Richard Smith may refer to:

Arts and entertainment

  • RAS-1, stage name of Richard Arthur Smith, American musician
  • Richard Bernhard Smith (1901–1935), 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 (1786–1855), British actor
  • Richard Langham Smith (born 1947), British academic, head of music at the Open University
  • Richard Penn Smith (1799–1854), American playwright
  • Richard O'Brien (born 1942), stage name of Richard Timothy Smith, British-New Zealand writer and actor
  • Richard Smith (American guitarist), jazz guitarist in California
  • Richard Smith (artist) (1931–2016), English painter
  • Richard Smith (English guitarist) (born 1971), English-born fingerstyle guitarist in Nashville, Tennessee
  • Rick Smith (musician) (born 1959), member of English dance duo Underworld
  • Richard Smith (screenwriter), Scottish screenwriter, film director, BAFTA-winning writer of Trauma
  • Richard Smith (silent film director) (1886–1937), American silent film director
  • Richard Zane Smith (born 1955), American sculptor

Journalism

  • Richard Mills Smith (born 1946), 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) (–1819), Canadian soldier and magistrate
  • Richard Baird Smith (1818–1861), British engineer officer
  • Richard Abel Smith (1933–2004), British Army officer
  • Richard Smith (East India Company officer) (1734–1803), Commander-in-Chief, India

Politics

  • R. Maclin Smith (1906–1971), 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) (1931–1978), former Liberal MPP for Nipissing, Ontario
  • Richard Smith (Continental Congress) (1735–1803), lawyer and New Jersey delegate to the Continental Congress
  • Richard B. Smith (New York politician) (1878–1937), New York politician
  • Richard M. Smith (1828–1888), legislator from Mineral Point, Wisconsin
  • Richard Smith (diplomat) (1934–2015), Australian diplomat, Australian High Commissioner to the United Kingdom
  • Richard Joseph Smith (1819–1883), 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 (Richard C. Smith, born 1944), Australian public servant
  • Richard H. Smith (1945–2024), member of the Georgia House of Representatives
  • Richard "Mouse" Smith (1949–2025), former President of the Delaware NAACP State Conference and a close friend to Joe Biden

Science

  • Richard Smith (mining engineer) (1783–1868), English-born mining engineer and politician in Nova Scotia
  • Richard Smith (historical geographer) (born 1946), British academic, historical geographer and demographer
  • Richard A. Smith (physician) (1932–2017), African-American physician
  • Richard Bowyer Smith (1837–1919), Australian inventor
  • Richard D. Smith (born 1949), American chemist, Director of Pan-omics and Proteomics Research at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
  • Richard G. Smith (engineer) (1929–2019), director of NASA's John F. Kennedy Space Center
  • Richard G. Smith (geographer), British geographer
  • Richard Harbert Smith (1894–1957), professor and researcher of aeronautical engineering
  • Richard J. Smith (born 1948), American dentist, anthropologist, head of graduate studies at Washington University in St. Louis
  • R. N. Smith (Richard Norman Smith), president of the British Veterinary Association

Sports

  • Richard Smith (rugby union, born 1973), former Wales international rugby union player
  • Richard Smith (rugby league) (born 1973), 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) (born 1980), American football player
  • Richard Smith (American football coach) (born 1955), former defensive coordinator for the NFL's Houston Texans
  • Richard Shore Smith (1877–1953), American football player and coach
  • Rick Smith (American football executive), general manager of the Houston Texans
  • Rick Smith (ice hockey) (born 1948), professional hockey player
  • Richard Smith (field hockey) (born 1987), British field hockey player
  • Richard Smith (rugby union, born 1987), Cardiff Blues centre
  • Richard Smith (umpire) (born 1972), Irish cricket umpire
  • Richard Smith (Costa Rican footballer) (born 1967), former footballer with Alajuelense, Antigua and Carmelita
  • Richard Smith (sport shooter) (born 1950), American sports shooter
  • Richard Smith (Barbadian cricketer) (1873–1954), Barbadian cricketer
  • Richard Smith (Trinidadian cricketer) (born 1971), Trinidadian cricketer
  • Richard Smith (South African cricketer) (born 1972), South African cricketer

Other

  • Richard A. Smith (businessman) (1925–2020), American business executive
  • Richard Smith (businessman) (1836–1919) managing director of Australian company Harris Scarfe
  • Richard Smith (public historian), American historian focused on New England history
  • Richard Gordon Smith (1858–1918), British traveller, sportsman and naturalist
  • Dick Smith (entrepreneur) (Richard Harold Smith), Australian businessman
  • Richard Norton Smith (born 1953), U.S. Presidential historian
  • Richard Sharp Smith (1852–1924), English then American architect
  • Richard Smith (merchant) (1707–1776), English merchant in the West Indies trade
  • Richard Smith (settler) (1596–1666), one of earliest settlers of Rhode Island
  • Richard Smith (bishop) (1568–1655), English Catholic Bishop, titular of Chalcedon in Asia Minor
  • Richard Smith (book collector) (1590–1675), English book collector
  • Richard William Smith (born 1959), Canadian prelate of the Roman Catholic Church
  • Richard F. Smith (born c. 1961), American business executive
  • Richard Tilden Smith (1865–1929), British businessman
  • Richard Patrick Smith, Archbishop of Port of Spain, Trinidad
  • Sir Richard Smith, High Court judge of England and Wales

See also

  • Dick Smith (disambiguation)
  • Richard Smyth (disambiguation)
  • Rick Smith (disambiguation)