Richard Murphy may refer to:

Arts and entertainment

Richard Murphy (screenwriter) Richard Murphy (May 8, 1912 – May 19, 1993) was an American screenwriter, film director and producer. His screenplays for '' Boomerang'' (1947) and '' The Desert Rats'' (1953) were nominated for the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay ...

(1912–1993), American film and television writer * Richard Murphy (poet) (1927–2018), Irish poet * Richard Murphy (architect) (born 1955), Scottish architect

Politics and law

* Richard L. Murphy (1875–1936), American Senator from Iowa * Richard W. Murphy (born 1929), American diplomat * Dick Murphy (Richard M. Murphy, born 1942), American politician, mayor of San Diego *

Rick Murphy Rick Murphy was a Republican member of the Arizona State Senate, representing District 21 (previously District 9) from 2011 to 2015. He has been a realtor since 1992 and is a small business owner. He served in the Arizona House of Representative ...

, American politician, Arizona state senator

Sports

Dick Murphy (basketball) Richard D. Murphy (March 10, 1921 – October 22, 1973) was an American professional basketball player. He played for the New York Knicks and Boston Celtics in the Basketball Association of America (BAA). For his career, Murphy averaged 1.1 poin ...

(1921–1973), American basketball player *

Bos Murphy Richard Boswell "Bos" Murphy (14 February 1924 – 9 November 2000) was a New Zealand professional welter/ middle/light heavyweight boxer of the 1940s and 1950s who won the New Zealand Boxing Association welterweight title, Australasian welterw ...

(Richard Murphy, 1924–2000), New Zealand boxer *

Dick Murphy (baseball) Richard Lee Murphy (October 25, 1931 – December 12, 2020) was an American professional baseball player who played for three seasons (1954; 1957–1958) and had a six-game trial with the Cincinnati Redlegs of Major League Baseball. He threw a ...

(1931–2020), American baseball player *

Richard Murphy (rower) Richard Frederick Murphy (November 14, 1931 – August 8, 2023) was an American competition rower and Olympic champion. Biography Richard Frederick Murphy was born in New Jersey on November 14, 1931. Murphy won a gold medal in ''coxed eights' ...

(1931–2023), American Olympic rower * Richard Murphy (American football) (born 1986), American football running back

Others

* Richard Murphy (sea captain) (1838–1916), American sea captain in Gloucester, Massachusetts * Richard Murphy (marine ecologist) (born 1942), American marine ecologist * Richard A. Murphy (1944–2022), American neuroscientist * Richard Murphy (tax campaigner) (born 1958), British campaigner and accountant * Richard Murphy (police officer) (fl. 1999), American police officer, involved in shooting of Amadou Diallo {{hndis, Murphy, Richard