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Raymond E. Schaak

Raymond E. Schaak is an American solid-state chemist, the DuPont Professor of Materials Chemistry at Penn State, known for cation-exchange synthesis of vast nanoparticle libraries.

Raymond Etherington Smith

Raymond Broadley Etherington-Smith (1877-1913), English surgeon and rower nicknamed "Ethel"; won 1908 Olympic gold in the men's coxed eight at seven for Leander, and died of peritonitis after surgery at St Bartholomew's Hospital.

Raymond F. Decker

Raymond F. Decker is an American metallurgist, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1980, known as co-inventor of maraging steels and co-founder of Thixomat.

Raymond Felton

Raymond Felton, born 1984 in Marion, South Carolina, is a retired NBA point guard (2005-2019), drafted 5th overall by Charlotte, 2005 NCAA champion and Bob Cousy Award winner at North Carolina.

Raymond Fernandez and Martha Beck

Raymond Fernandez and Martha Beck, the Lonely Hearts Killers, met via a lonely hearts club in 1947, swindled and murdered women including Janet Fay and Delphine Downing, were convicted in 1949, and executed at Sing Sing on March 8, 1951.

Raymond Fisman

Raymond Fisman is a Canadian-born economist, the Slater Family Professor at Boston University, known for empirical work on corruption, money in politics, and hidden influence.

Raymond Flood (mathematician)

Raymond Flood is a mathematician and educator who was Gresham Professor of Geometry from 2012 to 2016, after a long career in adult education at the University of Oxford.

Raymond Floyd

Raymond Floyd is an American professional golfer, born in 1942, who won 22 PGA TOUR titles and four major championships and joined the World Golf Hall of Fame in 1989.

Raymond G. Goodwin

Raymond G. Goodwin is a molecular biologist who worked on tumor necrosis factor receptors at Immunex in Seattle and Amgen, work that led to the arthritis drug Enbrel.

Raymond Gosling

Raymond Gosling (1926–2015) was a British biophysicist who, as a research student at King's College London, took the first X-ray photographs of crystalline DNA and produced Photograph 51.

Raymond Group

Raymond Group is an Indian textiles and apparel group founded in 1925, best known for worsted suiting fabric and branded retail, led by the Singhania family.

Raymond Habas

Raymond Habas is an American cell and developmental biologist known for his work on Wnt signaling in embryogenesis, who received the 2007 Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers.

Raymond Hames

Raymond B. Hames is an American evolutionary anthropologist at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln, elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2020 for fieldwork among the Yanomamö and Ye'kwana.

Raymond Herb

Raymond Herb was an American experimental nuclear physicist at the University of Wisconsin–Madison who pioneered the pressurized electrostatic accelerator, the tandem accelerator, and the pelletron.

Raymond Hide

Raymond Hide (1929–2016) was a British physicist at Cambridge, the Met Office, and Oxford whose rotating-annulus experiments first demonstrated Rossby waves and whose 1966 work explained the westward drift of Earth's magnetic field.

Raymond III of Tripoli

Raymond III of Tripoli (ريموند الثالث) was count of the crusader County of Tripoli from 1152 to 1187 and twice regent of the Kingdom of Jerusalem, dying in 1187.

Raymond J. Barry

Raymond J. Barry (born March 14, 1939, Hempstead, NY) is an American character actor of over 100 screen titles, known for Born on the Fourth of July, Dead Man Walking, and Arlo Givens on Justified, with Obie Awards and a 2007 Independent Spirit nomination for Steel City.

Raymond J. Dattwyler

Raymond J. Dattwyler is an American physician-scientist known for Lyme disease research, formerly directing Stony Brook's Lyme Disease Center and now a professor at New York Medical College.

Raymond J. Dearie

Raymond J. Dearie is an American jurist who served as a US district judge in the Eastern District of New York from 1986 to 2011.

Raymond J. Deshaies

Raymond J. Deshaies is an American biochemist and cell biologist at Caltech who discovered cullin-RING ubiquitin ligases and co-invented PROTACs, drug molecules that recruit target proteins to the cell's degradation machinery.

Raymond J. Gibbons

Raymond J. Gibbons (born 1949) is an American cardiologist at the Mayo Clinic, a nuclear cardiology specialist and president of the American Heart Association in 2006–07.

Raymond J. Kim

Raymond J. Kim is a cardiologist and radiologist at Duke University School of Medicine who co-developed late gadolinium enhancement cardiac MRI and leads its cardiovascular MR center.

Raymond J. Krizek

Raymond J. Krizek is an American geotechnical engineer and member of the National Academy of Engineering who taught civil engineering at Northwestern University for 59 years, retiring in 2022.

Raymond J. Lasek

Raymond J. Lasek (R. J. Lasek) is a cell biologist and neuroscientist at Case Western Reserve University known for working out the rate components of axonal transport.

Raymond J. Lohier, Jr.

Raymond J. Lohier, Jr., also known as Raymond Joseph Lohier, Jr., is an American jurist serving as a United States circuit judge on the Second Circuit since 2010.

Raymond J. Playford

Raymond J. Playford is a British gastroenterologist and Professor of Molecular Medicine at the University of West London, known for epidermal growth factor enemas for ulcerative colitis and bovine colostrum research.

Raymond James Financial

Raymond James Financial, Inc. is an American financial services firm centered on wealth management, with about $1.73 trillion in client assets in 2025 and publicly traded since 1983.

Raymond James Stadium

Raymond James Stadium, Tampa, Florida: NFL Tampa Bay Buccaneers' home since 1998, also USF Bulls football, three Super Bowls (XXXV, XLIII, LV), pirate ship, 65,890 seats expandable to 75,000, Tampa Sports Authority-managed.

Raymond Jeanloz

Raymond Jeanloz is an American geophysicist and high-pressure mineral physicist, professor at UC Berkeley, whose 1987 iron melting-curve experiments gave the first experimental bound on Earth's core temperature.

Raymond John Fonck

Raymond John Fonck is an American fusion plasma physicist, professor emeritus at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, known for the Pegasus spherical tokamak and pioneering fusion spectroscopy diagnostics.