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- Richard Austen Butler aka Rab Butler (1902 - 1982, British politician and Chancellor of the Exchequer.
- Sir Richard Layton Butler (1850-1925), Premier of South Australia, 1905.
- Richard Butler (born 1942), Governor of Tasmania (2003), Australian former diplomat, chairman of UNSCOM, the UN weapons inspection team in Iraq, 1997-99. Author of The Greatest Threat: Iraq, Weapons of Mass Destruction, and the Crisis of Global Security (ISBN 1586480391).
- Richard Butler (born 1956), lead singer of The Psychedelic Furs.