Richard Wright may refer to:
- Richard Wright (author) (1908–1960), African-American novelist, writer, poet, essayist
- Richard Wright (musician) (1943–2008), also known as Rick Wright, English musician, founding member of Pink Floyd
- Richard Wright (artist) (born 1960), British artist and musician, band member of Correcto
- Richard Wright (footballer) (born 1977), England football goalkeeper
- Richard B. Wright (born 1937), Canadian novelist
- Richard R. Wright (1855–1947), American military officer, educator, politician, civil rights advocate, and banking entrepreneur
- Richard Wright (MP), MP for Dorchester
- Richard Wright (Unitarian) (1764–1836), Unitarian minister
- Richard Cotsman Wright (1841–1921), Canadian architect
- Richard G. Wright (born 1962), American photographer and short filmmaker
- Richard L. Wright (born 1943), American political leader
Famous quotes containing the words richard and/or wright:
“I don’t know how you feel, professor, but I feel like a knife that’s just stabbed a friend in the back.”
—Earl Felton, and Richard Fleischer. Ned Land (Kirk Douglas)
“I ... observed the great beauty of American government to be, that the simple machines of representation, carried through all its parts, gives facility for a being moulded at will to fit with the knowledge of the age; that thus, although it should be imperfect in any or all of its parts, it bears within it a perfect principle the principle of improvement.
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—Frances Wright (1795–1852)