Richard


Gender:
Origin: German
14430 famous people named Richard found on Wikipedia.
2565169 male, 9533 female in US.
Most recent ranking: 188-th in year 2018
Best ranking: 5-th in year 1947
Used in: Ancient-Germanic, Czech, Dutch, English, French, German, Slovak

Meanings

The Germanic and Celtic first or given name Richard derives from German, French, and English "ric" (ruler, leader, king, powerful) and "hard" (strong, brave, hardy), and it therefore means "strong in rule". Nicknames include "Dick", "Dicky", "Dickie", "Rich", "Richie", "Rick", "Ricky", "Rickey", and others.
"Richard" is a common name in many Germanic languages, including English, German, Norwegian, Danish, Swedish, Icelandic, and Dutch. It can also be used as a French, Irish, Scottish, Finnish, Polish or Estonian name.

Masc. proper name, Middle English Rycharde, from Old French Richard, from Old High German Ricohard "strong in rule," from Proto-Germanic *rik- "ruler" (see rich) + *harthu "hard," from PIE *kar-o- (see hard (adj.)). "One of the most popular names introduced by the Normans. Usually Latinized as Ricardus, the common form was Ricard, whence the pet form Rick, etc." ["Dictionary of English Surnames"]

Powerful ruler, brave power. Combine of ric (power, rule) and hard (brave, hardy).

Famous People: 14430 found on Wikipedia.
Popularity Name Birth Year Description
1 Richard Nixon 1913 37th president of the United States of America
2 Richard Gere 1949 Actor from the United States
3 Richard Branson 1950 British business magnate
4 Richard Pryor 1940 American stand-up comedian, actor, social critic, writer, and MC
5 Richard Ramirez 1960 Serial killer
6 Richard III of England 1452 English monarch
7 Richard Harris 1930 Irish actor, singer, film director and writer
8 Richard Madden 1986 British actor
9 Richard I of England 1157 English king
10 Richard Burton 1925 Welsh actor
11 Richard Dawkins 1941 English ethologist, evolutionary biologist and author
12 Little Richard 1932 American pianist, singer and songwriter
13 Richard Feynman 1918 American quantum physicist
14 Richard Dreyfuss 1947 American actor
15 Richard Attenborough 1923 English actor, film director and producer
16 Richard B. Spencer 1978 American white supremacist
17 Richard Kuklinski 1935 American contract killer
18 Richard Simmons 1948 American exercise instructor
19 Richard Dawson 1932 US actor
20 Richard Dean Anderson 1950 American actor, producer and composer
21 Richard Hammond 1969 English motoring journalist and broadcaster
22 Richard Ayoade 1977 English comedian, actor, writer and director
23 Richard Wagner 1813 German composer, conductor
24 Richard Jefferson 1980 American professional basketball player
25 Richard Rawlings 1969 American businessman
26 Richard Winters 1918 American military personnel
27 Cliff Richard 1940 British pop singer, musician, and actor
28 Richard II of England 1367 King of England
29 Richard Marx 1963 American musician and songwriter
30 Richard Carpenter 1946 American pop musician
31 Richard Sherman 1988 American football cornerback for the Seattle Seahawks
32 Richard Benjamin Harrison 1941 Television personality
33 Richard Linklater 1960 American director and screenwriter
34 Richard Kiel 1939 American actor
35 Richard E. Grant 1957 Actor
36 Richard Thomas 1951 American actor
37 Richard Chamberlain 1934 Actor
38 Richard O'Brien 1942 English actor
39 Richard Beckinsale 1947 English actor
40 Richard Osman 1970 English television director and producer
41 Richard Belzer 1944 American actor and comedian
42 Richard Jenkins 1947 American stage, film, and television actor
43 Richard Phillips 1955 Former captain of the MV Maersk Alabama
44 Richard Speck 1941 Mass murderer
45 Richard Griffiths 1947 British actor
46 Richard Lawson 1947 Actor
47 Richard Hilton 1955 American businessman
48 Richard Stallman 1953 American software freedom activist, short story writer and computer programmer, founder of the GNU project
49 Richard Kind 1956 Actor from the United States
50 Richard Oakes 1942 Mohawk Native American activist
51 Richard Williams 1942 American tennis coach
52 Richard Widmark 1914 American actor
53 Richard Chase 1950 Serial killer
54 Richard Crenna 1926 American actor, director, producer
55 Richard Jewell 1962 American police officer
56 Richard Garfield 1963 Game designer who created Magic: The Gathering
57 Richard Petty 1937 American racecar driver
58 Richard Strauss 1864 German composer and orchestra director
59 Richard Coles 1962 British musician, journalist and priest
60 Richard Curtis 1956 Screenwriter from New Zealand
61 Richard Karn 1956 American actor and game show host
62 Richard Boone 1917 American actor
63 Richard Beymer 1938 American actor
64 Richard Roxburgh 1962 Australian actor
65 Richard Ashcroft 1971 English singer-songwriter
66 Richard Lewis 1947 American actor and comedian
67 Richard Blumenthal 1946 American politician
68 Richard Schiff 1955 American actor
69 Richard Gasquet 1986 French tennis player
70 Wendy Richard 1943 British actress
71 Richard of York, 3rd Duke of York 1411 Duke of York
72 Richard Rudolph 1946 Composer, guitarist, musician, songwriter, producer
73 Richard Long 1927 American actor
74 Richard E. Byrd 1888 Aviation pioneer, Medal of Honor recipient and United States Navy officer (1888-1957)
75 Richard Burr 1955 Sales executive, Senator from North Carolina
76 Richard Neville, 16th Earl of Warwick 1428 Jure uxoris 16th Earl of Warwick and suo jure 6th Earl of Salisbury
77 Richard Mulligan 1932 American actor
78 Richard Wilson 1936 Scottish actor, theatre director and broadcaster
79 Richard Camacho 1997
80 Richard Perry 1942 American record producer
81 Richard Harmon 1991 Canadian actor
82 Richard Webber Fictional character from Grey's Anatomy
83 Richard Jordan 1937 Actor
84 Richard O'Sullivan 1944 English comedy actor
85 Richard Glossip 1963 American prisoner
86 Richard Grieco 1965 American actor
87 Richard Donner 1930 Film director
88 Richard Castle 1969 Fictional character in the crime series Castle
89 Richard DeVos 1926 American businessman
90 Richard Benjamin 1938 Actor, film director
91 Richard T. Jones 1972 American actor
92 Richard Proenneke 1916 American hermit
93 Richard Rodgers 1902 American composer
94 Richard Masur 1948 American actor
95 Richard Manuel 1943 Canadian musician and composer
96 Richard Moll 1943 Actor
97 Richard Reid 1973 British terrorist
98 Richard Lee McNair 1958 American murderer
99 Richard Fortus 1966 American musician
100 Richard Hatch 1961 American television personality and criminal
101 Richard Briers 1934 English actor
102 Richard Rishi 1977 Indian actor
103 Richard Blackwood 1972 British comedian
104 Richard Farnsworth 1920 Actor
105 Richard Marcinko 1940 Navy SEAL, Author
106 Richard Allen Davis 1954 American murderer
107 Richard Thompson 1949 British songwriter, guitarist and recording and performing musician
108 Richard Roundtree 1942 American actor
109 Richard Holbrooke 1941 American diplomat
110 Richard Sandrak 1992 American bodybuilder
111 Richard Brake 1964 Welsh-American actor
112 Richard Francis Burton 1821 British explorer, geographer, translator, writer, soldier, orientalist, cartographer, ethnologist, spy, linguist, poet, fencer, and diplomat
113 Maurice Richard 1921 Canadian ice hockey player
114 Richard Anderson 1926 Film, television actor
115 Richard Jaeckel 1926 American actor
116 Richard Hawley 1967 English guitarist, singer-songwriter and producer
117 Richard Dormer 1969 A British actor, playwright and screenwriter
118 Richard Matheson 1926 American fiction writer
119 Richard Hauptmann 1899 Carpenter, convicted murderer
120 Richard Wright 1977 English footballer
121 Richard Machowicz 2000 Host of the Discovery Channel and Military Channel show Future Weapons
122 Richard Adams 1920 English novelist best known as the author of Watership Down
123 Richard M. Daley 1942 Illinois politician
124 Richard Quest 1962 English television journalist
125 Richard Rankin 1983 Scottish actor
126 Richard S. Castellano 1933 American actor
127 Richard Todd 1919 Irish-British actor
128 Richard Blais 1972 American chef
129 Richard Coyle 1972 British actor
130 Richard Engel 1973 American television journalist
131 Richard Nikolaus von Coudenhove-Kalergi 1894 Austrian politician
132 Richard Clayderman 1953 French pianist
133 Richard Lawrence 1800 American house painter and failed presidential assassin
134 Richard Hickock 1931 One of two ex-convicts convicted of murdering four members of the Herbert Clutter family
135 Richard Conte 1910 American actor
136 Richard Basehart 1914 Actor
137 Richard Garriott 1961 Video game developer, astronaut and entrepreneur
138 Richard Harrington 1975 British actor
139 Richard Tyson 1961 American actor
140 Richard Shelby 1934 United States Senator from Alabama
141 Richard Mentor Johnson 1780 Ninth Vice President of the United States
142 Richard Jeni 1957 American comedian
143 Richard Avedon 1923 American photographer
144 Richard Burgi 1958 American actor
145 Richard Posner 1939 United States federal judge
146 Richard Z. Krusper 1967 German rock musician
147 Richard Cromwell 1910 American stage actor
148 Richard Gutierrez 1984 US actor
149 Richard J. Daley 1902 American politician
150 Richard Cabral American television actor
151 Richard Rorty 1931 American philosopher
152 Richard Hell 1949 American actor and musician
153 Richard Roeper 1959 American writer and film critic
154 Richard Kelly 1975 American film director
155 Richard Rockefeller 1949 Family physician in Falmouth, Maine who practiced and taught medicine in Portland, Maine
156 Richard Dunne 1979 Irish footballer
157 Richard Painter 1961
158 Richard Cheese 1965 American musician
159 Richard Kline 1944 American actor and director
160 Richard Arkwright 1732 Textile entrepreneur; developer of the cotton mill
161 Richard Egan 1921 American actor
162 Richard Christy 1974 American musician and radio personality
163 Richard Bach 1936 American spiritual writer
164 Richard Henry Lee 1732 American statesman
165 Richard Steven Horvitz 1966 American actor and voice actor
166 Richard Trevithick 1771 English inventor, engineer and steam locomotive builder
167 Richard Deacon 1921 American actor
168 Richard Bong 1920 United States Air Force Medal of Honor recipient
169 Richard Boyd Barrett 1967 Irish politician
170 Richard Speight, Jr. 1970 American actor
171 Richard Bull 1924 American film, stage and television actor
172 Richard Rogers 1933 British architect
173 Richard Whiteley 1943 British television personality
174 Richard Johnson 1927 English actor
175 Richard Matt 1966 American convicted murderer notable for several prison escapes, most recently the 2015 Clinton Correctional Facility escape
176 Richard Thaler 1945 American economist
177 Richard Haydn 1905 UK actor
178 Richard Riehle 1948 American actor
179 Richard Patrick 1968 American rock musician
180 Richard White 1953 Actor from the United States of America (born 1953)
181 Richard Hamming 1915 American mathematician and information theorist
182 Richard Price 1949 American novelist and screenwriter
183 Richard Ruccolo 1972 American actor
184 Richard Davalos 1930 American actor
185 Richard Bacon 1975 English television and radio presenter
186 Richard A. Clarke 1950 American expert
187 Richard Fleeshman 1989 English actor, singer-songwriter
188 Richard II, Duke of Normandy 0963 Duke of Normandy
189 Richard Marquand 1937 British film director
190 Richard Sammel 1960 German actor
191 Richard Helms 1913 Director of the Central Intelligence Agency
192 Richard N. Haass 1951 American diplomat
193 Richard Serra 1939 American sculptor
194 Richard M. Sherman 1928 American songwriter
195 Richard Krajicek 1971 Dutch tennis player
196 Richard Herring 1967 British comedian and writer
197 Richard Scarry 1919 Author and illustrator from the United States
198 Richard Kiley 1922 American actor
199 Richard Madeley 1956 British television presenter
200 Richard Pitino 1982 American college basketball coach