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Richard Gasquet
Richard Gasquet became a certified tennis prodigy at age 12, when he won Les Petit As -- "the unofficial world junior title," as the BBC called it. Both his father and mother were tennis teachers,…Richard Pryor
Richard Pryor is the maverick and influential stand-up comedian whose career took a disastrous turn in 1980, when he set himself on fire while preparing to freebase cocaine. Richard Pryor began…Richard Nixon
Richard Nixon resigned as president of the United States in 1974, becoming the first U.S. president ever to quit the office. Richard Nixon was a lawyer and Republican politician who held the posts…Richard Rodgers
Name at birth: Richard Charles RodgersRichard Rogers was one of the most successful and celebrated composers of the 20th century. His partnerships with lyricists Lorenz Hart (1895-1943) and Oscar…Denise Richards
Denise Richards was a model-turned-actress when she got her breakthrough role as fresh-faced sci-fi soldier Carmen Ibanez in the sci-fi film Starship Troopers (1997, based on the Robert A. Heinlein…Keith Richards
Keith Richards and a schoolmate, Mick Jagger, fell in together in the early 1960s and formed the rock band The Rolling Stones with Brian Jones. Losing and adding a few other band members along the…Richard Brautigan
Richard Brautigan's most famous work is the novel Trout Fishing in America (1967), a back-to-nature favorite of the San Francisco counterculture of the 1960s. Raised in Washington, Brautigan moved to…Richard Ford
Novelist and short story writer Richard Ford won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction for his 1995 novel Independence Day, one of several works that features protagonist Frank Bascombe. Educated at the…Richard Feynman
Richard Feynman's whimsical 1985 memoir, Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman, cemented his reputation as a cheerful eccentric who liked to play bongos, chase women, and solve advanced problems in…Richard III
Richard III was King of England for just over two years in the 15th century, but the debate about him continues: Shall he be remembered as a visionary reformer and brilliant administrator, or as an…Trending
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