Richard Harrison
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Politicians
- Richard Harrison (British Army officer)Richard Harrison (British Army officer)General Sir Richard Harrison GCB, CMG, DL was a British soldier and engineer.-Personal life:Born in Essex, he was the second son of Benjamin John Harrison and his wife Emily, daughter of Richard Hall. Harrison was educated at Harrow School. In 1870, he married Amy, the daughter of J. Doyle O'Brien...
(1837–1931), British Quartermaster-General to the Forces and Inspector-General of Fortifications - Richard Harrison (New Zealand politician) (1921–2003), former Speaker of the New Zealand House of Representatives
- Richard Harrison (Royalist)Richard Harrison (Royalist)Sir Richard Harrison was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons variously between 1621 and 1640. He supported the Royalist side in the English Civil War....
(1583–1655), English MP and cavalier - Richard Harrison (died 1726) English MP for LancasterLancaster (UK Parliament constituency)Lancaster was a constituency of the House of Commons of the Parliament of England then of the Parliament of Great Britain from 1707 to 1800 and of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1801 to 1867, centred on the historic city of Lancaster in north-west England...
- Richard A. HarrisonRichard A. HarrisonRichard Almgill Harrison was a nineteenth century politician and lawyer from Ohio.Born in Thirsk, England, Harrison immigrated to the United States with his parents in 1832, settling in Ohio. He attended public schools, graduated from the Cincinnati Law School in 1846 and was admitted to the bar...
(1824–1904), U.S. Representative from Ohio
Entertainment
- Richard Harrison (actor)Richard Harrison (actor)Richard Harrison is an American B-movie actor and occasionally a writer/director/producer.Harrison was very prolific and worked with most of the better-known names in European B-movies during the 1960s and 1970s, branching out to exploitation films shot all over the world in the early 1970s...
(born 1936), American actor - Richard Berry Harrison (1864–1935), actor, teacher, dramatic reader and lecturer
- Richard Harrison (poet)Richard Harrison (poet)Richard Harrison is a Canadian poet and essayist, and winner of the City of Calgary Book Prize.His fourth book of poetry, Big Breath of a Wish , was nominated for a Governor General's Award....
(born 1957), Canadian poet - Richard Edes Harrison, 20th century illustrator and cartographer
- Richard Harrison, former member of British band StereolabStereolabStereolab are an alternative music band formed in 1990 in London, England. The band originally comprised songwriting team Tim Gane and Lætitia Sadier , both of whom remained at the helm across many lineup changes...
- Rich HarrisonRich HarrisonRich Harrison is a Grammy Award-winning record producer and songwriter from Washington, D.C.. He is primarily an R&B/Hip-Hop producer...
(born 1970), record producer and songwriter
Others
- Richard J. HarrisonRichard J. HarrisonRichard John Harrison is an archaeologist and Professor in the University of Bristol, England. Harrison studied at Selwyn College, Cambridge, and gained his Bachelor’s degree in Archaeology and Anthropology from the University of Cambridge in 1970...
(born 1949), British archaeologist and academic - Richard John HarrisonRichard John HarrisonSir Richard John Harrison FRS was a Professor of Anatomy at the University of Cambridge.He was the Fullerian Professor of Physiology from 1961 until 1967, and elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1973.-References:...
(1920–1999), British anatomist and marine biologist - Richard Harrison (scientist)Richard Harrison (Scientist)Richard Harrison is a professor at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory in the United Kingdom. He is best known for his magnetic twisting theory involving the Coronal heating problem of the Sun's atmosphere.-External links:*...
, professor at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory in the United Kingdom - Richard "Rickey" Harrison (c. 1893–1920), member of the Hudson DustersHudson DustersThe Hudson Dusters was a New York City street gang during the early twentieth century. Formed in the late 1890s by Circular Jack, Kid Yorke, and Goo Goo Knox the gang began operating from an apartment house on Hudson Street. Knox, a former member of the Gopher Gang, had fled after a failed attempt...
street gang in New York City - Dick HarrisonDick HarrisonDick Walther Harrison, is a Swedish historian who was born in Huddinge, Stockholm County, Sweden and spent much of his youth in Staffanstorp in Skåne. On June 12, 2010 he married Katarina Lindbergh in Kalmar Cathedral...
(born 1966), Swedish professor of history
See also
- Richard HarisonRichard HarisonRichard Harison was an American lawyer and Federalist politician from New York.-Life:...
(1748–1829), New York lawyer and politician (surname often misspelled "Harrison")