Richter (surname)
Richter is a surname of German origin (Richter: German for "judge") held by the following notable individuals:
- Adrian Ludwig Richter (1803–1884), German painter and etcher
- Aemilius Ludwig Richter (1808-1864), German jurist
- Albert Richter (1912–1940), German track-cyclist and World Champion
- Andy Richter (born 1966), American actor, writer, comedian, and late-night talk-show announcer
- Anton Karl Richter (1690-1763), 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 Prize-winning American physicist
- Charles Francis Richter (1900–1985), American seismologist and physicist, inventor of the Richter magnitude scale
- Claus Richter (born 1948), German journalist
- Conrad Richter (1890–1968), American Pulitzer Prize–winning Western novelist
- Eugen Richter (1838–1906), German politician
- Ferdinand Tobias Richter (1651–1711), Austrian baroque-music composer and organist
- Frank Richter, Sr. (1837–1910), Bohemia-born rancher and entrepreneur in the U.S. and Canada
- Frank Richter, Jr. (1910–1977), Canadian politician; Member of the Legislative Assembly; Minister
- Frank-Jürgen Richter (born 1967), German entrepreneur; Chairman of Swiss think-tank Horasis
- Franz Xaver Richter (1709–1789), Czech composer
- Gerhard Richter (born 1932), German painter
- Gustav Richter (artist) (1823–1884), German figure- and portrait-painter
- Gustav Richter (1913–1982), German Nazi official
- Hans Richter (artist) (1888–1976), German Dada-artist, filmmaker and writer
- Hans Richter (actor) (1919–2008), German actor and director
- Hans Richter (conductor) (1843–1916), German conductor
- Heinz Richter (engineer) (1909–1971), German engineer and author
- Heinz Richter (cyclist) (born 1947)
- Heinz A. Richter (born 1939), German historian
- Henjo Richter (born 1963), German guitarist
- Henry Constantine Richter (1821–1902), British zoological illustrator
- Hieronymous Theodor Richter (1824–1898), German chemist
- Ilja Richter (born 1952), German actor, singer and television presenter
- Jascha Richter (born 1963), Danish singer-songwriter; lead vocalist and keyboardist of band Michael Learns To Rock
- Jason James Richter (born 1980), American actor
- Jeffrey Richter, American author of books on programming for Windows and .NET
- Jean Paul Richter (1847-1937) German art historian
- Jean Paul Friedrich Richter (1763–1825), German novelist and author
- Jeremias Benjamin Richter (1762–1807), German chemist who developed the stoichiometry theory
- Joey Richter, American actor and singer
- Johann Moritz Richter (1620–1667), German architect and engraver.
- John C. Richter, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Oklahoma
- Johnny Richter, American musician; member of rock group 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
- Milan Richter (born 1948), Slovak writer, playwright, translator and publisher
- Mischa Richter (1910–2001), Russian-born American cartoonist and artist
- Owen Von Richter (born 1975), Canadian medley swimmer
- Pat Richter (born 1941), American football playe; athletic director of the UW–Madison
- Paul Richter (1895–1961), Austrian actor
- Ronald Richter (1909–1991), Austrian scientist; head of the Argentine nuclear-fusion Huemul Project
- Roy Richter (died 1983), American auto racer, inventor, and businessman
- Sergy Rikhter (born 1989), Ukrainian-born Israeli sport-shooter
- Simona Richter (born 1972), Romanian judoka athlete
- Stacey Richter (born 1965), American writer of short fiction
- Sviatoslav Richter (1915–1997), Soviet pianist
- Travis Richter, American musician; guitarist of rock band From First to Last
Fictional characters
- Richter, the villain's right-hand man in science fiction thriller Total Recall
- Richter, hitman in the action games Hotline Miami and Hotline Miami 2: Wrong Number
- Renate Richter, Nazi schoolteacher and co-protagonist of the 2012 movie Iron Sky
- Holt Ann Richter, midget friend of Cleveland Brown on "The Cleveland Show"
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