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Ray Jackson (basketball)
Ray Jackson, Austin, Texas-born Fab Five forward for Michigan (1991-95), scored 1,262 career points, reached the 1992 and 1993 NCAA finals, and was the only Fab Five member never to play in the NBA.
Ray Jessel
Ray Jessel (Raymond Jessel, 1929–2015) was a Welsh-born Canadian composer, lyricist, and TV writer for Baker Street, The Love Boat, and The Carol Burnett Show, who became a cabaret performer at 72.
Ray K. Linsley
Ray K. Linsley (1917–1990) was an American hydrologist and Stanford civil engineering professor, remembered as a father of modern hydrology and elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1976.
Ray K. Metzker
Ray K. Metzker (Ray Krueger Metzker, 1931–2014) was an American photographer known for stark, experimental black-and-white cityscapes and Composites, large assemblages of printed film strips, who taught in Philadelphia from 1962.
Ray Kroc
Ray Kroc (1902–1984), American businessman who built McDonald's into the world's largest restaurant franchise; joined as franchise agent in 1954, opened Des Plaines restaurant 1955, bought the McDonald brothers out for $2.7 million in 1961.
Ray Kurzweil
Ray Kurzweil (Raymond Kurzweil), born 1948, is an American inventor and futurist known for the Kurzweil Reading Machine, speech recognition, and predicting the Singularity by 2045.
Ray Lamar Johnston
Ray Lamar Johnston, Florida death row inmate convicted of the 1997 murder of Leanne Coryell and of Janice Nugent; distinct from Lamar Johnson, the exonerated St. Louis man, and other namesakes.
Ray LaMontagne
Ray LaMontagne (Raymond Charles Jack LaMontagne, born 1973, Nashua, NH) is an American folk singer-songwriter whose debut Trouble (2004) sold 400,000 copies by word of mouth; known for raspy vocals, shyness, and albums through Long Way Home.
Ray Lankester
Ray Lankester, full name Sir Edwin Ray Lankester, was a British zoologist who held zoology chairs at London and Oxford and directed the British Museum's Natural History departments.
Ray Lewis
Ray Lewis (born 1975) is a Hall of Fame inside linebacker who played his entire 17-season career (1996-2012) with the Baltimore Ravens, won Super Bowl XXXV MVP, and is the only NFL player with 40+ sacks and 30+ interceptions.
Ray Lindwall with the Australian cricket team in England in 1948
Ray Lindwall's 1948 England tour with Bradman's Invincibles: he led the Test bowling averages with 27 wickets at 19.62, took 8-131 at Lord's and 9-70 at The Oval, and 86 tour wickets at 15.68.
Ray Liotta
Ray Liotta (1954-2022), American actor famous as Henry Hill in Goodfellas and Shoeless Joe Jackson in Field of Dreams; Emmy winner for ER, voice of GTA Vice City's Tommy Vercetti.
Ray Lopez
Ray Lopez, full name Reynaldo T. Lopez, is a Democratic member of the Texas House of Representatives from San Antonio's 125th district since 2019, after serving on the city council.
Ray Lumpp
Ray Lumpp (Raymond George Lumpp, 1923-2015), American basketball guard, 1948 Olympic gold medalist with the USA in London, later played for the New York Knicks, Indianapolis Jets, and Baltimore Bullets.
Ray Luzier
Ray Luzier (Raymond Lee Luzier, born 1970) is an American drummer for Korn since 2007, formerly with David Lee Roth, Army of Anyone, and Steel Panther; Pearl/Sabian artist, KXM member, Modern Drummer 2015 MVP.
Ray Mabus
Ray Mabus (born 1948) is a Mississippi Democrat who was the 75th US Secretary of the Navy (2009-2017), the longest-serving since World War I, 60th Governor of Mississippi (1988-1992), and US Ambassador to Saudi Arabia (1994-1996).
Ray Malott
Ray Malott (Raymond A. Malott) was an American sprinter who ran the 440-yard dash for Stanford University, winning the AAU national title in 1937 and 1938 and the NCAA title in 1938.
Ray Mancini
Ray "Boom Boom" Mancini (born 1961, Youngstown, Ohio) is an American former boxer, WBA lightweight champion 1982-1984, record 29-5 with 23 KOs, IBHOF inductee 2015, known for the Duk-Koo Kim tragedy.
Ray Mancini vs. Kim Duk-koo (김덕구)
Ray Mancini vs. Kim Duk-koo was a 1982 WBA lightweight title fight in Las Vegas where champion Ray Mancini knocked out Kim Duk-koo, who died four days later.
Ray Manzarek
Ray Manzarek (1939–2013), American keyboardist and co-founder of the Doors with Jim Morrison; played Vox Continental organ and Fender Rhodes Piano Bass, supplying the band's bass lines with his left hand.
Ray McKinnon (actor)
Ray McKinnon (born 1957, Adel, Georgia) is an American actor-writer-director, not to be confused with the soccer manager of the same name. Known for Reverend Smith in Deadwood, Lincoln Potter in Sons of Anarchy/Mayans M.C., the Oscar-winning short The Accountant, and creating Rectify.
Ray Meagher
Ray Meagher (Raymond Francis Meagher), Australian actor born 1944 in Roma, Queensland; Alf Stewart on Home and Away since the 1988 pilot, only original cast member, Guinness record holder, 2010 Gold Logie and 2017 OAM recipient.
Ray Mears
Ray Mears (born 1964, Surrey) is a British bushcraft and survival instructor, author, and BBC presenter; founder of Woodlore (1983) and creator of Tracks, World of Survival, and Extreme Survival, known for his knowledge-based approach and rivalry with Bear Grylls.
Ray Mendoza (director)
Ray Mendoza (Raymond Mendoza), American retired Navy SEAL and filmmaker; co-wrote and co-directed A24's Warfare (2025) with Alex Garland, recreating his November 2006 Ramadi mission; former military advisor on Civil War, Lone Survivor, Jurassic World.
Ray Mercer
Ray Mercer (Merciless), born 1961, American heavyweight boxer; 1988 Seoul Olympic gold medalist and WBO heavyweight champion 1991-1992; retired 36-7-1 with 26 KOs.
Ray Mill House
Ray Mill House, also called Rey Mill House, is an 1860 Italianate Grade II listed country house in Reybridge near Lacock, Wiltshire, long the private home of Queen Camilla, bought in 1995/1996 for £850,000 and transferred to her family in 2026.
Ray Milland
Ray Milland (Reginald Alfred John Truscott-Jones, 1907–1986), Welsh-born actor and director, Paramount star, Oscar and Cannes winner for The Lost Weekend (1945), later Dial M for Murder and Love Story.
Ray Ming
Ray Ming is a plant geneticist and Professor Emeritus at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, known for work on papaya sex chromosomes and tropical crop genomes.
Ray Nagin
Ray Nagin (Clarence Ray Nagin, Jr.), New Orleans mayor 2002-2010 and former Cox Communications executive, led the city through Hurricane Katrina, was re-elected in 2006, and in 2014 was convicted on 20 of 21 federal corruption counts, serving six years in prison.
Ray Nayler
Ray Nayler, Hugo and Locus Award-winning science fiction author of The Mountain in the Sea, The Tusks of Extinction, Where the Axe Is Buried, and Palaces of the Crow; former Foreign Service officer with a PhD from the University of Essex.