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Richard Holt (James) Richard Holt (2 August 1931 – 20 September 1991) was British Conservative Member of Parliament for Langbaurgh from 1983 until he died in office aged 60 in 1991. His successor in the resulting by-election was Labour's Ashok Kumar.
Richard Hope (actor) Richard Hope is a British television actor who starred in ITV's MIT: Murder Investigation Team as DS Barry Purvis, as well in a number of other dramas like BBC1's A Touch of Frost, and ITV's Heartbeat and Poirot.
Richard Hornby Richard Phipps Hornby (born 20 June 1922) is a British Conservative politician. He was elected Member of Parliament for Tonbridge at a by-election in 1956, and served until the constituency was abolished in boundary changes for the February 1974 general election.
Richard Hornsby & Sons Richard Hornsby & Sons was an engine and machinery manufacturer in Lincolnshire, England. The company bearing the name of Richard Hornsby (1790-1864), the agricultural engineer, was founded when Richard opened a blacksmithy in Grantham, Lincolnshire in 1815 with Richard Seaman.
Richard Horton Richard Horton, MB BS BSc FRCP FMedSci, is the present editor-in-chief of The Lancet, a United Kingdom-based medical journal. He studied at Bristol Grammar School from 1969 to 1980 and at the University of Birmingham from 1980 to 1986, receiving his BSc (in physiology) in 1983, and qualifying in medicine in 1986.
Richard Hotham Sir Richard Hotham (October 5 1722 – March 13 1799) was an English eighteenth century property developer and politician who rose from humble origins to a position of some power and influence. He is especially noted for his development of the Sussex village of Bognor into a seaside resort.
Richard Howitt Richard Howitt (born April 5, 1961 in Reading, Berkshire) is a Member of the European Parliament for the Labour Party for the East of England. He has been a member of the European Parliament since 1994, when he was elected for the constituency of South Essex.
Richard Howly Richard Howly (1740– December 1784), sometimes spelled Howley, was an American planter and lawyer from Liberty County, Georgia. He served briefly as Governor of Georgia in 1780, as their delegate to the Continental Congress in 1780 and 1781 and as Chief Justice of Georgia in 1782 and 1783.
Richard Hughes (cricketer) Richard Clive Hughes (born 30 September 1926 in Watford, Hertfordshire) is an English former cricketer who played 11 first-class games for Worcestershire in the early 1950s. He was educated at Watford Grammar School.
Richard Hull Richard Hull of Leith Hill Place built Prospect House, later known as Leith Hill Tower, on the top of Leith Hill in 1765 or 1766, with the intention of raising the hill above 1,000 feet. When he died in 1772, at his request he was buried under the tower, upside down - and apparently on horseback, according to Puckle - as he believed that on Judgement Day the world would be reversed.
Richard Hunt (editor) Richard Hunt is an green anarchist activist, and editor of various environmentalist magazines, such as Green Anarchist and Alternative Green. He was widely criticised in the anarchist community for his support of nationalism, and consequent support of the 1991 Gulf War in Iraq, leading to him setting up his own Alternative Green magazine.
Richard Hutson Richard Hutson (July 9, 1748 – April 12, 1795) was an American lawyer, judge, and politician from Charleston, South Carolina. He represented South Carolina as a delegate to the Continental Congress, where he signed the Articles of Confederation.
Richard Huziak Canadian amateur astronomer, Richard Huziak, born 1957, Yorkton, Saskatchewan, Canada, the namesake of asteroid 4143 Huziak, is a former president of the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada, Saskatoon Centre, and a prominent member of the American Association of Variable Star Observers with over 14,500 observations of variable stars to his credit. In 2003, Huziak was awarded AAVSO's Director's Award by Janet Mattei.
Richard Chanfray Richard Chanfray (Lyon, 1940 - Saint Tropez, 1983-07-14) was a French public figure in the 1970s. He claimed to be the Comte de Saint-Germain and appeared in numerous European television claiming to transmute lead into gold.
Richard Chapman At the time of Queen Elizabeth I, Richard Chapman (born 1620) was the owner of a private shipyard at Deptford, had the title of 'Queen's Master Shipwright,' and had been involved in the construction of river defences along the Thames, along with Peter Pett and Mathew Baker, two other important shipwrights of the time. Chapman was Master Shipwright of Woolwich and Deptford and built the Ark.
Richard Charles Travis Richard Charles Travis (VC, DCM, MM)(6 April 1884-25 July 1918) was a New Zealander recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces. His real name was Dickson Cornelius Savage.
Richard Chase Richard Trenton Chase (May 23, 1950 – December 26, 1980) was an American serial killer who killed six people in the span of a month in California. He earned the nickname The Vampire of Sacramento because he drank the blood of his victims and ate their internal organs.
Richard Chelimo Richard Chelimo (February 24 1972 – August 15 2001) was a Kenyan athlete, and a former world and world junior record holder over 10,000 m. However, he is best known as the athlete who was unjustly denied a gold medal in the infamous 10,000 m at the 1992 Olympics in Barcelona.
Richard Cherwitz Richard Cherwitz is a Professor in the Department of Communication Studies and in the Division of Rhetoric and Writing, and a Fellow at the Institute for Innovation, Creativity & Capital (IC²) at the University of Texas at Austin. https://webspace.
Richard Childress Richard Childress (born September 21, 1945 in Winston-Salem, North Carolina) is a former NASCAR driver and successful team owner of Richard Childress Racing (RCR) in NASCAR NEXTEL Cup competition. As a business entrepreneur, Childress has become one of the wealthiest men in North Carolina.
Richard Childress Racing Richard Childress Racing is a NASCAR team fielding Chevrolets for Kevin Harvick (#29 Royal Dutch Shell), Clint Bowyer (#07 Jack Daniel's) Jeff Burton (#31 (Cingular Wireless/AT&T), full-time, and Scott Wimmer (#33 Holiday Inn part-time in the Nextel Cup series, as well as the #2 BB&T Chevy for Clint Bowyer, the #21 Autozone Chevy for Harvick and Busch Series-newcomer Timothy Peters, and the #29 Holiday Inn Chevy for Scott Wimmer in the Busch Series. It is owned and operated by former driver now businessman Richard Childress.
Richard Chizmar Richard Chizmar is the founder and publisher/editor of Cemetery Dance magazine and the Cemetery Dance Publications book imprint. He has edited more than a dozen anthologies, including The Best of Cemetery Dance, The Earth Strikes Back, Night Visions 10, October Dreams (with Robert Morrish), and the Shivers series.
Richard Chorley Richard John Chorley (September 1927 - May 2002): Richard Chorley was born in Minehead, Somerset, England on the 4th of September 1927. He became one of the leading figures in the late 20th centuary for his work in quantitative geography and was instramental in bring the use of systems theory to geography.
Richard Christopher Carrington Richard Christopher Carrington (May 26 1826 – November 27 1875) was an English amateur astronomer who discovered the differential rotation of the sun by means of sunspot observations in 1863. In 1859 he and Richard Hodgson, another English amateur, independently made the first observations of a solar flare.
Richard Christy Richard Christy (born April 1, 1974 in Fort Scott, Kansas) is an American drummer who currently works as a comedy writer and for the The Howard Stern Show. He earned the position after winning the "Win John's Job" contest on July 1, 2004 He is known on the show for his prank call]s and [[gay stunts that he does with fellow staff member Sal "The Stockbroker" Governale.
Richard Churcher Richard Churcher (died 1723), was a wealthy English businessman and philanthropist, who had made his fortune through interests in the British East India Company. He was born in Funtington, West Sussex, and following his death was buried there.
Richard I of Capua Richard I Drengot (d.1078), count of Aversa (1049-1078) and prince of Capua (1058-1078), was the son of Asclettin, count of Acerenza, younger brother of Asclettin, count of Aversa, and nephew of Rainulf Drengot, the Norman adventurer who had first travelled to southern Italy in 1017 and progressed to set up the first Norman state in the region (1030).
Richard I of England Richard I (8 September 1157 – 6 April 1199) was King of England from 1189 to 1199. In his own time, the troubadour Bertran de Born called him Òc-e-Non ('Yes-and-No'), while some later writers referred to him as Richard the Lionhearted, or Cœur de Lion, as he is still known in France.
Richard I. Cohen Richard I. (Yerachmiel) Cohen is a professor of history, presently holding the Paulette and Claude Kelman Chair in French Jewry Studies in the Department of Jewish History at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
Richard Ieyoub Richard Phillip Ieyoub, Sr. (born August 11, 1944), is a Baton Rouge lawyer with the firm Couhig Partners and a Democratic politician who was the attorney general of Louisiana from 1992-2004 and was the Calcasieu Parish district attorney in Lake Charles from 1984-1992.
Richard II (play) The Tragedie of King Richard the Second is a play written by William Shakespeare around 1595 and based on the life of King Richard II of England. It is the first part of a tetralogy, referred to by scholars as the Henriad, followed by three plays concerning Richard's successors: Henry IV, part 1, Henry IV, part 2, and Henry V, and may not have been written as a stand-alone work.
Richard II of Capua Richard II (died 1105 or 1106), called the Bald, count of Aversa and prince of Capua from 1090 or 1091, was the eldest son and successor of Jordan I of Capua and Gaitelgrima, daughter of Prince Guaimar IV of Salerno. He was named after his grandfather, Richard I of Capua.
Richard II of England Richard II (6 January 1367 – 14 February 1400) was the son of Edward the Black Prince, Prince of Wales, and Joan "The Fair Maid of Kent". He was born in Bordeaux and became his father's successor when his elder brother died in infancy.
Richard II, Part I Richard the Second Part One and Thomas of Woodstock are two common names for an untitled, anonymous and incomplete manuscript of an Elizabethan play depicting events in the reign of King Richard II. Its main claim to fame is a suggestion by some scholars that its author was William Shakespeare.
Richard III (1995 film) Richard III is a 1995 film adaptation of William Shakespeare's play Richard III, starring Sir Ian McKellen, Annette Bening, Jim Broadbent, Robert Downey Jr., Nigel Hawthorne, Kristin Scott Thomas, Dame Maggie Smith, and John Wood.
Richard III (play) The Tragedy of King Richard the third is William Shakespeare's version of the short career of Richard III of England, who receives a singularly unflattering depiction. The play is sometimes interpreted as a tragedy (as it is called in its earliest quarto); however, it more correctly belongs among the histories, as it is in the First Folio.
Richard III Museum The Richard III Museum is located in the tallest of the four gatehouses, Monk Bar, in the historical city walls of York, England. It is a museum with a difference because its main exhibit puts Richard III on trial for the crime of murdering the Princes in the Tower.
Richard III of Capua Richard III (died 10 June 1120), count of Aversa and prince of Capua briefly in 1120 between his anointing on 27 May and his death, was the only son and heir of Robert I of Capua. He was an infant when his father died, and he fell under the regency of his uncle, Jordan.
Richard III, Duke of Normandy Richard III (997 - 1027) was the eldest son of Richard II, who died in 1027, and left the Duchy of Normandy to his eldest son. Although the eldest son, Richard died mysteriously soon after his father, leaving the duchy to his younger brother Robert II, sixth duke of Normandy and direct ancestor of the present-day British royal family.
Richard Isay Dr. Richard Isay is a professor of psychiatry at Weill Cornell Medical College and the Payne Whitney Psychiatric Clinic and a faculty member of the Columbia University Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research.
Richard Ivey School of Business The Richard Ivey School of Business, also known as Ivey, is the undergraduate and graduate business school at the University of Western Ontario. Located in London, Ontario, Canada, it was first established as the Department of Commercial Economics in 1922.
Richard J Price [painting by Richard J Price 'Balaa' 1998]Born in West Germany ("sometime in the 20th century") Richard J Price is part of the generation of British artists and writers that grew to prominence in the 1990s and a former member of the National Artists Association.
Richard J. Daley Richard Joseph Daley (May 15, 1902 – December 20, 1976) was the longest-serving mayor of Chicago. He served for 21 years as the undisputed Democratic boss of Chicago and is considered by historians to be the "last of the big city bosses.
Richard J. Evans Professor Richard Evans (born 1947) is a British historian of Germany. He was born in London, of Welsh parentage, and is now Professor of Modern History at the University of Cambridge and a fellow of Gonville & Caius College.
Richard J. Roberts Richard John Roberts (born September 6, 1943, in Derby, England) is a British biochemist and molecular biologist. He was awarded the 1993 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Phillip Allen Sharp for the discovery of introns in eukaryotic DNA and the mechanism of gene-splicing.
Richard J. Schmidt Richard J. Schmidt is an American physician who was involved in an unusual case which marked the first time in forensic history where viral DNA was used to prove a link between two people with HIV or AIDS in a criminal trial.
Richard J. Tonry Richard Joseph Tonry (September 3, 1893 - January 17, 1971) was a United States Representative from New York. Born in Brooklyn, he was educated in the public schools and at Randolph Military Academy (in Montclair, New Jersey]]) and at the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn.
Richard Jebb Richard Jebb (1874–25 June 1953) was an English journalist and author in the field of Empire and colonial nationalism. He was the nephew of the classical scholar and politician, Sir Richard Claverhouse Jebb.
Richard Jenrette Born in Raleigh, NC on April 5 1929, Richard Jenrette was one the founders of the Wall Street firm, Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette (DLJ). Jenrette founded DLJ in 1959 with William Donaldson, former chairman of the U.
Richard Jeperson Richard Jeperson is a fictional 1970s psychic investigator created by British horror / fantasy author Kim Newman. He appears in many of Newman's short stories as both a central and background character, and is the focal point of a collection of short stories entitled The Man from the Diogenes Club.
Richard Jewell Richard Jewell (born December 17, 1962) was a central figure in the Centennial Olympic Park bombing at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, Georgia. Jewell, working as a private security guard, discovered a pipe bomb, alerted police, and helped to evacuate the area before it went off.
Richard Joachim Heinrich von Mollendorf Wichard Joachim Heinrich von Möllendorf (1724-1816), (nb the name is Wichard, not Richard as in the title of this article, and Möllendorf is spelled with an umlaut on the o, or as Moellendorf) Prussian soldier, began his career as a page of Frederick the Great in 1740. The outbreak of the Silesian wars gave him his first opportunity of seeing active service, and the end of the second war saw him a captain.
Richard John Brandes Richard John "RJ" Brandes is an American businessman. He was the founder and CEO of Belgravia Capital, a middle market commercial finance and real estate mortgage bank which was acquired by the Finova Group (ticker symbol: FNV) in 1997.
Richard John Cartwright Sir Richard John Cartwright, PC (December 4 1835 – September 24 1912) was a Canadian businessman and politician. He born and raised in Kingston, Ontario in a United Empire Loyalist family, the son of Harriet Dobbs Cartwright and the grandson of Richard Cartwright.
Richard John Neuhaus Father Richard John Neuhaus is a North American Catholic writer. He is the founder and editor of First Things and the author of several books, including The Naked Public Square: Religion and Democracy in America (1984), The Catholic Moment: The Paradox of the Church in the Postmodern World (1987), As I Lay Dying: Meditations Upon Returning (2002), and Catholic Matters: Confusion, Controversy, and the Splendor of Truth (2006).
Richard Johnson (cricketer) Richard Leonard Johnson (born December 29 1974 in Chertsey, Surrey) is an English cricketer, who played county cricket first for Middlesex County Cricket Club and then for Somerset County Cricket Club. He is a lower order batsman and bowls right-arm medium pace.
Richard Johnson (footballer) Richard Johnson (born April 27, 1974 in Kurri Kurri, New South Wales, Australia) is an Australian football player. He currently plays as a central midfielder for the Australian A-League club New Zealand Knights.
Richard Johnstone-Scott Richard Johnstone-Scott was the keeper of the famous gorilla Jambo, at the Jersey Zoo founded by Gerald Durrell. Jambo rose to news stardom in 1986, and helped change the public image of gorillas by standing guard over an unconscious boy who fell into the gorilla pen, until paramedic help could be obtained.
Richard Jones, 3rd Viscount and First Earl of Ranelagh Richard Jones was born in 1638, the eldest son of Arthur Jones, second Viscount Ranelagh and Katherine Boyle, daughter of the earl of Cork who counted amongst her brothers the chemist Robert Boyle and Lord Broghill, the later earl of Orrery who was a prominent politician in Cromwellian and Restoration times
Richard Jordan Richard Anson Jordan (July 19, 1938–August 30, 1993) was an American stage, screen and film actor. He was a long-time member of the New York Shakespeare Festival, and appeared in many plays both on and off Broadway.
Richard Joseph Richard Joseph is a computer game composer, musician and sound specialist. He has had a career spanning some 20 years starting in the early days of gaming on the C64 and the Amiga and onto succeeding formats through to the present day.
Richard Jozsa Richard Jozsa is a Professor of Computer Science at the University of Bristol. His research area is quantum information science; he is the co-author of the Deutsch-Jozsa quantum algorithm and one of the 6 co-inventors of quantum teleportation.
Richard Jugge Richard Jugge was an eminent printer, who kept a shop at the sign of the Bible, at the North door of St Paul's Cathedral, though his residence was in Newgate market, next to Christ Church. It is thought that he was born in Waterbeach in Cambridgeshire and he was educated at Eton and King's College, Cambridge.
Richard K. Betts Richard K. Betts is the Arnold Saltzman Professor of War and Peace Studies in the Department of Political Science, the director of the Institute of War and Peace Studies, and the director of the International Security Policy Program in the School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University.
Richard K. Sorenson Richard Keith Sorenson (August 28 1924 - October 9 2004) was a United States Marine who, as a private, was awarded the Medal of Honor during World War II for his heroism during the Marine landing on Kwajalein Atoll on the night of February 1-February 2 1944. He threw himself on an exploding Japanese grenade to save the lives of five fellow Marines.
Richard K. Spottswood Richard K. Spottswood (aka Dick Spottswood, born April 17, 1937) is a musicologist and author from Maryland who has cataloged and been responsible for the reissue of many thousands of recordings of vernacular music in the United States.
Richard Kaczynski Richard Kaczynski is an author, lecturer, and magical practitioner specializing in Thelema and related magical paths. He is the author of a biography of Aleister Crowley titled Perdurabo: The Life of Aleister Crowley.
Richard Kahui Richard Kahui (born 9 June 1985 in Tokoroa, New Zealand) is a New Zealand rugby union footballer who plays in the position of Centre. He plays for Waikato in the Air New Zealand Cup and made his Super 14 debut in 2006 with the Highlanders.
Richard Kapus Richard Kapuš (born February 9, 1973, Bratislava) is a Slovak ice hockey center currently (2006) with the Metallurg Novokuznetsk of the Russian Hockey Super League. He also played with the Slovak national ice hockey team in the 1998, 1999, 2000, 2003 and 2004 Men's Ice Hockey World Championships.
Richard Kearney Richard Kearney is Charles Seeling professor of philosophy at Boston College and has taught, or still does teach, at many universities including University College Dublin, the Sorbonne, and the University of Nice.
Richard Kelliher Richard Kelliher (VC), 1 September 1910-28 January 1963 was an Irish-Australian recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to Commonwealth forces.
Richard Kelly (director) Richard Kelly (born March 28, 1975 in Newport News, Virginia) is an American film director and writer, best known for 2001's Donnie Darko. Kelly grew up in Midlothian, Virginia where he attended Midlothian High School before getting a scholarship and moved to Southern California to study at the USC School of Cinema-Television, where he made two short films, The Goodbye Place and Visceral Matter, before graduating in 1997.
Richard Kelly (politician) Richard Kelly (July 31, 1924–August 22, 2005) was an American politician (Republican Congressman) who was convicted of taking bribes in the 1980 Abscam scandal. The conviction was later overturned on the basis that the FBI had used entrapment.
Richard Kern Richard Kern (born 1954) is a New York Goth underground filmmaker and photographer. He first came to underground prominence as part of the underground cultural explosion in the East Village of New York City in the 1980s, with erotic films featuring underground rock personalities of the time such as Lydia Lunch and Henry Rollins in movies like "The Right Side of My Brain" and "Fingered.
Richard Keys Richard Keys born April 23, 1957 in Coventry, England, is a television broadcaster on the British sports channel Sky Sports. In the mid to late 1980s, he co-presented TV-am, a breakfast show on the ITV network, with Anne Diamond.
Richard Kilby Richard Kilby (born 1560 in Radcliffe, Leicestershire — died 1620) was an English scholar and priest. He was a graduate of Lincoln College, Oxford, which he also served as rector during the lean years at the beginning of the 17th century.
Richard Kimmel Richard Kimmel is a New York-based theatre director, writer, and theatrical producer. He is currently Executive Director of The Box, a venue for theater, music, and nightlife in the Lower East Side of Manhattan, and Artistic Director of Cannon Company, a performing ensemble.
Richard Kinder Richard Kinder (born 1945) is a self-made billionaire from Missouri, and former president of Enron. Kinder partnered with Bill Morgan to form Kinder Morgan Energy Partners, a large energy and pipeline corporation.
Richard Kirby Ridgeway Richard Kirby Ridgeway (VC, CB) (18 August, 1848- 11 October 1924) was born in Oldcastle, County Meath and was an Irish recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.
Richard Kirk Richard Kirk is the pseudonym of authors Robert Holdstock and Angus Wells, co-creators of the Raven fantasy novels. Holdstock and Wells co-wrote the first Raven novel, Raven Swordmistress of Chaos, and then took it in turns to write the subsequent four novels in the series:
Richard Klein (astronomer) Richard Klein is an Adjunct Professor of Astronomy at the University of California, Berkeley and a Scientific Staff Member at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL). Klein received his bachelor's degree in physics from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in 1966 and his PhD in physics from Brandeis University in 1973.
Richard Kline Richard Kline (born Richard Klein on April 29 1944 in New York City, New York) is an American actor and television director. He is best known for playing the sleazy neighbor and used car salesman, Larry Dallas, on the hit '70s-'80s sitcom, Three's Company.
Richard Kneedler Richard Kneedler is President Emeritus of Franklin & Marshall College and chairman of the Pennsylvania Governor’s Commission on Training America’s Teachers. In 2006, he was appointed interim president of Rockford College.
Richard Koch Richard Koch is a former management consultant, entrepreneur, and writer of several books on how to apply the Pareto principle (80/20 rule) in all walks of life. Koch has also used his concepts to make a fortune from several private equity investments made personally.
Richard Kosinski Richard Kosinski was a keyboard player who did music for Pound Puppies and the Legend of Big Paw and the Hanna-Barbera series Gravedale High. Early in his career, he was a member of the Detroit rock band, Sunday Funnies, and also contributed to albums by Bonnie Raitt, The Temptations, the Four Tops and Aretha Franklin.
Richard Kramer The Honorable Richard A. Kramer was born in Brookline, Massachusetts on July 22, 1947 and graduated from the University of Southern California Law School in 1972 as a Doctor of Jurisprudence, following a Bachelor of Arts, magna cum laude degree in political science in 1969.
Richard Krautheimer Richard Krautheimer (born 1897 in Fürth (Franconia), Germany – died in Rome, Italy, 1994) was a 20th century Byzantinist and baroque scholar and architectural historian. He was born in Germany in 1897, the son of Nathan Krautheimer (1854-1910) and Martha Landman (Krautheimer) (1875-1967).
Richard Kroner Richard Kroner (1884 - 1974) was a German neo-Hegelian philosopher, known for his Von Kant bis Hegel (1921/4), a classic history of German idealism written from the neo-Hegelian point of view. He was a Christian, from a Jewish background.
Richard Kuranda Richard Kuranda is an American director and artist whose work has appeared on stage, cinema and television. Born in 1969 in North Eastern Pennsylvania, Kuranda was educated by the Jesuits at Scranton Preparatory and the attended West Virginia University as a scholarship student and then the Actors Studio program at the New School for Social Research (now the New School University) from which he holds two Masters degrees.
Richard le Scrope Richard le Scrope (c 1350- June 1405) was born into a prominent Yorkshire family, the fourth son of Henry, first Baron Scrope of Masham. He took an arts degree at Oxford, and by 1379 Cambridge had conferred on him doctorates in both canon and civil law.
Richard L. Crowther Richard L. Crowther, FAIA (1910 – December 26, 2006) was an architect and author who achieved international renown for his progressive holistic compositions, particularly his pioneering designs employing passive solar energy.
Richard L. Felman Richard L. Felman (May 29, 1921 – November 13, 1999) was a distinguished officer in the United States Air Force who flew combat missions during World War II and the Korean War, receiving 27 awards and decorations over the course of his military career.
Richard L. Murphy Richard Louis Murphy (1875 - 1936) of Dubuque, Iowa a Senator from Iowa; born in Dubuque, Dubuque County, Iowa, November 6, 1875; attended the public schools of Dubuque; reporter for the Galena (Ill.) Gazette 1890-1892; returned to Dubuque, Iowa, in 1892 and was successively a reporter, city editor, and editor 1892-1914; member of the Dubuque County Library Board 1909-1914; served as collector of internal revenue for Iowa 1913-1920; income tax counselor 1920-1931, when he retired from active pursuits; elected as a Democrat to the United States Senate and served from March 4, 1933, until his death in an automobile accident near Chippewa Falls, Wis.
Richard L. T. Beale Richard Lee Turberville Beale (May 22, 1819 – April 21, 1893) was a lawyer, three-term United States Congressman from the Commonwealth of Virginia, and a brigadier general in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War.
Richard L. Van Enger Editor Richard van Enger (1914 - 1984) made his debut as an assistant on Gone with the Wind in 1939. Up until his retirement in 1976, he worked on a myriad of projects - mainly B movies - before moving to television in the 50s where he worked on such shows as Bonanza, The High Chaparral and Alias Smith and Jones.
Richard L. Walker Richard Louis "Dixie" Walker (13 April 1922 – 22 July 2003) was an American scholar, author, and ambassador to South Korea. He was married to the late Celeno Kenly Walker for 45 years and had three children.
Richard LaGravenese Richard LaGravenese (born October 30, 1959 in Brooklyn, New York) is an American screenwriter and occasional film director. He is best known for having written the screenplay for The Fisher King, which garnered him an Academy Award nomination.
Richard Lalor Sheil Richard Lalor Sheil (August 17, 1791 - May 23, 1851), Irish politician, writer and orator, was born at Drumdowney, Slieverue, County Kilkenny, Ireland. The family were temporarily domiciled at Drumdowney while their new mansion at Bellevue, near Waterford was under construction.
Richard Lam Richard Lam Chun-Keung (simplified Chinese: 林振強, traditional Chinese: 林振強) (born 1947, died November 17, 2003) was a Cantopop lyricist with several hundred Cantopop songs to his name, and a columnist for Apple Daily and Next Magazine in Hong Kong.
Richard Lambert Richard Lambert was editor of the Financial Times until 2001. From June 2003 until March 2006 he was one of the nine members of the Monetary Policy Committee of the Bank of England, which sets the interest rate for sterling, the currency of the United Kingdom.

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