Richard Andreas Thoma (1847–1923) was a German pathologist who held the pathology chair at Dorpat and gave his name to the Thoma microtome and blood-counting chamber.

Richard Thomas (born 1951) is an American actor best known as John-Boy Walton in CBS's The Waltons, for which he won a 1973 Emmy; also It, The Americans, Ozark, and a seven-decade stage career with 2017 and 2026 Tony nominations.

Richard Thomas (mathematician)

Richard Thomas is a British algebraic geometer at Imperial College London, best known as co-inventor, with his supervisor Simon Donaldson, of the Donaldson–Thomas invariants of Calabi–Yau threefolds.

Richard Thompson (cartoonist)

Richard Thompson (1957–2016) was an American illustrator and cartoonist, creator of the comic strip Cul de Sac and the Washington Post panel Richard's Poor Almanac, who won the 2011 Reuben Award.

Richard Thompson (musician)

Richard Thompson (born 1949, Notting Hill, London) is an English folk-rock singer, songwriter, and guitarist who co-founded Fairport Convention, recorded with Linda Thompson, and, as a solo artist behind 1952 Vincent Black Lightning, holds an OBE and Ivor Novello Award.

Richard Threlkeld Cox

Richard Threlkeld Cox (1898–1991) was an American physicist at Johns Hopkins University, known for Cox's theorem and his 1946 paper deriving probability from consistent plausible reasoning.

Richard Tice

Richard Tice (born 1964, Farnham) is a British property businessman and Reform UK politician: MEP 2019-20, Reform leader 2021-24, MP for Boston and Skegness since July 2024 and Reform's deputy leader and principal financier.

Richard Todd

Richard Todd (1919-2009), Irish-born British actor and D-Day paratrooper; starred in The Hasty Heart, The Dam Busters as Guy Gibson, and The Longest Day as Major John Howard; declined Fleming's Bond role.

Richard Topcliffe

Richard Topcliffe (1531–1604), also called the priestfinder-general, was Elizabethan England's most infamous torturer, a Privy Council rack-master who hunted Catholic priests and read their books forensically.

Richard Tousey

Richard Tousey (1908–1997) was an American physicist at the Naval Research Laboratory who pioneered the study of the Sun from space, recording the first solar ultraviolet spectrum.

Sep 20, 2026

Richard Treisman

Sir Richard Treisman is a British molecular biologist, knighted for services to biomedical science, who studies Ras and Rho signaling to the gene transcription factor SRF at the Francis Crick Institute in London.

Richard Tremblay

Richard Tremblay is a Canadian developmental psychologist, professor emeritus at Université de Montréal, whose research showed that physical aggression appears in infancy and declines as children learn to control it.

Richard Trevithick

Richard Trevithick (1771–1833) was a Cornish engineer who developed the high-pressure steam engine and built early steam locomotives, including one that hauled a train in Wales in 1804.

Richard Turner (marine biologist)

Richard Turner is an American marine biologist specializing in echinoderms who spent 41 years on the Florida Institute of Technology faculty and coauthored the textbook Introduction to Marine Biology.

Richard V. Southwell

Sir Richard Vynne Southwell (1888–1970) was an English engineer-mathematician known for the relaxation method for solving structural equations, and Rector of Imperial College London from 1942 to 1948.

Richard V. Spencer

Richard V. Spencer (born 1954), Marine Corps aviator and financier, was the 76th U.S. Secretary of the Navy (2017–2019), briefly Acting Secretary of Defense, and was removed in November 2019 over the Eddie Gallagher SEAL disciplinary case.

Sep 19, 2026

Richard Valtr

Richard Valtr is a Czech technology founder and former hotelier who founded Mews in Prague in 2012, a hotel software company valued at $2.5 billion in 2026.

Richard van der Riet Woolley

Sir Richard van der Riet Woolley (1906–1986) was an astronomer who directed Mount Stromlo Observatory in Australia, then served as Astronomer Royal from 1956 to 1971.

Sep 27, 2026

Richard Vanlalhmangaiha

Richard Vanlalhmangaiha, born in 1978 in Aizawl, is an Indian politician of the Zoram People's Movement who has represented Mizoram in the Lok Sabha since 2024.

Richard Voellmy

Richard Voellmy is a molecular biologist trained at ETH Zürich who was a professor at the University of Miami and showed how HSP90 represses heat shock factor HSF1.

Richard Vogel (equestrian)

Richard Vogel, German show jumper (born Binzwangen), FEI world number one from 2026, 2025 European champion on United Touch S, 2026 world team gold medallist, multiple Rolex Grand Slam Major winner, Rolex ambassador since 2024.

Richard Vollenweider

Richard Albert Vollenweider (1922–2007) was a Swiss-born limnologist at Canada's Centre for Inland Waters whose 1968 OECD report introduced phosphorus loading limits still used in lake management.

Richard von Coudenhove-Kalergi

Richard Nikolaus von Coudenhove-Kalergi (1894-1972), Austrian-Japanese count, founder of the Pan-European Union, author of Pan-Europa (1923), precursor of European integration and the Council of Europe.

Richard von Helmholtz

Richard von Helmholtz (1852–1934) was a German railway engineer and locomotive designer, son of physicist Hermann von Helmholtz, who led the Krauss design bureau in Munich from about 1880 to 1918 and invented the Krauss-Helmholtz bogie.

Richard von Mises

Richard von Mises (1883–1953) was an Austrian-born applied mathematician and engineer who gave the first university course on powered flight and formulated the von Mises yield criterion.

Richard W. Aldrich

Richard W. Aldrich is an American neuroscientist and biophysicist who studies how ion channels open and close, known for the ball-and-chain model of potassium channel inactivation.

Richard W. Carlson

Richard W. Carlson is an American isotope geochemist who spent his career at the Carnegie Institution for Science, using rock and meteorite isotopes to date the Moon and early Solar System.

Sep 20, 2026

Richard W. Carthew

Richard W. Carthew is a molecular biologist who studies small RNA gene silencing in fruit flies, is a professor at Northwestern University, and directs a Chicago biology institute founded in 2023.