Richard Butler may refer to:

Military

Richard Butler, 1st Earl of Arran Richard Butler, 1st Earl of Arran (1639–1686) was Lord Deputy of Ireland from 1682 to 1684 while James Butler, 1st Duke of Ormonde, his father, the Lord Lieutenant, was absent in England. He sat in the Irish House of Lords as Earl of Arran ...

(1639–1686), 1st Earl of Arran, marshal of the army in Ireland, lord deputy of Ireland *

Richard Butler (general) Richard Butler (April 1, 1743 – November 4, 1791) was an Anglo-Irish officer in the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War who was later killed while fighting Native Americans at the Battle of the Wabash. Family Born in St. ...

(1743–1791), American Revolutionary War general, later killed fighting Native Americans in Ohio *

Richard Butler (British Army officer) Lieutenant-General Sir Richard Harte Keatinge Butler, (28 August 1870 – 22 April 1935) was a British Army general during the First World War. He was chief of staff to First Army for much of 1915, then deputy chief of staff to the British Ex ...

(1870–1935), British Army general, served in World War I * Richard W. Butler, U.S. Navy aviator and officer

Politicians

* Richard Butler (c. 1510–68 or later), member of parliament (MP) *

Sir Richard Butler, 5th Baronet Sir Richard Butler, 5th Baronet (1699 – 25 November 1771) was an Irish politician and baronet. Early life He was the eldest son of James Butler and Frances ( Abney) Parker Butler. His mother was the widow of Sir John Parker, who lived at ...

(1699–1771), Irish MP for Carlow County 1730–1761 *

Richard Butler (Australian politician) Sir Richard Butler (3 December 1850 – 28 April 1925) was an Australian politician. He was a member of the South Australian House of Assembly from 1890 to 1924, representing Yatala (1890–1902) and Barossa (1902–1924). He served as Premie ...

(1850–1925), premier of South Australia * Sir Richard Butler, 7th Baronet (1761–1817), Irish and British MP for Carlow County 1783–1790 and 1796–1802 *

Richard Layton Butler Sir Richard Layton Butler KCMG (31 March 1885 – 21 January 1966) was the 31st Premier of South Australia, serving two disjunct terms in office: from 1927 to 1930, and again from 1933 to 1938. Early life Born on a farm near Gawler, South Aust ...

(1885–1966), Australian politician, premier of South Australia * Richard A. Butler (Irish politician), Irish independent senator *

Rab Butler Richard Austen Butler, Baron Butler of Saffron Walden (9 December 1902 – 8 March 1982), also known as R. A. Butler and familiarly known from his initials as Rab, was a prominent British Conservative Party (UK), Conservative Party politici ...

(Richard Austen Butler, 1902–1982), British politician and Chancellor of the Exchequer *

Richard Butler, 1st Earl of Glengall Richard is a male given name. It originates, via Old French, from Old Frankish and is a compound of the words descending from Proto-Germanic language">Proto-Germanic ''*rīk-'' 'ruler, leader, king' and ''*hardu-'' 'strong, brave, hardy', and ...

(1775–1819), Irish peer *

Richard Butler, 2nd Earl of Glengall The Rt Hon. Richard Butler, 2nd Earl of Glengall (17 May 1794 – 22 June 1858), styled Viscount Cahir between January 1816 and January 1819, was an Irish Tory politician and peer. Biography The son of The 1st Earl of Glengall and Emily Jeff ...

(1794–1858), Irish politician and peer *

Richard Butler (diplomat) Richard William Butler, (born 13 May 1942) is a retired Australian public servant, United Nations weapons inspector, and a former Governor of Tasmania. Early life and career Butler was born in Coolah in rural New South Wales. He grew up in S ...

(born 1942), Australian diplomat, arms inspector, and former governor of Tasmania

Musicians

Richard Butler (singer) Richard Lofthouse Butler (born 5 June 1956) is an English singer and songwriter. Butler came to prominence in the early 1980s as lead vocalist of the rock band the Psychedelic Furs and went on to found the alternative rock band Love Spit Love in ...

(born 1956), lead singer of the Psychedelic Furs and former lead singer of Love Spit Love ** ''Richard Butler'' (album), the singer's self-titled album released in 2006 *Richard Preston Butler Jr., real name of rapper/songwriter

Rico Love Richard Preston Butler Jr. (born December 3, 1982), better known by his stage name Rico Love, is an American record producer, singer, songwriter, and rapper. He was born in New Orleans, Louisiana, but split his childhood between Milwaukee, Wisco ...

Others

Richard Butler, 1st Viscount Mountgarret Richard Butler, 1st Viscount Mountgarret (1500 – 20 May 1571) was the son of Piers Butler, 8th Earl of Ormond and Margaret Fitzgerald, Countess of Ormond, Lady Margaret Fitzgerald. He married his half first cousin Eleanor Butler, daughter of Theo ...

(1500–1571) *

Richard Butler, 3rd Viscount Mountgarret Richard Butler, 3rd Viscount Mountgarret (1578–1651) was the son of Edmund Butler, 2nd Viscount Mountgarret and Grany (''Grainne'') or Grizzel, daughter of Barnaby Fitzpatrick, 1st Baron Upper Ossory. He is best known for his participation in t ...

(1578–1651) *

Richard Butler, 17th Viscount Mountgarret Richard Henry Piers Butler, 17th Viscount Mountgarret (8 November 1936 – 7 February 2004), was an Anglo-Irish aristocratic British Army officer, landowner and hereditary peer. Early life Born at Knaresborough, the son of Piers Butler, 16th V ...

(1936–2004), British soldier *

Richard Butler (author) Richard William Butler (21 May 1844 – 21 December 1928) was a British dramatist and editor of '' The Referee'' magazine in the late Victorian period. He shared a joint pen name, Richard Henry, with Henry Chance Newton. Works attributed to Ri ...

(1844–1928), British dramatist *

Richard Butler (Irish priest) Richard Butler (1795/6–1862) was a Church of Ireland priest during the 19th century. Butler was born in County Meath, the son of Richard Butler of Granard. He was educated at Trinity College, Dublin. He matriculated at Balliol College, Oxford ...

, 19th-century Irish Anglican priest *

Richard Butler (English priest) Richard Butler (died 14 September 1612) was Archdeacon of Northampton from 9 July 1611 until his death. Butler was among the earliest Arminians, along with John Buckeridge (his predecessor), Benjamin Carier, and Richard Neile. Butler was educat ...

(died 1612), English priest *

Richard Butler (publisher) Richard Butler (born 11 November 1834 at Coteau du Lac, Lower Canada - 16 March 1925) was an editor, publisher, journalist and U.S. vice-consul in Hamilton, Ontario. Life His parents had been born in Ireland and arrived in Canada a few months befo ...

(1834–1925), Canadian publisher *

Richard Butler (white supremacist) Richard Girnt Butler (February 23, 1918 – September 8, 2004) was an American engineer and neo-Nazi. After dedicating himself to the Christian Identity movement, a racist offshoot of British Israelism, Butler founded the National Socialist ...

(1918–2004), American founder of the Aryan Nations *

Richard C. Butler Sir Richard Clive Butler (12 January 1929 – 28 January 2012) was a British farmer and merchant banker, President of the National Farmers' Union of England and Wales. Early life One of the sons of the Conservative politician Rab Butler, by his ...

(1929–2012), British farmer and banker, president of the National Farmers' Union * Richard E. Butler, general secretary of the International Telecommunication Union, 1983–89, Australian federal public servant *

Richard Butler (academic) Richard W. Butler is an academic and emeritus professor of human geography at the University of Strathclyde. He is most known for his work in creating the tourism area cycle of evolution model or the Butler Model. Education and career Butler ...

, human geographer and academic *Richard Butler, American businessman and eponym of

Butler, New Jersey Butler is a borough in Morris County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey. As of the 2020 United States census, the borough's population was 8,047, an increase of 508 (+6.7%) from the 2010 census count of 7,539, which in turn reflected an increas ...

* Rich Butler (born 1973), baseball player *

Richard J. Butler Richard James Butler is a vertebrate palaeontologist at the University of Birmingham, where he holds the title of professor of palaeobiology. His research focuses on ornithischian dinosaur evolution, dinosaur origins, and fossil tetrapod macroe ...

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