Richter
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Richter can refer to the Richter magnitude scale, a scale measuring the intensity of earthquakes.
Richter is also a surname:
- Adrian Ludwig Richter, 19th century German artist
- Aemilius Ludwig Richter, 19th century German jurist
- Albert Richter (1912-1940), German track cyclist and World Champion
- Andy Richter, comedian
- Anton Karl Richter, Austrian organist, son of Ferdinand Tobias Richter
- August Gottlieb Richter, German surgeon
- Burton Richter, Nobel laureate in physics
- Charles Francis Richter, inventor of the Richter magnitude scale
- Conrad Richter, Pulitzer Prize winning Western novelist
- Eugen Richter, German politician
- Ferdinand Tobias Richter, Austrian Baroque composer and organist
- Francis Xavier Richter, rancher and entrepreneur in 19th Century British Columbia and Washington
- Francis Xavier Richter, Jr., MLA in the Canadian province of British Columbia from 1963 to 1975
- Franz Xaver Richter, Classical-era Czech composer.
- Gerhard Richter, Preeminent 20th century German painter
- Gustav Richter, 19th century German artist
- Gustav Richter, 20th century German Nazi official
- Hans Richter, Dada artist, filmmaker and writer
- Hans Richter, German actor and director
- Hans Richter, German conductor
- Henjo Richter, German guitarist
- Jamie Richter, Australian author of slipstream, technology-themed horror, and dark speculative fiction.
- Jason James Richter, American actor
- Jeffrey Richter, author of books on programming for Windows and .NET
- Jean Paul Friedrich Richter, German novelist and author
- Jeremias Benjamin Richter, German chemist who developed the stoichiometry theory
- Johnny Richter, member of the rapcore, alternative punk rock group, the Kottonmouth Kings
- Julius Richter, German theologian
- Danielle Richter, Sabres aficionado and author of 'Hinduism: The Ancient Devotion'
- Karl Richter, German conductor
- Karl W. Richter, American aviator
- Mike Richter, American ice hockey player
- Pat Richter, football player for the University of Wisconsin-Madison and Washington Redskins, later athletic director of the UW-Madison
- Richter, the right-hand man villain in the science fiction thriller Total Recall
- Ronald Richter, Austrian head of the infamous Argentine Huemul Project
- Roy Richter American auto racer, inventor, businessman
- Sviatoslav Richter, Russian pianist
- Travis Richter, guitarist of the American rock band, From First to Last
The name Richter also appears in:
- The Richter scale developed in 1825 to which harmonicas are commonly tuned
- Gedeon Richter Ltd., a Hungarian pharmaceutical company, listed on the Budapest Stock Exchange
- Richter (toy company), a German toy manufacturer from the early 20th century
- Richter Belmont, a character from the Castlevania game series
See also:
- Richter's transformation or Richter's syndrome, a complication of blood-related neoplasms