title: Richard Edwards
text: # Richard Edwards
  
  Richard Edwards may refer to:
  
  ## Arts and entertainment
  
  * Richard Edwardes (1525–1566), English poet, dramatist and composer, alleged illegitimate son of Henry VIII of England
  * Richard Edwards (musician), freelance trombone player and composer
  * Richard Edwards, lead singer and songwriter of the band Margot & the Nuclear So and So's
  * Richey James Edwards, missing songwriter and rhythm guitarist of Welsh band the Manic Street Preachers
  * Dickon Edwards (born 1971), diarist and front man of the band Fosca
  * Richie Edwards (born 1974), latter-day bassist for The Darkness
  * Rick Edwards (born 1979), British TV presenter
  
  ## Military
  
  * Richard Edwards (Royal Navy officer, died 1773), Commodore for the Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador for 1745
  * Richard Edwards (Royal Navy officer, died 1795) (c. 1715–1795), Commodore for the Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador for 1757 and again in 1779
  * Richard S. Edwards (1885–1956), United States Navy admiral
  
  ## Politics
  
  * Richard M. Edwards (1822–1907), member of the Tennessee House of Representatives, 1861–1862
  * Richard Edwards (educator) (1822–1908), Welsh American superintendent and college president
  * Richard Edwards (Australian politician) (1842–1915), 20th-century Australian politician
  * Richard Edwards (Welsh politician) (born 1956), former Welsh Labour politician
  
  ## Sports
  
  * Dick Edwards (basketball) (1930–1981), American basketball coach
  * Dick Edwards (footballer) (born 1942), English former footballer
  * Richard Edwards (footballer) (born 1983), Jamaican footballer
  * Prof Edwards (Richard Martin Edwards, born 1940), cricketer
  
  ## Others
  
  * Richard Edwards (fashion company), a New York fashion design company
  * Richard Edwards (professor), an American economist and author
  