title: Richard Parker
text: # Richard Parker
  
  Richard Parker may refer to:
  
  ## Public officials
  
  ### American
  
  * Richard Parker (judge, born 1729) (1729–1813), American jurist who served on the Virginia Supreme Court
  * Richard Parker (colonel) (1751–1780), American officer and son of Richard Parker the Virginia jurist
  * Richard E. Parker (1783–1840), jurist, Senator from Virginia, grandson of Richard Parker the Virginia jurist
  * Richard Parker (congressman) (1810–1893), judge and Congressman from Virginia
  * Richard W. Parker (1848–1923), Representative from New Jersey
  * Richard Bordeaux Parker (1923–2011), American diplomat and ambassador
  
  ### British
  
  * Richard Parker (MP for Malmesbury), Member of Parliament (MP) for Malmesbury, 1394
  * Richard Parker (MP for Lyme Regis), MP for Lyme Regis, 1421
  
  ## Academics
  
  * Richard Green Parker (1798–1869), United States educator
  * Richard Barry Parker (1867–1947), British architect
  * Richard Anthony Parker (1905–1993), Egyptologist
  * Richard Davies Parker (born 1945), American law professor
  * Richard Parker (economist) (born 1946), American economist and member of The Nation editorial board
  * Richard A. Parker (born 1953), mathematician
  * Richard G. Parker (anthropologist) (born 1956), public health professional
  
  ## Sportspeople
  
  * Richard Parker, full name of footballer Dick Parker (1894–1969)
  * Richard Parker (rugby league), rugby league footballer of the 1960s
  * Rick Parker (baseball) (born 1963), baseball player
  * Rich Parker (born 1987), British professional vert skater
  * Richard Parker, erroneous name of footballer Reginald Parker (born 1902)
  
  ## Other people
  
  * Richard Parker (mutineer) (1767–1797), British sailor, leader of the Nore Mutiny
  * Richard Thomas Parker (1834–1864), British murderer
  * Richard Neville Parker (1884–1958), English botanist and forester
  * Richard Parker (1867–1884), the cabin boy victim of shipwreck, murder, and cannibalism in the incident of the court-case R v Dudley and Stephens
  * Richard Parker (potter) (born 1946), New Zealand potter
  * Rick Parker (artist) (born 1946), American artist, writer, and cartoonist
  
  ## Fictional characters
  
  * Richard Parker (Life of Pi), a fictional tiger from the 2001 novel Life of Pi
  * Richard and Mary Parker, fictional parents of Peter Parker, the alter-ego of Spider-Man
  * Richard Parker, a cannibalized mutineer in The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket, Edgar Allan Poe's only complete novel
  * Richard Parker, one of the protagonists of the 1989 film Weekend at Bernie's portrayed by Jonathan Silverman
  * Richard Parker, protagonist of Consenting Adults (1992 film) portrayed by Kevin Kline
  