Academia
- Richard Wilson (scholar) (born 1950), British Shakespeare scholar
- Richard Wilson (physicist) (born 1926), British physicist
- Richard Guy Wilson (born 1940), architectural historian and University of Virginia faculty member
- Richard K. Wilson (born 1959), American professor of genetics and molecular microbiology
- Richard L. Wilson (1905–1981), American journalist
- Richard F. Wilson, president of Illinois Wesleyan University
- R. M. Wilson (born 1945), American mathematician (Combinatorics), Professor at Caltech
- Rick Wilson (attorney), American defense attorney and academic
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