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Richard Hunt

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJan 21, 2026
Entity authorityQ1534087 ↗
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Richard Hunt may refer to:

Arts and entertainment

Richard Hunt (artist) (born 1951), Canadian carver and artist

Richard Hunt (pianist) (1930–2011), Canadian pianist and composer

Richard Hunt (sculptor) (1935–2023), American sculptor

Richard Howland Hunt (1862–1931), American architect and son of Richard Morris Hunt

Richard Morris Hunt (1827–1895), American architect

Richard Hunt (puppeteer) (1951–1992), American puppeteer who performed a number of the Muppets

Politics

Richard Hunt (Nova Scotia politician) (1832–1915), politician in Nova Scotia, Canada

Richard Hunt (MP), MP for Orford beginning in 1529

Richard Harte or Hunt (died 1616), MP for Nottingham

Sport

Richard Hunt (rugby union) (born 1948), New Zealand rugby player, coach and administrator

Dick Hunt (baseball) (1847–1895), American baseball player

Dick Hunt (speed skater) (born 1935), American speed skater

Other

Richard Allen Hunt (1937–2009), American mathematician

Sir Tim Hunt (Richard Timothy Hunt, born 1943), English biochemist

Richard William Hunt (1908–1979), English editor, medieval historian, palaeographer

Richard Hunt (editor) (1933–2012), English editor of environmentalist magazines Green Anarchist and Alternative Green

Richard Hunt (priest) (1596–1661), English clergy indirectly associated with Shakespeare authorship dispute

Richard Hunt (Dean of Durham) (died 1638), English clergy, Dean of Durham 1620–1638

Richard W. Hunt (born c.

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Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1951, 1930, 2011, 1935—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Richard, Hunt and Wikimedia can be independently traced.
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This entry incorporates text from “Richard Hunt” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.