Richard Thompson

Richard Thompson may refer to:

Politics

• Sir Richard Thompson, 1st Baronet (1912–1999), British Conservative politician
• Richard W. Thompson (1809–1900), United States Secretary of the Navy under Rutherford B. Hayes, 1877–1880
• Richard Thompson (Australian parliamentarian) (1906–1964), New Zealand-born Australian parliamentarian, businessman and Methodist Lay preacher
• Rick Thompson (born 1952), Democratic member of the West Virginia House of Delegates
• Richard S. Thompson (1916–1997), Democratic member of the Louisiana House of Representatives
• Richard Frederick Thompson (1873–1949), farmer and political figure in Saskatchewan, Canada

Sports

• Rich Thompson (pitcher, born 1984), Australian baseball player
• Richard Thompson (footballer) (born 1969), English footballer
• Richard Thompson (footballer born 1974), former professional footballer
• Richard Thompson (athlete) (born 1985), Trinidad and Tobago athlete

Artists

• Richard Thompson (animator) (1914–1998), Warner Bros. cartoon animator in the 1950s
• Richard Thompson (cartoonist) (born 1957), cartoonist who has also worked as an illustrator
• Richard Thompson (musician) (born 1949), songwriter and musician

Religion

• Richard Thomson (theologian) (Thompson, 16th-century–1613), 17th century theologian
• Richard L. Thompson (1947–2008), American author and Gaudiya Vaishnava religious figure

Others

• Richard Thompson, former prosecutor and current President of Thomas More Law Center
• Richard Thompson, mathematician for whom the infinite Thompson groups are named
• Richard Horner Thompson (born 1926), U.S. Army general
• Richard M. Thomson (born 1933), Canadian banker
• Richard Thompson (physician) (born 1940), president of the Royal College of Physicians and formerly physician to the Queen
• Rick Thompson (Falling Skies)

See also

• Dick Thompson (disambiguation)
• Rich Thompson (disambiguation)
• Richard Thomson (disambiguation)
• Thompson (surname)