(n) son of Henry II and King of England from 1189 to 1199; a leader of the Third Crusade; on his way home from the crusade he was captured and held prisoner in the Holy Roman Empire until England ransomed him in 1194 (1157-1199), Syn. Richard Coeur de Lion, Richard the Lionheart, Richard the Lion-Hearted
(n) King of England from 1377 to 1399; he suppressed the Peasant's Revolt in 1381 but his reign was marked by popular discontent and baronial opposition in British Parliament and he was forced to abdicate in 1399 (1367-1400)
(n) King of England from 1483 to 1485; seized the throne from his nephew Edward V who was confined to the Tower of London and murdered; his reign ended when he was defeated by Henry Tudor (later Henry VII) at the battle of Bosworth Field (1452-1485)
(n) English literary critic who collaborated with C. K. Ogden and contributed to the development of Basic English (1893-1979), Syn. Ivor Armstrong Richards, I. A. Richards
(n) United States physicist who contributed to the theory of the interaction of photons and electrons (1918-1988), Syn. Richard Feynman, Richard Phillips Feynman
(n) United States athlete who revolutionized the high jump by introducing the Fosbury flop in the 1968 Olympics (born in 1947), Syn. Dick Fosbury, Richard D. Fosbury
(n) Nazi leader who in 1941 flew a solo flight to Scotland in an apparent attempt to negotiate a peace treaty with Great Britain but was imprisoned for life (1894-1987), Syn. Rudolf Hess, Walther Richard Rudolf Hess
(n) English paleontologist (son of Louis Leakey and Mary Leakey) who continued the work of his parents; he was appointed director of a wildlife preserve in Kenya but resigned under political pressure (born in 1944), Syn. Richard Erskine Leakey, Richard Leakey
(n) leader of the American Revolution who proposed the resolution calling for independence of the American Colonies (1732-1794), Syn. Richard Henry Lee
(n) United States biochemist (born in England) honored for his discovery that some genes contain introns (born in 1943), Syn. Richard John Roberts, Richard J. Roberts
(n) United States composer of musical comedies (especially in collaboration with Oscar Hammerstein II and with Lorenz Hart) (1902-1979), Syn. Richard Rodgers
(n) German composer of operas and inventor of the musical drama in which drama and spectacle and music are fused (1813-1883), Syn. Wilhelm Richard Wagner, Richard Wagner
(n) English statesman; during the War of the Roses he fought first for the house of York and secured the throne for Edward IV and then changed sides to fight for the house of Lancaster and secured the throne for Henry VI (1428-1471), Syn. Richard Neville, Kingmaker, Earl of Warwick
. (Law) A fictious name for a party, real or fictious, to an act or proceeding. Other names were formerly similarly used, as John-a-Nokes, John o', or of the, Nokes, or Noakes, John-a-Stiles, etc. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]