“Everyone likes to learn history. They just don't like to hear it from a professor looking at notes. They like to hear it like it's from their uncle, and that's how I explain history.”

American businessman and reality television personality

Rick Harrison is an American businessman and reality television personality. Born Richard Kevin Harrison, he is best known as the owner of the Gold & Silver Pawn Shop and as a familiar face on the History series Pawn Stars. He opened the shop with his father, Richard Benjamin Harrison, in 1989, and the two co-owned it until his father’s death in 2018. His public profile comes from the pawn shop business and the television series built around it.