Richter (surname)

Richter is a surname of German origin (Richter is German for "judge").

Geographical distribution

As of 2014, 71.2% of all known bearers of the surname Richter were residents of Germany (frequency 1:350), 13.0% of the United States (1:8,649), 2.2% of Brazil (1:28,857), 2.2% of South Africa (1:7,686), 1.8% of Austria (1:1,460), 1.3% of the Czech Republic (1:2,621) and 1.1% of Australia (1:6,626).

In Germany, the frequency of the surname was higher than national average (1:350) in the following states:

1. Saxony (1:80)
2. Brandenburg (1:121)
3. Saxony-Anhalt (1:132)
4. Thuringia (1:250)
5. Mecklenburg-Vorpommern (1:279)

People

• Aemilius Ludwig Richter (1808–1864), German jurist
• Albert Richter (1912–1940), German track-cyclist and world champion
• Andy Richter (born 1966), American actor, writer, comedian, and late-night talk-show announcer
• Anton Karl Richter (1690–1763), Austrian court organist, son of Ferdinand Tobias Richter
• August Gottlieb Richter (1742–1812), German surgeon
• Bo Richter (born 2000), American football player
• Bruno Richter (1914–1993), German military officer
• Burton Richter (1931–2018), Nobel Prize-winning American physicist
• Charles Francis Richter (1900–1985), American seismologist
• Christoph Richter (1596–1669), mayor of Stettin, Swedish Pomerania, from 1659 to 1669
• Claus Richter (born 1948), German journalist
• Conrad Richter (1890–1968), American Pulitzer Prize–winning Western novelist
• Daniel Richter (actor) (born 1939), American mime, actor and choreographer
• Daniel Richter (artist) (born 1962), German artist
• Daniel Richter (singer), Canadian singer, member of the band Eleven Past One
• Daniel K. Richter, American historian
• Dora Richter (1892–unknown), German transgender woman
• Emma Richter (1888–1956), German paleontologist
• Eugen Richter (1838–1906), German politician
• Ferdinand Tobias Richter (1651–1711), Austrian baroque-music composer and organist
• Frank Richter Sr. (1837–1910), Bohemia-born rancher and entrepreneur in the U.S. and Canada
• Frank Richter Jr. (1910–1977), Canadian politician
• Frank-Jürgen Richter (born 1967), German entrepreneur and chairman of Swiss think-tank Horasis
• Franz Xaver Richter (1709–1789), Czech composer
• Gerhard Richter (born 1932), German painter
• Guri Richter (1917–1995), Danish film actress
• Gustav Richter (artist) (1823–1884), German painter
• Gustav Richter (1913–1982), German Nazi official
• Hans Richter (artist) (1888–1976), German Dada painter, film producer and art historian
• Hans Richter (actor) (1919–2008), German actor and director
• Hans Richter (conductor) (1843–1916), German conductor
• Heinz Richter (engineer) (1909–1971), German engineer and author
• Heinz Richter (cyclist) (born 1947)
• Heinz A. Richter (born 1939), German historian
• Henjo Richter (born 1963), German guitarist
• Henry Constantine Richter (1821–1902), British zoological illustrator
• Henry James Richter (1772–1857), English artist and philosopher
• Hieronymous Theodor Richter (1824–1898), German chemist
• Ilja Richter (born 1952), German actor, singer and television presenter
• Jan Richter, Czech ice hockey player
• Jascha Richter (born 1963), Danish singer-songwriter of the band Michael Learns To Rock
• Jason James Richter (born 1980), American actor
• Jean Paul Richter (1847–1937) German art historian
• Jean Paul Friedrich Richter (1763–1825), German novelist and author
• Jeremias Benjamin Richter (1762–1807), German chemist who developed the stoichiometry theory
• Joey Richter, American actor
• Johann Gottfried Ohnefalsch Richter (1703–1765), German parson and natural theologian
• Johann Moritz Richter (1620–1667), German architect and engraver
• John C. Richter, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Oklahoma
• Johnny Richter, American musician, member of the rock group Kottonmouth Kings
• Johan Richter (inventor) (1901–1997), Norwegian-Swedish inventor and industrialist
• Johannes Richter (born 1993), German basketball player
• Josef Karl Richter (1880–1933), a Bohemian composer and military bandmaster
• Kamila B. Richter (born 1976), Czech-German media artist
• Karel Richard Richter (1912–1941), German spy
• Karl Richter (conductor) (1926–1981), German conductor
• Karl Marius Richter (born 1987), aka Perverz, German rapper
• Karl W. Richter (1942–1967), American aviator
• Les Richter (1930–2010), American football player
• Ludwig Richter (1803–1884), German painter and etcher
• Martin Richter (born 1977), Czech ice hockey player
• Martinus Richter (born 1968), German orthopedist
• Matthew Richter (born 1968), American arts producer
• Max Richter, German-born British classical composer
• Michael M. Richter (1938–2020), German mathematician
• Mike Richter (born 1966), American ice hockey player
• Milan Richter (born 1948), Slovak writer, playwright, translator and publisher
• Mischa Richter (1910–2001), Russian-born American cartoonist and artist
• Owen Von Richter (born 1975), Canadian medley swimmer
• Pat Richter (born 1941), American football player, athletic director of the UW–Madison
• Paul Richter (1895–1961), Austrian actor
• Pavel Richter, Czech ice hockey player
• Ronald Richter (1909–1991), Austrian scientist, head of the Argentine nuclear-fusion Huemul Project
• Rossa Matilda Richter (1860–1937), English aerialist and actress, first human cannonball
• Roy Robert Richter (1915–2007), Australian oilman and World War II pilot
• Roy Richter (died 1983), American auto racer, inventor, and businessman
• Sergey Richter (born 1989), Israeli Olympic sport shooter
• Simona Richter (born 1972), Romanian judoka athlete
• Stacey Richter (born 1965), American writer of short fiction
• Sviatoslav Richter (1915–1997), Soviet pianist
• Travis Richter, American musician; guitarist of rock band From First to Last

See also

• Sergy Rikhter (born 1989), Ukrainian-born Israeli sport-shooter
• Richter (disambiguation)
  • All pages with titles beginning with Richter,
  • All pages with titles containing Richter