Richard Jaeckel (1926–1997), American actor Richard Kiel (1939–2014), American actor Richard Kind (born 1956), American actor Richard Madden (born 1986), Scottish actor Cheech Marin (Richard Anthony Marin, born 1946), American actor and comedian, known for the comedy duo Cheech & Chong Richard Pryor (1940–2005) an American stand-up comedian and actor Richard Roundtree (born 1942), American actor Richard Roxburgh (born 1962), Australian actor Richard Schulefand (1923–1987), American actor and comedian professionally known as Dick Shawn Peter Sellers (1925–1980), British actor born Richard Henry Sellers Richard Herbert Seneviratne (1925-1998), Sri Lankan Sinhala actor and filmmaker Richard Simmons (actor) (1913–2003), American actor Richard Simmons (born 1948), American fitness personality and actor Richard Speight, Jr. (born 1970), American actor Richard Thomas (actor) (born 1951), American actor Richard Todd (1919–2009), Irish-born English actor Dick Van Dyke (born 1925), American actor, comedian, writer and producer Richard Widmark (1914-2008), American actor Richard Yap (born 1967), Filipino actor, singer, and model In film and television Richard Donner (1930–2021), American film director and producer Richard Edlund (born 1940), American special effects cinematographer Richard Hatch (actor) (1945–2017), American actor, writer and producer Richard Hatch (Survivor contestant) (born 1961), American television personality, winner of Survivor: Borneo Richard Hammond (born 1969), British television presenter Richard Hunt (puppeteer) (1951–1992), American puppeteer who performed a number of the Muppets Richard Juan (born 1992), Hong Kong model and television host based in the Philippines Richard Lester (born 1932), American film director based in the UK Richard Linklater (born 1960), Texas filmmaker Richard Osman (born 1970), British television presenter and author Rich Vos (born 1957), American comedian Richard Whiteley (1943–2005), British television personality and journalist Richard Whitley (born 1948), American screenwriter and producer Richard Williams (animator) (1933–2019), Canadian-British animator Richard D. Zanuck (1934–2012), American film producer Richard Wenk, director and screenwriter of multiple films including Vamp (1986) Explorers Richard R. Arnold (born 1963), American astronaut Richard Francis Burton (1821–1890), British geographer, explorer, translator, writer, soldier, orientalist, cartographer, ethnologist, spy, linguist, poet, fencer and diplomat Richard E. Byrd (1888–1957), US Navy rear admiral, aviator and explorer Richard Masters (aka William Marsters), English sailor, cooper, trader and explorer Dick Rutkowski, diving medicine pioneer Scientists Richard Lee Armstrong (1937–1991), American-Canadian geologist Richard Dawkins (born 1941), English ethologist, evolutionary biologist and author Richard Feynman (1918–1988), American Nobel Prize-winning physicist Richard Hall (archaeologist) (1949–2011), English archaeologist Richard D. Hansen, American archaeologist Richard D. James (scientist) (born 1952), American mechanician and materials