Actors

• Richard Dean Anderson (born 1950), American actor
• Richard Armitage (born 1971), English actor
• Richard Attenborough (1923–2014), English actor, director, producer and entrepreneur
• Richard Ayoade (born 1977), English comedian, actor, writer and director
• Richard Belzer (born 1944), American actor, author, and stand-up comedian
• Richard Burbage (1568–1619), English actor and theatre owner
• Richard Burton (1925–1984), Welsh actor
• Richard Alva "Dick" Cavett, (born 1936), American television talk show host
• Richard Chamberlain (born 1934), American actor
• Richard Wagstaff "Dick" Clark (November 30, 1929 – April 18, 2012) was an American radio and television personality
• Richard Curtis (born 1956), British screenwriter, music producer, actor and film director. One of Britain's most successful comedy screenwriters
• Richard Dreyfuss (born 1947), American actor
• Richard Gere (born 1949), American actor
• Richard Harris (1930–2002), Irish actor, singer-songwriter, theatrical producer, film director and writer
• Richard Jaeckel (1926–1997), American actor
• Richard Kind (born 1956), American actor
• Richard Madden (born 1986), Scottish actor
• Richard Anthony "Cheech" Marin (born 1946), American actor and comedian, known for the comedy duo Cheech & Chong
• Richard Pryor (1940–2005) an American stand-up comedian and actor
• Richard Roundtree (b. 1942), American actor
• Peter Sellers (1925–1980) Born Richard Henry Sellers, British actor
• Richard Schulefand (1923–1987), American actor and comedian professionally known as "Dick Shawn"
• Richard Simmons (1913–2003), American actor
• Richard Simmons (born 1948), American fitness personality and actor
• Richard Speight, Jr. (born Sept. 4, 1970), American actor
• Richard Thomas (born June 13, 1951), American actor
• Richard Wayne "Dick" Van Dyke (born December 13, 1925), is an American actor, comedian, writer, and producer
• Richard Whiteley (1943-2005), Former Countdown host and UK TV personality

Explorers

• Richard R. Arnold (born 1963), American astronaut
• Richard Francis Burton (1821–1890), British geographer, explorer, translator, writer, soldier, orientalist, cartographer, ethnologist, spy, linguist, poet, fencer and diplomat
• Richard E. Byrd (1888–1957), U.S. Navy rear admiral, aviator and explorer
• Richard Masters (aka William Marsters), English sailor, cooper, trader and explorer
• Richard "Dick" Rutkowski, diving medicine pioneer