Rayford is both a given name and surname.

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Rayford Barnes Rayford Barnes (October 23, 1920 – November 11, 2000) was an American film and TV character actor from Whitesboro, Texas. Early years Barnes was born in Dallas, Texas, and attended the University of Texas. He acted in plays at the university ...

(1920-2000), American film and TV character actor * Rayford Cooks (born 1962), American football player * Rayford B. High Jr., American bishop *

Rayford Logan Rayford Whittingham Logan (January 7, 1897 – November 4, 1982) was an African-American historian and Pan-African activist. He was best known for his study of post-Reconstruction America, a period he termed "the nadir of American race relations" ...

(1897-1982), African-American historian and Pan-African activist * Rayford Petty, American college football coach * Rayford Price (1937-2023), American politician * Rayford Jeffrey Ray, American bishop *

Ray Robinson (Australian cricketer) Rayford Harold Robinson (26 March 1914 – 10 August 1965) was an Australian cricketer who played in one Test match in 1936. He played first-class cricket for New South Wales and South Australia from 1934/35 to 1939/40. After World War II he m ...

(1914-1965), Australian cricketer *

Trae Young Rayford Trae Young (born September 19, 1998) is an American professional basketball player for the Atlanta Hawks of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He played college basketball for the Oklahoma Sooners. In 2017, he tied the then-reco ...

(Rayford Trae Young, born 1998), American basketball player

Surname

Alma Rayford Alma Rayford (March 24, 1903 – February 14, 1987) was an American film actress of the silent era. Rayford specialized in western films, appearing in 18 features and a number of two-reel films. Selected filmography * '' The Passing of Wolf MacL ...

(1903-1987), American silent film actress *

Caesar Rayford Caesar Rayford (born March 4, 1986) is a former American football defensive end in the National Football League for the Dallas Cowboys. He also was a member of the BC Lions, Spokane Shock, Utah Blaze, Jacksonville Sharks, Calgary Stampeders, Mont ...

(born 1986), American football defensive lineman with the Utah Blaze of the AFL *

Floyd Rayford Floyd Kinnard "Sugar Bear" Rayford (born July 27, 1957) is a retired professional baseball player who played for seven seasons in the Major leagues. He primarily played third base and catcher during his career, but was a utility man who played f ...

(born 1957), African-American retired Major League Baseball player *

Robert Rayford Robert Lee Rayford (February 3, 1953 – May 15 1969), sometimes identified as Robert R. due to his age, was an American teenager from Missouri who has been suggested to represent the earliest confirmed case of HIV/AIDS in North America based ...

(1953-1969), American teenager and earliest confirmed HIV/AIDS case in North America *

Sugaray Rayford Caron Nimoy "Sugaray" Rayford (born February 13, 1969) is an American soul blues singer and songwriter. He has released five albums to date and been granted three Blues Music Awards. Rayford's 2019 album, ''Somebody Save Me'', was nominated for ...

(born 1969), American singer and songwriter

Fictional

Rayford Steele Rayford Steele is a fictional character and the ''de facto'' protagonist in the ''Left Behind'' series of novels by Tim LaHaye and Jerry B. Jenkins. He is the leader of the group known as the Tribulation Force, and is the most fully developed char ...

, the protagonist in the ''Left Behind'' series of novels ** Rayford "Raymie" Steele, son of Rayford and Irene Steele *Re=L Rayford from the Japanese light novel and anime television series

Akashic Records of Bastard Magic Instructor is a Japanese light novel series written by Tarō Hitsuji and illustrated by Kurone Mishima. Fujimi Shobo has published twenty-one volumes since July 2014 under their Fujimi Fantasia Bunko imprint. A manga adaptation with art by Aosa Tsunemi ...

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