Ray or RAY may refer to:

==Fish==<!-- Fish and science sections at top as contain most common uses-->

  • Ray (fish), any cartilaginous fish of the superorder Batoidea
  • Ray (fish fin anatomy), the bony or horny spine on ray-finned fish

Arts, entertainment and media

Music

  • The Rays, an American musical group active in the 1950s
  • Ray (girl group), a Japanese girl group formed in 2019
  • Ray (Bump of Chicken album), 2014
  • Ray (Frazier Chorus album), 1991
  • Ray (L'Arc-en-Ciel album), 1999
  • Rays (Michael Nesmith album), 2005
  • Ray (soundtrack), 2004
  • Ray (EP), by Panic Channel, 2008
  • "Ray" (song), by Millencolin, 2005

Other uses in arts, entertainment and media

  • Ray (art magazine), a British little magazine
  • Ray (film), a 2004 film biography of Ray Charles
  • Ray (manga), a science fiction manga and anime series
  • Ray (TV series), a 2021 anthology series based on Satyajit Ray's stories
  • The Ray (Chardin), a 1728 painting by Jean Simeon Chardin

Businesses and organisations

  • Rays (retailer), an Australian outdoors store
  • Rays Wheels, a Japanese automotive wheel manufacturer
  • Finland's Slot Machine Association, or RAY

People

  • Ray (surname), including a list of people and fictional characters with the name
  • Ray (given name), including a list of people and fictional characters with the name
  • Ray (musician) (Reika Nakayama, born 1990), Japanese singer
  • Ray J (William Ray Norwood, Jr, born 1981), American singer
  • Ray (wrestler) (1982–2018), Hong Kong professional wrestler
  • Rayasianboy (born 2005), Taiwanese online streamer and content creator

Places

Iran

  • Ray, Iran, in Greater Tehran
  • Ray County, Iran
  • Ray, South Khorasan

Russia

  • Ray, Belgorod Oblast
  • Ray, Smolensk Oblast

United Kingdom

  • River Ray, in Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire, England
  • River Ray, Wiltshire, in England

United States

  • Ray, Alabama
  • Ray, Arizona
  • Ray, Indiana and Michigan
  • Ray Township, Michigan, Macomb County
  • Ray, Minnesota
  • Ray County, Missouri
  • Ray, North Dakota
  • Ray, Ohio
  • Ray, Virginia

Elsewhere

  • Ray, Keh Chong Commune, Cambodia
  • Ray-sur-Saône, France
  • Ray, Templeport, County Cavan, Ireland
  • Ray, Jharkhand, India
  • Mount Ray (British Columbia), in Canada

Science and technology

  • Ray (geometry) or half-line
  • Ray (graph theory), a semi-infinite simple path in an infinite graph
  • Ray (optics), an idealized geometrical model of light
  • Ray (quantum theory), in projective Hilbert space
  • Sunwah Linux, formerly RAYS Linux, a Chinese Linux distribution
  • Sony Ericsson Xperia ray, a 2011 smartphone

Sports

  • Tampa Bay Rays, an American baseball team

Transportation and military

  • Kia Ray, a South Korean city car from 2011
  • Kia Ray (2010 concept vehicle), a South Korean mid-size sedan
  • Mitsuoka Ray, a Japanese city car 1996–2004
  • Raynes Park railway station, London, England, station code RAY
  • USS Ray, the name of two submarines of the United States Navy

See also

  • Rai (disambiguation)
  • Raye (disambiguation)
  • Reye (disambiguation)
  • Wray (disambiguation)
  • Wrey (disambiguation)
  • Rao (disambiguation)
  • Rhea (disambiguation)
  • Radius (disambiguation)
  • Radiation (disambiguation)
  • Raymond (disambiguation)
  • Beam (disambiguation)
  • Rye (disambiguation)
  • Justice Ray (disambiguation)
  • Medullary ray (anatomy)
  • Medullary ray (botany)
  • Rāʾ ("<big>ر</big>"), a letter of the Arabic alphabet
  • Re, the second scale degree in solfège