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Ray Armstead
Ray Armstead (Raymond Richard Armstead, born 1960, St. Louis) is an American former 400 m sprinter who won 1984 Olympic gold in the 4x400 m relay (2:57.91) and the 1985 World Cup relay title; not the NFL players Terron, Arik, or Ryquell Armstead.
Ray Barbuti
Ray Barbuti (Raymond James Barbuti, 1905-1988), American sprinter nicknamed the Orange Flash; won 1928 Olympic gold in the 400 m (47.8) and the 4x400 m relay world record 3:14.2.
Ray Bilger
Ray Bilger is an American politician and Democratic nominee for the U.S. House in Pennsylvania's 15th district in 2026, a former Air Force cryptologic linguist facing incumbent Glenn Thompson.
Ray Blanton
Ray Blanton (Leonard Ray Blanton, 1930–1996), 44th governor of Tennessee 1975–1979 and three-term congressman, ousted three days early in the 1979 cash-for-clemency scandal and later imprisoned for selling liquor licenses.
Ray Bolger
Ray Bolger (Raymond Wallace Bolger, 1904-1987) was an American eccentric dancer, singer, and vaudeville comic, the Scarecrow in the 1939 film The Wizard of Oz and the 1949 Tony-winning star of Where's Charley?, later a 1950s ABC sitcom lead.
Ray Borg
Ray Borg, "The Tazmexican Devil" (born 1993), American MMA flyweight and bantamweight; 16-5 record, UFC 7-5, challenged Demetrious Johnson at UFC 216, retired April 2023 after repeated weight misses.
Ray Bourque
Ray Bourque (Raymond Bourque), born 1960 in Montreal, Canadian NHL defenseman drafted 8th overall by Boston in 1979; five Norris Trophies, defenseman records of 1,579 points, 410 goals, 1,169 assists, 2001 Stanley Cup with Colorado, Hall of Fame 2004.
Ray Bracken
Ray Bracken (Raymond Cope Bracken, 1891-1974), American pistol shooter and lumberjack from Columbus, Ohio; won team free pistol gold and individual 30 m military pistol silver at Antwerp 1920.
Ray Bradbury
Ray Bradbury (1920-2012), American author of The Martian Chronicles, Fahrenheit 451, and Something Wicked This Way Comes; poetic science fiction and fantasy writer, Pulitzer special citation 2007.
Ray Brown (musician)
Ray Brown (Raymond Matthews Brown, 1926-2002), American jazz double bassist from Pittsburgh; Oscar Peterson Trio founder, Gillespie and JATP bassist, Grammy winner for "Gravy Waltz", Blanton-style innovator.
Ray Buker
Ray Buker (Raymond Bates Buker, Sr., 1899–1992), American middle-distance runner with the Illinois AC; fifth in the 1924 Olympic 1500 m, AAU mile champion 1924–25, later a Baptist missionary in Bolivia and Burma.
Ray C
Ray C, born Rehema Chalamila in 1982, is a Tanzanian bongo flava and R&B singer who dominated East African charts in the early 2000s before a drug crisis interrupted her career.
Ray Capece
Ray Capece, a former Electronics Magazine editor from New York who helped write Lattice's business plans, co-founded Lattice Semiconductor in Oregon in 1983 and later served as its Secretary.
Ray Cappo
Ray Cappo (Raghunath Cappo), American hardcore punk vocalist and label founder: frontman of Youth of Today, Shelter, and Better Than a Thousand, co-founder of Revelation Records and Equal Vision Records, and a central figure of the straight edge youth crew movement.
Ray casting
Ray casting is a rendering technique that casts one ray per pixel from the eye and sets the pixel's color from the first surface or volume samples it meets.
Ray cat
The ray cat (Strahlenkatze) is a hypothetical cat breed proposed in 1984 by Françoise Bastide and Paolo Fabbri that would change color near radiation, warning of buried nuclear waste.
Ray Chapman
Ray Chapman (1891-1920), Cleveland Indians shortstop 1912-1920, the only MLB player killed by an on-field injury, hit by a Carl Mays pitch August 16, 1920; his death spurred the spitball ban and cleaner baseballs.
Ray Charles
Ray Charles (Ray Charles Robinson, 1930-2004), the "Genius of Soul," was a blind American pianist and singer who pioneered soul by fusing gospel and blues; famous for "Georgia on My Mind" and Modern Sounds in Country and Western Music.
Ray Charles discography
Ray Charles discography: albums and singles of the soul pioneer (1930-2004) across SwingTime, Atlantic, ABC-Paramount, Tangerine and Crossover labels, landmark albums like Modern Sounds in Country and Western Music, and the Foundation's posthumous catalog.
Ray Chen (陈锐)
Ray Chen (陈锐, born 1989) is a Taiwanese-born Australian concert violinist, winner of the 2008 Menuhin and 2009 Queen Elisabeth competitions, known for his Stradivarius-versus-$69-violin video, Tonic practice app, and 2.3 million social media followers.
Ray class field
A ray class field is a finite abelian extension of a number field attached to a modulus, with Galois group the ray class group via the Artin map.
Ray Clemence
Ray Clemence (1948–2020), English goalkeeper; Liverpool 1967–1981, Tottenham 1981–1988; 61 England caps; won five league titles and three European Cups.
Ray Collins (actor)
Ray Collins (1889–1965), American character actor of stage, radio, film, and television; Mercury Theatre regular, Jim Gettys in Citizen Kane, Lt. Tragg on Perry Mason (271 episodes).
Ray Combs
Ray Combs (Raymond Neil Combs Jr., 1956–1996) was an American comedian and game show host from Hamilton, Ohio, who hosted Family Feud on CBS and in syndication from 1988 to 1994 before Richard Dawson replaced him; he died by suicide in 1996.
Ray Comfort
Ray Comfort is a New Zealand-born evangelical evangelist and author living in Southern California, founder of the Living Waters ministry and the Way of the Master program.
Ray Conniff
Ray Conniff (1916–2002), American trombonist, arranger, and bandleader of the Ray Conniff Singers; pioneer of wordless-chorus easy listening, Columbia arranger behind "Band of Gold" and "Somewhere My Love," with over 50 million albums sold.
Ray Cooper
Ray Cooper is an English percussionist and session musician, a member of the Elton John Band since 1973 who has also worked with George Harrison and Eric Clapton.
Ray Coulter
Ray Coulter (Raymond Orville Coulter, 1897–1965) was an American sport shooter and career Marine who won gold and bronze in team events at the 1924 Paris Olympics.
Ray Dalio
Ray Dalio, also known as Raymond Dalio, is an American investor who founded Bridgewater Associates in 1975, built it into the world's largest hedge fund, and wrote Principles.
Ray Danton
Ray Danton (Raymond Caplan, 1931–1992), American radio, film, and TV actor and director, known for title roles as Legs Diamond (1960, 1961) and George Raft (1961), later a TV director.