Ray may refer to:

Fish

Ray (fish) Batoidea is a superorder of cartilaginous fishes, commonly known as rays. They and their close relatives, the sharks, comprise the subclass Elasmobranchii. Rays are the largest group of cartilaginous fishes, with well over 600 species in 26 fa ...

, any cartilaginous fish of the superorder Batoidea * Ray (fish fin anatomy), a bony or horny spine on a fin

Science and mathematics

* Ray (geometry), half of a line proceeding from an initial point * Ray (graph theory), an infinite sequence of vertices such that each vertex appears at most once in the sequence and each two consecutive vertices in the sequence are the two endpoints of an edge in the graph *

Ray (optics) In optics a ray is an idealized geometrical model of light, obtained by choosing a curve that is perpendicular to the '' wavefronts'' of the actual light, and that points in the direction of energy flow. Rays are used to model the propagation ...

, an idealized narrow beam of light * Ray (quantum theory), an equivalence class of state-vectors representing the same state

Arts and entertainment

Music

* The Rays, an American musical group active in the 1950s * Ray (musician), stage name of Japanese singer Reika Nakayama (born 1990) * Ray J, stage name of singer William Ray Norwood, Jr. (born 1981) * ''Ray'' (Bump of Chicken album) * ''Ray'' (Frazier Chorus album) * ''Ray'' (L'Arc-en-Ciel album) * ''Rays'' (Michael Nesmith album) (former Monkee) * ''Ray'' (soundtrack), a soundtrack of the film ''Ray'' * ''Ray'' (EP), an album by Panic Channel * "Ray" (song), a song by Millencolin * Ray or re, the second scale degree in solfege

Fictional characters

Ray Barone This is a list of fictional characters from ''Everybody Loves Raymond'', an Americans, American situation comedy, sitcom, originally broadcasting, broadcast on CBS from September 13, 1996, to May 16, 2005. The show revolves around the life of I ...

, main character in the American sitcom ''Everybody Loves Raymond'' * Ray Donovan, titular main character in the American TV drama series ''Ray Donovan'' * Father Ray Mukada, priest character in the American TV drama series ''Oz'' * Ray, a character in the television series '' Bear in the Big Blue House'' * Ray, a

firefly The Lampyridae are a family of elateroid beetles with more than 2,000 described species, many of which are light-emitting. They are soft-bodied beetles commonly called fireflies, lightning bugs, or glowworms for their conspicuous production ...

in the 2009 animated Disney film ''

The Princess and the Frog ''The Princess and the Frog'' is a 2009 American animated musical fantasy romantic comedy film produced by Walt Disney Animation Studios and released by Walt Disney Pictures. The 49th Disney animated feature film, it is loosely based on the 2 ...

'' *

Ray Stantz Raymond Stantz, PhD, is a fictional character from the ''Ghostbusters'' franchise. He appears in the films '' Ghostbusters'' (1984), '' Ghostbusters II'' (1989), '' Casper'' (1995, as a cameo) and '' Ghostbusters: Afterlife'' (2021), the anima ...

, a main character in the American film ''Ghostbusters'' * Ray, a protagonist in ''

Ray the Animation ''Ray'' is a science fiction manga by Akihito Yoshitomi that ran in '' Champion Red'' magazine from 2002 to 2006 and was compiled in seven volumes. An anime television series adaptation titled ''Ray the Animation'' was broadcast in Japan fro ...

'', a science fiction anime television series *

Ray Ray may refer to: Fish * Ray (fish), any cartilaginous fish of the superorder Batoidea * Ray (fish fin anatomy), a bony or horny spine on a fin Science and mathematics * Ray (geometry), half of a line proceeding from an initial point * Ray (g ...

, a main character in the Canadian television series ''Rusty Rivets'' *

Ray the Flying Squirrel is a 1993 arcade game in the '' Sonic the Hedgehog'' series by Sega. Controlling Sonic the Hedgehog and his friends Mighty the Armadillo and Ray the Flying Squirrel, the player must escape an island as quickly as possible after they are ki ...

, a video game character from ''Sonic the Hedgehog'' *

Ray (comics) The Ray is the name of four superheroes in the DC Comics Universe. All versions of the character have the superpower of manipulating visible light in some manner. The first Ray was Langford "Happy" Terrill, a Quality Comics character. When ...

, a DC Comics character * Ray (Ray Terrill), the second version of the character * Mr. Ray, a

spotted eagle ray The spotted eagle ray (''Aetobatus narinari'') is a cartilaginous fish of the eagle ray family, Myliobatidae. As traditionally recognized, it is found globally in tropical regions, including the Atlantic, Pacific and Indian Oceans. Recent au ...

in the '' Finding Nemo'' franchise

Other media

* ''Ray'' (art journal), a British little magazine * ''Ray'' (manga), a manga and anime series about a doctor with X-ray vision * ''Ray'' (film), a 2004 film biography of African-American singer Ray Charles * ''Ray'' (TV series), a 2021 Netflix anthology series based on Satyajit Ray's stories * ''The Ray'' (Chardin), a 1728 painting by Jean Simeon Chardin

People

* Ray (surname) * Ray (given name) * Ray (wrestler), from Hong Kong

Places

Iran

* Ray, Iran, a city in the Greater Tehran metropolis ** Ray County, Tehran Province * Ray, South Khorasan, a small village

Russia

* Ray (Smolensk region) * Ray, Belgorod Oblast

United Kingdom

* River Ray, South East England * River Ray, Wiltshire, South West England

United States

Ray, Alabama Ray is a census-designated place and unincorporated community in Coosa County, Alabama, United States. Its population was 326 as of the 2020 census. Demographics References Census-designated places in Coosa County, Alabama Census-de ...

* Ray, Arizona * Ray, Indiana and Michigan, Steuben and Branch counties * Ray Township, Michigan, Macomb County * Ray, Minnesota * Ray County, Missouri * Ray, North Dakota

Elsewhere

* Ray, a Cambodian village in Ke Chong * Mount Ray (British Columbia), a Canadian volcano * Ray, Templeport, County Cavan, Ireland * Ray, Jharkhand, India

Technology

* Rays Linux, a defunct Chinese operating system * Sony Ericsson Xperia ray, a 2011 smartphone

Transportation

Vehicles

* Kia Ray, a 2011–present South Korean city car * Kia Ray (2010 concept vehicle), a 2010 South Korean mid-size concept sedan * Mitsuoka Ray, a 1996–2004 Japanese city car * USS ''Ray'', a U.S. Navy vessel

Other uses in transportation

* Raynes Park railway station, London, England (by GBR station code) * Rays Engineering, a Japanese automotive wheel manufacturer

Other uses

* Rays (retailer), an Australian outdoors store *

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("ر"), a letter of the Arabic alphabet *

Raha-automaattiyhdistys Finland's Slot Machine Association or RAY ( fi, Raha-automaattiyhdistys) was a government-supervised and -owned nonprofit gaming (gambling) association (statutory corporation) in Finland. On January 1, 2017, RAY merged with the government-supervi ...

(Finland's Slot Machine Association), a Finnish gambling provider * Tampa Bay Rays, a Major League Baseball team