List of Famous people named Dick

Often it's a shorthand for Richard. Similar names: Richard, Dicky, Dickey, Dickie, Deke. Here are some famous Dicks:

Dick Pope

First Name Dick
Last Name Pope
Born on January 1, 1947 (age 79)

Richard Pope, B.S.C. is a British cinematographer who has worked with British film director Mike Leigh. He has twice been nominated for an Academy Award, for The Illusionist and Mr. Turner.

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Dick Jol

Dick Jol is a Dutch football referee, best known for supervising three matches during the 2000 UEFA European Football Championship held in Belgium and the Netherlands.

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Dick Sabot

First Name Dick
Last Name Sabot
Born on February 16, 1944
Died on July 6, 2005 (aged 61)

Richard Sabot was an economist, scholar, farmer, and Internet pioneer who was co-founder of Tripod.com, one of the first and most successful dot-coms, in 1992. He was also a co-founder of Eziba, an Internet venture which sold handcrafted goods from artisans around the world. He was a professor emeritus of economics at Williams College, and previously taught at Yale University, Oxford University, and Columbia University. He was a leading figure in building the Internet economy of Williamstown, Massachusetts, known as "Silicon Village" during the dot-com era.

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Dick Klein

First Name Dick
Last Name Klein
Born on September 16, 1920
Died on October 10, 2000 (aged 80)
Height 191 cm | 6'3

Dick Öland Klein was an American athlete and businessman who founded the National Basketball Association's Chicago Bulls in 1966. He served as the team's first general manager and later worked as a scout for the Phoenix Suns.

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Dick N. Lucas

First Name Dick
Last Name Lucas
Born on July 20, 1920
Died on August 27, 1997 (aged 77)

Dick N. Lucas was an American film animator, noteworthy as part of Walt Disney's Animation Department.

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Dick Lundy

First Name Dick
Last Name Lundy
Born on August 14, 1907
Died on April 7, 1990 (aged 82)

Richard James Lundy was an American animator and film director who worked at several animation studios including Walt Disney Animation Studios, MGM, and Hanna-Barbera. Lundy was a pioneer of personality animation and is best remembered as one of the creators of Donald Duck. Throughout his career he worked as a primary animator on at least 60 films, both short and feature-length, and directed 51 shorts.

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Dick Lane

First Name Dick
Last Name Lane
Born on May 28, 1899
Died on September 5, 1982 (aged 83)

Richard Lane was an American actor and television announcer/presenter. In movies he played assured, fast-talking slickers: usually press agents, policemen, and detectives, sometimes swindlers and frauds. He is perhaps best known to movie fans as "Inspector Farraday" in the Boston Blackie mystery-comedies. Lane also played Faraday in the first radio version of Boston Blackie, which ran on NBC from June 23, 1944 to September 15, 1944. Lane was an early arrival on television, first as a news reporter and then as a sports announcer, broadcasting wrestling and roller derby shows on KTLA-TV, mainly from the Grand Olympic Auditorium in Los Angeles.

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Dick Crockett

First Name Dick
Last Name Crockett
Born on February 27, 1915
Died on January 25, 1979 (aged 63)

Richard DeHart Crockett was an American television and film actor, stunt performer, stunt coordinator, producer, and director, best known for his work with director Blake Edwards.

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Dick Kelsey

First Name Dick
Last Name Kelsey
Died on May 3, 1987 (aged 17)

Dick Kelsey, by given name of Richmond Kelsey, was an important early animation art director and pioneer theme park designer and illustrator of children's books. His career spanned several of the most beloved Disney films in the 1940s-1950s, after which he assisted in the design of Disneyland in 1955. Translating the screen arts to real buildings, Kelsey was hired by the Marco Engineering firm of Cornelius Vanderbilt Wood to be a lead art director to design Magic Mountain theme park at Golden, Colorado in 1957. Later Kelsey became mentor to another prominent Disney artisan, Ron Dias, among whose films include Sleeping Beauty. In time, Kelsey returned to Disney work, including Bedknobs and Broomsticks and illustrating children's books of Disney films.

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Dick Enthoven

Richard Enthoven
First Name Dick
Last Name Enthoven

Richard Enthoven is a South African billionaire businessman, the owner of the casual dining chain Nando's, the Hollard Group of insurance companies, and Spier Wine Farm.

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