Richard Thompson

Richard Thompson may refer to:

Arts and entertainment

Richard Thompson (animator) (1914–1998), Warner Bros. cartoon animator in the 1950s
Richard Thompson (cartoonist) (1957–2016), cartoonist who also worked as an illustrator
Richard Thompson (musician) (born 1949), songwriter and musician
Richard Earl Thompson (1914–1991), artist
Rick Thompson (Falling Skies), a character from the television series Falling Skies

Sir Richard Thompson, 1st Baronet (1912–1999), British Conservative politician
Richard Thompson (Australian politician) (1832–1906), New South Wales politician
Richard Thompson (Maine politician) (born 1947), attorney and Democratic member of the Maine House of Representatives
Richard Thompson (MP for Reading) (died c. 1735), British Whig politician
Richard E. Thompson, member of the Mississippi State Senate
Richard Frederick Thompson (1873–1949), farmer and political figure in Saskatchewan, Canada
Richard Henry Thompson (1906–1964), Australian politician and Methodist lay preacher
Richard W. Thompson (1809–1900), United States Secretary of the Navy

Richard Thompson (priest) (1648–1685), Dean of Bristol
Richard Thomson (theologian) (died 1613), or Thompson, 17th-century theologian
Richard L. Thompson (1947–2008), American author and Gaudiya Vaishnava religious figure

Richard Thompson (cricket administrator) (born 1966), Chairman of the England and Wales Cricket Board
Richard Thompson (footballer, born 1969), English football player
Richard Thompson (footballer, born 1974), English football player
Richard Thompson (sprinter) (born 1985), Trinidad and Tobago sprinter
Rich Thompson (outfielder) (born 1979), American baseball player
Rich Thompson (pitcher, born 1984), Australian baseball player
Rich Thompson (pitcher, born 1958), American baseball player
Richard Thompson (triple jumper) (born 1969), American triple jumper, All-American for the Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets track and field team

Richard Thompson (marine biologist), director of the Marine Institute at the University of Plymouth, coined the term "microplastics"
Richard Thompson (physician) (born 1940), president of the Royal College of Physicians and formerly physician to the Queen
Richard Thompson (Royal Navy officer) (born 1966), British admiral
Richard F. Thompson (1930–2014), American behavioral neuroscientist
Richard H. Thompson (philatelist) (1903–1985), American philatelist
Richard Horner Thompson (1926–2016), U.S. Army general
Richard M. Thomson (born 1933), Canadian banker
Richard W. Thompson (journalist) (1865–1920), journalist and public servant in Indiana and Washington, D.C.
Richard Thompson, former prosecutor and current president of Thomas More Law Center
Richard Thompson, mathematician for whom the infinite Thompson groups are named