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Rayleigh's inflection-point criterion
Rayleigh's inflection-point criterion is a theorem in hydrodynamic stability stating that inviscid instability of a parallel shear flow requires an inflection point in its velocity profile.
Raylene
Raylene, born Stacey Briana Bernstein in 1977, is the stage name of an American adult film actress (1996-2014, Vivid Entertainment, AVN Best Actress 2001, AVN Hall of Fame 2008); the name is also used by singer Raylene Rankin and other performers.
Raylib
Raylib is a free, open source C programming library for video game and multimedia development, created by Ramon Santamaria in 2013 and licensed under zlib.
Raylo
Raylo is a London-based electronics subscription company founded in 2019 that leases phones, tablets, and laptops monthly and provides subscription infrastructure for brands like Apple.
Rayma Wilson
Rayma Wilson (Rayma Bess Wilson, 1910-1985), American middle-distance runner; 1928 AAU 800m champion and first US record holder (2:30.2), 300m world best 43.2, competed in the 800m at the 1928 Amsterdam Olympics; later a WAVES lieutenant commander.
Rayman
Rayman is Ubisoft's platform game franchise created by Michel Ancel, first released in 1995. Known for the limbless hero, the UbiArt-era Rayman Origins (2011) and Legends (2013), the Rabbids spinoff, and the 2026 revival with 30th Anniversary Edition and Legends Retold.
Rayman (character)
Rayman: limbless mascot character created by Michel Ancel, debuting in Ubisoft's 1995 platformer. Known for telescopic fist and helicopter hair; over 40 games, 20 million-plus early sales, Legends Retold remake due December 2026.
Rayman (video game)
Rayman (1995) is Ubisoft's 2D side-scrolling platformer created by Michel Ancel, first released on Atari Jaguar September 8, 1995, then a PlayStation launch hit; its limbless hero, ports, and 2026 30th Anniversary Edition distinguish it.
Rayman 2: The Great Escape
Rayman 2: The Great Escape is Ubisoft's 1999 3D platformer, the first Rayman game in three dimensions, in which Rayman collects Lums and masks to defeat Admiral Razorbeard's robo-pirates; ported to over ten platforms.
Rayman Legends
Rayman Legends is a 2013 Ubisoft Montpellier 2D platformer, sequel to Rayman Origins, released August 29, 2013 on Wii U then multiplatform; Metacritic 92, Murfy co-op, musical levels; 3D remake Rayman Legends Retold due December 3, 2026.
Rayman Legends Retold
Rayman Legends Retold (no native name) is Ubisoft's 3D remake of the 2013 platformer Rayman Legends, by Ubisoft Montpellier and Milan, due December 3, 2026 on PS5, Xbox Series X|S, Switch 2, and PC, with a new story, sixth realm, and bundled Rayman Origins remaster.
Rayman Origins
Rayman Origins is a 2D side-scrolling platform game by Ubisoft Montpellier and Ubisoft, released in 2011 with over 60 levels and local co-op for four players.
Rayman Raving Rabbids
Rayman Raving Rabbids (Rayman contre les Lapins Crétins) is Ubisoft's 2006 Wii launch party game, a Rayman spinoff of about 75 motion-controlled minigames that introduced the Rabbids, who later headlined their own franchise.
Raymond A. Dwek
Raymond A. Dwek, born 1941, is a British biochemist at the University of Oxford who founded and directed the Oxford Glycobiology Institute and coined the term glycobiology.
Raymond A. Frizzell
Raymond A. Frizzell is a physiologist at the University of Pittsburgh whose 1986 Science study showed defective chloride channel regulation in cystic fibrosis airway cells.
Raymond A. Jackson
Raymond Alvin Jackson, born 1949 in Sussex, Virginia, is a senior United States district judge for the Eastern District of Virginia, appointed by President Clinton in 1993.
Raymond A. Price
Raymond A. Price (1933–2024) was a Canadian structural geologist whose mapping and synthesis of the southern Canadian Rocky Mountains made the Cordilleran foreland thrust belt a worldwide reference model.
Raymond A. Sobel
Raymond A. Sobel, also published as Raymond Sobel, is a neuropathologist and Stanford professor whose research on multiple sclerosis includes widely used mouse EAE models.
Raymond A. Spruance
Raymond Ames Spruance (1886–1969), American admiral, commanded Task Force 16 at Midway and the Fifth Fleet through the Gilberts, Marshalls, Marianas, Iwo Jima, and Okinawa; later Naval War College president and ambassador to the Philippines.
Raymond Ablack
Raymond Ablack is a Canadian actor, comedian, producer, and writer of Indo-Guyanese descent, born 1989 in Toronto, known for Sav Bhandari in Degrassi: The Next Generation, Joe in Netflix's Ginny & Georgia, and Nate in Maid.
Raymond Alexander Kelser
Raymond Alexander Kelser (1892–1952) was an American veterinarian, bacteriologist, and immunologist who developed the first chloroform-inactivated killed-virus vaccine, first showed a mosquito transmitting a neurotropic virus, and served as dean at the University of Pennsylvania.
Raymond Allen Davis incident
The Raymond Allen Davis incident was a 2011 US-Pakistan crisis: CIA contractor Raymond Davis shot two men in Lahore, claimed diplomatic immunity, and was freed after about $2.3-2.4 million in blood money.
Raymond Arroyo
Raymond Arroyo is an American journalist, New York Times bestselling author, and Fox News contributor; founding news director of EWTN News (1996), host of The World Over, and a regular on The Ingraham Angle.
Raymond Arthur Kreig
Raymond Arthur Kreig is an American civil engineer and permafrost-terrain specialist in Anchorage, Alaska, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2025 for his Trans-Alaska Pipeline work.
Raymond B. Huey
Raymond B. Huey is an American evolutionary physiologist and ecologist at the University of Washington, a primary founder of evolutionary physiology known for thermal ecology of ectotherms and climate-change research.
Raymond Bailey
Raymond Thomas Bailey (1904–1980), American character actor; played banker Milburn Drysdale in 248 episodes of The Beverly Hillbillies (1962–1971); earlier Broadway and film bit parts.
Raymond Benson
Raymond Benson (born 1955) is an American author and the third, and first American, official James Bond continuation novelist (1996–2002), writing six original 007 novels, three film novelizations, and the first Felix Leiter novel, The Hook and the Eye (2025).
Raymond Blanc
Raymond Blanc is a French self-taught chef and restaurateur based in Britain, best known for Le Manoir aux Quat'Saisons in Oxfordshire, which has held two Michelin stars since 1984.
Raymond Bonham Carter
Raymond Bonham Carter (1929–2004) was a British merchant banker at S.G. Warburg, a grandson of H. H. Asquith, and father of actress Helena Bonham Carter.
Raymond Breton
Raymond Breton (1609–1679) was a French Dominican missionary in the Lesser Antilles who landed in Guadeloupe in 1635 and wrote the 1665 Dictionnaire caraïbe-français, the only surviving witness to the Island Carib language.