Richard Thompson
Richard Thompson may refer to:
Arts and entertainment
- Richard Thompson (animator), Warner Bros. cartoon animator in the 1950s
- Richard Thompson (cartoonist), cartoonist who also worked as an illustrator
- Richard Thompson (musician), songwriter and musician
- Richard Earl Thompson, artist
- Rick Thompson (Falling Skies), a character from the television series ''Falling Skies''
Politics
- Sir Richard Thompson, 1st Baronet, British Conservative politician
- Richard Thompson (Australian politician), New South Wales politician
- Richard Thompson (Maine politician), attorney and Democratic member of the Maine House of Representatives
- Richard Thompson (MP for Reading), British Whig politician
- Richard E. Thompson, member of the Mississippi State Senate
- Richard Frederick Thompson, farmer and political figure in Saskatchewan, Canada
- Richard Henry Thompson, Australian politician and Methodist lay preacher
- Richard W. Thompson, United States Secretary of the Navy
- Rick Thompson, member of the West Virginia House of Delegates
Religion
- Richard Thompson (priest), Dean of Bristol
- Richard Thomson (theologian), or Thompson, 17th-century theologian
- Richard L. Thompson, American author and Gaudiya Vaishnava religious figure
Sports
- Richard Thompson (cricket administrator), 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), Trinidad and Tobago sprinter
- Rich Thompson (outfielder), American baseball player
- Rich Thompson (pitcher, born 1984), Australian baseball player
- Rich Thompson (pitcher, born 1958), American baseball player
- Richard Thompson (triple jumper), American triple jumper, All-American for the Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets track and field team
Other
- Richard Thompson (marine biologist), director of the Marine Institute at the University of Plymouth, coined the term "microplastics"
- Richard Thompson (physician), president of the Royal College of Physicians and formerly physician to the Queen
- Richard Thompson (Royal Navy officer), British admiral
- Richard F. Thompson, American behavioral neuroscientist
- Richard H. Thompson (philatelist), American philatelist
- Richard Horner Thompson, U.S. Army general
- Richard M. Thomson, Canadian banker
- Richard W. Thompson (journalist), 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