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Richard Sachs Richard Sachs (born February 14, 1953) is a noted American bicycle framebuilder, based in Chester, Connecticut since 1973. His frames are generally recognized as being some of the finest examples of lugged steel construction of road racing and cyclo-cross bicycles.
Richard Sanders Richard Sanders (born August 23, 1940 in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania) is an American character actor. He is best known for playing the quirky news anchorman Les Nessman on the television sitcom, WKRP in Cincinnati.
Richard Sandrak Richard Sandrak, also known as Little Hercules (born April 15, 1992) is a Ukrainian bodybuilder, martial artist, actor, and nutrional supplement promoter, renowned for his physique at an extremely young age. He is probably best known for his appearance in the documentary The World's Strongest Boy, which has been shown on several TV channels across the world, and for his dedication to bodybuilding at an adult level.
Richard Sapir Born in 1936, New York native Richard Ben Sapir is best known for The Destroyer series that he co-created with Warren Murphy. The first Destroyer was written in 1963, while Sapir worked as a city hall reporter in Jersey City, New Jersey and Murphy served as secretary to the city's mayor.
Richard Savage, 4th Earl Rivers Richard Savage, 4th Earl Rivers PC (c. 1660 – August 18, 1712), was the second son of Thomas, 3rd Earl; and after the death about 1680 of his elder brother Thomas, styled Viscount Colchester, he was designated by that title until he succeeded to the peerage.
Richard Scally Richard John Scally ( Born 10th December 1952 Coventry England)is a British business excecutive in the Engineering industry.He is Managing Director / CEO of a Cheltenham based group of companies STOCDON LIMITED.
Richard Scarry Richard McClure Scarry (June 5 1919 – April 30 1994, last name pronounced like "scary") was an enormously popular American children's author and illustrator who published over 300 books with total sales of 300 million worldwide.
Richard Scruggs Richard "Dick" Scruggs was hired by Mississippi Attorney General Mike Moore to assist with a lawsuit against thirteen tobacco companies in the 1990s. Prior to that he was known for his class action lawsuits against the asbestos industry.
Richard Sears Richard Warren Sears (born December 7, 1863 in Stewartville, Minnesota – died September 28, 1914), son of James Warren Sears (a blacksmith and wagon-maker by trade) and Eliza Benton, was a manager, businessman, and the founder of Sears, Roebuck and Company with his partner Alvah C. Roebuck.
Richard Sears McCulloch Richard Sears McCulloch (1818 – 1894) was an American civil engineer and professor of mechanics and thermodynamics at the Washington and Lee University, Lexington, Virginia. In 1876, a collection of his lecture notes were published in a book entitled Treatise on the Mechanical Theory of Heat and its Application to the Steam Engine, Etc.
Richard Seeber Richard Seeber (born 15 January 1962 in Innsbruck) is an Austrian politician and Member of the European Parliament. He is a member of the Austrian People's Party, which is part of the European People's Party, and sits on the European Parliament's Committee on Petitions and its Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety.
Richard Seifert Richard Seifert was a British architect, best known for designing Tower 42 (formerly the NatWest Tower), still the tallest building in the City of London. He was also responsible for two other tall buildings in London, Centrepoint and the King's Reach Tower, as well as numerous other towers.
Richard Seigler Richard Seigler (born October 19, 1980 in Las Vegas, Nevada) is an NFL linebacker playing for the Pittsburgh Steelers. He was drafted in 2004 by the San Francisco 49ers out of Oregon State University and waived during the 2005 preseason.
Richard Sennett Richard Sennett (born Chicago, 1 January 1943) is the Centennial Professor of Sociology at the London School of Economics and Professor of the Humanities at New York University. Sennett is probably best known for his studies of social ties in cities, and the effects of urban living on individuals in the modern world.
Richard Sevigny Richard Sevigny (November 4, 1957 in Montreal, Quebec) was a Canadian professional ice hockey goaltender who played for the Montreal Canadiens, and Quebec Nordiques in the National Hockey League. Richard won the 1982 Vezina Trophy along with Denis Herron and Michel Larocque with Montreal.
Richard Shannon Richard Shannon, born April 17, 1954 in Three Rivers, Texas, is a writer, performer and speaker currently living in Austin, Texas. He published the science fiction semi-prozine Trajectories - The Magazine of Science Fiction in the Southwest during the 1980s.
Richard Sharples Major Sir Richard Christopher Sharples, KCMG OBE MC, (1916—March 10, 1973, St. George, Bermuda) was a British politician and Governor of Bermuda from late 1972 to March 10, 1973 when he was shot dead by assassins linked to the militant Black Beret Cadre, a small Bermudian Black Power group.
Richard Sher (producer) Richard Sher is best known as the producer and host of the National Public Radio program Says You!. He is also the president and founder of Pipit & Finch, a marketing and media development company, and has worked in broadcasting for over 20 years.
Richard Schechner Richard Schechner (born August 23, 1934) is a University Professor/Professor of Performance Studies at the Tisch School of the Arts, New York University, editor of TDR: The Drama Review, and artistic director of East Coast Artists. His BA is from Cornell University (1956), MA from the University of Iowa (1958), and PhD from Tulane University (1962).
Richard Schickel Richard Warren Schickel (born February 10, 1933 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin) is an author, journalist, and documentary filmmaker. He is a film critic for Time magazine, having also written for Life magazine and the Los Angeles Times Book Review.
Richard Schulze Richard Schulze was a Waffen-SS officer during World War II who obtained the rank of SS-ObersturmbannfĂĽhrer. As a HauptsturmfĂĽhrer, Richard Schulze served as Waffen-SS adjutant to Adolf Hitler and August Heissmeyer.
Richard Schwartz Richard Schwartz is currently a professor of mathematics at Brown University. His accomplishments include a proof of the Goldman-Parker conjecture, and a proof that every triangle all of whose angles are less than 100 degrees has a periodic billiard orbit.
Richard Simmons Richard Simmons (born July 12, 1948 in New Orleans, Louisiana) is a fitness expert who promotes weight-loss programs, most famously through a line of aerobics videos and television programs. He is known for his endlessly happy and flamboyant personality.
Richard Simpkin Richard Evelyn Simpkin (1921 - 1986) was a British Army officer, attaining the rank of brigadier. He served during the Second World War with the Royal Tank Regiment in North Africa and was taken prisoner at Tobruk in 1942.
Richard Simpson (academic) Richard Callaghan Simpson is an assistant professor of rehabilitation science at the University of Pittsburgh School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences, with interests in computer access, rehabilitation robotics, augmentative communication, adaptive interfaces and human–computer interaction.
Richard Skinner (broadcaster) Richard Skinner (born December 26, 1951) is a British radio and television broadcaster. The only presenter to have fronted the three BBC 'flagship' programmes Whistle Test, Top Of The Pops and Radio 1's Top 40.
Richard Slotkin Richard Slotkin has established a reputation as one of the preeminent cultural critics and historians of our times. He is the Olin Professor of English and American Studies at Wesleyan University in Middletown, CT.
Richard Smalley Richard Errett Smalley (June 6, 1943 – October 28, 2005) was the Gene and Norman Hackerman Professor of Chemistry and a Professor of Physics and Astronomy at Rice University, in Houston, Texas. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1996 for the discovery of a new form of carbon, buckminsterfullerene ("buckyballs") (with Robert Curl, also a professor of chemistry at Rice, and Harold Kroto, a professor at the University of Sussex).
Richard Smehlik Richard Smehlik (born January 23, 1970, in Ostrava, Czechoslovakia) is a former National Hockey League defenseman. He was drafted in the fifth round, 97th overall, by the Buffalo Sabres in the 1990 NHL Entry Draft.
Richard Smith (editor) Richard Smith is a former editor of the British Medical Journal (BMJ) and former chief executive of the BMJ Publishing group. He worked for the medical journal for twenty-five years, from 1979 to 2004, the last thirteen as editor.
Richard Socarides Richard Socarides was a White House advisor under President Clinton from 1993 to 1999 in a variety of senior positions, including as Special Assistant to the President and Senior Advisor for Public Liaison for gay and lesbian issues. Socarides, openly gay, is the son of psychiatrist Charles Socarides, a controversial critic of the American Psychiatric Association's decision to remove homosexuality from its list of mental disorders.
Richard Sorge Richard Sorge (Russian: Рихард Зорге) (October 4, 1895 - November 7, 1944) is considered to be one of the best Soviet spies in Japan before and during World War II. He is legendary among spies, and espionage enthusiasts.
Richard Spaight Donnell Richard Spaight Donnell, (September 20, 1820 - June 3, 1867) was a Congressional Representative from North Carolina; born in New Bern, North Carolina; was the grandson of Richard Dobbs Spaight; attended New Bern Academy and Yale College; was graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1839; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1840 and commenced practice in New Bern, N.C.
Richard Spears Richard Spears was a convicted criminal and naturopath who is alleged to have placed a bomb aboard National Airlines Flight 967, an aircraft which disappeared over the Gulf of Mexico on November 16, 1959, killing 42 persons.
Richard Spendlove Richard Spendlove MBE (born June 16th 1939) is a British radio producer/presenter and writer. He worked for the former British Railways for 35 years, and in 1963 was appointed Relief Station Master at Cambridge, one of the youngest men in that job.
Richard St George Sir Richard St George (c1550–1635) was a long-serving officer of arms at the College of Arms on London during the seventeenth century. The date of birth of Richard St George is unknown, though he was married in 1575 and joined the College of Arms in 1602.
Richard Stallman Richard Matthew Stallman (nickname RMS) (born March 16, 1953) is an acclaimed software freedom activist, hacker, and software developer. In the 1980s, he founded the GNU Project to create a free Unix-like operating system, and has been the project's lead architect and organizer.
Richard Stannard Richard "Biff" Stannard was a songwriter for the Spice Girls, the biggest-selling musical girl group in the world. Stannard, the Spice Girls, and various other songwriters were able to create some of the biggest songs of all time.
Richard Starkings Richard Starkings is a British font designer and comic book letterer, editor and writer. He was one of the early pioneers of computer based comic book lettering and as a result is one of the most prolific creators in that industry.
Richard StĂĽcklen Richard StĂĽcklen (20 August 1916 - 2 May 2002) was a German politician of the CSU. From 1957 to 1966, he served as Federal Minister for Post and Communication and from 1979 to 1983 as President of the Bundestag, of which he was a member for over 40 years.
Richard Stearns (computer scientist) Richard Edwin Stearns is a prominent computer scientist who, with Juris Hartmanis, received the 1993 ACM Turing Award "in recognition of their seminal paper which established the foundations for the field of computational complexity theory".
Richard Steinheimer Richard Steinheimer (born 1929) is considered to be one of the greatest American railroad photographers, often called the "Ansel Adams of railroad photography". His work has been published in Trains Magazine, Railfan, Locomotive and Railway Preservation, and Vintage Rail, and more than seventy books.
Richard Steve Goldberg Richard Goldberg (born November 9, 1945) is an alleged child molester wanted for production and possession of child pornography and for child molestation. On June 14, 2002 he became the 474th fugitive to be placed on the list of the FBI's ten most wanted fugitives.
Richard Stibbs Richard Stibbs is a Fellow, Praelector, Fellows' Steward and Secretary of the Governing Body of Downing College Cambridge. He was Director of Studies in Computer Science for 25 years and was formerly Junior Proctor and Chairman of the University of Cambridge Board of Scrutiny.
Richard Stockton (1764-1828) Richard Stockton (1764-1828) was a lawyer who representated New Jersey in the United States Senate and later served in the United States House of Representatives. He was the first United States Attorney from New Jersey, holding that office from 1789 to 1791, and ran unsuccessfully for vice-president in the 1820 election as a member of the Federalist Party, which did not nominate a candidate for President.
Richard Stockton College of New Jersey The Richard Stockton College of New Jersey (previously Stockton State College and Richard Stockton State College) is a public liberal arts college located in Pomona in Atlantic County, New Jersey. The College is named in memory of Richard Stockton, a New Jersey signer of the Declaraton of Independence.
Richard Stockton Field Richard Stockton Field (December 31, 1803 – May 25, 1870) was a US Senator from New Jersey. Field was the grandson of Richard Stockton (1730-1781), New Jersey Delegate to the Continental Congress, and the son of Richard Stockton (1764-1828), US Senator from New Jersey.
Richard Stokes (producer) Richard Stokes is a British television producer and executive producer. Stokes is currently working as the producer of the BBC's Doctor Who spin-off series Torchwood, which debuted in October 2006 on BBC Three.
Richard Stone Sir John Richard Nicholas Stone (August 30, 1913 – December 6, 1991) was an eminent British economist who in 1984 received the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics for developing an accounting model that could be used to track economic activities on a national and, later, an international scale.
Richard Strachey Sir Richard Strachey (1817 – 1908), British soldier and Indian administrator, third son of Edward Strachey, was born on 24 July 1817, at Sutton Court, Stowey Somerset. From Addiscombe he passed into the Bengal Engineers in 1836, and was employed for some years on irrigation works in the Northwestern Provinces.
Richard Street Richard Street (born October 5 1942 in Detroit, Michigan) is an American soul and R&B singer, most notable as a member of The Temptations from 1971 to 1993. Street was the first member of the Temptations to actually be a native of Detroit; all of the previous members were born and at least partially raised in the southern United States.
Richard Stromback Richard Stromback (born: January 29, 1969) is a former professional hockey player (OHL, ECHL), an active investor and entrepreneur. In 1997 he founded Web Group, a technology staffing and search firm; he served as its CEO and President until 2003 during which time Web Group ranked 189th on Inc.
Richard Suskind Richard Suskind is an author who participated with author Clifford Irving in creating a fraudulent autobiography of the reclusive billionaire Howard Hughes. Suskind was incarcerated for five months of a six-month prison sentence for his role in collaborating with Irving on the hoax.
Richard Swift (musician) Richard Swift is a singer, pianist and guitarist from Orange County, California. He started by experimenting with a fourtrack recorder, before honing his skills as keyboardist in the band, Starflyer 59 and in his own ambient-electronic outfit, Instruments of Science and Technology.
Richard Sykes Sir Richard Sykes (born 1942) is the Rector of Imperial College, a Fellow of the Royal Society and a trustee of the Natural History Museum (London) and the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. He was formerly chairman of GlaxoSmithKline and president of the British Association for the Advancement of Science.
Richard Sykes (diplomat) Sir Richard Sykes was the British Ambassador to the Netherlands, who was murdered by the IRA in The Hague in 1979. Footman Karel Straub was also killed, both being shot in the head as they left the ambassador's residence for the short trip to the embassy served in Havana], [[Peking and Washington, and was Deputy Under Secretary of State at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office prior to his appointment to the Netherlands in 1977.
Richard Sylvan Richard Sylvan, born as Richard Routley (13 December 1935 - 16 June 1996) was a philosopher, logician, environmentalist, and anarchist. He was a proponent of "deep ecology", though he was critical of most attempts to articulate this ethic and preferred to characterise his own version as deep green theory.
Richard the Chaplain Richard the Chaplain (or Ricardus Capellanus) was the Chaplain of King Máel Coluim IV before becoming Bishop of Cell Rígmonaid (St Andrews), the highest ranking Scottish see of the period. He came from a well connected Anglo-Norman Lothian-based family, and was the nephew of Alwin, Abbot of Holyrood.
Richard T. Farmer Richard "Dick" Farmer is an American businessman whose fortune is self made through his development of the Cintas Corporation. The company started out as his grandfather's industrial rag cleaning business but today is the leading corporate uniform provider company in the nation.
Richard T. Schlosberg Richard T. Schlosberg is an American business leader who has served as publisher and CEO of the Denver Post; as president, publisher and CEO of the Los Angeles Times and as president and CEO of the David and Lucile Packard Foundation.
Richard T. Schulze Congressman Richard Taylor "Dick" Schulze (born August 7 1929 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) represented Pennsylvania in Washington from 1975 to 1993. His district encompassed portions of Montgomery, Delaware, and Chester Counties in the western Philadelphia suburbs.
Richard Talmadge Richard Talmadge (December 3, 1892 - January 25, 1981) was an American actor of Swiss origin; his birth name was Ricardo Metezzeti. When he arrived in Hollywood in 1910, he began his carrier as a stuntman for Douglas Fairbanks, before becoming an actor himself.
Richard Tandy Richard Tandy (born 26 March, 1948, in Birmingham, England), is best known as the keyboard player in the rock band Electric Light Orchestra ("ELO"), where his palette of keyboards (including Mini Moog, clavinet, mellotron and piano) was an important ingredient in the group's sound, for example on the albums "A New World Record", "Out of the Blue", "Discovery" and "Time".
Richard Tapper Richard Findlay Tapper (born May 14, 1968 in Prince Albert, Saskatchewan) is a former freestyle swimmer who was born in Canada, but competed for New Zealand at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, Spain. He won the bronze medal with the Men's 4x200 Freestyle Relay Team at the 1990 Commonwealth Games in Auckland.
Richard Tarnas Richard Tarnas (born Feb 21, 1950), author of The Passion of the Western Mind and Cosmos and Psyche, is a cultural historian and professor of philosophy and psychology at the California Institute of Integral Studies in San Francisco, and founding director of its graduate program in Philosophy, Cosmology, and Consciousness.
Richard Taruskin Richard Taruskin is an American musicologist and music historian specializing in theory of performance, Russian music, twentieth-century music, nationalism, theory of modernism, and analysis. He has received numerous awards for his scholarship, including the 1978 Greenberg Prize, 1980 Alfred Einstein Award, 1987 Dent Medal, and the 1997 Kinkeldey Prize.
Richard Taverner Richard Taverner (c. 1505 – July 14, 1575) is best known for his bible translation, The Most Sacred Bible whiche is the holy scripture, conteyning the old and new testament, translated into English, and newly recognized with great diligence after most faythful exemplars by Rychard Taverner, commonly known as Taverner's Bible.
Richard Taylor (editor) Richard Taylor (1781–1858) was an English naturalist and publisher of scientific journals. He published the first edition of the Philosophical Magazine in 1798 and went of to publish the Annals of Natural History in 1838.
Richard Taylor (mathematician) Richard Taylor (born 19 May 1962) is a British mathematician working in the field of number theory. A former research student of Andrew Wiles, he returned to Princeton to help his advisor complete the proof of Fermat's last theorem.
Richard Taylor (musician) Richard Taylor is a guitarist who was one of the original members of the alternative rock band Gin Blossoms, formed in 1987. He was fired in 1988, before the release of the group's first album, and replaced with Robin Wilson.
Richard Taylor (UK politician) Dr Richard Thomas Taylor, BA, MB, FRCP (born July 7, 1934) is an English medical doctor turned politician, and a Member of Parliament for Wyre Forest, having run as the Independent Kidderminster Hospital and Health Concern candidate.
Richard TĂĽngel Richard TĂĽngel (1893-1970) was originally an architect and a longtime Director of Construction (Baudirektor) in Hamburg. Removed from this position by the Nazis in 1933, he went to Berlin, where he lived until 1945 as a translator and writer.
Richard Temple-Grenville, 3rd Duke of Buckingham and Chandos Richard Plantagenet Campbell Temple-Nugent-Brydges-Chandos-Grenville, 3rd Duke of Buckingham and Chandos GCSI, PC (10 September 1823–26 March 1889), usually shortened to Richard Temple-Grenville, was a British statesman of the 19th century, and a close friend and subordinate of Benjamin Disraeli. He was styled Marquess of Chandos until the death of his father in 1861.
Richard Temple-Nugent-Brydges-Chandos-Grenville, 1st Duke of Buckingham and Chandos Richard Temple-Nugent-Brydges-Chandos-Grenville, 1st Duke of Buckingham and Chandos KG, PC (March 20, 1776 – January 17, 1839), was the son and successor of George Nugent-Temple-Grenville, 1st Marquess of Buckingham and the grandson of prime minister George Grenville.
Richard Thalheimer Richard Thalheimer (born 1948) is founder, and former CEO and chairman of the Sharper Image Corporation. Thalheimer is a graduate of Hall High School in Little Rock, Arkansas, and Yale University (Class of 1970) and received a law degree from University of California Hastings College of the Law in 1974.
Richard Thomas (naval officer) Admiral Sir Richard Thomas KCB KCVO OBE RN was the Gentleman Usher of the Black Rod (or simply Black Rod) in the British Parliament's House of Lords. Sir Richard served as Black Rod from January 1992 to 8 May 1995.
Richard Thompson (cartoonist) Richard Thompson is a cartoonist who has also worked as an illustrator. His cartoon Richard's Poor Almanac appears weekly (usually on Saturdays) in The Washington Post Style section, and his comic strip Cul-de-Sac appears on Sundays in the The Washington Post Magazine.
Richard Thomson Richard Thomson, sometimes spelled Thompson, was a Dutch-born English theologian and translator. He was Fellow of Clare Hall, Cambridge and the translator of Martial's epigrams and among the "First Westminster Company" charged by James I of England with the translation of the first 12 books of the King James Version of the Bible.
Richard Threlfall Sir Richard Threlfall (August 14 1861 - July 10 1932) was an English chemist and engineer, he established the School of Physics at the University of Sydney and made important contributions to military scince during World War I.
Richard Tillinghast Richard Tillinghast (born 1940 in Memphis, Tennessee) is the author of seven books of poetry as well as Damaged Grandeur, a critical memoir of the poet Robert Lowell, whom he studied with as a graduate student at Harvard University in the mid-1960s. His most recent poetry collection is Six Mile Mountain, published in 2000.
Richard Timmons Richard Timmons was convicted of murdering his wife (beheaded with an ax), seven-year-old son (also beheaded with the ax), and thirteen-year-old stepson (stabbed to death), on June 8, 1997, in New York City. In March of 2004, while serving three life sentences in jail, he sued the city of New York in federal court for $80 million- he claimed that he was battered by police officers the night they interrogated him about the murders.
Richard Titmuss Richard Titmuss (1907 - 1973) was a pioneering British social researcher and teacher. He founded the academic discipline of Social Administration (now largely known in universities as Social Policy) and held the founding chair in the subject at the LSE.
Richard Todd (football player) Richard Todd (born November 19, 1953) was a quarterback for the New York Jets from 1976 to 1983, and for the New Orleans Saints in 1984 and 1985. He, like Joe Namath, played for the University of Alabama's Crimson Tide under legendary coach Paul "Bear" Bryant.
Richard Toll Richard Toll is a town in northern Senegal, lying on the south bank of the River Senegal, just east of Rosso. Originally a colonial town, it was name for the park of the Chateau de Baron Roger, laid out by Claude Richard.
Richard Tomkins Richard Tomkins is the Consumer Industries Editor of the Financial Times, having assumed the post in 2001. He has previously worked at the FT in marketing and at the New York bureau (in both cases as a correspondent).
Richard Tomlinson Richard Tomlinson (born 1963) is a New Zealand-born former British MI6 officer who was famously imprisoned in 1997 for breaking the 1989 Official Secrets ActFormer spy Richard Tomlinson quizzed BBC by attempting to publish a book detailing his career.
Richard Torbay George Richard Torbay (born 26 March 1961) is an Australian politician, he has been an independent member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly since 1999, representing the Northern Tablelands , New South Wales. He was educated at Kingswood High School and the University of New England.
Richard Treacy Henry Richard Treacy Henry (4 June 1845 – 13 November 1929) was a New Zealand conservationist and reserve manager who became an expert on the natural history of flightless birds in New Zealand, especially the Kakapo. Born in County Kildare, Ireland, his family migrated to Australia in 1851 where he grew up.
Richard Trethewey Richard Trethewey, is the master plumber and HVAC technician on the television shows This Old House and Ask This Old House. He has been with This Old House for over 25 years and is the second-longest series member after master carpenter Norm Abram.
Richard Trexler Richard Trexler is a professor of History at the State University of New York at Binghamton. A specialist of the Renaissance, Reformation, Italy and Behaviorist History, Richard has over fifty published works.
Richard Tufts Richard Tufts (born March 16, 1896 in Medford, Massachusetts; died December 17, 1980) was a notable figure in American golf in the mid 20th century. He was a grandson of James Walker Tufts, the founder of Pinehurst Resort in North Carolina, which was long America's preeminent golf resort.
Richard Tuttle Richard Dean Tuttle (born 12 July, 1941 in Rahway, New Jersey) is an American postminimalist artist known for his small, subtle, intimate works. His art deals with issues of scale and the classic problems of line.
Richard Vander Wende In 1986, Richard Vander Wende went to work at Industrial Light and Magic (ILM), working on projects like Willow and Innerspace as a concept designer. Partly because of a fondness for the old Disney films, Vander Wende next took a position at Walt Disney Feature Animation.
Richard Varick Richard Varick (15 March 1753 - 30 July 1831) was born in Hackensack, New Jersey and died in Jersey City, New Jersey. At the outset of the American Revolution he was studying law at King's College (predecessor to Columbia University) in New York City and became a captain in the militia.
Richard Vaughan (robotics) Richard Terence Vaughan is a robotics researcher at Simon Fraser University. He is co-founder and maintainer of the Player/Stage Project; the world's most popular Free Software robot interface and simulation system.
Richard Venable Richard Venable (born October 2, 1944) is a Tennessee politician currently serving as head of NETWORKS - Sullivan Partnership, a joint economic development effort of Sullivan County and its cities. He wascounty mayor of Sullivan County, Tennessee and is a former member of the Tennessee House of Representatives.
Richard Vernon Richard Vernon (March 7, 1925 – December 4, 1997) was a British actor. He appeared in many feature films and television programmes, often in aristocratic roles (for example as Lord Bartelsham in the Ripping Yarns episode Roger of the Raj and, in a serious mode, as Squire Dale in the BBC radio 4 adaptation of The Small House at Allington).
Richard Villasanti Richard Villasanti (born May 20, 1980 in Canberra) is an Australian rugby league player for the Cronulla Sharks in the National Rugby League competition and also for Australia. He has previously played for the Wests Tigers, the Balmain Tigers and the New Zealand Warriors.
Richard Vincent, Baron Vincent of Coleshill Field Marshal Richard Frederick Vincent, Baron Vincent of Coleshill GBE, KCB, DSO, (born 23 August 1931), was Chair of the Military Committee of NATO, a post he had held since stepping down as Chief of the Defence Staff (CDS) in 1992.
Richard Vission Richard 'Humpty' Vission is a prolific house music producer, remixer and DJ born May 24 1973 in Toronto, Ontario. He has an extensive resumé of remixes to his credit, many of which have charted well on the US dance charts.

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