Richard Garriott
American video game developer and entrepreneur
Richard Allen Garriott de Cayeux (né Garriott; born July 4, 1961) is an American video game developer and entrepreneur. Although both his parents were American, he maintains dual British and American citizenship by birth.
Garriott, who is the son of NASA astronaut Owen Garriott, was originally a game designer and programmer, and is now involved in a number of aspects of computer gaming and private spaceflight. He flew aboard the Soyuz TMA-13 mission to the International Space Station on October 12, 2008, becoming one of the first private citizens to travel to space.
His profile also appears in the 21st-century British engineers category list, alongside figures such as John Armitt, Julia King, Baroness Brown of Cambridge, and Vic Coppersmith-Heaven.