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Richard Zeckhauser

Richard Zeckhauser is an American economist, the Frank P. Ramsey Professor at Harvard Kennedy School since 1972, known for decision theory and pioneering policy analysis.

Richardo Forrer

Richardo Forrer is a trading executive who is Chief Operating Officer, listed by his firm as Head of Business, of Belvedere Trading LLC, a proprietary trading and market-making firm in Chicago.

Richardson family murders

Richardson family murders: April 2006 killings of Marc, Debra, and Jacob Richardson in Medicine Hat, Alberta, by 12-year-old Jasmine Richardson and 23-year-old Jeremy Steinke; her sentence was capped at ten years under the Youth Criminal Justice Act.

Richardson High School

Richardson High School is a public high school in Richardson, Texas, operated by RISD. It offers ten CTE magnet programs, including Cybersecurity and Culinary Arts.

Richemont

Richemont, formally Compagnie Financière Richemont SA, is a Swiss luxury goods group registered in Geneva and listed on the SIX Swiss Exchange, best known for owning Cartier.

Richie Roberts

Richie Roberts, the Essex County assistant prosecutor who led the investigation of Harlem heroin trafficker Frank Lucas and later served as Lucas's defense attorney, is best known as Russell Crowe's character in American Gangster (2007).

Richmond (Yorks) (UK Parliament constituency)

Richmond (Yorks) was a county constituency in North Yorkshire that returned one MP to the House of Commons from 1868 until its abolition in 2024.

Richmond and Northallerton

Richmond and Northallerton: UK parliamentary constituency in North Yorkshire created by the 2023 boundary review, first contested 2024, replacing Richmond (Yorks). MP Rishi Sunak (Conservative) held it in 2024 with 47.5% and a 12,185 majority.

Richmond High School (Richmond, California)

Richmond High School (Richmond Union High School), a public 9-12 school in Richmond, California, part of West Contra Costa Unified; founded 1907, about 1,233 students, career academies, and a $280 million phased modernization.

Richmond Hill High School (Ontario)

Richmond Hill High School (RHHS) is a public secondary school in Richmond Hill, Ontario, operated by the York Region District School Board and tracing its origins to a grammar school founded in 1851.

Richmond Mayo-Smith

Richmond Mayo-Smith (1854–1901) was an American economist and statistician, professor of political economy at Columbia from 1883, who gave the first university statistics course in America and wrote the two-volume Science of Statistics.

Richter Rasen

Richter Rasen is an Austrian family firm founded in 1906 in Deutsch Brodersdorf, Lower Austria, that grows and installs turf for gardens, sports grounds, and stadiums.

Richthofen case

Richthofen case: 2002 São Paulo parricide of Manfred and Marísia von Richthofen, planned by Suzane von Richthofen with Daniel and Cristian Cravinhos; 2006 jury convictions, 39-year sentences, later regime progression, and landmark Brazilian media-spectacularization scholarship.

Rick Allen

Rick Allen, also known as Rick W. Allen, is an American politician and Republican U.S. Representative for Georgia's 12th congressional district since 2015, and the 2026 Republican nominee.

Rick Blangiardi

Rick Blangiardi is an American Independent politician and former broadcast executive who has served as Mayor of Honolulu, Hawaii since 2021, winning reelection in 2024 with 78% of the vote.

Rick Brattin

Rick Brattin is an American Republican politician, a Missouri state senator since 2020 and the 2026 Republican nominee for the U.S. House in Missouri's 5th District.

Rick Caruso

Rick Caruso is an American billionaire real-estate developer who founded the Los Angeles company Caruso in 1987, built The Grove, and lost the 2022 mayoral election to Karen Bass.

Rick Crawford

Rick Crawford, born Eric A. "Rick" Crawford, is an American Republican politician who has represented Arkansas's 1st congressional district in the U.S. House since 2011.

Rick Crosson

Rick Crosson is an American Democratic politician and retired Army lieutenant colonel, the 2026 nominee for U.S. House in Wisconsin's 8th District against Rep. Tony Wied.

Rick Dees

Rick Dees (Rigdon Osmond Dees III) is an American radio personality best known for the syndicated Rick Dees Weekly Top 40 and the 1976 hit "Disco Duck."

Rick Edmonds

Rick Edmonds is an American Republican politician who served in the Louisiana House from 2016 to 2024 and now represents District 6 in the Louisiana Senate.

Rick Gerson

Rick Gerson is an American investor who co-founded Alpha Wave Global in 2012, chairing the $29 billion asset manager formerly named Falcon Edge Capital, with investments including SpaceX and OpenAI.

Rick Girdler

Rick Girdler is an American politician and Republican member of the Kentucky Senate representing the 15th district, covering five counties including Pulaski and Wayne; in 2026 he sponsored Senate Bill 97 on prosthetics insurance coverage.

Rick Hansen

Rick Hansen (born 1957) is a Canadian Paralympian and disability advocate whose 1985-1987 Man In Motion World Tour covered 40,000 km through 34 countries, raising $26 million, and who founded the Rick Hansen Foundation in 1988.

Rick Harrison

Rick Harrison is an American pawnbroker who co-founded the Gold & Silver Pawn Shop in Las Vegas and stars in the History Channel series Pawn Stars.

Rick Jackson (businessman)

Rick Jackson (born 1955) is an American healthcare staffing billionaire, founder and CEO of Jackson Healthcare in Alpharetta, Georgia, and the Republican nominee in the 2026 Georgia governor's race, distinguished by record self-funding over $108 million and roughly $1 billion in state contracts.

Rick Larsen

Rick Larsen, born in 1965, is an American Democrat who has represented Washington's 2nd congressional district in the U.S. House since 2001 and is the Ranking Member of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee.

Rick Leventhal

Rick Leventhal (Richard Gary Leventhal, born 1960) is an American TV journalist, Fox News senior correspondent 1997-2021 known for 9/11 and Iraq embed reporting, now hosting The Leventhal Report on Newsmax2.

Rick Lopes

Rick Lopes is an American Democratic politician serving in the Connecticut Senate from the 6th district, elected in 2020 after six years in the state House.

Rick Niemeyer

Rick Niemeyer is an American Republican politician who has represented Indiana Senate District 6 since 2014 and chairs the Senate Committee on Environmental Affairs; he previously served in the Indiana House of Representatives.