Richter
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Richter means "Judge" in German.
Richter can refer to the Richter magnitude scale, a scale measuring the intensity of earthquakes.
Richter is also a surname:
- Andy Richter, comedian
- Anton Karl Richter, Austrian organist, son of Ferdinand Tobias Richter
- Burton Richter, Nobel laureate in physics
- Charles Francis Richter, inventor of the Richter magnitude scale
- Conrad Richter, Pulitzer Prize winning Western novelist
- Ferdinand Tobias Richter, Austrian Baroque composer and organist
- Gerhard Richter, late 20th century German painter
- Hans Richter, Dada artist, filmmaker and writer
- Hans Richter, German conductor
- Jason James Richter, American actor
- Jean Paul Friedrich Richter, German novelist and author
- Jeremias Benjamin Richter, German chemist who developed the stoichiometry theory
- John "Budman" Richter, Multi-talented, Brookfield Place resident and author of the pop song "Emily"
- Karl Richter, German conductor
- Karl W. Richter, American aviator
- Mike Richter, American ice hockey player
- Pat Richter, football player for the University of Wisconsin and Washington Redskins, later athletic director of the UW
- Richter, the right-hand man villain in the science fiction thriller Total Recall
- Ronald Richter, Austrian head of the infamous Argentine Huemul Project
- Sviatoslav Richter, Russian pianist
The name Richter also appears in:
- The Richter scale developed in 1825 to which harmonicas are commonly tuned
- Gedeon Richter Ltd., a Hungarian pharmaceutical company, listed on the Budapest Stock Exchange
- Richter (toy company), a German toy manufacturer from the early 20th century
- Richter Belmont, a character from the Castlevania game series
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