Richard Williams (born on March 19, 1933 in Toronto, Ontario) is a Canadian animator, animation director, film director, and film producer. He is most well-known for serving as animation director on Who Framed Roger Rabbit as well as for his unfinished feature film The Thief and the Cobbler. He was also a film title sequence designer and animator; his most famous works in this field included the title sequences to What's New, Pussycat? (1965), title and linking sequences in The Charge of the Light Brigade (1968). He also animated the eponymous cartoon feline for two of the later Pink Panther films.

Air Marshal Sir Richard Williams KBE, CB, DSO (3 August, 1890 - 7 February, 1980) is widely regarded as the 'father' of the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF). He was the first military pilot to be trained in Australia, and went on to command Australian and British fighter units in World War I. A leading proponent for air power independent of other branches of the armed services, Williams played a major role in the birth of the RAAF and became its first Chief of the Air Staff (CAS) in 1922. He served as CAS for 13 years over three terms, longer than any other officer.

Williams came from a working class background in South Australia. He was a Lieutenant in the Army when he learned to fly at Point Cook, Victoria in 1914. As a pilot with the Australian Flying Corps (AFC) in World War I, he rose to command No. 1 Squadron AFC, and later No. 40 Wing RAF. He was awarded the Distinguished Service Order and finished the war a Lieutenant Colonel. Afterwards he campaigned for an Australian Air Force run separately to the Army and Navy, which came into being in 1921.

The embryonic RAAF faced numerous challenges to its continued existence in the 1920s and early 1930s, and Williams received much of the credit for maintaining its independence. However an adverse report on flying safety standards saw him dismissed from the position of CAS and seconded to the RAF on the eve of World War II. Despite support in various quarters for his reinstatement as Air Force chief, and promotion to Air Marshal in 1940, he never again commanded the RAAF. After the war he was forcibly retired along with a number of other World War I veteran officers. He took up the position of Director-General of Civil Aviation in Australia, serving until his retirement in 1955.

Richard Williams (born 1942) is an American tennis coach. He is best known for being the father of Serena and Venus Williams, both former World No.1 tennis players and multi-grand slam winners.

Richard Williams (born August 8, 1969) was an English cricketer. He was a left-handed batsman and a wicket-keeper. During his eleven years in first-class cricket, he played for Gloucestershire.

Having made his Second XI championship debut in 1988, where he participated in a three-day draw against Kent. Participating in the second team for the next three years, he would make his breakthrough appearing for Gloucestershire against Glamorgan in July 1990, though he went without a batting or bowling appearance throughout the match, having seen the game shrunk by force to a single innings per side.

Appearing extensively throughout the second XI championship over the next seven years, he would wait until 2001 until he attempted to get a regular first team place, but this was hard to come by with so many other faces in the team. He retired from first-class cricket in 2001 having seen eleven years as a second-team wicket-keeper for an ever-strengthening Gloucestershire side.

Richard Williams (born 1947 in Sheffield) is a British music and sports journalist.

As a writer, then deputy editor, of the weekly rock magazine Melody Maker, he became an influential commentator on the rise of new forms of rock music at the end of the 1960s. Williams and MM, as it was known, helped to promote and contextualise styles such as progressive rock and folk rock. In particular, Williams wrote several key articles around 1970 which first drew UK audiences' attention to the importance of a then-obscure (and disintegrating) band, The Velvet Underground. Melody Maker was then a magazine which still covered Jazz and Williams wrote about the more progressive developments in this field also.

The magazine's serious approach to rock music and culture, under the editorship of Ray Coleman, secured MM a huge circulation by the close of the 1960s and the start of the 1970s. It left New Musical Express, a more pop-oriented weekly, in its wake as MM caught the mood of a new generation of rock followers at a time when the music had transcended its Top 40 roots to become a powerful symbol of social and cultural change.

Williams moved on to new challenges in the early 1970s. Beginning in May 1970, he contributed to The Times, becoming one of the first people to write seriously about any form of popular culture in a newspaper historically associated with the old British establishment, and he continued to write for that paper until October 1989, by which time it had been taken over by Rupert Murdoch and moved to Wapping. He also wrote regularly for Radio Times. The first presenter of BBC TV's rock show The Old Grey Whistle Test (launched in 1971) while still a member of the MM team, he later became editor of the new London listings guide Time Out and after a period as features editor at The Sunday Times he became editor of the Independent on Sunday's Sunday Review. His music journalism has been gathered in the volume Long Distance Call: Writings on Music and biographies of Bob Dylan (A Man Called Alias), Miles Davis (The Man in the Green Shirt), and Phil Spector (Out of His Head) are among his list of other publications.

In 2007 he remains an active journalist and writer, the Chief Sports Writer of the UK daily newspaper The Guardian, covering a full array of sports from football to Formula One, cricket to golf. He has written several highly acclaimed books on Formula One including The Death of Ayrton Senna, Racers (an analysis of the main protagonists of the 1996 F1 season), Enzo Ferrari: A Life, and The Last Road Race (a study of the changing balance in Formula One between British and Italian teams, using the 1957 Pescara Grand Prix as the backdrop).

Richard Williams (November 15, 1836-June 19, 1914) was a United States Congressman representing Oregon's at large congressional district.

Williams was born in Findlay, Ohio to Elijah Williams. Corning, Howard M. Dictionary of Oregon History. Binfords & Mort Publishing, 1956. In Ohio he attended the public schools before the family moved to Oregon in 1851 over the Oregon Trail. The family first settled in Milwaukie, Oregon, and then Salem where he was educated in the local schools. He also attended Willamette University in Salem, and was admitted to the bar in 1857.

Richard Williams then moved to San Francisco, California in 1857 and began practicing law. The following year he returned to Oregon and practiced law in Kerbyville in Josephine County, followed by Corvallis in 1860, and Salem in 1862. In 1862 he married Clara J. Congle, and they would have one daughter. The family moved to Portland in 1872.

Williams ran as a Republican for Congress in 1874. He faced Democrat George A. La Dow and, due to a split in the Republican party, also faced Timothy W. Davenport, who ran as an Independent. Davenport, one of the founders of the Oregon Republican party, and father of political cartoonist Homer Davenport, debated Williams throughout the state, with the result that the Republican vote was split and La Dow won the election by a narrow plurality.

He ran again in 1876, and was elected, defeating incumbent La Fayette Lane, though the election was contested by Samuel McDowell. Williams prevailed and served one term from 1877 to 1879.

After his one term in Congress, Williams resumed his law practice in Portland and served on the Portland School Board for 20 years beginning in 1890. He died in Portland in 1914 and was buried at River View Cemetery in Portland.

Richard Williams was the college basketball coach at Mississippi State from 1986 to 1998. With 191 victories, he is the 2nd winningest coach in school history bested only by his former assistant and now head coach Rick Stansbury. His 1995 squad made the Sweet Sixteen, and his 1996 squad made the school's only Final Four appearance. He has received two SEC Coach of the Year awards.

Richard "Richie" Williams (born 31 May, 1986 in Moruya, New South Wales), an Indigenous Australian, is a professional rugby league footballer, currently with the Penrith Panthers club. He previously played for the St. George Illawarra Dragons. Williams' position of choice is at five-eighth.

Richard Williams is a British motor racing competitor, born June 1 1977, and living in Tunbridge Wells. After coming 4th overall with a single race win the Renault Clio Cup in 2004, he entered the 2005 BTCC in a Lexus, ran by SpeedEquipe and sponsored by Friends Reunited and HPI Racing. He came 14th overall in a small field, with a best result of 7th blank">http://www.btccinfo.co.uk/drivers/williams.html. In 2006 he contested the Porsche Carrera Cup, with a best result of 3rd, also entering the Supercup round at _Silverstone as a wild card of sorts. For 2007 he is contesting the British GT Championship http://www.britishgt.com/news.php?action=showArticle¶ms%5Bid%5D=133

Richard Williams is a Welsh conductor.

Richard Williams was a born entertainer, recognised in the 1938 National Eisteddfod for his talents and at the age of 15 began touring with a troupe of singers around the music halls of the United Kingdom before returning home to join the fledgling Welsh National Opera.

His musical career ended when his baby son contracted meningitis, making him profoundly deaf and Richard, appalled by the facilities to help children with this condition, decided to educate his son himself.

With a part-time job selling insurance helping to keep the family going, he devoted the rest of his time to music and formed the Gentleman Songsters in 1951, followed by the Richard Williams Singers in 1965 and the Richard Williams Junior Singers in 1966.

Each achieved remarkable success, with frequent broadcasts, recording sessions and tours of Europe and North America. In total there were 24 overseas concert tours, performing in Moscow, Vienna, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Prague, Paris, Toronto and Vancouver.

They regularly performed before royalty and Richard Williams continued to train young singers at his Tonyrefail Music Centre and he has commonly seen three generations of singers pass from the nursery choir through to the adults.

At the age of 54 he qualified as a teacher and in 1977 was awarded the MBE for his services to music in the community. In 1993 the Open University in Wales honoured him with a Degree of Master of the University.

Richard Gene Williams (May 4, 1931 – November 5, 1985) was an American jazz trumpeter.

Williams was born in Galveston, Texas, and played tenor saxophone early in his life before picking up trumpet as a teenager. He played in local Texas bands and attended Wiley College, where he majored in music. After some time serving in the Air Force he toured Europe with Lionel Hampton, and upon his return took a master's defree at the Manhattan School of Music.

Williams played with Charles Mingus at the Newport Jazz Festival in 1959, and recorded with Mingus starting in that year. He recorded his only session as a leader, New Horn in Town, in 1960, released on Candid Records, and featuring Reggie Workman, Leo Wright, Richard Wyands, and Bobby Thomas. Williams was a sideman on a large number of releases for Blue Note, Impulse!, New Jazz, Riverside, and Atlantic in the 1960s. Among the musicians he worked with are Mingus, Oliver Nelson, Grant Green, Lou Donaldson, Yusef Lateef, Gigi Gryce, Duke Jordan, Noah Howard, and the big bands of Duke Ellington, Gil Evans, and Thad Jones and Mel Lewis.

He also found work on Broadway in pit orchestras. He appears on the 1975 recording of the musical The Wiz. Late in his career he joined Mingus Dynasty.