List of Famous people named Richard

Name Richard is among the most common names in USA, England, Canada, Germany, France, Australia, Austria, Switzerland. Shortened forms: Dick, Rick, Rich, Ricky. Similar names: Dick, Rick, Rich, Ricky, Richarda. Here are some famous Richards:

Richard Baneham

First Name Richard
Last Name Baneham
Born on November 30, 1969 (age 56)
Born in Ireland, Leinster

Richard Baneham is an Irish animator and visual effects supervisor, who has worked on such films as The Lord of the Rings film trilogy, the Chronicles of Narnia, and Avatar. Amongst other awards, Baneham has received a BAFTA Award for Best Special Visual Effects and an Academy Award for Best Visual Effects.

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Richard Friend

First Name Richard
Last Name Friend
Born on January 18, 1953 (age 73)

Sir Richard Henry Friend FRS FREng is a British physicist who is Cavendish Professor of Physics at the University of Cambridge and Tan Chin Tuan Centennial Professor at the National University of Singapore. Friend's research concerns the physics and engineering of carbon-based semiconductors. He also serves as Chairman of the Scientific Advisory Board of the National Research Foundation (NRF) of Singapore.

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Richard A. Muller

First Name Richard
Last Name Muller
Born on January 6, 1944 (age 82)

Richard A. Muller is an American physicist and emeritus professor of physics at the University of California, Berkeley. He was also a faculty senior scientist at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. In early 2010, Muller and his daughter Elizabeth founded the group Berkeley Earth, an independent 501(c)(3) non-profit aimed at addressing some of the major concerns of the climate change skeptics, in particular the global surface temperature record.

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Richard V. Allen

First Name Richard
Last Name Allen
Born on January 1, 1936 (age 90)

Richard Vincent Allen was the United States National Security Advisor to President Ronald Reagan from 1981 to 1982, having been Reagan's chief foreign policy advisor from 1977. He has been a fellow of the Hoover Institution since 1983. He is a past member of the Defense Policy Board Advisory Committee.

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Richard H. Price

First Name Richard
Last Name Price
Born on March 1, 1943 (age 83)

Richard H. Price is an American physicist specializing in general relativity.

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Richard Saul Wurman

First Name Richard
Last Name Wurman
Born on March 26, 1935 (age 91)

Richard Saul Wurman is an American architect and graphic designer. Wurman has written, designed, and published 90 books and created the TED conference, as well as the EG conference, TEDMED, and the WWW suite of gatherings.

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Richard Posner

First Name Richard
Last Name Posner
Born on January 11, 1939 (age 87)

Richard Allen Posner is an American jurist and economist who is a senior lecturer at the University of Chicago Law School. Between 1981 and 2017, he served as a United States Circuit Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit in Chicago. He is a leading figure in the field of law and economics, and was identified by The Journal of Legal Studies as the most cited legal scholar of the 20th century. He is widely considered to be one of the most influential legal scholars in the United States.

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Richard Aeschlimann

Richard François Aeschlimann
First Name Richard
Last Name Aeschlimann
Born on February 21, 1944 (age 82)
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Richard Gozney

First Name Richard
Last Name Gozney
Born on July 21, 1951 (age 74)

Sir Richard Hugh Turton Gozney is a British career diplomat and, since 27 May 2016, the lieutenant governor of the Isle of Man. He was governor and commander in chief of Bermuda from 12 December 2007 to 18 May 2012.

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Richard Scheller

First Name Richard
Last Name Scheller
Born on October 30, 1953 (age 72)

Richard H. Scheller is the former Chief Science Officer & Head of Therapeutics at 23andMe and the former Executive Vice President of Research and Early Development at Genentech. He was a Professor at Stanford University from 1982 to 2001 before joining Genentech. He has been awarded the Alan T. Waterman Award in 1989, the W. Alden Spencer Award in 1993 and the NAS Award in Molecular Biology in 1997, won the 2010 Kavli Prize in Neuroscience with Thomas C. Südhof and James E. Rothman, and won the 2013 Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research with Thomas Sudhof. He was also given the Life Sciences Distinguished Alumni Award from University of Wisconsin–Madison. He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and a Member of the National Academy of Sciences.

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