Richard Smith

Richard Smith may refer to:

Arts and entertainment

• Richard Penn Smith (1799–1854), American playwright
• Richard Smith (silent film director) (1886–1937), American silent film director
• Richard Smith (screenwriter/director), Scottish screenwriter, film director, BAFTA-winning writer of Trauma
• Richard Smith (artist) (1931–2016) English painter
• Richard B. Smith (1901–1935), wrote the lyrics to the popular song "Winter Wonderland"
• Richard Harrison Smith (born 1937), choral conductor, arranger and composer
• Richard Smith (American guitarist), jazz guitarist in California
• Richard Smith (English guitarist) (born 1971), English-born fingerstyle guitarist in Nashville, Tennessee
• Richard Langham Smith (born 1947), British academic, head of music at the Open University
• Rickey Smith (singer), contestant on American Idol
• Richard O'Brien (Richard Timothy Smith, born 1942), TV presenter
• Ricky Smith (Doctor Who), fictional character in British TV series Doctor Who, played by Noel Clarke

Journalism

• Richard Mills Smith (born 1946), American editor and journalist, Chairman of Newsweek magazine
• Richard Smith (editor), British medical doctor, former editor of the British Medical Journal
• Richard Smith (writer), front page writer at VetVoice, the blog of VoteVets.org

Military

• Richard Smith (soldier) (c. 1790 - 1819), Canadian soldier and magistrate
• Richard Baird Smith (1818–1861), British engineer officer
• Richard Abel Smith (1933–2004), British Army officer
• Richard Smith (East India Company officer) (1734–1803), Commander-in-Chief, India

Politics

• Richard Smith (MP for Arundel), Member of Parliament (MP) for Arundel
• Richard Smith (MP for Devizes), MP for Devizes, 1402
• Richard Smith (died 1516), MP for Reading
• Richard Smith (died 1581), MP for Newcastle-under-Lyme
• Richard Smith (fl.1584), MP for Cricklade
• Richard Smith (Canadian politician), former Liberal MPP for Nipissing, Ontario
• Richard Smith (Continental Congress) (1735–1803), lawyer and New Jersey delegate to the Continental Congress
• Richard B. Smith (New York) (1878–1937), New York politician
• Richard M. Smith, legislator from Mineral Point, Wisconsin
• Richard Smith (diplomat) (1934–2015), Australian diplomat, Australian High Commissioner to the United Kingdom
• Ric Smith (Richard C. Smith, born 1944), Australian public servant

Science

• Richard Bowyer Smith (1837–1919), Australian inventor
• Richard D. Smith (born 1949), American chemist, Director of Pan-omics and Proteomics Research at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
• Richard E. Smith, researcher on pygmy seahorses
• Richard G. Smith (engineer) (born 1929), director of NASA's John F. Kennedy Space Center
• Richard Smith (mining engineer) (1783–1868), English-born mining engineer and politician in Nova Scotia
• Richard G. Smith (geographer), British geographer
• Richard Harbert Smith (1894–20th-century), professor and researcher of aeronautical engineering
• Richard J. Smith (born 1948), American dentist, anthropologist, head of graduate studies at Washington University in St. Louis

Sports

• Richard Smith (rugby union, born 1973) (born 1973), former Wales international rugby union player
• Richard Smith (rugby league) (born 1973), rugby league player
• Richard Smith (footballer) (born 1970), former footballer with Leicester City, Cambridge United and Grimsby Town
• Richard Smith (wide receiver) (born 1980), American football player
• Richard Smith (American football coach), former defensive coordinator for the NFL's Houston Texans
• Richard Shore Smith (c. 1878–1953), American football player and coach
• Ricky Smith (American football) (born 1960), former American football cornerback
• Rick Smith (American football executive), general manager of the Houston Texans
• Rick Smith (ice hockey) (born 1948), professional hockey player
• Richard Smith (field hockey), British field hockey player
• Richard Smith (rugby union, born 1987), Cardiff Blues Centre
• Richard Smith (umpire) (born 1972), Irish cricket umpire
• Richard Smith (Costa Rican footballer) (born 1967), former footballer with Alajuelense, Antigua and Carmelita

Other

• Richard Gordon Smith (1858–1918), British traveller, sportsman and naturalist
• Richard Harold Smith, an Australian businessman, better known as Dick Smith (entrepreneur)
• Richard Norton Smith (born 1953), U.S. Presidential historian
• Richard Sharp Smith (1852–1924), English then American architect
• Richard Smith (merchant) (1707–1776), English merchant in the West Indies trade
• Richard Smith (settler) (1596–1666), one of earliest settlers of Rhode Island
• Richard Smith (bishop) (1568–1655), English Catholic Bishop, titular of Chalcedon in Asia Minor
• Richard William Smith (born 1959), Canadian prelate of the Roman Catholic Church

See also

Dick Smith (disambiguation) Richard Smyth (disambiguation) Rick Smith (disambiguation)