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Richard Lee McNair
Richard Lee McNair (born 1958) is an American murderer and repeat prison escapee who broke out three times (1988, 1992, 2006), once by mailing himself out of USP Pollock in a mailbag pallet, and was recaptured in Canada in 2007.
Richard Lee Tabler
Richard Lee Tabler (1979-2025), Texas death row inmate executed February 13, 2025 for the 2004 Killeen murders of Mohamed-Amine Rahmouni and Haitham Zayed; also confessed to killing Tiffany Dotson and Amanda Benefield; triggered 2008 prison lockdown via smuggled cell phone.
Richard Lim (林仁俊)
Richard Lim (林仁俊) is a venture capitalist who co-founded GSR Ventures in 2004, making first-check investments in Qunar and DiDi, and founded Informed Ventures around 2025.
Richard Linn
Richard Linn, born in 1944, is an American jurist serving as a senior judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit since 2012.
Richard Liu (Liu Qin)
Richard Liu, born Liu Qin, is a Chinese venture capitalist who co-founded 5Y Capital in 2007 and is best known as Xiaomi's first institutional investor.
Richard Lugar
Richard Lugar (1932-2019), Republican mayor of Indianapolis (1968-1975) and six-term U.S. Senator from Indiana (1977-2013), co-authored the 1991 Nunn-Lugar Cooperative Threat Reduction Program and was defeated in the 2012 GOP primary by Richard Mourdock.
Richard Lynn
Richard Lynn (1930–2023), British psychologist and University of Ulster professor emeritus, compiled the national IQ database with Tatu Vanhanen, led the Pioneer Fund, and saw his race-and-IQ work discredited and targeted for retraction.
Richard M. Berman
Richard M. Berman, born in 1943, is a senior United States district judge for the Southern District of New York, appointed by President Bill Clinton in 1998.
Richard M. Gergel
Richard Mark Gergel, born 1954 in Columbia, South Carolina, is a United States district judge for the District of South Carolina since 2010, appointed by President Barack Obama.
Richard MacNeish
Richard MacNeish (1918–2001) was an American archaeologist whose multidisciplinary excavations in Mexico's Tehuacán Valley and Peru's Ayacucho Valley established when and how agriculture arose in the Americas.
Richard Marcinko
Richard Marcinko (1940–2021), US Navy SEAL commander, founded and led SEAL Team Six from 1980 after Operation Eagle Claw; later convicted of contract fraud and author of Rogue Warrior.
Richard Marles
Richard Marles is an Australian Labor Party politician who serves as Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Defence, and is a member of parliament for the party.
Richard Marsh (brewer)
Richard Marsh was a Faversham brewer who leased the Court Street brewery in 1678 and bought it outright in 1698, the founding date of Shepherd Neame, Britain's oldest brewer.
Richard Matt
Richard Matt (1966–2015), Tonawanda, New York murderer and repeat escapee; with David Sweat he cut out of Clinton Correctional Facility's Honor Block in June 2015, triggering a $23 million manhunt ending in his death in Malone.
Richard McKelvey
Richard McKelvey (1944–2002) was an American political scientist and social choice theorist at Caltech, best known for his chaos theorems on majority-rule cycling and agenda control.
Richard Meinertzhagen
Richard Meinertzhagen (1878–1967), British soldier, spy, and ornithologist, donated about 20,000 bird specimens to the Natural History Museum; many were stolen and relabeled, the greatest ornithological fraud.
Richard Mentor Johnson
Richard Mentor Johnson (1780-1850), Kentucky congressman and War of 1812 colonel, ninth US vice president (1837-41) and the only one chosen by the Senate, after falling one electoral vote short in 1836; famed for the unproven Tecumseh claim.
Richard Montagu
Richard Montagu, also spelled Mountague, was an Anglican controversialist and bishop of Chichester from 1628 and Norwich from 1638 whose writings triggered the first English accusations of Arminianism.
Richard Musgrave (economist)
Richard Musgrave (1910–2007) was a German-born American economist widely regarded as the founder of modern public finance, known for his three-branch framework of allocation, distribution, and stabilization.
Richard Myers
Richard B. Myers (born 1942, Kansas City, Missouri) is a retired US Air Force general, 15th Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff (2001-2005), acting Chairman on 9/11, first Vice Chairman to succeed his predecessor.
Richard N. Goodwin
Richard N. Goodwin (Richard Naradof Goodwin, 1931–2018) was an American speechwriter and adviser to Presidents Kennedy and Johnson who coined "the Great Society" and wrote LBJ's "We Shall Overcome" voting rights speech; distinct from other Goodwins.
Richard N. Haass
Richard N. Haass, American diplomat and foreign policy scholar, CFR president for twenty years, director of policy planning under Colin Powell, and author of A World in Disarray and The Bill of Obligations.
Richard Neal
Richard E. Neal is an American Democratic politician who has represented Massachusetts's 1st congressional district in the U.S. House since 2013, after serving the 2nd district from 1989.
Richard Neville, 16th Earl of Warwick
Richard Neville, 16th Earl of Warwick, 'the Kingmaker' (1428-1471), English magnate who placed Edward IV on the throne in 1461, restored Henry VI in 1470, and died at Barnet.
Richard Nixon
Richard Nixon, also known as Richard Milhous Nixon, was the 37th president of the United States and the first president to resign, in 1974, after the Watergate scandal.
Richard Nixon 1972 presidential campaign
Richard Nixon's 1972 presidential campaign was his successful Republican re-election bid, defeating Senator George McGovern with 60.7 percent of the vote and every state but Massachusetts.
Richard Oakes (activist)
Richard Oakes (1942–1972), Akwesasne Mohawk activist and Red Power leader, organized the 1969 occupation of Alcatraz Island, led Fort Lawton and Pit River campaigns, and was killed in 1972.
Richard of Conisburgh, 3rd Earl of Cambridge
Richard of Conisburgh, 3rd Earl of Cambridge (1385–1415), son of Edmund of Langley, Duke of York, married Anne Mortimer, fathered the 3rd Duke of York, and was beheaded in 1415 for the Southampton Plot against Henry V.
Richard of Dover
Richard of Dover (died 1184) was a Norman-born Benedictine monk who served as archbishop of Canterbury from 1174 to 1184, the immediate successor to Thomas Becket.
Richard of Shrewsbury, Duke of York
Richard of Shrewsbury, Duke of York (1473–1483?), second son of Edward IV and younger Prince in the Tower, disappeared in the Tower of London in summer 1483 under his uncle Richard III; fate unproven.