• Richard Edwards (Royal Navy officer) (?–1773), Commodore for the Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador for 1745
• Richard Edwards (Royal Navy admiral) (c. 1715–1795), Commodore for the Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador for 1757 and again in 1779
• Richard Edwards (Australian politician)
  Richard Edwards (Australian politician)
  Richard Edwards was an Australian politician. Born in Montgomeryshire, Wales, he migrated to Australia in 1862, becoming first a goldminer in Victoria and then a shopkeeper in Brisbane. He invested in both sugar and newspapers...
  
   (1842–1915), 20th century Australian politician
• Richard Edwards (Welsh politician)
  Richard Edwards (Welsh politician)
  Richard Edwards born 25 August 1956, Llanelli, is a former Welsh Labour politician who was a Member of the National Assembly for Wales for Preseli Pembrokeshire from 1999 to 2003. Before politics he worked in local government and was a political researcher....
  
   (born 1956), former Welsh Labour politician
• Richard Edwards (musician)
  Richard Edwards (musician)
  Richard Edwards is a London-based classical and jazz trombone player as well as composer/arranger.His professional career includes:* Numerous film, recording sessions, television and radio productions...
  
  , freelance trombone player and composer
• Richard Edwards (singer-songwriter), lead singer and songwriter of bands Margot & the Nuclear So & So's
• Richard S. Edwards
  Richard S. Edwards
  Admiral Richard Stanislaus Edwards served in the United States Navy during World War I and World War II.-Biography:Born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Edwards was appointed to the United States Naval Academy in 1903...
  
   (1885–1956), United States Navy admiral
• Richey James Edwards
  Richey James Edwards
  Richard James Edwards was a Welsh musician who was rhythm guitarist and lyricist of the alternative rock band Manic Street Preachers. He was known for his politicized and intellectual songwriting which, combined with an enigmatic and eloquent character, has assured him cult status...
  
  , missing songwriter and rhythm guitarist of Welsh band the Manic Street Preachers
• Richie Edwards
  Richie Edwards
  Richie Edwards was born on 25 September 1974, in Lichfield, England. He is the former bassist of the British hard rock band The Darkness and the guitarist/vocalist of their successor band Stone Gods. He was confirmed as a member on 13 June 2005 replacing Frankie Poullain on bass...
  
   (born 1974), latter-day bassist for The Darkness
• Dickon Edwards
  Dickon Edwards
  Dickon Edwards is a London-based indie pop musician, writer, critic, DJ and online diarist. Although his parents named him Richard Edwards, they also chose to call him by the archaic derivative of Richard, "Dickon"...
  
   (born 1971), diarist and front man of the band Fosca
• Rick Edwards
  Rick Edwards
  Rick Edwards is a British TV presenter who mainly works on Channel 4 and E4. Rick has presented T4 with co-hosts Georgie Okell, Miquita Oliver, Jameela Jamil and Alexa Chung from which he left on 3 July 2011...
  
  , British TV presenter
• Prof Edwards (born 1940), Richard Martin Edwards, cricketer
• Richard Edwards (fashion company)
  Richard Edwards (fashion company)
  Richard Edwards was a fashion design company in operation from 1993 to 2002 and was based in New York. It was founded by Richard Bengtsson and Edward Pavlick. In 1995 they won the Council of Fashion Designers of America's Perry Ellis award for best new menswear....
  
  

See also

• Richard Edwardes
  Richard Edwardes
  Richard Edwardes was an English poet and playwright; he was made a Gentleman of the Chapel Royal, and was master of the singing boys...
  
  (c. 1523–1566), alleged illegitimate son of Henry VIII of England and 16th century English poet