• Richard Nelson (author)
  Richard Nelson (author)
  Richard K. Nelson is a cultural anthropologist and writer whose work has focused primarily on the indigenous cultures of Alaska and, more generally, the relationships between people and nature.He is the host to a public radio series called Encounters aired nationally.Nelson was born and raised in...
  
   (born 1941), anthropologist and writer
• Richard Nelson (bishop) (fl 1903–1929), Episcopal bishop in America
• Richard Nelson (lighting designer)
  Richard Nelson (lighting designer)
  Richard Nelson was an American theatrical lighting designer.Born in New York City, Nelson studied at the High School of the Performing Arts and began his career off-Broadway in 1955. He made his Broadway debut with The Caucasian Chalk Circle in 1966...
  
  , American lighting designer, see Tony Award for Best Lighting Design
• Richard Nelson (playwright)
  Richard Nelson (playwright)
  Richard Nelson is an American playwright and librettist. He wrote the books for the musicals James Joyce's The Dead and the Broadway version of Chess.-Personal life:Nelson was born in Chicago, Illinois....
  
   (born 1950)
• Richard R. Nelson (economist)
  Richard R. Nelson (economist)
  Richard R. Nelson is an American professor of economics at Columbia University. He is one of the leading figures in the revival of evolutionary economics thanks to his seminal book An Evolutionary Theory of Economic Change written jointly with Sidney G. Winter...
  
   (born 1930)
• Richard Christian Nelson
  Richard Christian Nelson
  Richard Christian Nelson is a portrait and gallery artist from Tryon, North Carolina. He has won numerous national awards and honors, and created over 1000 commissioned oil and charcoal portraits. He is also known for landscape and still life painting...
  
   (born 1961), artist and musician
• Richard Nelson, a fictional character in the film Poseidon
  Poseidon (film)
  Poseidon is a 2006 disaster film directed by Wolfgang Petersen, the third film adaptation of the novel The Poseidon Adventure written by Paul Gallico, and a loose remake of the 1972 film of the same name. It stars Kurt Russell, Josh Lucas and Richard Dreyfuss. It was directed by Wolfgang Petersen...
  
  
• Ricky Nelson
  Ricky Nelson
  Eric Hilliard Nelson , better known as Ricky Nelson or Rick Nelson, was an American singer-songwriter, instrumentalist, and actor...
  
  , American singer
• Ricky Nelson (baseball)

See also

• Richard Nelson Gale
  Richard Nelson Gale
  General Sir Richard Nelson "Windy" Gale GCB, KBE, DSO, MC was a soldier in the British Army who served in both world wars. In World War I he was awarded the Military Cross in 1918 whilst serving as a junior officer in the Machine Gun Corps...
  
  
• Richard Nelson Bolles
  Richard Nelson Bolles
  Richard Nelson Bolles is a former Episcopal clergyman, and the author of the best-selling job-hunting book, What Color is Your Parachute?-Early life and career:...
  
  , former clergyman
• Richard Nelson Frye
  Richard Nelson Frye
  Richard Nelson Frye is an American scholar of Iranic and Central Asian Studies, and Aga Khan Professor Emeritus of Iranian Studies at Harvard University...
  
  , U.S. professor of Iranian studies