Richard Thompson may refer to:

Arts and entertainment

Richard Thompson (animator) Richard Thompson (26 August 1914 – 12 June 1998) was an American animator who worked at several animated cartoon departments over a career of four decades. Career Thompson's longest association was with Chuck Jones at Warner Bros. Cartoon ...

(1914–1998), Warner Bros. cartoon animator in the 1950s *

Richard Thompson (cartoonist) Richard Church Thompson (October 8, 1957 – July 27, 2016) was an American illustrator and cartoonist best known for his syndicated comic strip ''Cul de Sac'' and the illustrated poem " Make the Pie Higher". He was given the Reuben Award for ...

(1957–2016), cartoonist who also worked as an illustrator *

Richard Thompson (musician) Richard Thompson (born 3 April 1949) is an English singer, songwriter, and guitarist. Thompson first gained prominence in the late 1960s as the lead guitarist and songwriter for the folk rock group Fairport Convention, which he had co-found ...

(born 1949), songwriter and musician * Richard Earl Thompson (1914–1991), artist * Rick Thompson (''Falling Skies''), a character from the television series ''Falling Skies''

Politics

* Sir Richard Thompson, 1st Baronet (1912–1999), British Conservative politician * Richard Thompson (Australian politician) (1832–1906), New South Wales politician * Richard Thompson (Maine politician) (born 1947), attorney and Democratic member of the Maine House of Representatives * Richard Thompson (MP for Reading) (died c. 1735), British Whig politician * Richard E. Thompson, member of the Mississippi State Senate *

Richard Frederick Thompson Richard Frederick Thompson (June 2, 1873 – September 25, 1949) was a farmer and political figure in Saskatchewan, Canada. He represented Weyburn in the House of Commons of Canada from 1917 to 1921 as a Unionist Party member. He was born i ...

(1873–1949), farmer and political figure in Saskatchewan, Canada * Richard Henry Thompson (1906–1964), Australian politician and Methodist lay preacher * Richard W. Thompson (1809–1900), United States Secretary of the Navy

Religion

* Richard Thompson (priest) (1648–1685), Dean of Bristol *

Richard Thomson (theologian) Richard Thomson, sometimes spelled Thompson, was a Netherlands, Dutch-born England, English theologian and translator. He was Fellow of Clare College, Cambridge, Clare Hall, Cambridge and the translator of Martial's epigrams and among the "First We ...

(died 1613), or Thompson, 17th-century theologian *

Richard L. Thompson Richard Leslie Thompson, also known as Sadaputa Dasa (; February 4, 1947 – September 18, 2008), was an American mathematician,. Readable online aWorldwisdom.com/ref> author and Gaudiya Vaishnava religious figure. Historian Meera Nanda des ...

(1947–2008), American author and Gaudiya Vaishnava religious figure

Sports

* Richard Thompson (footballer, born 1969), English football player * Richard Thompson (footballer, born 1974), English football player *

Richard Thompson (sprinter) Richard "Torpedo" Thompson (born 7 June 1985) is a sprinter from Trinidad and Tobago who specializes in the 100 metres. His personal best of 9.82 seconds, set in June 2014, was one of the top ten fastest of all time, and a national record ...

(born 1985), Trinidad and Tobago sprinter * Rich Thompson (outfielder) (born 1979), American baseball player *

Rich Thompson (pitcher, born 1984) Richard Graeme Thompson (born 1 July 1984) is a former Major League Baseball relief pitcher who played for the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim and Oakland Athletics. Career Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim Thompson was originally signed as ...

, Australian baseball player *

Rich Thompson (pitcher, born 1958) Richard Neil Thompson (born November 1, 1958) is a former Major League Baseball relief pitcher who played for the Cleveland Indians () and the Montreal Expos (–). In his career, he made 77 appearances and went 3-10 with a 5.05 ERA An era is ...

, American baseball player

Other

* Richard Thompson (marine biologist), director of the Marine Institute at the University of Plymouth, coined the term "microplastics" * Richard Thompson (physician) (born 1940), president of the Royal College of Physicians and formerly physician to the Queen * Richard Thompson (Royal Navy officer) (born 1966), British admiral *

Richard F. Thompson Richard Frederick Thompson (September 6, 1930 – September 16, 2014) was an American behavioral neuroscientist. He was the William M. Keck Professor of Psychology and Biological Sciences at the University of Southern California, with a parallel ...

(1930–2014), American behavioral neuroscientist * Richard H. Thompson (philatelist) (1903–1985), American philatelist * Richard Horner Thompson (1926–2016), U.S. Army general *

Richard M. Thomson Richard Murray Thomson, (born August 14, 1933) is a Canadian banker. He earned a Bachelor of Arts and Science degree in engineering from the University of Toronto and a Master of Business Administration from Harvard Business School. He joined th ...

(born 1933), Canadian banker *

Richard W. Thompson (journalist) Richard W. Thompson (1865 - February 12, 1920) was a journalist and public servant in Indiana and Washington, D.C. He was at various times an editor or managing editor of the ''Indianapolis Leader'', the ''Indianapolis World'', the ''Indianapoli ...

(1865–1920), journalist and public servant in Indiana and Washington, D.C. * Richard Thompson, former prosecutor and current president of Thomas More Law Center * Richard Thompson, mathematician for whom the infinite Thompson groups are named

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