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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. 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. 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 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 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 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 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 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 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. 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 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 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 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 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. 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 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 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 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 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.

Raymundo Morales Ángeles

Raymundo Morales Ángeles, also known as Raymundo Pedro Morales Ángeles, is a Mexican admiral who has served as Secretary of the Navy under President Claudia Sheinbaum since 2024.

Raynald of Châtillon

Raynald of Châtillon (Renaud de Châtillon, died 1187), Frankish prince consort of Antioch from 1153 and later lord of Oultrejourdain; his caravan raids broke truces with Saladin, triggering Hattin, where he was captured and executed.

Raynovent

Raynovent, or 众生睿创, was a Chinese biotech company founded in 2018 by 众生药业 to develop antiviral drugs before being bought back by its parent in 2026.

Rayudu Vrudhula

Rayudu Vrudhula, also known as Rayudu S. Vrudhula, is a Silicon Valley entrepreneur who cofounded The Indus Entrepreneurs (TiE) in December 1992 and coined the acronym TiE.

RayzeBio

RayzeBio was a San Diego-based clinical-stage radiopharmaceutical company, founded in 2020, that developed Actinium-225 drug conjugates for solid tumors and was acquired by Bristol Myers Squibb in 2024.

Razadarit

Razadarit (ရာဇာဓိရာဇ်, Yazadarit), meaning "King of Kings", was king of Hanthawaddy Pegu in Lower Burma from 1385 to 1423, reunifying the Mon regions and resisting Ava in the Forty Years' War.

Razakars (رضاکار) (Hyderabad)

Razakars (رضاکار) were the volunteer paramilitary force of Hyderabad State's Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen under Kasim Razvi, defending the Nizam's independence, fighting the Telangana rebellion, and defeated in Operation Polo, September 1948.

Razgledi

Razgledi (Разгледи, "Postcards") is a Macedonian literary magazine published in Skopje since 1958, known for literary criticism, scholarship, and art writing, and still publishing into the 2000s.

Razia Sultan's accession and deposition

Razia Sultan's accession and deposition covers her seizure of the Delhi throne in 1236 and her overthrow by the nobles, ending in her death near Kaithal in 1240.

Razia Sultana's accession and overthrow

Razia Sultana's accession and overthrow were her taking of the Delhi Sultanate throne in 1236 and her loss of it to the Turkish amirs in 1240.