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Richard Alba
Richard Alba (1942–2025) was an American sociologist and demographer at the CUNY Graduate Center who revived assimilation theory, argued immigrant descendants integrate into mainstream society, and questioned the majority-minority future.
Richard Allen (bishop)
Richard Allen (1760–1831) was an American Methodist minister born enslaved in Philadelphia who bought his freedom, founded Mother Bethel Church, and became the first bishop of the African Methodist Episcopal Church in 1816.
Richard Allen Davis
Richard Allen Davis (born 1954), California career criminal who kidnapped and murdered 12-year-old Polly Klaas in Petaluma in 1993; convicted 1996, sentenced to death; case spurred California's three-strikes law.
Richard Arkwright
Richard Arkwright (1732–1792), English inventor and cotton manufacturer. Patented the roller-spinning water frame in 1769 and built Cromford Mill (1771), the model water-powered cotton mill; patents annulled 1785, knighted 1786.
Richard Armitage (government official)
Richard Lee Armitage (1945–2025) was an American diplomat, Vietnam veteran, and Deputy Secretary of State (2001–2005) under Colin Powell; he delivered the post-9/11 ultimatum to Pakistan and admitted being the Valerie Plame leak source.
Richard B. Freeman
Richard B. Freeman is an American labor economist, Herbert Ascherman Professor of Economics at Harvard, known for research on unions and the science and engineering workforce.
Richard B. Jackson
Richard B. Jackson, also known as Richard Brooke Jackson, is an American jurist serving as a senior United States district judge for the District of Colorado since 2021.
Richard B. Spencer
Richard B. Spencer, born Richard Bertrand Spencer, is an American white nationalist credited with coining "alt-right" in 2008 and who led the National Policy Institute through 2016 and 2017.
Richard Baldwin
Richard Baldwin is an American economist, professor of international economics at IMD Business School in Lausanne, known for his "second unbundling" framework explaining modern globalization.
Richard Bancroft
Richard Bancroft was Archbishop of Canterbury from 1604 to 1610 and Bishop of London before that, and played a major role in preparing the King James Version of the Bible.
Richard Bartholdt
Richard Bartholdt was a German-born American newspaper editor and Republican politician who represented St. Louis in the US House from 1893 to 1915, championing international arbitration.
Richard Baxter
Richard Baxter (1615–1691) was an English Puritan theologian and vicar of Kidderminster whose 'mere Christianity' made him leader of moderate dissent and one of the century's most prolific authors.
Richard Beasley (serial killer)
Richard James Beasley, the Ohio "Craigslist Killer," lured unemployed men with a fake $300-a-week farmhand job ad in 2011 and, with teen accomplice Brogan Rafferty, killed three men and wounded one; he received three death sentences in 2013.
Richard Benjamin Harrison
Richard Benjamin Harrison Jr. was an American pawnbroker who co-founded the Gold & Silver Pawn Shop in Las Vegas and starred on Pawn Stars as "the Old Man".
Richard Bentley
Richard Bentley (1662–1742) was an English classical scholar and Anglican theologian, Master of Trinity College, Cambridge, from 1700, remembered for proving the Epistles of Phalaris spurious.
Richard Blumenthal
Richard Blumenthal, also known as Dick Blumenthal, is an American Democratic politician and lawyer who has served as a US Senator from Connecticut since 2011, after five terms as Connecticut's Attorney General.
Richard Blundell
Richard Blundell, also known as Richard W. Blundell, is a British economist and econometrician at University College London, known for panel data methods and knighted in 2014.
Richard Borshay Lee
Richard Borshay Lee is a Canadian anthropologist and University Professor Emeritus at the University of Toronto, known for fieldwork among the Ju/'hoansi-!Kung San of Botswana and Namibia.
Richard Bourne (Royal Navy officer)
Captain Richard Bourne was a Dublin shipowner and former Royal Navy officer who co-founded the Peninsular Steam Navigation Company in 1835, the business that became P&O.
Richard Boyd Barrett
Richard Boyd Barrett is an Irish socialist politician, TD for Dún Laoghaire since 2011 and parliamentary leader of People Before Profit-Solidarity, known for anti-war campaigning, Palestine advocacy, and four consecutive election victories from 2011 to 2024.
Richard Brandon
Richard Brandon (died 20 June 1649) was London's common hangman, son of Gregory Brandon, and the traditional executioner of Charles I; he also beheaded Strafford and Laud, and his identification rests on contested 1649 pamphlets.
Richard Branson
Sir Richard Branson is a British entrepreneur who founded the Virgin Group in 1970 as a mail-order record business, building it into a brand-licensing group of about 80 companies.
Richard Burr
Richard Burr (born 1955) is a retired American Republican politician, U.S. senator from North Carolina 2005–2023 and House member 1995–2005, who chaired the Senate Intelligence Committee and was investigated, without charges, over 2020 stock sales.
Richard C. Atkinson
Richard C. Atkinson is an American experimental psychologist known for mathematical models of memory and for serving as president of the University of California from 1995 to 2003.
Richard C. Blum
Richard C. Blum was a San Francisco investor who founded Blum Capital Partners, co-chaired Newbridge Capital, founded the American Himalayan Foundation, and was married to Senator Dianne Feinstein.
Richard C. Tallman
Richard C. Tallman, born 1953, is an American jurist serving as a senior judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit since 2018.
Richard C. Wesley
Richard C. Wesley, born 1949, is an American jurist serving as a senior judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit since 2016.
Richard Challoner
Richard Challoner (1691–1781) was an English Catholic bishop who led the London District for forty years and revised the Douay–Rheims Bible between 1749 and 1752.
Richard Chang (semiconductor executive)
Richard Chang, or Zhang Rujing (张汝京), is a Chinese-American semiconductor executive born in 1948 who founded and led SMIC, China's largest chip foundry, from 2000 to 2009.
Richard Chase
Richard Trenton Chase, the "Vampire of Sacramento" or "Dracula Killer," murdered six people in Sacramento, California, December 1977 to January 1978, drank victims' blood, was found sane at trial, sentenced to death, and died by suicide at San Quentin in 1980.