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Richard W. Erbe

Richard W. Erbe (1939–2024) was an American pediatric geneticist known for his 1975 New England Journal of Medicine review of inborn errors of folate metabolism and enzyme replacement trials.

Richard W. Gross

Richard W. Gross is an American biochemist and physician-scientist at Washington University in St. Louis who developed shotgun lipidomics and identified the PNPLA family of lipases.

Richard W. Hanson

Richard W. Hanson (1936–2014) was an American biochemist at Case Western Reserve University who spent nearly 40 years studying PEPCK, the key enzyme of gluconeogenesis.

Richard W. McCallum (1945–2025) was an Australian-born American gastroenterologist and founding chair of medicine at Texas Tech's El Paso medical school, known for gastroparesis and gastric electrical stimulation research.

Richard W. Michelmore

Richard W. Michelmore is an American plant geneticist and Distinguished Professor at UC Davis, known for crop disease-resistance genomics and the gene-mapping method Bulked Segregant Analysis.

Richard W. Roberts

Richard W. Roberts is an American biochemist who invented mRNA display, linking proteins to their encoding RNA so large libraries can be screened for useful molecules.

Sep 27, 2026

Richard W. Roberts (judge)

Richard W. Roberts, born in 1953, is an American jurist who served as a federal district judge in Washington, D.C., appointed by President Bill Clinton in 1998.

Sep 27, 2026

Richard W. Story

Richard W. Story, born in 1953 in Augusta, Georgia, is a United States district judge for the Northern District of Georgia since 1998, appointed by Bill Clinton.

Sep 20, 2026

Richard W. Tsien

Richard W. Tsien is an American neuroscientist, emeritus professor at Stanford and Druckenmiller Professor at NYU, known for discovering and classifying voltage-gated calcium channels, including the N-type channel.

Richard W. Wrangham

Richard W. Wrangham is a Harvard biological anthropologist known for the cooking hypothesis and self-domestication theory, and for directing the Kibale Chimpanzee Project in Uganda since 1987.

Oct 22, 2026

Richard Wagamese

Richard Wagamese (1955–2017) was an Ojibway Canadian novelist, journalist, and storyteller from the Wabaseemoong First Nation in Ontario, best known for his 2012 novel Indian Horse.

Richard Wagner

Richard Wagner (1813–1883), German composer of music dramas including the Ring cycle and Tristan und Isolde; built the Bayreuth Festspielhaus; his antisemitic writings and Nazi-era reception remain central to his contested legacy.

Richard Wagner (judge)

Richard Wagner, 18th Chief Justice of Canada since December 18, 2017 and Supreme Court of Canada judge since October 5, 2012; former Montreal litigator, Quebec Court of Appeal judge, and administrator of the Government of Canada in 2021.

Richard Wagner (physiologist)

Richard Wagner (1893–1970) was a German physician and physiologist known for work on biological regulation, blood circulation, and muscle physiology, and for methods of continuous blood-pressure recording in humans.

Sep 27, 2026

Richard Walters (Republican strategist)

Richard Walters is an American politician and Republican strategist who served as Chief of Staff of the Republican National Committee and became White House Deputy Chief of Staff in 2026.

Richard Walther Darré

Richard Walther Darré (1895–1953), German Nazi agrarian politician and Reich Minister of Food and Agriculture 1933–1942, formulator of the Blut und Boden (Blood and Soil) ideology, author of Neuadel aus Blut und Boden, removed in 1942, convicted at Nuremberg in 1949.

Richard Warren

Richard Warren (1907–1999) was an American surgeon who spent fifty years on the Harvard Medical School faculty, known for work on arterial embolism and vascular surgery.

Richard Warren Shorthill

Richard Warren Shorthill (1928–2012) was an American physicist and University of Utah professor who mapped the Moon's infrared heat, helped select Apollo landing sites, and co-demonstrated the fiber optic gyroscope.

Richard Wayne Skaggs

Richard Wayne Skaggs, also known as R. Wayne Skaggs, is an American agricultural engineer at North Carolina State University who developed the DRAINMOD drainage simulation models.

Richard Webber

Richard Webber is a fictional general surgeon on Grey's Anatomy, played by James Pickens Jr. since 2005, serving as Chief of Surgery at Seattle Grace Hospital.

Oct 21, 2026

Richard Weisz

Richárd Weisz (Weisz Richárd, 1879-1945), Hungarian Greco-Roman heavyweight wrestler and weightlifter of MTK Budapest; won gold at London 1908, Hungary's first Olympic wrestling champion, later lost amateur status, coached, and helped re-found MTK in 1945.

Richard Weller

Richard Weller is a British dermatologist at the University of Edinburgh whose research showed that ultraviolet light lowers blood pressure by releasing nitric oxide from the skin.

Richard Wellesley, 1st Marquess Wellesley

Richard Colley Wellesley, 1st Marquess Wellesley (1760–1842), Anglo-Irish statesman, elder brother of the Duke of Wellington; Governor-General of India 1798–1805, Foreign Secretary 1810–1812, and twice Lord Lieutenant of Ireland.

Richard Wershe Jr.

Richard Wershe Jr., "White Boy Rick," Detroit FBI informant recruited at 14 in 1984, convicted under Michigan's 650-lifer law, served about 30 years, helped Operation Backbone, released July 20, 2020.

Richard Westling

Per Richard Westling was a Swedish mycologist and professor of pharmacognosy at the pharmaceutical institute in Stockholm, first describing Penicillium notatum, Fleming's penicillin mold, in his 1911 doctoral thesis.

Richard Whately

Richard Whately (1787–1863) was an Anglican divine and logician who served as Church of Ireland Archbishop of Dublin from 1831 to 1863, best known for his Elements of Logic (1826).

Richard White (actor)

Richard White (born 1953, Oak Ridge, Tennessee) is an American Broadway baritone and voice actor, the original voice of Gaston in Disney's 1991 Beauty and the Beast; also created Erik in Kopit/Yeston's Phantom and voiced Whisper in King's Quest. Distinct from the South African and Australian actors of the same name.