Society and history

Richard Simon

Richard Simon (1638–1712) was a French Oratorian priest and Hebraist known as the father of biblical criticism; his 1678 Histoire critique du Vieux Testament was suppressed and he was expelled from the Oratory.

Richard Sipe

A.W. Richard Sipe (1932–2018) was an American Benedictine monk, Catholic priest, and psychotherapist whose 25-year study of clergy produced widely cited estimates on celibacy and abuse.

Sep 19, 2026

Richard Sogge

Richard Sogge is an engineer who co-founded Data General Corporation in Hudson, Massachusetts, in 1968, after leaving Digital Equipment Corporation to build the Nova minicomputer.

Sep 21, 2026

Richard Solomon (psychologist)

Richard Solomon was an American experimental psychologist at the University of Pennsylvania, elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1968, best known for opponent-process theory.

Richard Sorge (Рихард Зорге)

Richard Sorge (Рихард Зорге), codename Ramsay, 1895–1944, Soviet GRU spy in Tokyo posing as a German journalist; reported Barbarossa's date and Japan's 1941 decision not to attack the USSR; hanged in Tokyo, named Hero of the Soviet Union in 1964.

Richard Speck

Richard Speck (1941–1991), American mass murderer who killed eight student nurses in Chicago on July 13–14, 1966; survivor Corazon Amurao identified him; convicted 1967, died in Stateville prison of a heart attack.

Sep 19, 2026

Richard Steeves

Richard Steeves is a healthcare entrepreneur who founded Synergy Health in Swindon in 1991, built it into a leading sterilization provider, and sold it to STERIS for $1.9 billion.

Sep 21, 2026

Richard Stone

Richard Stone was a British economist and statistician at Cambridge who won the 1984 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences for developing systems of national accounts.

Richard Stuart

Richard Stuart, born 1964, is an American Republican politician and former Marine and prosecutor who has represented Virginia's 25th Senate district since 2008.

Richard T. Ely

Richard T. Ely, full name Richard Theodore Ely, was an American economist who founded the American Economic Association in 1885 and built Wisconsin's graduate social science program.

Richard T. Ford

Richard T. Ford is an American legal scholar, the George E. Osborne Professor of Law at Stanford Law School, known for books on race and civil rights law.

Richard Takáč

Richard Takáč is a Slovak politician of Smer-SD and one of its deputy leaders, serving as Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development after local and regional offices in Prievidza and the Trenčín region.

Richard Tice

Richard Tice (born 1964, Farnham) is a British property businessman and Reform UK politician: MEP 2019-20, Reform leader 2021-24, MP for Boston and Skegness since July 2024 and Reform's deputy leader and principal financier.

Richard Topcliffe

Richard Topcliffe (1531–1604), also called the priestfinder-general, was Elizabethan England's most infamous torturer, a Privy Council rack-master who hunted Catholic priests and read their books forensically.

Richard Tremblay

Richard Tremblay is a Canadian developmental psychologist, professor emeritus at Université de Montréal, whose research showed that physical aggression appears in infancy and declines as children learn to control it.

Richard V. Spencer

Richard V. Spencer (born 1954), Marine Corps aviator and financier, was the 76th U.S. Secretary of the Navy (2017–2019), briefly Acting Secretary of Defense, and was removed in November 2019 over the Eddie Gallagher SEAL disciplinary case.

Sep 19, 2026

Richard Valtr

Richard Valtr is a Czech technology founder and former hotelier who founded Mews in Prague in 2012, a hotel software company valued at $2.5 billion in 2026.

Richard Vanlalhmangaiha

Richard Vanlalhmangaiha, born in 1978 in Aizawl, is an Indian politician of the Zoram People's Movement who has represented Mizoram in the Lok Sabha since 2024.

Richard von Coudenhove-Kalergi

Richard Nikolaus von Coudenhove-Kalergi (1894-1972), Austrian-Japanese count, founder of the Pan-European Union, author of Pan-Europa (1923), precursor of European integration and the Council of Europe.

Richard W. Roberts (judge)

Richard W. Roberts, born in 1953, is an American jurist who served as a federal district judge in Washington, D.C., appointed by President Bill Clinton in 1998.

Richard W. Story

Richard W. Story, born in 1953 in Augusta, Georgia, is a United States district judge for the Northern District of Georgia since 1998, appointed by Bill Clinton.

Richard Wagner (judge)

Richard Wagner, 18th Chief Justice of Canada since December 18, 2017 and Supreme Court of Canada judge since October 5, 2012; former Montreal litigator, Quebec Court of Appeal judge, and administrator of the Government of Canada in 2021.

Richard Walters (Republican strategist)

Richard Walters is an American politician and Republican strategist who served as Chief of Staff of the Republican National Committee and became White House Deputy Chief of Staff in 2026.

Richard Walther Darré

Richard Walther Darré (1895–1953), German Nazi agrarian politician and Reich Minister of Food and Agriculture 1933–1942, formulator of the Blut und Boden (Blood and Soil) ideology, author of Neuadel aus Blut und Boden, removed in 1942, convicted at Nuremberg in 1949.