Richard Smith

Arts and entertainment

• RAS-1, stage name of Richard Arthur Smith, American musician
• Richard Bernhard Smith, American composer who wrote the lyrics to "Winter Wonderland"
• Richard Curson Smith, British television director and producer
• Richard H. E. Smith II, American software engineer, computer consultant and science fiction fanzine publisher
• Richard John Smith, British actor
• Richard Langham Smith, British academic, head of music at the Open University
• Richard Penn Smith, American playwright
• Richard O'Brien, stage name of Richard Timothy Smith, British-New Zealand writer and actor
• Richard Smith (American guitarist), jazz guitarist in California
• Richard Smith (artist), English painter
• Richard Smith (English guitarist), English-born fingerstyle guitarist in Nashville, Tennessee
• Rick Smith (musician), member of English dance duo Underworld
• Richard Smith (screenwriter), Scottish screenwriter, film director, BAFTA-winning writer of Trauma
• Richard Smith (silent film director), American silent film director
• Richard Zane Smith, American sculptor

  Journalism

• Richard Mills Smith, American editor and journalist, Chairman of Newsweek magazine
• Richard Smith (editor), British medical doctor, former editor of the ''British Medical Journal''

  Military

• Richard Smith (soldier), Canadian soldier and magistrate
• Richard Baird Smith, British engineer officer
• Richard Abel Smith, British Army officer
• Richard Smith (East India Company officer), Commander-in-Chief, India

  Politics

• R. Maclin Smith, American politician from Virginia
• Richard Smith (MP for Devizes), MP for Devizes, 1402
• Richard Smith (died 1516), MP for Reading
• Richard Smith (died 1581), MP for Newcastle-under-Lyme
• Richard Smith (fl. 1584), MP for Cricklade
• Richard Smith (Canadian politician), former Liberal MPP for Nipissing, Ontario
• Richard Smith (Continental Congress), lawyer and New Jersey delegate to the Continental Congress
• Richard B. Smith (New York politician), New York politician
• Richard M. Smith, legislator from Mineral Point, Wisconsin
• Richard Smith (diplomat), Australian diplomat, Australian High Commissioner to the United Kingdom
• Richard Joseph Smith, member of both the New South Wales Legislative Council and the Queensland Legislative Council
• Richard A. Smith (Connecticut politician), American politician in the Connecticut House of Representatives
• Ric Smith, Australian public servant
• Richard H. Smith, member of the Georgia House of Representatives
• Richard "Mouse" Smith, former President of the Delaware NAACP State Conference and a close friend to Joe Biden

  Science

• Richard Smith (mining engineer), English-born mining engineer and politician in Nova Scotia
• Richard Smith (historical geographer), British academic, historical geographer and demographer
• Richard A. Smith (physician), African-American physician
• Richard Bowyer Smith, Australian inventor
• Richard D. Smith, American chemist, Director of Pan-omics and Proteomics Research at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
• Richard G. Smith (engineer), director of NASA's John F. Kennedy Space Center
• Richard G. Smith (geographer), British geographer
• Richard Harbert Smith, professor and researcher of aeronautical engineering
• Richard J. Smith, American dentist, anthropologist, head of graduate studies at Washington University in St. Louis
• R. N. Smith, president of the British Veterinary Association

  Sports

• Richard Smith (rugby union, born 1973), former Wales international rugby union player
• Richard Smith (rugby league), rugby league player
• Richard Smith (footballer, born 1967), English footballer for Mansfield Town and Wolverhampton Wanderers
• Richard Smith (footballer, born 1970), English footballer for Leicester City, Cambridge United and Grimsby Town
• Richard Smith (wide receiver), American football player
• Richard Smith (American football coach), former defensive coordinator for the NFL's Houston Texans
• Richard Shore Smith, American football player and coach
• Rick Smith (American football executive), general manager of the Houston Texans
• Rick Smith (ice hockey), professional hockey player
• Richard Smith (field hockey), British field hockey player
• Richard Smith (rugby union, born 1987), Cardiff Blues centre
• Richard Smith (umpire), Irish cricket umpire
• Richard Smith (Costa Rican footballer), former footballer with Alajuelense, Antigua and Carmelita
• Richard Smith (sport shooter), American sports shooter
• Richard Smith (Barbadian cricketer), Barbadian cricketer
• Richard Smith (Trinidadian cricketer), Trinidadian cricketer
• Richard Smith (South African cricketer), South African cricketer

  Other

• Richard A. Smith (businessman), American business executive
• Richard Smith (businessman) managing director of Australian company Harris Scarfe
• Richard Smith (public historian), American historian focused on New England history
• Richard Gordon Smith, British traveller, sportsman and naturalist
• Dick Smith (entrepreneur), Australian businessman
• Richard Norton Smith, U.S. Presidential historian
• Richard Sharp Smith, English then American architect
• Richard Smith (merchant), English merchant in the West Indies trade
• Richard Smith (settler), one of earliest settlers of Rhode Island
• Richard Smith (bishop), English Catholic Bishop, titular of Chalcedon in Asia Minor
• Richard Smith (book collector), English book collector
• Richard William Smith, Canadian prelate of the Roman Catholic Church
• Richard F. Smith, American business executive
• Richard Tilden Smith, British businessman
• Richard Patrick Smith, Archbishop of Port of Spain, Trinidad
• Sir Richard Smith, List of [High Court judges of England and Wales|High Court judge of England and Wales]