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

Politics

 * 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

Religion

 * 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

Sports

 * 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

Other

 * 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