Richard Lyon

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Richard Lyon is the name of:

  • Richard F. Lyon (1819–1894), a Confederate Georgia jurist
  • Richard Francis Lyon (born 1952), a co-founder of Foveon Inc., inventor of Xerox optical mouse
  • Richard Lyon-Dalberg-Acton, 4th Baron Acton (born July 30, 1941), a British Labour politician who became Baron Acton, of Aldenham in the County of Shropshire
  • Rick Lyon, the puppeteer who created the puppets for Avenue Q
  • Richard Lyon, the first patent attorney for TV inventor Philo T. Farnsworth
  • Richard Lyon, movie star—Headless Ghost, 1959; The Boy With Green Hair, 1948; The Tender Years, 1947
  • Richard Lyon, a merchant who had his head cut off in London in the 1381 Peasants' Revolt
  • Richard H. Lyon, an engineering professor emeritus at MIT and founder of the RH Lyon Corp
  • Richard Lyon, a lobbyist for the California Building Industry Association
  • Dick Lyon, former mayor of Oceanside, California
  • Dick Lyon, a Stanford University Olympic rowing medalist at the 1964 Tokyo games
  • John R. (Dick) Lyon, deputy director, shuttle payload operations, at Kennedy Space Center
  • Richard Lyon, commissioner for economic development of the state of Alaska
  • Richard Lyon, president of the Washington (DC) Home Rule Committee

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