Conrad Richter, Pulitzer Prize winning Western novelist

Jean Paul Friedrich Richter, German novelist and author

The Richter scale developed in 1825 to which harmonicas are commonly tuned

Sviatoslav Richter, Russian pianist

Gerhard Richter, Preeminent 20th century German painter

Richter, the right-hand man villain in the science fiction thriller Total Recall

Burton Richter, Nobel laureate in physics

Hans Richter, Dada artist, filmmaker and writer

Mike Richter, American ice hockey player

Karl W. Richter, American aviator

Andy Richter, comedian

Hans Richter, German conductor

Jamie Richter, Australian author of slipstream, technology-themed horror, and dark speculative fiction.

Gustav Richter, 20th century German Nazi official

Eugen Richter, German politician

Adrian Ludwig Richter, 19th century German artist

Karl Richter, German conductor

Henjo Richter, German guitarist

Gustav Richter, 19th century German artist

Jason James Richter, American actor

Francis Xavier Richter, Jr., MLA in the Canadian province of British Columbia from 1963 to 1975

Ferdinand Tobias Richter, Austrian Baroque composer and organist

August Gottlieb Richter, German surgeon

Franz Xaver Richter, Classical-era Czech composer.

Richter (toy company), a German toy manufacturer from the early 20th century

Richter means "Judge" in German. Richter can refer to the Richter magnitude scale, a scale measuring the intensity of earthquakes. Richter's transformation or Richter's syndrome is a complication of blood-related neoplasms. Richter is also a surname:

Charles Francis Richter, inventor of the Richter magnitude scale

Francis Xavier Richter, rancher and entrepreneur in 19th Century British Columbia and Washington

Jeffrey Richter, author of books on programming for Windows and .NET

Jeremias Benjamin Richter, German chemist who developed the stoichiometry theory

Johnny Richter, member of the rapcore, alternative punk rock group, the Kottonmouth Kings.

Pat Richter, football player for the University of Wisconsin-Madison and Washington Redskins, later athletic director of the UW-Madison

Ronald Richter, Austrian head of the infamous Argentine Huemul Project

Gedeon Richter Ltd., a Hungarian pharmaceutical company, listed on the Budapest Stock Exchange

Richter Belmont, a character from the Castlevania game series