Richard Owen (disambiguation)
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Richard Owen may refer to:
- Richard OwenRichard OwenSir Richard Owen, FRS KCB was an English biologist, comparative anatomist and palaeontologist.Owen is probably best remembered today for coining the word Dinosauria and for his outspoken opposition to Charles Darwin's theory of evolution by natural selection...
(July 20, 1804 – December 18, 1892), English biologist, comparative anatomist and palaeontologist - Richard Owen (1810 - 1890), Scottish-born American geologist, American Civil War officer, Indiana University professor, Purdue UniversityPurdue UniversityPurdue University, located in West Lafayette, Indiana, U.S., is the flagship university of the six-campus Purdue University system. Purdue was founded on May 6, 1869, as a land-grant university when the Indiana General Assembly, taking advantage of the Morrill Act, accepted a donation of land and...
president - Richard Owen (minister)Richard Owen (minister)Richard Owen was a Welsh Calvinistic Methodist minister and preacher.-Life and career:Richard Owen was born in 1839 in Llangristiolus, Anglesey, in north Wales. His education was disrupted by the deaths of his father and, in the following year, of his brother...
(1839–1887), Welsh Calvinistic minister - Richard Owen (judge)Richard Owen (judge)Richard Owen is a United States federal judge.Born to an opera-loving attorney, he grew up in New York, New York. Owen was in the United States Army Air Corps from 1942–45, and then received an A.B. from Dartmouth College in 1945. He received an LL.B. from Harvard Law School in 1950, and entered...
(born 1922), federal judge for the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York - Richard Owen (rugby league)Richard Owen (rugby league)Richard Owen born 25 November 1990 in Pontefract, West Yorkshire, England is a rugby league player for the Castleford Tigers in the European Super League, he also played for Featherstone Lions & Westgate Redoubt in his youth....
(born 1990), rugby league player for the Castleford Tigers.