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Ray Nagin

Ray Nagin (Clarence Ray Nagin, Jr.), New Orleans mayor 2002-2010 and former Cox Communications executive, led the city through Hurricane Katrina, was re-elected in 2006, and in 2014 was convicted on 20 of 21 federal corruption counts, serving six years in prison.

Ray Noorda

Ray Noorda was an American business executive who built Novell of Provo, Utah, into the dominant network software supplier, serving as its president and CEO from 1983.

Ray Ozzie

Ray Ozzie, born 1955, is an American software entrepreneur who created Lotus Notes, founded Iris Associates and Groove Networks, and served as Microsoft's chief software architect from 2006 until 2011.

Ray Pooley

Ray Pooley is an American politician and the Democratic nominee for the U.S. House in Michigan's 9th Congressional District in 2026, a CNC machinist who won his primary on August 4.

Ray Rothrock

Ray Rothrock is an American venture capitalist, a longtime partner at Venrock and now at Shield Capital, known for cybersecurity investments including Check Point, Imperva, PGP, and Cloudflare.

Ray Stata

Ray Stata (Raymond Stata) is an American semiconductor entrepreneur and MIT-trained engineer who co-founded Analog Devices in 1965, led it as CEO, and chaired its board until 2022.

Ray Whiteman

Ray Whiteman is a private equity investor who co-founded Stellex Capital Management, a New York middle-market buyout firm, in 2014 after nearly two decades at The Carlyle Group.

Ray Xu

Ray Xu (徐睿, Xu Rui) is a Chinese investor who founded Aeon Management, a Shanghai-based fund, after working at Hillhouse Capital and Perseverance Asset Management.

Raya Dunayevskaya (Рая Дунаевская)

Raya Dunayevskaya (Рая Дунаевская), 1910–1987, Russian-born Marxist theorist also known as Freddie Forest, founder of Marxist-Humanism, co-leader of the Johnson-Forest Tendency with C.L.R. James, developer of state-capitalism theory, and author of Marxism and Freedom.

Rayasam

Rayasam (రాయసం) was the office of secretary and record-keeper in the Vijayanagara Empire, a secretariat attached to the king that recorded his oral orders, since sovereigns issued none in writing.

Rayavachakamu

Rayavachakamu (రాయవాచకము, "Tidings of the King") is a Telugu historiographic text narrating the reign of Krishnadevaraya of Vijayanagara, which Phillip B. Wagoner argues was written about ninety years later at the Nayaka court of Madurai.

Raydium Semiconductor

Raydium Semiconductor (瑞鼎科技) is a Taiwanese IC design company founded in 2003 and based in Hsinchu Science Park, known for display driver, touch, and power-management chips.

Rayful Edmond

Rayful Edmond III (1964-2024), D.C.'s biggest crack cocaine kingpin of the late 1980s, ran a 1,700-pound-a-month trafficking operation, dealt from prison, became a federal informant, and died at 60 before his planned release.

Rayko Daskalov

Rayko Daskalov (Райко Даскалов, 1886–1923) was a Bulgarian agrarian politician, a close associate of Aleksandar Stamboliyski, who led the 1918 soldiers' uprising and proclaimed the short-lived Radomir Republic.

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.

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. 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 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 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.

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 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. 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 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 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 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 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 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.