Ray (given name)

Ray is a masculine given name and short form (hypocorism) of Raymond, and may refer to:

Politics

Music
  • Ray Abrams (musician) (1920–1992), jazz and jump blues tenor saxophonist
  • Ray Alexander (musician) (1925–2002), American jazz drummer and vibraphonist
  • Ray Anderson (musician) (born 1952), jazz trombone and trumpet player
  • Ray Anthony (born 1922), American bandleader, trumpeter, songwriter and actor
  • Raymond Ray Boltz (born 1953), American Christian singer-songwriter
  • Ray Brown Jr. (born 1949), American jazz and blues pianist and singer
  • Raymond Ray Brown (musician) (1926–2002), American jazz double bassist
  • Ray Bryant (1931–2011), American jazz pianist, composer
  • Ray Charles (1930–2004), American singer, songwriter, musician and composer
  • Ray Charles (musician, born 1918) (1918–2015), American musician, leader of The Ray Charles Singers
  • Ray Conniff (1916–2002), American bandleader and arranger
  • Ray Dalton (born 1991), American singer-songwriter
  • Raymond Ray Davies (born 1944), English rhythm guitarist, vocalist and songwriter for The Kinks
  • Ray Davis (musician) (1940–2005), member of The Parliaments, Parliament, Funkadelic, and The Temptations
  • Ray Fisher (singer) (1940–2011), Scottish folk singer
  • Ray Griff (1940–2016), Canadian country music singer-songwriter
  • Ray Hedges, English songwriter and record producer
  • Ray Heindorf (1908–1980), American songwriter, composer, conductor, and arranger
  • Ray Isaac (singer), Australian singer
  • Raymond Ray LaMontagne (born 1973), American singer-songwriter
  • Ray Lewis, American rhythm and blues singer and member of The Drifters
  • Raymond Ray Luzier (born 1970), American drummer
  • Ray Manzarek (1939–2013), American musician, singer, producer, film director and author, best known as a founding member and keyboardist of The Doors
  • Ray Martin (orchestra leader) (1918–1988), British-Austrian orchestra leader born Kurt Kohn
  • Ray Parker Jr. (born 1954), American guitarist, songwriter and producer
  • Ray Pennington, (1933–2020), American country music singer-songwriter
  • Ray Peterson (1939–2005), American pop singer
  • Ray Price (musician) (1926–2013), American country singer-songwriter and guitarist
  • Ray Sawyer (1937–2018), American singer, founding member of Dr. Hook & the Medicine Show
  • Ray Thomas (1941–2018), English flautist, singer-songwriter, founding member of The Moody Blues
  • Raymond Ray Toro (born 1977), American rock guitarist

Sports

Film and TV
  • Ray Abruzzo (born 1954), American actor
  • Ray Aghayan (1928–2011), costume designer in the American film industry
  • Ray Alan (1930–2010), English ventriloquist and television entertainer
  • Ray Austin (director) (born 1932), British television director
  • Ray Bolger (1904–1987), American actor, singer and dancer born Raymond Bulcao
  • Raymond Ray Cokes (born 1958), English television presenter and video jockey
  • Raymond Ray Combs (1956–1996), American comedian, actor and game show host
  • Raymond Ray Fisher (born 1987), American actor, known for his role as Cyborg in the DCEU
  • Ray June (1895–1958), American cinematographer
  • Raymond Ray Liotta (born 1954), American film actor
  • Ray MacDonald (born 1977), Thai actor, adventurer and television presenter
  • Raymond Ray Martin (television presenter) (born 1944), Australian television presenter
  • Raymond Ray Mears (born 1964), British TV personality and survival specialist
  • Raymond Ray Park (born 1974), Scottish actor and martial artist
  • Ray Porter, American actor
  • Raymond Ray Quinn (born 1988), English actor
  • Ray Reyes (1970–2021), Filipino-American singer and actor
  • Raymond Ray Romano (born 1957), American actor, comedian and screenwriter
  • Herman Raymond Ray Walston (1914–2001), American character actor
  • Raymond Ray Winstone (born 1957), British actor, notable for parts in gangster films
  • Raymond Ray Wise (born 1947), American actor
  • Ray Molina, a character from Netflix's Julie and the Phantoms.

Business
  • Ray Anderson (entrepreneur) (1934–2011), founder and chairman of Interface Inc.
  • Ray Davis (businessman), American billionaire businessman, chief executive officer of Energy Transfer Partners and owner of the Texas Rangers of Major League Baseball
  • Raymond Ray Kroc (1902–1984), American businessman and philanthropist who built up the McDonald's Corporation

Academia
  • Ray Allen Billington (1903–1981), American historian
  • Ray Hyman (born 1928), Professor Emeritus of Psychology at the University of Oregon, author, magician and critic of parapsychology
  • Raymond Ray Kurzweil (born 1948), American author, computer scientist, inventor and futurist

Writing and journalism

Other

See also
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