Richard Taylor

Richard Taylor may refer to:

Military

• Richard Taylor (colonel) (1744–1829), father of U.S. president Zachary Taylor
• Richard Taylor (British Army officer) (1819–1904), British general
• Richard Taylor (general) (1826–1879), son of U.S. president Zachary Taylor, Confederate general in the American Civil War
• Richard H. Taylor (1870–1956), American Medal of Honor recipient
• Richard Taylor (Medal of Honor) (1834–1890), American Civil War soldier and Medal of Honor recipient

Politicians

• Richard Taylor (by 1517–73 or later), MP for Haverfordwest
• Richard Taylor (died 1641), English lawyer and politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1621 to 1629
• Richard Taylor (Royalist) (1620–1667), of Clapham, Bedfordshire
• Richard Taylor (died 1699), English MP for East Retford
• Richard Molesworth Taylor (1835–1919), New Zealand politician
• Richard Taylor (Ontario politician) (1915–1991), Canadian politician in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario
• Richard Taylor (British politician) (born 1934), Independent Kidderminster Member of Parliament

Science

• Richard Taylor (editor) (1781–1858), English naturalist and publisher of scientific journals
• Richard Cowling Taylor (1789–1851), English surveyor and geologist
• Richard Taylor (philosopher) (1919–2003), American metaphysical philosopher and renowned commercial beekeeper
• Richard E. Taylor (born 1929), Canadian laureate of the 1990 Nobel Prize in Physics
• Richard Taylor (mathematician) (born 1962), involved in completing the proof of Fermat's last theorem

Sports

• Richard Taylor (cross-country skier) (born 1938), American cross-country skier
• Richard Taylor (English footballer) (born 1957), English footballer
• Richard Taylor (Australian footballer) (born 1973), former Hawthorn and West Coast Eagles player in the AFL
• Dick Taylor (Australian rules footballer) AFL player whose real name is Richard
• Richard Taylor (skater) (1981–2004), Welsh skater
• Richard Taylor (American football) (born 1985), American football cornerback
• Richard Mansfield Taylor, real name of Jeff Richards, American minor league baseball player and actor

Others

• Richard Taylor (missionary) (1805–1873), missionary in New Zealand
• Richard Vickerman Taylor (1830–1914), English priest and historian
• Richard S. Taylor (1912–2006), Nazarene theologian
• Richard R. Taylor (1922–1978), American surgeon general
• Richard Norton-Taylor (born 1944), British editor, journalist and playwright
• Richard Taylor (filmmaker), head of Weta Workshop
• Richard Taylor (film director) (1933-2015), British documentary film director
• Richard Taylor (British writer) (born 1967), writer and broadcaster
• Richard Taylor (American writer) (graduated B.A. 1963), poet, novelist and bookshop proprietor
• Richard John Taylor (born 1985), British film editor, writer and director
• Richard Taylor (Hollyoaks), a character in UK soap opera Hollyoaks
• Richard Taylor, former member of Gin Blossoms