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Richie Ray and Bobby Cruz

Richie Ray and Bobby Cruz, also billed as Ricardo Ray & Bobby Cruz, are a Puerto Rican-American salsa duo known for "Sonido Bestial" who converted to evangelical Christianity in 1974.

Richie Rich (2015 TV series)

Richie Rich (2015 TV series), also known as the Netflix Richie Rich sitcom: live-action AwesomenessTV comedy developed by Jeff Hodsden and Tim Pollock, 21 episodes in 2015, starring Jake Brennan as a trillionaire kid inventor, with Jenna Ortega as Darcy.

Richie Rich (film)

Richie Rich is a 1994 American live-action family comedy directed by Donald Petrie, starring Macaulay Culkin as a boy billionaire who must rescue his kidnapped parents and family company.

Richie Roberts

Richie Roberts, the Essex County assistant prosecutor who led the investigation of Harlem heroin trafficker Frank Lucas and later served as Lucas's defense attorney, is best known as Russell Crowe's character in American Gangster (2007).

Richie Sambora

Richie Sambora (born 1959) is an American guitarist, singer, and songwriter, Bon Jovi's lead guitarist 1983-2013 and co-writer of its biggest hits; also solo artist, RSO member, Rock Hall and Songwriters Hall of Fame inductee.

Richie Saunders (basketball)

Richie Saunders (born 2001) is an American guard for the Memphis Grizzlies, drafted No. 32 in 2026 after a BYU career as a walk-on turned All-Big 12 shooter and tater-tot heir.

Richie Steamboat

Richie Steamboat, ring name of Richard Blood Jr. (born 1987), son of Ricky Steamboat; WWE developmental wrestler 2009-2013, final FCW Florida Heavyweight Champion, retired at 25 by a back injury.

Richie Tozier

Richie "Trashmouth" Tozier, Richard Tozier, fictional member of the Losers' Club in Stephen King's It (1986); wisecracking kid with glasses and impressions, adult L.A. disc jockey; played by Finn Wolfhard and Bill Hader in the 2017-2019 films.

Richieri Costa-Pereira syndrome

Richieri Costa-Pereira syndrome, also called Robin sequence with cleft mandible and limb anomalies, is a rare autosomal recessive acrofacial dysostosis caused by an EIF4A3 5'UTR repeat expansion, mainly in Brazilian families, with Robin sequence, cleft mandible, and limb defects.

Richland Balsam

Richland Balsam, a 6,410-ft peak near Waynesville, North Carolina, is the highest summit on the Blue Ridge Parkway; its road crosses at 6,053 ft (Milepost 431.4) through threatened red spruce-Fraser fir forest.

Richland County, Ohio, United States

Richland County, Ohio: north-central Ohio county established March 1, 1808, county seat Mansfield, named for fertile land; population about 124,900, FIPS 39139.

Richland, Washington

Richland, Washington: a Tri-Cities city at the Columbia-Yakima river confluence, founded 1892, incorporated 1910, rebuilt in 1943 as the government town for the Hanford plutonium project, self-governing since 1958, population 60,560 (2020).

Richmond (Yorks) (UK Parliament constituency)

Richmond (Yorks) was a county constituency in North Yorkshire that returned one MP to the House of Commons from 1868 until its abolition in 2024.

Richmond and Northallerton

Richmond and Northallerton: UK parliamentary constituency in North Yorkshire created by the 2023 boundary review, first contested 2024, replacing Richmond (Yorks). MP Rishi Sunak (Conservative) held it in 2024 with 47.5% and a 12,185 majority.

Richmond County, Georgia, United States

Richmond County, Georgia (FIPS 13245), county seat Augusta; consolidated with Augusta since 1996 as Augusta-Richmond County; 206,607 residents (2020); formed 1777 from St. Paul's Parish, named for the Duke of Richmond.

Richmond County, New York, United States

Richmond County, New York, coextensive with the Staten Island borough; one of New York's ten original counties, established November 1, 1683, named for the Duke of Richmond; 495,747 residents in 2020.

Richmond Flying Mummies

Richmond Flying Mummies, Northwoods League summer collegiate baseball team in Richmond, Indiana, playing at Don McBride Stadium since May 25, 2026; named for two local Egyptian mummies and the Wright Brothers, finished 2026 at 29-43.

Richmond Football Club

Richmond Football Club, the Tigers, is an AFL club formed in 1885 at Punt Road, Melbourne, with 13 VFL/AFL premierships including 2017, 2019 and 2020, now rebuilding under coach Adem Yze with an AFLW side since 2020.

Richmond Heights, Florida

Richmond Heights, Florida, also known as Richmond Heights, FL, is a Miami-Dade County community founded in 1949 as a planned suburb for African American World War II veterans.

Richmond High School (Richmond, California)

Richmond High School (Richmond Union High School), a public 9-12 school in Richmond, California, part of West Contra Costa Unified; founded 1907, about 1,233 students, career academies, and a $280 million phased modernization.

Richmond Hill High School (Ontario)

Richmond Hill High School (RHHS) is a public secondary school in Richmond Hill, Ontario, operated by the York Region District School Board and tracing its origins to a grammar school founded in 1851.

Richmond Hill, Ontario

Richmond Hill is a city in York Region, Ontario, north of Toronto on Yonge Street. Incorporated as a village in 1873, renamed a city in 2019, population over 200,000 since 2014, growing around the Richmond Hill Centre transit hub and the Yonge North Subway Extension.

Richmond Lattimore

Richmond Alexander Lattimore (1906–1984) was an American poet, classicist, and Bryn Mawr professor of Greek, known for his line-for-line verse translations of Homer's Iliad (1951) and Odyssey (1967) and the Complete Greek Tragedies.

Richmond Mayo-Smith

Richmond Mayo-Smith (1854–1901) was an American economist and statistician, professor of political economy at Columbia from 1883, who gave the first university statistics course in America and wrote the two-volume Science of Statistics.

Richmond Palace

Richmond Palace, formerly Shene, was a royal residence on the Thames at Richmond, rebuilt by Henry VII after a 1497 fire and demolished in the 1650s.

Richmond Park

Richmond Park: largest of London's eight Royal Parks at 2,500 acres, a Charles I deer park enclosed by an eight-mile wall, now a National Nature Reserve with deer herds and protected St Paul's view.

Richmond Sarpong

Richmond Sarpong, born in Ghana in 1974, is an American synthetic organic chemist at UC Berkeley known for total synthesis and single-atom skeletal editing of molecules.

Richmond-Berea, KY Micro Area

Richmond-Berea, KY Micro Area (CBSA 40080): an OMB-designated Kentucky micropolitan statistical area with principal cities Richmond and Berea, covering Madison and Rockcastle counties, about 128,500 residents, part of the Lexington-Fayette-Richmond-Frankfort combined statistical area.

Richmond–San Rafael Bridge

The Richmond–San Rafael Bridge, officially the John F. McCarthy Memorial Bridge, is a double-deck cantilever toll bridge carrying Interstate 580 between Richmond and San Rafael, opened in 1956.

Richmond, British Columbia

Richmond, British Columbia: island city in Metro Vancouver at the Fraser River mouth, on Sea Island, Lulu Island, and 15 smaller islands; 241,375 residents (2025 est.), about 1 m above sea level, protected by 49 km of dikes.