Richard Smith

• 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

• 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

• Richard Smith (soldier) ({{circa|1790}}–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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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 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

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

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