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Richard Hammond
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English motoring journalist and broadcaster
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Richard Mark Hammond is a British television presenter, writer, journalist, and autobiographer. Born on 1969-12-19 in Solihull, he has worked since 1998 and is currently employed by Amazon Prime Video. His notable work includes the television program Top Gear. He resides in Ripon, Herefordshire, and speaks English. Hammond has two children and stands at a height of 167.
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Person · Open Library
- Works
- 53
Top works
- Problems in Real Analysis, Vol. 1
- Problems in Geometry
- Pre-Algebra
- No Bright Stars in Cancer
- Can You Feel the Force?
via Open Library + Wikidata
Film & TV
Acting · Solihull - Warwickshire - England
Richard Mark Hammond (born 19 December 1969) is an English presenter, writer, and journalist. He is most noted for co-hosting the car programme Top Gear with Jeremy Clarkson and James May, as well as presenting series 1–4 of Brainiac: Science Abuse on Sky1. He also co-hosted Total Wipeout with Amanda Byram on BBC One. Hammond presented Planet Earth Live alongside Julia Bradbury.
Known for
- The Grand-ish Tour — Self2026
- The Not Very Grand Tour — Self2025
- Richard Hammond's Brain Reaction — Self - Host2022
- Richard Hammond's Crazy Contraptions2022
- Contraption Masters — Host2022
- Top Gear: A Tribute to Sabine Schmitz — Self2021
- Richard Hammond's Workshop — Self - Host2021
- The Great Escapists — Self - Host2021
- Clarkson's Farm — Self - Smallest Cog boss2021
- Richard Hammond's Big — Himself - Presenter2020
via TMDB
Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- United States
- Active from
- 1969
Member of
via MusicBrainz · CC0
Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 584
- Total plays
- 3,409
Richard Mark Hammond (born 19 December 1969, Solihull, England) is a British TV presenter, most noted for co-hosting car programme Top Gear alongside Jeremy Clarkson and James May, as well as presenting Brainiac: Science Abuse on Sky1, Richard Hammond's Engineering Connections on BBC Two, Should I Worry About...? on BBC One and Total Wipeout, also on BBC One and Richard Hammond's Blast Lab on CBBC. He has also presented several one-off specials such as ITV's The Gunpowder Plot: Exploding The Leg
Academic profile · OpenAlex
- Works
- 128
- Cited by
- 1,010
Research areas
Most cited works
- Torsion gravity2002 · 351 cit
- Upper limit on the torsion coupling constant1995 · 55 cit
- Spin, torsion, forces1994 · 47 cit
- Ĉerenkov radiation in large cosmic-ray air showers1978 · 39 cit
- Radiation reaction at ultrahigh intensities2010 · 31 cit
via OpenAlex · CC0
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- The Measurement of Observer Agreement for Categorical Data
· 1977 · cited 63,432x
- The Sequence Alignment/Map format and SAMtools
· 2009 · cited 59,274x
- Fast and accurate short read alignment with Burrows–Wheeler transform
· 2009 · cited 47,675x
- ImageNet: A large-scale hierarchical image database
· 2009 · cited 47,319x
- Highly accurate protein structure prediction with AlphaFold
· 2021 · cited 43,689x
via Crossref · CC0
Key facts
- Born
- Richard Mark Hammond , ( 1969-12-19 ) 19 December 1969 (age 56) , Solihull , Warwickshire, England
- Other names
- Hamster, Buttons
- Education
- Harrogate College of Art and Technology
- Occupations
- Broadcaster journalist businessman author
- Years active
- 1998–present
- Spouse
- Amanda Etheridge ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 4 May 2002</span>"}]]}'>2002 ; separated</span>"}]]}'>sep. 9 Jan 2024</span>"}]]}'>2024 )
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Mark
- Family name
- Hammond
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom
- Place of birth
- Solihull
- Occupation
- children's writer
- Employer
- Amazon Prime Video
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Notable work
- Top Gear
- Field of work
- journalist
- Official website
- thehamsterscage.co.uk
- Image
- Richard Hammond in Toronto - 2024 (cropped).jpg
- Height
- 167
- Number of children
- 2
- Residence
- Herefordshire
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- Commons category
- Richard Hammond
- date of birth
- 1969-12-19
- birth name
- Richard Mark Hammond
- start of work period
- 1998-00-00
- social media followers
- 3084519
Sources (2)
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Encyclopedic overview
Richard Mark Hammond (born 19 December 1969) is an English television presenter, journalist, and author. He is best known for co-hosting the BBC Two motoring programme Top Gear from 2002 until 2015 with Jeremy Clarkson and James May. From 2016 to 2024, the trio presented Amazon Prime Video's The Grand Tour.
Hammond has also presented entertainment documentary series Brainiac: Science Abuse (2003–2006), the game show Total Wipeout (2009–2012) and nature documentary series Planet Earth Live (2012). In 2016, along with Clarkson and May, Hammond launched the automotive social media website DriveTribe, which has a motoring channel on YouTube, where he currently hosts the videos with former Top Gear Stig Ben Collins and his daughter Izzy Hammond. Since 2021, Hammond has also hosted Richard Hammond's Workshop, a series which documents his attempts at running a classic car restoration business.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Richard Hammond” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.