The first or given name Richard derives from German, French, and English "ric" (ruler, leader, king) and "hard" (strong, brave, court), therefore it means "powerful leader" as well as "King's Court". The name Richard is most often used as a boy name or male name.

Richard is a typical name in many Germanic languages, including English, German, Swedish and Dutch.

Daniel Joshua Kash (born April 25, 1959) is a Canadian actor and director.

Kash was born in Montreal, Quebec, the son of Canadian opera singer Maureen Forrester (July 25, 1930–June 16, 2010) and Toronto born violinist/conductor Eugene Kash (May 1, 1912-March 6, 2004). He is the brother of actress Linda Kash. His father was born Jewish and his mother converted to Judaism. He studied at the Drama Center in London, England and has appeared in dozens of feature film and television series. His first feature was in Aliens as Private Spunkmeyer. He has directed three successful short films, Germgirl,Flip Phone and For Lease (released 2007). He played Axel Turner in the Disney Channel Original Movie Camp Rock 2: The Final Jam

Kash’s first feature film was "Aliens" in 1986. He has since gone on to amass numerous credits in films such as "The Good Shepherd," "The Shipping News," "Cinderella Man," "The Tuxedo," "Lucky Number Slevin," "Casino Jack," "Fugitive Pieces," "Don't Say a Word" and the upcoming film "On The Road" with Kristen Stewart.

Gary Edward Daniels (born 9 May 1963) is an English actor and former kickboxer, known for appearing mostly in action-oriented martial arts B-films. Daniels has been in over 50 films since his start as an extra in an episode of the 1980s television series Miami Vice. He is best known for playing Kenshiro in the live-action version of Fist of the North Star. He is also known for his roles in the Jackie Chan film City Hunter, and as Bryan Fury in the 2010 live-action film Tekken, based upon the popular fighting game series. He was also seen in the Sylvester Stallone film The Expendables as "The Brit", an ally of the villain General Garza.

Gary Daniels was born in London, England on 9 May 1963. Inspired by the Bruce Lee film Enter the Dragon, he began training in martial arts at the age of 8 at a local school where he learned a hybrid martial art known as "Mongolian kung fu". He then took up taekwondo at 12 years old and received his black belt after 3 years. At 16, he became a 2nd dan and began competing in ITF taekwondo tournaments. His aggressive style did not sit well with British officials, however, and he lost 3 fights by disqualification.

Donald Andrew McClurkin, Jr. (born November 9, 1959) is an American gospel music singer and minister. He has won three Grammy awards, ten Stellar awards, two BET awards, two Soul Train awards, one Dove award and one NAACP Image award for his work.

McClurkin was born Copiague, New York and raised in Amityville. When he was eight years old, his two-year-old brother was hit and killed by a speeding driver. After the loss, McClurkin found comfort in church and through an aunt who sang background vocals with gospel music musician Andraé Crouch. He began to play piano and sing with his church youth choir. He formed the McClurkin Singers by the time he was a teenager, and later formed another group, the New York Restoration Choir.

He was hired as an associate minister at Marvin Winans' Perfecting Church in 1989. The Winans are a well-established family of singers who dominated the contemporary gospel charts in the 80's and 90's,while experiencing cross-over appeal, and continue to be voices of influence in 2012. McClurkin served as an assistant to Pastor Marvin L. Winans for over a decade, while living in Detroit,MI.

Richard Smallwood (born 30 November 1948 in Atlanta, Georgia) is an American Gospel music artist who formed The Richard Smallwood Singers in 1977 in Washington, DC.

Richard graduated cum laude from Howard University with degrees in both vocal performance and piano, in addition to graduate work in the field of ethnomusicology. Smallwood was a member of The Celestials, the first gospel group on Howard University's campus. That group was the first gospel act to appear at Switzerland's Montreux Jazz Festival. Richard was also a founding member of Howard's first gospel choir.

Smallwood's recording career began in 1982 with the album The Richard Smallwood Singers. The album spent 87 weeks on Billboard's Gospel chart. Its followup, Psalms was nominated for a Grammy. Two years later the album Textures was also nominated. Textures spawned the now-classic "Center Of My Joy" written by Richard Smallwood along with Bill and Gloria Gaither. He won his first Grammy, along with a Dove Award for his production on the Quincy Jones' gospel project Handel's Messiah: A Soulful Celebration.