Richter (surname)

Richter is a surname of German origin ( is German for "judge").

Geographical distribution
As of 2014, 71.2% of all known bearers of the surname Richter were residents of Germany (frequency 1:350), 13.0% of the United States (1:8,649), 2.2% of Brazil (1:28,857), 2.2% of South Africa (1:7,686), 1.8% of Austria (1:1,460), 1.3% of the Czech Republic (1:2,621) and 1.1% of Australia (1:6,626).

In Germany, the frequency of the surname was higher than national average (1:350) in the following states:
 * 1) Saxony (1:80)
 * 2) Brandenburg (1:121)
 * 3) Saxony-Anhalt (1:132)
 * 4) Thuringia (1:250)
 * 5) Mecklenburg-Vorpommern (1:279)

People

 * 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 court organist, son of Ferdinand Tobias Richter
 * August Gottlieb Richter (1742–1812), German surgeon
 * Bruno Richter (1914–1993), German military officer
 * Burton Richter (1931–2018), Nobel Prize-winning American physicist
 * Charles Francis Richter (1900–1985), American seismologist
 * Christoph Richter (1596–1669), mayor of Stettin, Swedish Pomerania, from 1659 to 1669
 * Claus Richter (born 1948), German journalist
 * Conrad Richter (1890–1968), American Pulitzer Prize–winning Western novelist
 * Daniel Richter (actor) (born 1939), American mime, actor and choreographer
 * Daniel Richter (artist) (born 1962), German artist
 * Daniel Richter (singer), Canadian singer, member of the band Eleven Past One
 * Daniel K. Richter, American historian
 * Dora Richter (1892–unknown), German transgender woman
 * Emma Richter (1888–1956), German paleontologist
 * 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
 * Frank-Jürgen Richter (born 1967), German entrepreneur and chairman of Swiss think-tank Horasis
 * Franz Xaver Richter (1709–1789), Czech composer
 * Gerhard Richter (born 1932), German painter
 * Guri Richter (1917–1995), Danish film actress
 * Gustav Richter (artist) (1823–1884), German painter
 * Gustav Richter (1913–1982), German Nazi official
 * Hans Richter (artist) (1888–1976), German Dada painter, film producer and art historian
 * 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
 * Henry James Richter (1772–1857), English artist and philosopher
 * Hieronymous Theodor Richter (1824–1898), German chemist
 * Ilja Richter (born 1952), German actor, singer and television presenter
 * Jan Richter, Czech ice hockey player
 * Jascha Richter (born 1963), Danish singer-songwriter of the band Michael Learns To Rock
 * Jason James Richter (born 1980), American actor
 * 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
 * Johann Gottfried Ohnefalsch Richter (1703–1765), German parson and natural theologian
 * 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 the rock group Kottonmouth Kings
 * Johan Richter (inventor) (1901–1997), Norwegian-Swedish inventor and industrialist
 * Johannes Richter (born 1993), German basketball player
 * Josef Karl Richter (1880–1933), a Bohemian composer and military bandmaster
 * Kamila B. Richter (born 1976), Czech-German media artist
 * Karel Richard Richter (1912–1941), German spy
 * Karl Richter (conductor) (1926–1981), German conductor
 * Karl Marius Richter (born 1987), aka Perverz, German rapper
 * Karl W. Richter (1942–1967), American aviator
 * Les Richter (1930–2010), American football player
 * Ludwig Richter (1803–1884), German painter and etcher
 * Martin Richter (born 1977), Czech ice hockey player
 * Martinus Richter (born 1968), German orthopedist
 * Matthew Richter (born 1968), American arts producer
 * Max Richter, German-born British classical composer
 * Michael M. Richter (1938–2020), German mathematician
 * 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 player, athletic director of the UW–Madison
 * Paul Richter (1895–1961), Austrian actor
 * Pavel Richter, Czech ice hockey player
 * Ronald Richter (1909–1991), Austrian scientist, head of the Argentine nuclear-fusion Huemul Project
 * Rossa Matilda Richter (1860–1937), English aerialist and actress, first human cannonball
 * Roy Robert Richter (1915–2007), Australian oilman and World War II pilot
 * Roy Richter (died 1983), American auto racer, inventor, and businessman
 * Sergey Richter (born 1989), Israeli Olympic 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