Richard Nelson is the name of:
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Richard Nelson (author) (1941–2019), anthropologist and writer
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Richard H. Nelson
Richard Henry Nelson (November 10, 1859 - April 25, 1931) was the second bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Albany in the United States from 1913 to 1929, as well as being coadjutor from 1904 to 1913 under the first bishop, William Croswell Doane. ...
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fl.
''Floruit'' (; abbreviated fl. or occasionally flor.; from Latin for "they flourished") denotes a date or period during which a person was known to have been alive or active. In English, the unabbreviated word may also be used as a noun indicatin ...
1903–1929), Episcopal bishop in America
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Richard Nelson (lighting designer)
Richard Nelson (December 7, 1938 – November 6, 1996) 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 de ...
(1938–1996), American lighting designer
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Richard Nelson (playwright)
Richard John Nelson (born October 17, 1950) is an American playwright and librettist. He wrote the book for the 2000 Broadway musical '' James Joyce's The Dead'', for which he won the Tony Award for Best Book of a Musical, as well as the book ...
(born 1950), American playwright and librettist
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Richard A. Nelson
Richard A. Nelson (born April 4, 1941) is a former vice admiral in the United States Navy. He was Surgeon General of the United States Navy from 1998 to 2001.
Nelson entered the Navy in 1967 and spent a short time at Naval Hospital, Corpus Chri ...
(born 1941), vice admiral and surgeon general in the United States Navy
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Richard D. Nelson
Richard Donald Nelson (born 1945) is an American Old Testament scholar. He is W. J. A. Power Professor of Biblical Hebrew and Old Testament and Associate Dean for Academic Affairs at Perkins School of Theology at Southern Methodist University.
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(born 1945), American Old Testament scholar
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Richard R. Nelson
Richard R. Nelson (born 1930 in New York City) 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 ...
(born 1930), American professor of economics at Columbia University
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Richard Christian Nelson (born 1961), American artist and musician
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Anthony Nelson (politician) (Richard Anthony Nelson, born 1948), former British Conservative politician
* Richard Nelson, a fictional character in the film ''
Poseidon
Poseidon (; grc-gre, Ποσειδῶν) was one of the Twelve Olympians in ancient Greek religion and myth, god of the sea, storms, earthquakes and horses.Burkert 1985pp. 136–139 In pre-Olympian Bronze Age Greece, he was venerated as a ch ...
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Ricky Nelson
Eric Hilliard Nelson (May 8, 1940 – December 31, 1985) was an American musician, songwriter and actor. From age eight he starred alongside his family in the radio and television series ''The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet''. In 1957, he bega ...
(1940–1985), American singer
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Ricky Nelson (baseball) (1959-2021), former Major League Baseball outfielder
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Rick Nelson (politician) (born 1954), member of the Kentucky House of Representatives
* Rick "The Stick" Nelson, one of the
characters of ''Glee''
* Rick Nelson, contestant on ''
Survivor: South Pacific'' (2011)
See also
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Richard Nielsen (disambiguation) Richard Nielsen may refer to:
* Richard Møller Nielsen (1937–2014), Danish football player and manager
* Richard P. Nielsen (born 1946), professor at Boston College and a past president of the Society for Business Ethics
* Rick Nielsen
Ric ...
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Richard Nelson Gale (1896–1982), general in the British Army
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Richard Nelson Bolles
Richard Nelson Bolles (March 19, 1927 – March 31, 2017) was an Episcopal clergyman and the author of the best-selling job-hunting book, '' What Color is Your Parachute?''
Early life
Bolles was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He was the brothe ...
(1927–2017), former clergyman
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Richard Nelson Frye (1920–2014), U.S. professor of Iranian studies
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