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Richard of St. Victor
Richard of St. Victor (died 1173) was a Scottish or English theologian and mystic, prior of the Abbey of Saint-Victor in Paris, known for his works on the Trinity and contemplation.
Richard of York, 3rd Duke of York
Richard of York, 3rd Duke of York (1411-1460), also Richard Plantagenet, was the richest English magnate, Protector under Henry VI, and Yorkist claimant killed at Wakefield, father of Edward IV.
Richard Ojeda
Richard Ojeda (Richard Neece Senator Ojeda II, born 1970) is a retired Army major, former West Virginia state senator, 2018 WV-03 House nominee who lost to Carol Miller, brief 2020 presidential candidate, 2020 Senate primary loser, and 2026 Democratic nominee for North Carolina's 9th District.
Richard Painter
Richard W. Painter (born 1961) is an American law professor, S. Walter Richey Professor of Corporate Law at the University of Minnesota, and former chief White House ethics lawyer under George W. Bush (2005–2007), later a CREW vice chair, Trump ethics critic, and 2018 DFL Senate candidate.
Richard Pan
Richard Pan is an American Democratic politician and pediatrician, the 2026 nominee for California's 6th congressional district who served in the state Senate and authored its school vaccination laws.
Richard Parker (mayor)
Richard Parker, British Labour and Co-operative politician, won the 2024 West Midlands mayoral election by 1,508 votes over Andy Street, becoming mayor of the West Midlands; former PwC partner, first elected office, term runs to May 2028.
Richard Posner
Richard Posner is an American jurist and legal scholar who served on the Seventh Circuit from 1981 to 2017 and led the law and economics movement.
Richard Proenneke
Richard (Dick) Proenneke, American naturalist and craftsman (1916-2003), built a spruce-log cabin by hand at Upper Twin Lake in Lake Clark National Park, Alaska, and lived there about 30 years, documenting his life in 255 journals and 16 mm film.
Richard Quest
Richard Austin Quest, born in Liverpool in 1962, is a British journalist and news anchor who serves as CNN International's chief business correspondent and anchors Quest Means Business.
Richard R. Clifton
Richard R. Clifton, born in 1950, is an American jurist serving as a senior United States circuit judge of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals since 2016.
Richard R. Nelson
Richard R. Nelson (1930–2025) was an American economist who co-founded modern evolutionary economics; with Sidney Winter he wrote the 1982 book An Evolutionary Theory of Economic Change.
Richard Ramirez
Richard Ramirez (Ricardo Leyva Muñoz Ramirez), the Night Stalker, American serial killer and burglar who committed nighttime home invasions in California 1984–1985, convicted of 13 murders in 1989, sentenced to death, died of B-cell lymphoma at San Quentin in 2013.
Richard Rawlings
Richard Rawlings is a Dallas entrepreneur who founded Gas Monkey Garage in 2004 and turned it into the Discovery Channel series Fast N' Loud, leaving television in 2020.
Richard Raymond (Texas politician)
Richard Peña Raymond, born 1960 in Alice, Texas, is an American Democratic politician who has represented Laredo and Webb County in the Texas House of Representatives since 2001.
Richard Rich, 1st Baron Rich
Richard Rich, 1st Baron Rich (1496/7-1567), English lawyer and lord chancellor under Edward VI; solicitor-general under Henry VIII, whose sole testimony at Thomas More's 1535 trial fixed his reputation for perjury and opportunism.
Richard Riordan
Richard J. Riordan (1930–2023) was an American attorney and venture capitalist who served as the 39th mayor of Los Angeles from 1993 to 2001, the last Republican to hold the office.
Richard Rogerson
Richard Rogerson is an American macroeconomist and labor economist at Princeton University, known for the home production model of business cycles and search-theoretic labor market research.
Richard Rohr
Richard Rohr is an American Franciscan friar ordained a Roman Catholic priest in 1970, author of more than 30 books, and founder of the Center for Action and Contemplation in Albuquerque, New Mexico.
Richard Roll
Richard Roll, also known as Richard W. Roll, is an American finance economist, Linde Institute Professor at Caltech, known for Roll's Critique and a 1984 bid-ask spread measure.
Richard Rorty
Richard Rorty (1931–2007), American neopragmatist philosopher, author of Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature; attacked representationalist epistemology, advanced epistemological behaviorism, liberal irony, and solidarity.
Richard Rothe
Richard Rothe (1799–1867) was a German Lutheran theologian at Heidelberg and Bonn, one of the most influential Protestant thinkers of the 19th century, known for his Theologische Ethik.
Richard Rush
Richard Rush (1780–1859), American statesman and diplomat, son of Benjamin Rush; U.S. Attorney General 1814–1817, acting Secretary of State who concluded the Rush-Bagot Agreement, minister to Britain 1817–1825, Treasury Secretary under John Quincy Adams, and minister to France 1847–1849.
Richard Russell Jr.
Richard Russell Jr., also known as Richard Brevard Russell Jr., was a Democratic senator from Georgia who served from 1933 until his death in 1971.
Richard S. Fuld Jr.
Richard S. Fuld Jr., known as Dick Fuld, is an American banker who led Lehman Brothers from 1994 until its 2008 bankruptcy, the largest in US history.
Richard S.j. Tol
Richard S.J. Tol is a Dutch-trained economist at the University of Sussex known for the FUND integrated assessment model and his meta-analyses of the social cost of carbon.
Richard Salter Storrs
Richard Salter Storrs (1821–1900) was an American Congregationalist minister, pastor of Brooklyn's Church of the Pilgrims from 1846 to 1899, who presided over the Brooklyn Bridge opening ceremonies.
Richard Santulli
Richard Santulli is an American aviation entrepreneur who created fractional jet ownership, built Executive Jet into NetJets, and sold it to Berkshire Hathaway in 1998.
Richard Schmalensee
Richard Schmalensee is an American economist, MIT Sloan professor and dean emeritus, a pioneer of multisided platform economics, and an expert witness in U.S. v. Microsoft.
Richard Scott, 10th Duke of Buccleuch
Richard Walter John Montagu Douglas Scott (born 1954), 10th Duke of Buccleuch and 12th Duke of Queensberry, Chief of Clan Scott, is a major Scottish landowner and public official, KT and KBE, whose estate holdings were downsized about 40 percent after 2018.
Richard Shelby
Richard C. Shelby, Alabama senator 1987–2023 and House member 1979–1987; Democrat until his November 9, 1994 party switch; chaired Intelligence, Banking, Rules, and Appropriations; succeeded by Katie Britt.