Rai or RAI may refer to:

Title of royalty and nobility

  • Rai (title), meaning 'king', equivalent to Rao or Roy, a princely title used by many Hindu rulers in India
  • Rai Bahadur, a noble title given during British Raj in India
  • Rai Sahib, a noble title given during British Raj in India

People

  • Rai (surname)
  • Rai people, in Nepal and India
  • Rai Sikh, adherents of Sikh faith

Given name

  • Raí (born 1965), Brazilian footballer
  • Raí (footballer, born 2002), full name Raí da Silva Pessanha, Brazilian footballer
  • Lady Rai (–1530 BC), ancient Egyptian woman, nursemaid to Queen Ahmose-Nefertari
  • Rai Benjamin (born 1997), American hurdler
  • Rai Marchán (born 1993), Spanish footballer
  • Rai Purdy (1910–1990), Canadian television director and producer
  • Rai Ragbir, Trinidad and Tobago politician
  • Rai Simons (born 1996), Bermudian footballer
  • Rai Thistlethwayte (born 1980), Australian musician
  • Rai Vloet (born 1995), Dutch footballer

Places

  • Rai, Orne, France
  • Rai, Sonipat, Haryana, India
  • Rai, South Khorasan, Iran
  • Mount Rai Japan
  • Chiang Rai Province Thailand
  • Bo Rai District Thailand
  • Giá Rai District in Vietnam
  • RAI Amsterdam Convention Centre, Netherlands
  • Rai (Kuwait) or Al-Rai, a district in Farwaniya Governorate, Kuwait

Entertainment and media

  • RAI, the national public broadcasting company of Italy
  • Raï, folk music originating in Oran, Algeria and popular in France
  • Rai (comics), fictional character in Valiant Comics
  • Raï (1995 film), a 1995 French film directed by Thomas Gilou
  • Rai (2016 film), Indian film about Muthappa Rai
  • Al Rai (Kuwaiti newspaper), a daily newspaper
  • Al Ra'i (Jordanian newspaper), a daily newspaper
  • Alrai TV, a Kuwaiti television channel

Science, healthcare, and technology

  • Radioactive iodine uptake test, a diagnostic scan
  • Rai (unit), a traditional Thai unit of area
  • Rencontre Assyriologique Internationale, annual conference of The International Association for Assyriology
  • Root analogue dental implant
  • Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland
  • Rural Access Index, an indicator developed by the World Bank to measure how well rural populations are connected

Transportation

  • Amsterdam RAI station, a railway station in the Netherlands
  • Islamic Republic of Iran Railways
  • Praia International Airport in Cape Verde
  • Rainham railway station in Kent (National Rail station code)
  • Réseau Aérien Interinsulaire, now Air Tahiti

Other uses

  • Rai (East Syrian Ecclesiastical Province), a metropolitan province of the Church of the East
  • Amsterdam RAI Exhibition and Convention Centre, an exhibition and convention Centre in Amsterdam
  • Rai language (disambiguation), a group of Sino-Tibetan languages
  • Rai stones, a currency used in Yap, Caroline Islands
  • Rai University, in Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India
  • Retailers Association of India, an Indian trade association
  • Reynolds American Inc., an American tobacco company
  • Rai (), a Thai poetic form used in laws and chronicles
  • Rai dynasty (–644 CE), a Buddhist dynasty based in Sindh in modern Pakistan
  • List of storms named Rai, Tropical cyclones with this name
  • Regia Aeronautica Italiana, an air force of Kingdom of Italy

See also

  • Rai Cultura
  • Rei (disambiguation)
  • Ray (disambiguation)
  • Rey (disambiguation)
  • Rao (disambiguation)