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Richard Cloward
Richard Cloward (1926–2001) was an American sociologist and social-work educator at Columbia University who, with his wife Frances Fox Piven, proposed the welfare-rights strategy known as the Cloward–Piven strategy.
Richard Coles
Richard Coles, also known as Reverend Richard Coles, is a British Anglican priest and broadcaster who was an instrumentalist in the 1980s band the Communards.
Richard Cordray
Richard Cordray is an American lawyer and Democratic politician who served as the first Director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau from 2012 to 2017, after being Ohio Attorney General.
Richard Cottingham
Richard F. Cottingham, the 'Torso Killer' or 'Times Square Killer' (born 1946), an American serial killer active in New York and New Jersey from the 1960s to 1980; convicted of 11 homicides, later confessed to many more, claiming up to 100 victims.
Richard Cromwell
Richard Cromwell was an English statesman, the second and final Lord Protector, who succeeded his father Oliver Cromwell in 1658 and fell from power in May 1659.
Richard D. Bennett
Richard D. Bennett, born 1947 in Baltimore, is a senior United States district judge for the District of Maryland, appointed by President George W. Bush in 2003.
Richard D. Wolff
Richard D. Wolff (born 1942, Youngstown, Ohio) is an American Marxian economist, UMass Amherst professor emeritus, Democracy at Work co-founder, and Economic Update host known for his surplus-labor class theory with Stephen Resnick and advocacy of worker self-directed enterprises.
Richard de Clare, 2nd Earl of Pembroke
Richard de Clare, called Strongbow (c. 1130–1176), second Earl of Pembroke and Strigoil, Anglo-Norman lord who married Aoife MacMurrough, led the 1170 landing at Waterford, became lord of Leinster, and died as Henry II's representative in Ireland.
Richard Dearlove
Sir Richard Dearlove, KCMG OBE, was Chief ('C') of Britain's Secret Intelligence Service (MI6) from 1999 to July 2004, covering 9/11 and the Iraq WMD dossier controversy, then Master of Pembroke College, Cambridge.
Richard DeVos
Richard Marvin DeVos (1926–2018) was an American businessman who co-founded the direct-selling company Amway with Jay Van Andel in 1959 and owned the NBA's Orlando Magic.
Richard Dimbleby
Richard Dimbleby (1913–1965), BBC's first news observer and first war correspondent, reported Belsen in 1945, commentated the 1953 Coronation for 20 million viewers, anchored Panorama, and inspired the Richard Dimbleby Lecture.
Richard E. Myers II
Richard E. Myers II, also known as Richard Ernest Myers, II, is an American jurist serving as a district judge in the Eastern District of North Carolina since 2019.
Richard E. N. Federico
Richard Edward Neel Federico is an American jurist serving as a judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit since 2023, appointed by President Biden.
Richard Egan (businessman)
Richard Egan, known as Dick Egan, was an American engineer who co-founded EMC Corporation in 1979 and served as US Ambassador to Ireland from 2001 to 2003.
Richard Elman (commodities trader)
Richard Elman is a British commodities trader who founded Noble Group in Hong Kong in 1986 and built it into Asia's biggest commodity trader before its 2018 collapse.
Richard Engel
Richard Engel (born 1973/1974, New York) is NBC News' chief foreign correspondent since 2008, known for covering the Iraq War from Baghdad, the Arab Spring, Syria, and Ukraine, and for his 2012 kidnapping in Syria.
Richard Epstein
Richard A. Epstein, American legal scholar; University of Chicago and NYU law professor, Hoover fellow; author of Takings (1985), Simple Rules for a Complex World (1995), and The Classical Liberal Constitution (2014), third most cited US legal scholar 2009-2013.
Richard Evonitz
Richard Marc Evonitz (1963–2002) was an American serial killer who murdered three girls in Spotsylvania County, Virginia, in 1996–1997; identified in 2002 after Kara Robinson escaped his South Carolina abduction, he died by suicide and was never tried.
Richard F. Boulware II
Richard F. Boulware II, born 1968, is an American jurist serving as a United States district judge for the District of Nevada since 2014, appointed by President Barack Obama.
Richard F. Suhrheinrich
Richard F. Suhrheinrich is an American jurist and senior judge of the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals, appointed by President George H.W. Bush in 1990.
Richard Fenno
Richard Fenno (1926–2020) was an American political scientist at the University of Rochester who studied Congress closely and identified Fenno's Paradox, that voters distrust Congress but reelect their own representatives.
Richard Francis Burton
Sir Richard Francis Burton (1821-1890), British explorer, linguist, and translator; reached Mecca in disguise in 1853 and Lake Tanganyika with Speke in 1858; translated the Arabian Nights and Kama Sutra.
Richard Francis Weymouth
Richard Francis Weymouth (1822–1902) was an English Baptist philologist and schoolmaster who compiled the Resultant Greek Testament and translated the New Testament in Modern Speech.
Richard Frederick Littledale
Richard Frederick Littledale (1833–1890) was an Anglo-Irish priest of the Church of England and prolific Anglo-Catholic writer who completed Neale's Commentary on the Psalms and defended incense and the mixed chalice.
Richard Fuisz
Richard C. Fuisz, American physician-inventor, founder of Fuisz Pharma LLC with son Joseph Fuisz; known for oral drug delivery patents (shearform tablet, thin film protecting Suboxone) and the 2011 Theranos patent litigation.
Richard Fuller (Bedfordshire politician)
Richard Fuller is a British Conservative politician who has represented North Bedfordshire since 2024 and has served as Shadow Chief Secretary to the Treasury since November 2024.
Richard G. Andrews
Richard G. Andrews, born Richard Gibson Andrews in 1955, is an American jurist serving as a United States district judge for the District of Delaware since 2011.
Richard G. Seeborg
Richard G. Seeborg, born in 1956, is an American district judge for the Northern District of California, appointed by President Obama in 2010 and serving as chief judge from 2021 to 2026.
Richard G. Stearns
Richard Gaylore Stearns, born in 1944, is an American jurist serving as a judge of the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts since 1993.
Richard G. Taranto
Richard Gary Taranto, born in 1957, is an American judge on the Federal Circuit court of appeals since 2013 who earlier argued 19 Supreme Court cases as a patent lawyer.