Richard Jackson
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Richard Jackson may refer to:
Arts and entertainment
Richard Jackson (theatrical producer) (born 1932), British theatrical producer and agent
Richard Jackson (musicologist) (born 1936), American musicologist and music librarian
Richard Jackson (artist) (born 1939), American contemporary artist
Richard Jackson (choreographer) (born 1979), American choreographer
Richard Lee Jackson (born 1979), American actor
Richard Jackson, Australian pianist, winner of a David Paul Landa Memorial Scholarship for Pianists in 2002
Politicians
Richard Jackson (Sudbury MP) (1688–1768), British MP for Sudbury in 1734
Richard Jackson (colonial agent) (c. 1721–1787), British lawyer, colonial agent and politician
Richard Jackson (Coleraine MP) (c. 1729–1789), Irish politician, MP for Coleraine 1751–1789
Richard Jackson Jr. (1764–1838), United States Representative from Rhode Island
Sir Richard Downes Jackson (1777–1845), Administrator of Canada West and Canada East, 1841–1842
Richard Jackson (Liberal politician) (1850–1938), British Member of Parliament for Greenwich, 1906–1910
Richard E. Jackson (born 1945), first African American mayor of a city in New York State and former New York State Commissioner of Motor Vehicles
Science
Richard Jackson (biochemist), biochemist and cell biologist
Richard H. Jackson (geographer) (born 1941), geography professor at Brigham Young University
Sportsmen
Association football
Dick Jackson (c.
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