Richard Harrison (died 1726)
Richard Harrison (1646–1726) was an English politician.
He was the eldest surviving son of Sir John Harrison of Balls Park, Hertford, Member of Parliament for , by his second wife Mary Shotbolt; William Harrison was his half-brother but ha ...
(1646–1726), English MP for Lancaster, Hertfordshire and Middlesex
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Richard Harrison (British Army officer)
General Sir Richard Harrison (26 May 1837 – 25 September 1931) was a British Army officer 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 ed ...
(1837–1931), British Quartermaster-General to the Forces and Inspector-General of Fortifications
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Richard Harrison (New Zealand politician)
Sir John Richard Harrison (23 May 1921 – 5 September 2003) was a New Zealand politician. After serving in a number of capacities in the National Party, he served as Speaker of the House of Representatives from 1978 to 1984.
Early life
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(1921–2003), former Speaker of the New Zealand House of Representatives
* Richard Harrison (Royalist) (1583–1655), English MP and cavalier
* Richard A. Harrison (1824–1904), U.S. Representative from Ohio
Arts and entertainment
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Richard Harrison (actor)
Richard Harrison (born May 26, 1936) is an American actor, writer, director and 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 f ...
(born 1936), American actor
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Richard Harrison (painter)
Richard Harrison (born 2 October 1954) is an English painter.
Biography
Richard Harrison was born on 2 October 1954, in Mill Road Hospital, Liverpool, England to an unmarried mother from Whitby, Yorkshire, and was adopted at twenty days old ...
, English painter
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Richard Harrison (poet)
Richard Harrison is a Canadian poet and essayist.
His 2017 book, ''On Not Losing My Father's Ashes in the Flood'', won the Governor General's Award for English-language poetryRichard Berry Harrison (1864–1935), actor, teacher, dramatic reader and lecturer
* Richard Benjamin Harrison (1941–2018), Las Vegas businessman and reality television personality (''Pawn Stars''), father of Rick Harrison
*Richard Harrison, former member of British band
Stereolab
Stereolab are an Anglo-French avant-pop band formed in London in 1990. Led by the songwriting team of Tim Gane and Lætitia Sadier, the group's music combines influences from krautrock, lounge and 1960s pop music, often incorporating a re ...
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Rich Harrison
Richard Christopher Harrison (born 1979) is an American record producer and songwriter from Washington, D.C., specializing in R&B and hip hop music.
The winner of a Grammy Award, Harrison is well known for producing songs such as "Get Right" ...
(born 1970), American record producer and songwriter
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Rick Harrison
Richard Kevin Harrison (born March 22, 1965) is an American businessman, reality television personality, and owner of the Gold & Silver Pawn Shop which is featured on the History series ''Pawn Stars''. Harrison and his father, Richard Benjamin ...
(born 1965), Las Vegas businessman and reality television personality (''Pawn Stars''), son of Richard Benjamin Harrison, father of Corey Harrison
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Corey Harrison
Richard Corey "Big Hoss" Harrison (born April 27, 1983) is an American businessman and reality television personality, known as a cast member of the History TV series ''Pawn Stars'', which documents his work at the World Famous Gold & Silver Pawn ...
(Richard Corey Harrison, born 1983), Las Vegas businessman and reality television personality (''Pawn Stars''), son of Rick Harrison
Academics and scientists
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Richard Harrison (scientist) Richard Anthony Harrison MBE FRAS FInstP is the Head of Space Physics Division and Chief Scientist at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory in the United Kingdom. He is best known for his magnetic twisting theory involving the coronal heating pro ...
, professor at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory in the United Kingdom
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Richard J. Harrison (archaeologist)
Richard John Harrison (born August 1949) 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 Univ ...
(born 1949), British archaeologist and academic
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Richard J. Harrison (mineralogist)
Richard J. Harrison is a professor in the Department of Earth Sciences and director of Studies for Earth and Mineral Sciences at St. Catharine's College, University of Cambridge. He works in the field of palaeomagnetism.
Early career
Harriso ...
, British mineralogist
* Richard John Harrison (1920–1999), British anatomist and marine biologist
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Dick Harrison
Dick Walther Harrison (born 10 April 1966) is a Swedish historian. He is currently a Professor of History at Lund University.
His main areas of interest are the European Middle Ages, including the medical history of the period and the history ...
(born 1966), Swedish professor of history
Others
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Richard Edes Harrison
Richard Edes Harrison (March 11, 1901 – January 5, 1994) was an American scientific illustrator and cartographer. He was the house cartographer of '' Fortune'' and a consultant at ''Life'' for almost two decades. He played a key role in "challe ...
(1901–1994), American cartographer
*Richard "Rickey" Harrison (c. 1893–1920), member of the
Hudson Dusters
The Hudson Dusters was a New York City street gang during the early twentieth century.
Formation
Formed in the late 1890s by "Circular Jack", "Kid Yorke", and "Goo Goo Knox", the gang began operating from an apartment house on Hudson Str ...
street gang in New York City
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Dick Harrison (cricketer)
Richard Harrison was an English cricket
Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of eleven players on a field at the centre of which is a pitch with a wicket at each end, each comprising two bails balanced on three st ...
(1881–?), English cricketer
See also
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Richard Harison
Richard Harison (January 12, 1747 (O.S.)He was born on January 12, 1747, in the then used Julian Calendar; this date corresponds to January 23, 1748, in the Gregorian Calendar which has been used in America since 1752. in New York City – De ...
(1748–1829), New York lawyer and politician (surname often misspelled "Harrison")
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