Richard Davis may refer to:

Business

Rich Davis Richard E. Davis (1926 – October 6, 2015) founded KC Masterpiece barbecue sauce. Davis began his career as a child psychiatrist, instructor and author. His academic posts included appointments as professor and acting chairman of the department ...

(1926–2015), American businessman, creator of KC Masterpiece barbecue sauce * Richard K. Davis (born 1958), American businessman, chairman, president and CEO of U.S. Bancorp * Richard C. Davis (born 1963), American businessman, founder, president and CEO of Trademark Properties, creator of ''Flip This House'' *

Todd Davis (businessman) Richard Todd Davis (born 1968), also known as Todd Davis, is an American businessman. He is the co-founder of LifeLock, an American identity theft protection company based in Tempe, Arizona, that became a subsidiary of Symantec in 2017. Edu ...

(Richard Todd Davis, born 1968), American businessman, founder of LifeLock * Richard Davis, American businessman and inventor of all-kevlar body armor, founder of the

Second Chance Body Armor Company Second Chance is an American bulletproof vest, body armor manufacturing company. The company was founded in the early 1970s by United States Marine Corps, U.S. Marine and pizza delivery owner/driver Richard Davis. Davis developed the idea of a b ...

Music

Richard Davis (composer) Richard Davis (died April 1688) was an English composer and organist who was active at the Worcester Cathedral from 1639 until his death in 1688. He began his musical life at the cathedral as a chorister from 1639–1644. He then served as a lay cle ...

(died 1688), English composer and organist *

Richard Davis (bassist) Richard Davis (April 15, 1930 – September 6, 2023) was an American jazz bassist. Among his best-known contributions to the albums of others are Eric Dolphy's ''Out to Lunch!'', Andrew Hill's '' Point of Departure'', and Van Morrison's '' As ...

(1930–2023), American jazz double bass player *

Richard Davis (techno artist) Richard Davis (born 1952) is an American electronic music composer and producer, hailing from Detroit, Michigan. A veteran of the Vietnam War, he and Juan Atkins Juan Atkins (born September 12, 1962), also known as Model 500 and Infiniti, is an ...

(born 1952), American techno music pioneer with the group Cybotron * Richie Davis (musician) (born 1957), American R&B guitarist and bandleader * Richard F. W. Davis (born 1966), American musician, record producer and songwriter, pop and rock

Politics

Richard D. Davis Richard David Davis (1799June 17, 1871) was an American lawyer and politician who served two terms as a United States House of Representatives, U.S. Representative from New York (state), New York from 1841 to 1845. Biography Born at Stillwa ...

(1799–1871), U.S. Representative from New York * Rick Davis (political consultant) (born 1959), American political consultant, head of the John McCain presidential campaign

Sports

* Richard Davis (footballer) (born 1943), English footballer with Plymouth Argyle, Southampton and Bristol City * Richie Davis (born 1945), American player of American and Canadian football *

Rick Davis Richard Dean Davis (born November 24, 1958) is an American former soccer midfielder, and former captain of the U.S. national team for much of the 1980s. He is considered by fans the best U.S.-born player of the North American Soccer League er ...

(born 1958), American soccer player * Richard Davis (cricketer) (1966–2003), English cricketer *

Ricky Davis Tyree Ricardo Davis (born September 23, 1979) is an American former professional basketball player who played twelve seasons in the National Basketball Association (NBA). He played college basketball for the Iowa Hawkeyes. Biography Davis atte ...

(born 1979), American basketball player

Other

Richard Barrett Davis Richard Barrett Davis (1782–1854) was an animal and landscape painter. Davis was born at Watford in 1782. He studied under William Evans of Eton, under William Beechey, and in the schools of the Royal Academy, where he first exhibited in 1 ...

(1782–1854), British animal and landscape painter *

Dick Davis (translator) Richard (Dick) Davis (born 1945) is an English–American Iranologist, poet, university professor, a vocal dissident critic of the Islamic Republic of Iran, and award-winning translator of Persian verse, who is affiliated with the literary move ...

, English–American Iranologist *

Richard Davis (missionary) Reverend Richard Davis (18 January 1790 – 28 May 1863) was a New Zealand meteorologist, missionary and farmer. He made weather recordings in the northern North Island from 1839 to 1844, and 1849 to 1851, making them the oldest continuous lan ...

(1790–1863), New Zealand meteorologist, missionary and farmer *

Richard Harding Davis Richard Harding Davis (April 18, 1864 – April 11, 1916) was an American journalist and writer of fiction and drama, known foremost as the first American war correspondent to cover the Spanish–American War, the Second Boer War, and World War ...

(1864–1916), American journalist and fiction writer * Richard Davis, friend of Elvis Presley featured in '' Elvis: That's the Way It Is'' *

Richard Davis (astronomer) Richard John Davis, OBE, FRAS (28 June 1949 – 2 May 2016) was a radio astronomer for the Jodrell Bank Centre for Astrophysics at the University of Manchester. Personal life Davis was born in March, Cambridgeshire, England, the first child ...

(1949–2016), British astronomer *

Richard Gary Davis Richard Gary Davis was awarded the Soldier's Medal, the Army's highest honor for heroism not involving actual conflict with an enemy, for an action in the Republic of Vietnam on 14 May 1967. While serving as a helicopter door gunner, he was helpi ...

(fl. 1967), American soldier and recipient of the Soldier's Medal *

Richard Allen Davis Richard Allen Davis (born June 2, 1954) is an American convicted murderer whose criminal record fueled support for the passage of California's " three-strikes law" for repeat offenders and the involuntary civil commitment act for sex offenders ...

(born 1954), American convicted murderer and child molester *

Richard Davis (political scientist) Richard Davis is an American professor and author. He is a professor emeritus at Brigham Young University. He is the author of several books and articles in American politics, including ''Web of Politics, Electing Justice, Supreme Democracy, and C ...

, American political scientist, professor emeritus at Brigham Young University * Richard L. Davis, American convicted rapist, connected to the '' Kennedy v. Louisiana'' Supreme Court decision * Richard T. Davis (1978–2003), American soldier killed by his fellow soldiers

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