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Richard II, Duke of Normandy
Richard II (the Good), duke of Normandy 996–1026, son of Richard I and Gunnor; first unambiguous duke of Normandy, allied Normandy with England via Emma's marriage, patron of Dudo's Historia.
Richard III of England
Richard III (1452–1485), last Plantagenet king of England, reigned 1483–1485 and died at Bosworth Field fighting Henry Tudor. Found under a Leicester car park in 2012, identified 2013, reburied at Leicester Cathedral 2015.
Richard J. Arcara
Richard J. Arcara, born 1940 in Buffalo, is a senior United States district judge for the Western District of New York, appointed by President Reagan in 1988.
Richard J. Daley
Richard J. Daley (1902-1976), six-term mayor of Chicago 1955-1976 and Cook County Democratic chairman, boss of the city's political machine; builder of expressways, O'Hare expansion, and UIC, criticized for segregation and the 1968 convention violence.
Richard J. Davidson
Richard J. Davidson, born 1951, is an American neuroscientist at the University of Wisconsin–Madison who studies the brain bases of emotion and, since meeting the Dalai Lama in 1992, meditation.
Richard J. Donovan Correctional Facility
Richard J. Donovan Correctional Facility (RJD, RJDCF), California state prison for men on Otay Mesa, San Diego, opened July 1987, CDCR-run, Levels I–IV, SNY yards, only state prison in San Diego County.
Richard J. Evans
Sir Richard J. Evans (born 1947) is a British historian of modern Germany, Regius Professor of History at Cambridge, author of the Third Reich trilogy, and principal expert witness in the 2000 Irving v. Penguin libel trial.
Richard J. Haier
Richard J. Haier is an American psychologist at UC Irvine known for the parieto-frontal integration theory (P-FIT) of intelligence and his 1988 PET brain-imaging studies.
Richard J. Leon
Richard J. Leon, born in 1949 in South Natick, Massachusetts, is a senior United States district judge for the District of Columbia, appointed by President George W. Bush in 2002.
Richard J. Oglesby
Richard James Oglesby (1824-1899), Union major general and three-term Republican governor of Illinois (1865-69, 1873, 1885-89) and U.S. senator 1873-79, first Illinois governor elected three times.
Richard J. Sullivan
Richard J. Sullivan, born 1964, is an American jurist serving as a United States circuit judge on the Second Circuit since 2018, appointed by President Trump.
Richard Jewell
Richard Jewell (born Richard White, 1962-2007), American security guard who found the 1996 Centennial Olympic Park bomb, was wrongly named an FBI suspect, cleared October 1996; real bomber Eric Rudolph; 2019 Eastwood film.
Richard Joshua Reynolds
Richard Joshua Reynolds (1850–1918) was an American tobacco manufacturer who founded the R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Company in Winston, North Carolina, in 1875 and introduced Camel cigarettes.
Richard K. Eaton
Richard K. Eaton (born 1948) is an American jurist serving as a senior judge of the United States Court of International Trade since 2014, appointed by President Bill Clinton in 1999.
Richard K. Lubin
Richard K. Lubin is a private equity investor who co-founded Boston's Berkshire Partners in 1986, now a Senior Advisor, after a partnership at the Thomas H. Lee Company.
Richard Kerby
Richard Kerby is an American venture capital investor who co-founded the New York City seed-stage firm Equal Ventures in 2019 and later founded Field Ventures.
Richard Keys
Richard Keys, English sports presenter born 1957 in Coventry, anchored Sky Sports' Super Sunday and Monday Night Football from 1992, resigned in the 2011 Sian Massey sexism row, and later presented the Keys and Gray show on beIN Sports in Doha.
Richard Kinder
Richard Kinder, known as Rich Kinder, is an American energy executive who co-founded Kinder Morgan in 1997, owns roughly 11 percent of it, and takes a $1 annual salary.
Richard Klein (paleoanthropologist)
Richard G. Klein is a Stanford paleoanthropologist and zooarchaeologist known for analyzing animal bones from South African Stone Age sites and for arguing that modern humans spread from Africa about 50,000 years ago.
Richard Kleindienst
Richard Gordon Kleindienst (1923–2000), Arizona lawyer and Republican, 68th U.S. Attorney General under Nixon (1972–1973); resigned in the Watergate scandal and in 1974 pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor for false confirmation-hearing testimony about the ITT antitrust case.
Richard Koon
Richard Nagbe Koon (born 1970, Monrovia) is a Liberian Unity Party politician, representative of Montserrado District 11 and Speaker of the House of Representatives since 21 November 2024, re-elected 13 May 2025 after a Supreme Court ruling voided his first election.
Richard Kramlich
Richard Kramlich, known as Dick Kramlich (1935–2025), was an American venture capitalist who co-founded New Enterprise Associates in 1977 and was an early investor in Apple Computer.
Richard Kuklinski
Richard Kuklinski, "The Iceman" (1935–2006), New Jersey murderer convicted of five killings plus a police detective's murder, sentenced to consecutive life terms; his claims of 100+ Mafia hits were widely disputed. Not the Polish spy Ryszard Kukliński.
Richard L. Church
Richard L. Church is an American geographer and location scientist, Distinguished Professor Emeritus at UC Santa Barbara, elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2022.
Richard L. Rubenstein
Richard L. Rubenstein (1924–2021) was an American rabbi and theologian whose 1966 book After Auschwitz argued that the Holocaust made belief in a providential God untenable.
Richard L. Voorhees
Richard L. Voorhees is an American jurist serving as a senior United States district judge for the Western District of North Carolina, appointed by President Ronald Reagan in 1988.
Richard L. Young
Richard L. Young, born 1953, is an American jurist serving as a senior United States district judge for the Southern District of Indiana since 2023.
Richard Lamm
Richard Douglas Lamm (1935-2021), American Democratic politician and three-term governor of Colorado (1975-1987), known for the 1967 abortion law, defeating Denver's 1976 Winter Olympics, and a 1996 Reform Party presidential bid.
Richard Lawrence (failed assassin)
Richard Lawrence, English-born unemployed house painter in Washington, D.C., attempted the first assassination of a sitting U.S. president, firing two misfiring pistols at Andrew Jackson on January 30, 1835; found not guilty by reason of insanity.
Richard le Grant
Richard le Grant, also called Richard le Grand or Richard Magnus, was the 45th Archbishop of Canterbury from 1229 to 1231, provided by Pope Gregory IX after the monks' election was quashed.