Richter

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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
• August Gottlieb Richter, German surgeon
• 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 surrealist painter
• Hans Richter, Dada artist, filmmaker and writer
• Hans Richter, German actor and director
• Hans Richter, German conductor
• Horst-Eberhard Richter, German psychotherapist
• 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-Madison and Washington Redskins, later athletic director of the UW-Madison
• 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
• Australian Professional wrestler 'Richter'

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