Richard Nelson may refer to:
- Richard Nelson (author) (born 1941), anthropologist and writer
- Richard H. Nelson (fl. 1903–1929), Episcopal bishop in America
- Richard Nelson (lighting designer) (1938–1996), American lighting designer
- Richard Nelson (playwright) (born 1950), American playwright and librettist
- Richard R. Nelson (economist) (born 1930), American professor of economics at Columbia University
- Richard Christian Nelson (born 1961), artist and musician
- Richard Anthony Nelson (born 1948), former British Conservative politician
- Richard Nelson, a fictional character in the film Poseidon
- Ricky Nelson (1940–1985), American singer
- Ricky Nelson (baseball) (born 1959), former Major League Baseball outfielder
- Rick "The Stick" Nelson, one of the Characters of Glee
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Famous quotes containing the words richard and/or nelson:
“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)
“Where did we ever get the crazy idea that in order to make children do better, first we have to make them feel worse? Think of the last time you felt humiliated or treated unfairly. Did you feel like cooperating or doing better?”
—Jane Nelson (20th century)