Richter
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Richter may refer to:
- the Richter magnitude scale, a scale measuring the strength of earthquakes
- Richter (electro rock), an electro-rock band from Buenos Aires, Argentina
[edit] Richter as a surname
Richter is also a German-language surname, held by the following individuals:
- Adrian Ludwig Richter (1803–1884), 19th century German artist
- Aemilius Ludwig Richter, 19th century German jurist
- Albert Richter (1912–1940), German track cyclist and World Champion
- Andy Richter (born 1966), comedian
- Anton Karl Richter, Austrian organist, son of Ferdinand Tobias Richter
- August Gottlieb Richter (1742–1812), German surgeon
- Bruno Richter (1914–1993), German military officer
- Burton Richter (born 1931), Nobel laureate in physics
- Charles Francis Richter (1900–1985), inventor of the Richter magnitude scale
- Claus Richter (born 1948), German journalist
- Conrad Richter (1890–1968), Pulitzer Prize winning Western novelist
- Eugen Richter (1838–1906), German politician
- Ferdinand Tobias Richter (1651–1711), Austrian Baroque composer and organist
- Frank Richter, Sr. (1837–1910), rancher and entrepreneur in 19th Century British Columbia and Washington
- Frank Richter, Jr. (1910–1977), MLA in the Canadian province of British Columbia from 1963 to 1975
- Frank-Jürgen Richter (born 1967), Chairman of Horasis a Swiss think-tank in Zurich
- Franz Xaver Richter (1709–1789), Classical-era Czech composer
- Gerhard Richter (born 1932), Preeminent 20th century German painter
- Gustav Richter (artist) (1823–1884), 19th century German artist
- Gustav Richter (1913–1982), 20th century German Nazi official
- Hans Richter (artist) (1888–1976), Dada artist, filmmaker and writer
- Hans Richter (actor) (1919–2008), German actor and director
- Hans Richter (conductor) (1843–1916), German conductor
- Henjo Richter (born 1963), German guitarist
- Henry Constantine Richter (1821–1902), zoological illustrator
- Hieronymous Theodor Richter (1824–1898), German chemist
- Ilja Richter (born 1952), German actor, singer and television presenter
- Jason James Richter (born 1980), American actor
- Jeffrey Richter, author of books on programming for Windows and .NET
- Jean Paul Friedrich Richter (1763–1825), German novelist and author
- Jeremias Benjamin Richter (1762–1807), German chemist who developed the stoichiometry theory
- John C. Richter, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Oklahoma
- Johnny Richter, member of the rapcore, alternative punk rock group, the Kottonmouth Kings
- Johan Richter (inventor) (1901–1997), Norwegian-Swedish Inventor and Industrialist
- Karl Richter (conductor) (1926–1981), German conductor
- Karl W. Richter (1942–1967), American aviator
- Matthew Richter (born 1968), American arts producer
- Max Richter (composer), German-born classical composer
- Mike Richter (born 1966), American ice hockey player
- Pat Richter (born 1941), football player for the University of Wisconsin–Madison and Washington Redskins, later athletic director of the UW–Madison
- Paul Richter (1895–1961), Austrian actor
- Ronald Richter (1909–1991), Austrian head of the infamous Argentine Huemul Project
- Roy Richter (died 1983), American auto racer, inventor, businessman
- Sergy Rikhter (born 1989), Israeli Olympic sport shooter
- Simona Richter (born 1972), Romanian judoka
- Stacey Richter (born 1965), American writer of short fiction
- Sviatoslav Richter (1915–1997), Soviet pianist
- Travis Richter, guitarist of the American rock band, From First to Last
- Richter, the right-hand man villain in the science fiction thriller Total Recall
[edit] Also appears in
- Richter Abend, character from the game, Tales of Symphonia: Dawn of the New World
- The Richter tuning 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
- Owen Von Richter (born 1975), Canadian medley swimmer
- "Goin' Richter," a song by The Ziggens
[edit] See also
- Richter's transformation or Richter's syndrome, a complication of blood-related neoplasms
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