Famous People with Name Richard

Richard Kent Austin            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Richard Kent Austin: is the Offensive Coordinator for the Ole Miss Rebels and former Head Coach of the Canadian Football League's Saskatchewan Roughriders. Prior to this he was an Offensive Coordinator for the Toronto Argonauts and a Quarterbacks Coach for the Ottawa Renegades.

Richard Schiff            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Richard Schiff: an Emmy Award-winning American actor. He is best known for playing Toby Ziegler on the NBC television drama The West Wing, a role for which received an Emmy Award. Schiff also made his directorial debut with The West Wing, directing an episode entitled "Talking Points."

Richard "Rick" Elfman            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Richard "Rick" Elfman: an American film director, writer and actor. Best known amongst cult film fans for his 1980 film Forbidden Zone, he is the son of writer Blossom Elfman, and the late Milton Elfman, an Air Force veteran and teacher, who passed away in 2001.Elfman grew up in the largely Afro-American Crenshaw district of Los Angeles. He spent his high school years doing track and field, learning Afro-Latin percussion music and instruments, boxing, and writing editorials for zines. Elfman traveled to Paris and became a member of Jerome Savary's "Grand Magic Circus". The Grand Magic Circus was taken under the wing of theatrical director/impresario Peter Brook and given a proper theatrical venue

Richard Jay Potash            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Richard Jay Potash: an American stage magician, actor, and writer. He is considered one of the most knowledgeable and skilled sleight-of-hand experts in the United States. He is notable for his signature card tricks, card throwing, memory feats, and stage patter.[1]

Richard Philip Lewis            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Richard Philip Lewis: an American comedian and actor.Lewis began performing stand-up comedy in the 1970s. He worked as a copywriter for an ad agency by day, while honing his stand-up act at night. The ad agency was named Contemporary Graphics (no longer exists) and was located above Lovey's pizzeria in Hasbrouck Heights, New Jersey.Lewis gained popularity in the 1980s with numerous appearances on Late Night with David Letterman and his own television specials on HBO. He has starred in the ABC sitcom Anything But Love which ran for four seasons. He co-starred with Don Rickles on the short-lived Daddy Dearest.

Chris Richard            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Chris Richard: is an American professional basketball player for the NBA's Minnesota Timberwolves. Richard, a power forward played collegiately at the University of Florida. He has a wingspan of 7'4½".His role was that of the sixth man that came off the bench for the Florida Gator National Championship Basketball team during the 2006-07 season.

Michael Richard            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Michael Richard: was a professional rock musician and amateur photographer. In 2002, surgery to remove a malignant tumor behind his right eye left him legally blind, and he began taking abstract photos of urban scenes. Those images have been exhibited at galleries in San Francisco and Los Angeles.

Christopher Robert Richard            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Christopher Robert Richard: is an American Major League Baseball outfielder and first baseman with the Tampa Bay Rays organization. He is an alumnus of University of San Diego High School in San Diego and of Oklahoma State University. He last played in the majors in 2003 for the Colorado Rockies.Drafted by the St. Louis Cardinals in the 19th round of the 1995 MLB Draft, Richard made his Major League Baseball debut with the Cardinals on July 17, 2000. He hit a home run in his first major league at-bat, becoming only the fourth player in the history of the club to do so. After appearing in only six games with the Cardinals, Richard was traded to the Baltimore Orioles on July 29, 2000, for pitcher Mike Timlin.

Jean-Baptiste-Tréfflé Richard            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Jean-Baptiste-Tréfflé Richard: was a farmer, notary and political figure in Quebec. He represented Montcalm in the Legislative Assembly of Quebec from 1881 to 1886 as a Conservative.He was elected to the Quebec assembly in 1881 and again in 1886, but resigned his seat in 1886 after being named a crown lands agent. Richard served as clerk for the Executive Council in 1887. Around 1891, he became customs inspector for Joliette County. In 1891, he married Marie-Paméla Hénault. Richard articled as a notary, was qualified to practise in 1898 and set up practice at Saint-Liguori and later L'Épiphanie. He was an unsuccessful candidate for a seat in the House of Commons in 1917. He served as secretary-treasurer for L'Épiphanie from 1907 to 1913 and in 1921. He died in Montreal at the age of 70.

Maurice Richard            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Maurice Richard: is a politician in the Canadian province of Quebec. He was a Liberal member of the National Assembly of Quebec from 1985 to 1994 and is the current mayor of Bécancour, a position to which he was first elected in 1976. Richard was a councillor in Bécancour from 1971 to 1976 and first served as the town's mayor from 1976 to 1985. He was interviewed by the Globe and Mail in 1983 as part of a feature piece on the community's industrial projects; in the course of the interview, he highlighted Bécancour's port on the St. Lawrence River, its efficient road and rail system, and its low-cost electricity.