Richard Murphy may refer to:

Arts and entertainment

Richard Murphy (screenwriter) Richard Murphy (May 8, 1912 – May 19, 1993) was an American screenwriter, film director and producer. His screenplays for ''Boomerang'' (1947) and ''The Desert Rats'' (1953) were nominated for the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay an ...

(1912–1993), American film and television writer *

Richard Murphy (poet) Richard Kerr Murphy (6 August 1927 – 30 January 2018) was an Anglo-Irish poet. Biography Early years Murphy was born to an Anglo-Irish family at Milford House, near the County Mayo–Galway border, in 1927. He spent much of his early child ...

(1927–2018), Irish poet *

Richard Murphy (architect) Richard Murphy OBE (born 24 April 1955) is a British architect and businessman. He is the founder and principal architect of ''Richard Murphy Architects'', an architectural firm operating in Edinburgh. He is a winner of the 2016 RIBA House of th ...

(born 1955), Scottish architect

Politics and law

Richard L. Murphy Richard Louis Murphy (November 6, 1875July 16, 1936) was a Democratic U.S. Senator from Iowa. Elected with President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1932, as only the second Democratic Senator from Iowa elected since 1852, Murphy's service was cut sh ...

(1875–1936), American Senator from Iowa * Richard W. Murphy (1929–2024), American diplomat *

Dick Murphy Richard M. Murphy (born December 16, 1942) is an American politician who served as the 33rd mayor of San Diego from 2000 to 2005. He is a member of the Republican Party. Early life and education Murphy was born in 1942 in Oak Park, Illinois. ...

(Richard M. Murphy, born 1942), American politician, mayor of San Diego *

Rick Murphy Rick Murphy was a Republican member of the Arizona State Senate, representing District 21 (previously District 9) from 2011 to 2015. He has been a realtor since 1992 and is a small business owner. He served in the Arizona House of Representatives ...

, American politician, Arizona state senator

Sports

Dick Murphy (basketball) Richard D. Murphy (March 10, 1921 – October 22, 1973) was an American professional basketball player. He played for the New York Knicks and Boston Celtics in the Basketball Association of America (BAA). For his career, Murphy averaged 1.1 point ...

(1921–1973), American basketball player *

Bos Murphy Richard Boswell "Bos" Murphy (14 February 1924 – 9 November 2000) was a New Zealand professional welter/middle/light heavyweight boxer of the 1940s and 1950s who won the New Zealand Boxing Association welterweight title, Australasian welterwe ...

(Richard Murphy, 1924–2000), New Zealand boxer *

Dick Murphy (baseball) Richard Lee Murphy (October 25, 1931 – December 12, 2020) was an American professional baseball player who played for three seasons (1954; 1957–1958) and had a six-game trial with the Cincinnati Redlegs of Major League Baseball. He threw and ...

(1931–2020), American baseball player *

Richard Murphy (rower) Richard Frederick Murphy (November 14, 1931 – August 8, 2023) was an American competition rower and Olympic champion. Biography Richard Frederick Murphy was born in New Jersey on November 14, 1931. Murphy won a gold medal in ''coxed eights'' ...

(1931–2023), American Olympic rower *

Richard Murphy (American football) Richard Lee Murphy (born September 18, 1986) is an American former professional football running back. He was signed by the Jacksonville Jaguars as an undrafted free agent in 2011. He played college football at Louisiana State. As a senior at L ...

(born 1986), American football running back

Others

Richard Murphy (sea captain) Richard Moses Murphy (1838–1916) was a well-known schooner captain who sailed out of Gloucester, Massachusetts, during the late 19th-century. Some of his experiences as a mariner are detailed in a chapter titledThe Adventures of Captain Ric ...

(1838–1916), American sea captain in Gloucester, Massachusetts *

Richard Murphy (marine ecologist) Richard C. Murphy "Murph" (born 1942) is an American marine ecologist and an author of two books. He earned his Ph.D. from the University of Southern California. His specialty is marine ecology. He currently lives in Bonny Doon, California. Bi ...

(born 1942), American marine ecologist * Richard A. Murphy (1944–2022), American neuroscientist *

Richard Murphy (tax campaigner) Richard Murphy (born 21 March 1958) is a British former chartered accountant and political economist who campaigns on issues of tax avoidance and tax evasion. He advises the Trades Union Congress on economics and taxation, and founded the Ta ...

(born 1958), British campaigner and accountant *

Richard Murphy (businessman) Richard Murphy is an Irish businessman and entrepreneur, best known for being the founder of the now defunct video rental chains Xtra-vision and Chartbusters. Early life Murphy was born in 1961 in Kimmage, Dublin. He was educated at St Andre ...

(born 1961), known for founding video rental chains *

Richard Murphy (police officer) In the early hours of February 4, 1999, an unarmed 23-year-old Guinean student named Amadou Diallo (born September 2, 1975) was fired upon with 41 rounds and shot a total of 19 times by four New York City Police Department plainclothes office ...

(fl. 1999), American police officer, involved in shooting of Amadou Diallo {{hndis, Murphy, Richard