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Raymond Kaempfer
Raymond Kaempfer is an Israeli molecular biologist, emeritus professor at Hebrew University's IMRIC, known for cytokine mRNA self-regulation through PKR and superantigen antagonists against toxic shock.
Raymond Kelly
Raymond W. Kelly, NYPD commissioner 1992–1994 and 2002–2013 under Dinkins and Bloomberg, longest serving in city history; built NYPD counterterrorism bureau, expanded stop-and-frisk to nearly 700,000 stops, and oversaw the Muslim surveillance program exposed by the AP.
Raymond Kopa
Raymond Kopa (Raymond Kopaszewski, 1931-2017), French footballer, first French Ballon d'Or (1958), three European Cups with Real Madrid, 45 France caps, namesake of the Kopa Trophy.
Raymond L. Bisplinghoff
Raymond L. Bisplinghoff (1917–1985) was an American aeronautical engineer known for work on aeroelasticity and aircraft structural dynamics, the textbook Aeroelasticity (1955), and leadership at MIT and NASA.
Raymond L. Erikson
Raymond L. Erikson (1936–2020) was an American molecular biologist who showed that the Rous sarcoma virus src gene encodes a protein kinase, the first isolated oncogene enzyme product.
Raymond L. Hintz
Raymond L. Hintz was an American pediatric endocrinologist who founded and led Stanford's Division of Pediatric Endocrinology from 1975, published over 350 papers on growth, and died in 2014.
Raymond L. Woosley
Raymond L. Woosley (R L Woosley) is an American clinical pharmacologist and cardiologist known for research on drug-induced long QT syndrome, a rare heart-rhythm side effect.
Raymond Laflamme
Raymond Laflamme (1960–2025) was a Canadian quantum information scientist at the University of Waterloo, founding director of its Institute for Quantum Computing and a pioneer of quantum error correction.
Raymond Lam (林峰)
Raymond Lam (林峯), born 1979, Hong Kong actor and Cantopop singer; TVB star of A Step into the Past and Line Walker, Huading and Asian Television Awards winner, and Best Actor nominee for Twilight of the Warriors: Walled In (2024).
Raymond Lemieux
Raymond Urgel Lemieux was a Canadian organic chemist who made the first chemical synthesis of sucrose in 1953 and won the 1999 Wolf Prize in Chemistry.
Raymond Leo Burke
Raymond Leo Burke, known as Cardinal Burke, is an American Catholic cardinal and canon lawyer who served as Archbishop of St. Louis and a Vatican court prefect.
Raymond Leslie White
Raymond Leslie White (1943–2018) was an American human geneticist who built the first genome-wide linkage maps of human chromosomes, making it possible to localize and clone disease genes.
Raymond Loewy
Raymond Fernand Loewy (1893–1986) was a French-born American industrial designer, active in New York from 1919, who designed the Coldspot refrigerator, Pennsylvania Railroad locomotives, and the Air Force One livery.
Raymond Louis Wilder
Raymond Louis Wilder (1896–1982) was an American mathematician who created generalized manifolds, spent most of his career at the University of Michigan, and led the American Mathematical Society.
Raymond Lyttleton
Raymond Arthur Lyttleton (1911–1995) was a British mathematician and theoretical astronomer who co-created the Bondi–Hoyle–Lyttleton accretion theory and proposed capture-based origins for the Solar System and comets.
Raymond M. Fuoss
Raymond Matthew Fuoss (1905–1987) was an American physical chemist who worked on electrolytes, dielectrics, and polymers, and held the first Sterling professorship in Yale's chemistry department.
Raymond M. Hakim
Raymond M. Hakim, also known as Raymond Hakim, is an American nephrologist at Vanderbilt University whose research on dialysis membrane biocompatibility and dialysis dose shaped hemodialysis practice.
Raymond M. Kethledge
Raymond M. Kethledge is an American jurist serving as a United States circuit judge of the Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit since 2008, appointed by President George W. Bush.
Raymond M. Welsh
Raymond M. Welsh, Jr. (1945–2024) was an American viral immunologist and professor at the University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School, known for research on natural killer cells and heterologous immunity.
Raymond Massey
Raymond Massey (Raymond Hart Massey, 1896-1983), Canadian-born American actor of Abe Lincoln in Illinois, Santa Fe Trail, East of Eden, and Dr. Kildare's Dr. Gillespie; Oscar-nominated Lincoln portrayer, brother of Governor General Vincent Massey.
Raymond McKay
Raymond McKay, also printed as Raymond Tyler McKay, is an American politician and 2026 Republican nominee for U.S. Senate in Rhode Island, a Army veteran challenging Jack Reed.
Raymond Muratalla
Raymond "Danger" Muratalla, American undefeated pro boxer (25-0, 17 KOs) from Fontana, California; IBF lightweight champion who beat Andy Cruz and Robson Conceicao, trained by Robert Garcia.
Raymond N. DuBois
Raymond N. DuBois is an American physician-scientist known for defining the role of the enzyme COX-2 in colorectal cancer; he directs the Hollings Cancer Center in South Carolina.
Raymond Nonnatus
Raymond Nonnatus (Sant Ramon Nonat) is a Mercedarian saint, ransomer of Christian captives in Spain and North Africa, and patron of childbirth, honored on August 31.
Raymond P. Ahlquist
Raymond P. Ahlquist (1914–1983) was an American pharmacologist at the Medical College of Georgia who proposed in 1948 that adrenaline acts through alpha and beta receptors.
Raymond P. Moore
Raymond P. Moore, born Raymond Paul Moore, is an American jurist serving as a senior United States district judge of the District of Colorado, appointed by Obama in 2013.
Raymond P. Warrell
Raymond P. Warrell is an American physician-scientist who led the Memorial Sloan-Kettering studies establishing retinoic acid and arsenic trioxide therapy for acute promyelocytic leukemia, then co-founded PolaRx Biopharmaceuticals.
Raymond P. White Jr.
Raymond P. White Jr. is an American oral and maxillofacial surgeon and UNC-Chapel Hill professor elected to the Institute of Medicine in 1982, known for third molar clinical trials.
Raymond Paley
Raymond Edward Alan Christopher Paley (1907–1933) was an English mathematician who worked with Littlewood, Wiener, and Zygmund, and died at 26 in an avalanche near Banff, Alberta.
Raymond Pearl
Raymond Pearl (1879–1940) was an American zoologist and biometrician, a founder of biometry who organized biostatistics at Johns Hopkins and founded the journals Human Biology and Quarterly Review of Biology.