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Raymond Briggs

Raymond Redvers Briggs (1934–2022), English illustrator and author of Father Christmas, Fungus the Bogeyman, and the wordless The Snowman; twice Kate Greenaway Medalist, CBE 2017, creator of adult graphic novels When the Wind Blows and Ethel & Ernest.

Raymond Buckley

Raymond Buckley, New Hampshire Democratic Party chair since 2007, DNC Rules and Bylaws Committee member, former ASDC president, and figure in the 2028 Democratic primary calendar dispute.

Raymond Burgos

Raymond Burgos, born 1998 in Luquillo, Puerto Rico, is a left-handed relief pitcher drafted by Cleveland in 2016, MLB debut June 24, 2024 with the San Francisco Giants, later with Boston Red Sox and Puerto Rico's 2026 World Baseball Classic team.

Raymond Burr

Raymond Burr (1917–1993), Canadian-born actor, played Perry Mason on CBS 1957–66 and Ironside 1967–75, won 1959 and 1961 Emmys, and earlier played film villains in Rear Window and Godzilla.

Raymond C. Bushland

Raymond C. Bushland (1910–1995) was an American entomologist with the USDA who, with Edward F. Knipling, created the sterile insect technique and eradicated the screwworm fly from the United States.

Raymond C. Clevenger III

Raymond C. Clevenger III is an American jurist and senior judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, appointed by George H.W. Bush in 1990.

Raymond C. Harris

Raymond C. Harris is an American nephrologist at Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, known for the 1994 discovery of COX-2 in the kidney's macula densa and EGFR's role in kidney fibrosis.

Raymond C. Kelly

Raymond C. Kelly, born 1942, is an American anthropologist and University of Michigan professor emeritus, elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2004, known for work on the origin of war.

Raymond C. Loehr

Raymond C. Loehr (1931–2021) was an American environmental engineer, an expert on industrial and hazardous waste treatment who held a chaired professorship at the University of Texas at Austin.

Raymond C. Stevens

Raymond C. Stevens, also known as Raymond Stevens, is an American structural biologist and protein crystallographer known for GPCR structures, professor at USC and CEO of Structure Therapeutics.

Raymond Carroll

Raymond J. Carroll, born 1949, is an American biostatistician, Distinguished Professor at Texas A&M University, known as the founder of nonlinear measurement error modeling and winner of the 1988 COPSS Presidents' Award.

Raymond Carver

Raymond Carver (1938–1988), American short-story writer and poet of minimalism and dirty realism; author of Will You Please Be Quiet, Please?, What We Talk About When We Talk About Love, and Cathedral; his spare style was heavily shaped by editor Gordon Lish.

Raymond Cecil Moore

Raymond Cecil Moore (1892–1974) was an American geologist and paleontologist at the University of Kansas who founded and edited the Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology and led the Kansas Geological Survey.

Raymond Chandler

Raymond Thornton Chandler (1888–1959) was an American novelist and screenwriter who shaped hard-boiled crime fiction, creating the detective Philip Marlowe in The Big Sleep (1939) and earning Oscar nominations for Double Indemnity and The Blue Dahlia.

Raymond Cloosterman

Raymond Cloosterman is a Dutch entrepreneur who founded Rituals Cosmetics in Amsterdam in 2000 after thirteen years at Unilever, building it into a brand with nearly 1,500 boutiques in 33 countries.

Raymond Cruz

Raymond Cruz (also Ray Cruz), American character actor born 1964, known as Tuco Salamanca in Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul and Detective Julio Sanchez in The Closer and Major Crimes; films include Training Day and Alien: Resurrection.

Raymond D. Kell

Raymond D. Kell (Ray D. Kell) directed television camera research at RCA from 1930, helped create the American 525-line TV standard, and gave his name to the Kell factor.

Raymond D. Mindlin

Raymond D. Mindlin (1906–1987) was an American applied mechanician at Columbia University, known for Mindlin plate theory, the Mindlin problem, and generalized continuum theories of elasticity.

Raymond Daniels (martial artist)

Raymond Daniels, "The Real Deal" (born 1980), American sport karate and kickboxing champion; ISKA and Bellator Kickboxing titleholder known for spinning kicks, later MMA and Karate Combat fighter.

Raymond Davis Jr.

Raymond Davis Jr. was an American chemist at Brookhaven National Laboratory who built the first detector to observe solar neutrinos, winning the 2002 Nobel Prize in Physics.

Raymond Dean Astumian

Raymond Dean Astumian is a professor of physics at the University of Maine known for his work on Brownian motors and the thermodynamics of molecular machines, including a 1997 Science paper cited more than 1,400 times.

Raymond Depardon

Raymond Depardon, born in 1942 in Villefranche-sur-Saône, France, is a French photographer and documentary filmmaker who co-founded the Gamma agency and won César Awards for his documentaries.

Raymond Dingledine

Raymond Dingledine is an American neuropharmacologist known for discovering that glycine acts with glutamate at NMDA receptors, and for epilepsy research that spawned two biotech companies.

Raymond Dodge

Raymond Dodge (1871–1942) was an American experimental psychologist at Wesleyan and Yale who made eye movements measurable, founding modern eye-tracking research; he led the American Psychological Association in 1916.

Raymond Domenech

Raymond Domenech, born in 1952 in Lyon, is a French football manager who coached France from 2004 to 2010, reaching the 2006 World Cup final.

Raymond E. Brown

Raymond E. Brown, also known as Raymond Edward Brown, was an American Sulpician Catholic priest and biblical scholar, one of the foremost twentieth-century Catholic exegetes.

Raymond E. Feist

Raymond E. Feist (born 1945), American fantasy author of Magician (1982) and the Riftwar Cycle set in Midkemia and Kelewan; also the Empire Trilogy with Janny Wurts, the Firemane Saga, and the Dragonwar Saga.

Raymond E. Goldstein

Raymond E. Goldstein is a British and American biological physicist at the University of Cambridge, a Royal Society Fellow known for research on microbial swimming and the evolution of multicellularity.

Raymond E. Ideker

Raymond E. Ideker is an American cardiac electrophysiologist and Professor Emeritus at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, known for research on the mechanisms of ventricular fibrillation and defibrillation.

Raymond E. Keller

Raymond E. Keller is an American developmental biologist at the University of Virginia known for working out the cellular mechanisms of convergent extension in embryos.