Richard Thompson

• Richard Thompson (musician) (b. 1949), contemporary songwriter and musician
• Sir Richard Thompson, 1st Baronet, (1912–1999), British Conservative politician
• Richard Thompson (cartoonist), cartoonist who has also worked as an illustrator
• Richard Thomson (Thompson), 17th century theologian
• Richard Thompson, former prosecutor and current President of Thomas More Law Center
• Richard Thompson (animator), Warner Bros. cartoon animator in the 1950s
• Richard Thompson (mathematician), for whom the infinite Thompson groups are named
• Richard W. Thompson, United States Secretary of the Navy under Rutherford B. Hayes, 1877-1880
• Rich Thompson (baseball pitcher), Australian baseball player
• Richard H. Thompson, U.S. Army general
• Richard Thompson (footballer), English footballer
• Richard Thompson (athlete), Trinidad and Tobago athlete
• Richard Thompson (Australian parliamentarian), New Zealand-born Australian parliamentarian, businessman and Methodist Lay preacher
• Richard Thompson (West Virginia politician)
• Richard J. Thompson, baseball historian (1957-2008)

See also

• Thompson (surname)