Richard Wright may refer to:
Arts
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Richard Wright (author)
Richard Nathaniel Wright (September 4, 1908 – November 28, 1960) was an American author of novels, short stories, poems, and non-fiction. Much of his literature concerns racial themes, especially related to the plight of African Americans duri ...
(1908–1960), African-American novelist
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Richard B. Wright (1937–2017), Canadian novelist
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Richard Wright (painter)
Richard Wright ( – ) was an English marine painter. An entirely self-taught artist, he first appeared as an exhibitor in London in 1760, and between that date and 1773 exhibited twenty-five works with the Society of Artists of Great Britain, I ...
(1735–1775), marine painter
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Richard Wright (artist)
Richard Wright (born London, 1960) is an English artist.
Wright was born in London. His family moved to Scotland when he was young. He attended Edinburgh College of Art from 1978 to 1982 and studied at Glasgow School of Art between 1993 and 1995 ...
(born 1960), British artist
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Richard Wright (musician)
Richard William Wright (28 July 1943 – 15 September 2008) was an English keyboardist and songwriter who co-founded the progressive rock band Pink Floyd. He appeared on almost every Pink Floyd album and performed on all of their tours. He ...
(1943–2008), founder member of Pink Floyd
Politics
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Richard Wright (MP) (1568–1639), MP for Dorchester from 1597 to 1598
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Richard L. Wright (born 1943), American political leader
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Richard R. Wright (1855–1947), American military officer, educator, politician, civil rights advocate, and banking entrepreneur
Sports
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Richard Wright (cricketer, born 1877)
Richard Gane Wright (1 January 1877 – 27 October 1942) was an English first-class cricketer and educator.
The son of Richard Wright senior and his wife, Anne Maria Jones, Wright was born on New Year's Day in 1877 at Gisburn, Yorkshire. ...
(1877–1942), English cricketer
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Richard Wright (cricketer, born 1903)
Richard Leslie Wright (1903-1991) was an English cricketer active from 1923 to 1926 who played for Northamptonshire. He appeared in 54 first-class matches as a righthanded batsman who bowled right arm medium pace. One of four brothers who played ...
(1903–1991), English cricketer
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Richard Wright (footballer)
Richard Ian Wright (born 5 November 1977) is an English football coach and former professional footballer who is a goalkeeping coach for Premier League club Manchester City.
As a player he was a goalkeeper. He joined Ipswich Town as a traine ...
(born 1977), retired English football goalkeeper
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Rick Wright (football manager)
Rick Wright is a Bermudian football manager who manages Greenville Triumph.
Career
Wright worked as manager of American side Erskine Flying Fleet, the soccer team of Erskine College. After that, he was appointed manager of American side Ander ...
, Bermudian football manager
Other
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Richard Wright (Unitarian)
Richard Wright (7 February 1764 – 16 September 1836) was an English Unitarian minister, and the itinerant missionary of the Unitarian Fund, a missionary society established in 1806.
Life
The eldest son of Richard Wright, he was born at Blake ...
(1764–1836), Unitarian minister
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Richard Cotsman Wright
Richard Cotsman Wright (1860–1921) was a Canadians, Canadian architect who served as Chief Dominion Architect from 1918-1927. As chief government architect he was responsible for many of the federal buildings constructed in this period. He embr ...
(1841–1921), Canadian architect
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Richard R. Wright Jr. (1878–1967), American sociologist
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Richard T. Wright
Richard T. Wright (born October 15, 1951, in Los Angeles) is an American criminologist. He is Board of Regent's Professor of Criminal Justice and Criminology at Georgia State University (GSU) in the Andrew Young School of Policy Studies. He serv ...
(born 1951), American criminologist
* Orville Wilbur Richard "Rick" Wright, a character in the TV series ''
Magnum, P.I.
''Magnum, P.I.'' is an American crime drama television series starring Tom Selleck as Thomas Magnum, a private investigator (P.I.) living on Oahu, Hawaii. The series ran from December 11, 1980, to May 1, 1988, during its first-run broadcast on ...
'', named Orville "Rick" Wright in the 2018 series reboot
See also
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Dick Wright (disambiguation) Dick Wright may refer to:
* Dick Wright (baseball) (1890–1952), baseball player
* Dick Wright (footballer, born 1931) (1931–2003), footballer for Chester City
* Dick Wright (Australian footballer) (1902–1961), Australian rules footballer
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Ricky Wright (disambiguation) Ricky Wright may refer to:
* Ricky Wright (baseball)
James Richard Wright (born November 22, 1958) is a former professional baseball pitcher. He pitched parts of five seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB).
Wright made his MLB debut for the Lo ...
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