Richter

Richter can refer to the Richter magnitude scale, a scale measuring the intensity of Earthquakes

Richter is also a surname:

• Andy Richter, comedian
• Burton Richter, Nobel laureate in physics
• Charles Francis Richter, the inventor of the above scale
• Gerhard Richter, a prominent late 20th century German painter
• Hans Richter, a Dada artist, filmmaker and writer
• Hans Richter, a German conductor
• Jeremias Benjamin Richter, German chemist who developed the stoichiometry theory
• Karl Richter, a German conductor
• Mike Richter, an American hockey player.
• Pat Richter, football player for the University of Wisconsin and Washington Redskins, later athletic director of the UW
• Sviatoslav Richter, a Soviet pianist
• Richter, is the right-hand man villain in the science fiction thriller Total Recall.
• Ronald Richter. Austrian, head of the infamous Argentine Huemul Project
• Harmonicas are commonly tuned to the Richter scale developed in 1825.

• Gedeon Richter Ltd., a Hungarian pharmaceutical company, listed on the Budapest Stock Exchange.
• Richter is also the name of a German toy manufacturer from the early 20th century.