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Richard Alexander is a British actor.

Richard Thain Alexander was a Conservative Party politician in the United Kingdom. He was Member of Parliament (MP) for Newark in Nottinghamshire until losing his seat in the landslide of the 1997 general election.

Richard Alexander is an Indiana man wrongfully convicted of rape and later exonerated by DNA evidence.

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