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
Henry Richard Thompson (Australian politician) (1906–1964), New Zealand-born Australian parliamentarian, businessman and Methodist Lay preacher
Richard Thompson (Australian politician) (1832–1906), New South Wales politician
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
Richard Thompson (Maine politician) (1947-), attorney and Democratic member of the Maine House of Representatives

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
Richard Earl Thompson (1914–1991), artist

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

Richard Thompson, former prosecutor and current president of Thomas More Law Center
Richard Thompson (businessman)
Richard Thompson, mathematician for whom the infinite Thompson groups are named
Richard F. Thompson (1930–2014), American behavioral neuroscientist
Richard Horner Thompson (born 1926), U.S. Army general
Richard H. Thompson (philatelist) (1903–1985), American philatelist
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)