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Raymond Pierrehumbert
Raymond T. Pierrehumbert is Halley Professor of Physics at the University of Oxford, a climate dynamicist known for Snowball Earth research and the textbook Principles of Planetary Climate.
Raymond Poincaré
Raymond Poincaré was a French statesman who led France through World War I as president. He later stabilized the franc and ordered French troops into the Ruhr in 1923.
Raymond Queneau
Raymond Queneau, a French poet, novelist, and editor, co-founded the Oulipo workshop for experimental writing in 1960 and was known for Zazie dans le métro and Exercices de style.
Raymond Radiguet
Raymond Radiguet was a French writer who died of typhoid fever at 20 in 1923, leaving the novels Le Diable au corps and Le Bal du comte d'Orgel.
Raymond Reddington
Raymond "Red" Reddington, played by James Spader, is the criminal-mastermind protagonist of NBC's The Blacklist (2013–2023), an FBI informant whose true identity, including the Katarina Rostova implication, stays unresolved until his death in the 2023 finale.
Raymond Robinson (Green Man)
Raymond Robinson, also called Charlie No-Face or the Green Man, was a real Beaver County, Pennsylvania man disfigured by a 1919 childhood electrical accident whose nighttime walks on Route 351 spawned a glowing faceless ghost legend.
Raymond Rougeau
Raymond Rougeau, former WWF wrestler and French-language commentator, is mayor of Rawdon, Quebec, elected November 2021 with 60.87% and reelected 2025, after six terms as Rawdon councilor from 2002.
Raymond S. Bradley
Raymond S. Bradley is an American paleoclimatologist, emeritus professor at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, whose multiproxy reconstructions of past global temperature produced the "Hockey Stick" curve.
Raymond S. Koff
Raymond S. Koff, born in 1939, is an American physician and viral hepatitis researcher affiliated with Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston University, and MetroWest Medical Center in Framingham, Massachusetts.
Raymond Sackler
Raymond Sackler (1920-2017), American psychiatrist and co-founder of Purdue Pharma with brother Mortimer; with wife Beverly a major philanthropist via the Raymond and Beverly Sackler Foundations; family later settled opioid lawsuits for up to $7.4 billion.
Raymond Salles
Raymond Julien Salles (1920–1996), French rower; Olympic gold in men's coxed pairs at Helsinki 1952 with Gaston Mercier and cox Bernard Malivoire in 8:28.6; also 1955 Mediterranean Games double sculls gold.
Raymond Simmonds
Raymond W. Simmonds is an American physicist at NIST in Boulder, Colorado, whose superconducting quantum circuit research helped establish quantum information processing; he won a 2007 PECASE award.
Raymond Smith Jr.
Raymond Smith Jr. is an American politician and the 2026 Democratic nominee for the U.S. House in North Carolina's 3rd Congressional District, challenging incumbent Republican Greg Murphy.
Raymond Stora
Raymond Stora (1930–2015) was a French theoretical physicist who co-discovered BRST symmetry with Becchi and Rouet, and the Stora–Zumino descent equations for anomalies, winning the Max Planck Medal in 1998.
Raymond Suvigny
Raymond Suvigny (1903-1945), French featherweight weightlifter of US Métro, Paris; Olympic gold at Los Angeles 1932 with a 287.5 kg world-record total; also ninth at Paris 1924; died a former prisoner of war.
Raymond T. Chen
Raymond T. Chen, born 1968 in New York, is an American judge on the Federal Circuit Court of Appeals since 2013, nominated by President Obama and confirmed 97 to 0.
Raymond T. Chung
Raymond T. Chung, also known as Raymond Chung, is an American hepatologist, Chief of Gastroenterology, Hepatology & Endoscopy at Mass General Brigham and a Harvard Medical School professor known for hepatitis C research.
Raymond T. Odierno
Raymond T. Odierno, also known as Ray Odierno, was a United States Army four-star general who served as the 38th Chief of Staff of the Army from 2011 to 2015.
Raymond Thayer Birge
Raymond Thayer Birge (1887–1980) was an American physicist at the University of California, Berkeley, known for his 1929 determination of best values of the fundamental physical constants.
Raymond Tonsing
Raymond Tonsing is an American venture capitalist, founder and managing partner of Caffeinated Capital, a San Francisco early-stage firm best known for its early investment in Affirm.
Raymond V. Gilden
Raymond V. Gilden is an American virologist at Flow Laboratories in Rockville, Maryland, known for work on adenovirus tumor antigens and C-type RNA tumor virus antigens.
Raymond Vahan Damadian
Raymond Vahan Damadian (1936–2022) was an American physician and inventor who discovered NMR differences in cancerous tissue, built the first whole-body MRI machine, and founded FONAR.
Raymond van Barneveld
Raymond van Barneveld, "Barney" (born 1967, The Hague), Dutch darts player; four BDO world titles (1998, 1999, 2003, 2005) plus the 2007 PDC title, beating Phil Taylor 7-6, and 21 major titles.
Raymond Vanholder
Raymond Vanholder is a Belgian nephrologist, professor emeritus at Ghent University Hospital, who led its nephrology division from 2005 to 2014, founded EUTox, and led the ISN's 0by25 initiative.
Raymond VII, Count of Toulouse
Raymond VII (Raimond VII de Toulouse, 1197-1249), last Count of Toulouse (1222-1249) and Marquis of Provence; son of Raymond VI and Jeanne of England; lost most of the county under the 1229 Treaty of Meaux-Paris.
Raymond Viskanta
Raymond Viskanta (1931–2021) was a Lithuanian-born American mechanical engineer and Purdue professor known for pioneering research on radiative heat transfer, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1987.
Raymond W. Gruender
Raymond W. Gruender, born in 1963 in St. Louis, Missouri, is a United States circuit judge of the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals since 2004.
Raymond W. Ketchledge
Raymond W. Ketchledge (1919–1987) was an American electronics engineer at Bell Telephone Laboratories who led development of the first electronic telephone switching systems placed in public service in the United States.
Raymond W. Sweet
Raymond W. Sweet is an American molecular biologist known for his work on the CD4 receptor and HIV, co-authoring the 1998 Nature structure of gp120 bound to CD4.
Raymond Washington
Raymond Lee Washington (1953–1979), also called Ray Washington, was the South Los Angeles teenager who founded the Crips gang, allying with Stanley Tookie Williams in 1971; he was shot dead in 1979.