People

• Richard Parker (economist)
  Richard Parker (economist)
  Richard Parker is an economist from the United States. He is a graduate of Dartmouth College and the University of Oxford, and has worked for the United Nations Development Programme. Parker co-founded Mother Jones magazine and is on the editorial board of The Nation...
  
  , American economist and member of The Nation Editorial Board
• Richard Parker (sailor) (1767–1797), British sailor and leader of the Nore Mutiny
• Richard A. Parker
  Richard A. Parker
  Richard A. Parker is a mathematician and freelance computer programmer in Cambridge, England. He invented many of the algorithms for computing the modular character tables of finite simple groups...
  
   (born 1953), mathematician.
• Richard Anthony Parker
  Richard Anthony Parker
  Richard Anthony Parker was a prominent Egyptologist and professor of Egyptology. Originally from Chicago, he attended Mt. Carmel High School with acclaimed author James T. Farrell. He received an A.B. from Dartmouth College in 1930, and a Ph.D. in Egyptology from the University of Chicago in 1938...
  
   (1905–1993), Egyptologist
• Richard Bordeaux Parker
  Richard Bordeaux Parker
  Richard Bordeaux Parker was a United States Foreign Service Officer and an expert on the Middle East.He is the brother of David Stuart Parker-Early life:...
  
   (born 1923), American diplomat and ambassador
• Richard Parker (jurist)
  Richard Parker (jurist)
  Richard Parker was a prominent lawyer and judge from Westmoreland County, in the Northern Neck of Virginia. Son of Dr. Alexander Parker, a prominent physician of Essex county, Virginia. He married Elizabeth Beale, daughter of Willam Beale. He was a member of the Westmoreland County Committee of...
  
   (1729–1813), American jurist who served on the Virginia Supreme Court
• Richard Barry Parker
  Richard Barry Parker
  Richard Barry Parker was an English architect and urban planner associated with the Arts and Crafts Movement. He was primarily known for his architectural partnership with Raymond Unwin.-Biography:...
  
   (1867–1947), British architect
• Richard Parker (shipwrecked)
  Richard Parker (shipwrecked)
  Richard Parker is the name of several people in real life and fiction who became shipwrecked, with some of them subsequently being cannibalised by their fellow seamen:...
  
  , the name of several real-life and fictitious seamen involved in cases of shipwreck and cannibalism
• Rick Parker
  Rick Parker
  Richard Alan Parker was a Major League Baseball outfielder for the Los Angeles Dodgers, San Francisco Giants, New York Mets and Houston Astros. He played from 1985-1998.-External links:...
  
   (born 1963), baseball player

Members of the United States Congress

• Richard Parker (congressman) (1810–1893), judge and Congressman from Virginia
• Richard E. Parker
  Richard E. Parker
  Richard Elliott Parker was born at Rock Spring, Westmoreland County, Virginia, son of Captain William Harwar and Mary Parker, and grandson of Judge Richard and Elizabeth Parker. He studied law at Lawfield, Virginia, under his grandfather, Judge Richard Parker...
  
   (1783–1840), jurist, Senator from Virginia
• Richard W. Parker
  Richard W. Parker
  Richard Wayne Parker was an American Republican Party politician from New Jersey who represented the 6th congressional district from 1895 to 1903, the 7th district from 1903 to 1911, and the 9th district from 1914 to 1919 and again from 1921 to 1923,...
  
   (1848–1923), Representative from New Jersey

Characters

• Richard Parker (tiger), a fictional tiger from the novel Life of Pi
• Richard and Mary Parker
  Richard and Mary Parker
  Richard and Mary Parker are fictional characters of Marvel Comics. They were the parents of Peter Parker, the boy who one day would become Spider-Man. They will appear in the 2012 reboot of the Spider-Man film franchise...
  
  , fictional parents of Peter Parker, the alter-ego of Spider-Man