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Richard Moore

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJan 1, 2025
Entity authorityQ1292627
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Richard, Rich, Dick, Dickie, or Dicky Moore may refer to:

Entertainment

Richard O. Moore (1920–2015), American poet

Dickie Moore (actor) (1925–2015), American actor, child actor in Our Gang

Richard Moore (cinematographer) (1925–2009), American cinematographer and founder of Panavision

Richard Moore (actor) (born 1942), English actor who played Jarvis Skelton on ITV's Emmerdale

Rich Moore (born 1963), American animation director

Richard Moore (comics) (born 1966), American comic book writer and creator

Dicky Moore (born 1978), English guitarist with Scintillate and Scritti Politti

Richard Moore (Case Closed) (Kogoro Mori), detective in the anime and manga Case Closed

Father Richard Moore, priest in the film The Exorcism of Emily Rose

Politics

Richard Moore (governor), first Governor of Bermuda, 1612–1616

Richard Moore (Irish politician) (1725–1761), Irish Member of Parliament for Clonmel, 1761

Richard Moore (radical) (1810–1878), English Chartist

Richard Moore (New Zealand politician) (1849–1936), New Zealand Member of Parliament

Richard B. Moore (1893–1978), Barbadian civil rights activist and communist

Richard A. Moore (1914–1995), United States Ambassador to Ireland, 1989–1992

Richard Moore (Liberal politician) (1931–2019), British journalist and political aide

Richard T. Moore (born 1943), American politician, former member of the Massachusetts State Senate

Richard H. Moore (born 1960), American politician, North Carolina State Treasurer

Richard Lee Moore (born 1971), American politician, North Carolina House of Representatives

Richard Moore (Australian politician) (1878–1966), Mayor of Kalgoorlie, member of the Western Australian Legislative Council

Religion

Richard Moore (Roman Catholic priest) (fl.

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