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 fami ...

, any cartilaginous fish of the superorder Batoidea *

Ray (fish fin anatomy) Fins are distinctive anatomical features composed of bony spines or rays protruding from the body of a fish. They are covered with skin and joined together either in a webbed fashion, as seen in most bony fish, or similar to a flipper, as se ...

, a bony or horny spine on a fin

Science and mathematics

Ray (geometry) In geometry, a line is an infinitely long object with no width, depth, or curvature. Thus, lines are one-dimensional objects, though they may exist in two, three, or higher dimension spaces. The word ''line'' may also refer to a line segmen ...

, 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), 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 The Rays were an American group formed in New York City in 1955, and active into the early 1960s. They first recorded for Chess Records. Their biggest hit single was "Silhouettes", a moderately-slow doo-wop piece of pop music that reached numb ...

, an American musical group active in the 1950s * Ray (musician), stage name of Japanese singer Reika Nakayama (born 1990) *

Ray J William Ray Norwood Jr. (born January 17, 1981), known professionally as Ray J, is an American singer, actor, and television personality. Born in McComb, Mississippi, and raised in Carson, California, he is the younger brother of recording ar ...

, 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 ''Ray Donovan'' is an American crime drama television series created by Ann Biderman for Showtime. The twelve-episode first season premiered on June 30, 2013. The pilot episode broke viewership records, becoming the biggest premiere of all ...

, 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 ''Bear in the Big Blue House'' is an American children's television series created by Mitchell Kriegman and produced by Jim Henson Television for Disney Channel's Playhouse Disney preschool television block. Debuting on October 20, 1997, it ai ...

'' * 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 animated ...

, a main character in the American film ''Ghostbusters'' * Ray, a protagonist in '' Ray the Animation'', a science fiction anime television series * Ray, 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 kidnapp ...

, a video game character from ''Sonic the Hedgehog'' * Ray (comics), a DC Comics character * Ray (Ray Terrill), the second version of the character * Mr. Ray, a spotted eagle ray in the ''

Finding Nemo ''Finding Nemo'' is a 2003 American computer-animated comedy-drama adventure film produced by Pixar Animation Studios and released by Walt Disney Pictures. Directed by Andrew Stanton with co-direction by Lee Unkrich, the screenplay was writ ...

'' 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 is a masculine given name and short form (hypocorism) of Raymond, and may refer to: Politics * Ray Aguilar (born 1947), Nebraska state senator * Ray Aguilera, Pueblo, Colorado City council member * Ray Ahipene-Mercer (born 1948), New Zealan ...

* Ray (wrestler), from Hong Kong

Places

Iran

Ray, Iran Shahr-e Ray ( fa, شهر ری, ) or simply Ray (Shar e Ray; ) is the capital of Ray County in Tehran Province, Iran. Formerly a distinct city, it has now been absorbed into the metropolitan area of Greater Tehran as the 20th district of munici ...

, 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, Arizona * Ray, Indiana and Michigan, Steuben and Branch counties * Ray Township, Michigan, Macomb County *

Ray, Minnesota Ray is an unincorporated community in Koochiching County, Minnesota Minnesota () is a state in the upper midwestern region of the United States. It is the 12th largest U.S. state in area and the 22nd most populous, with over 5.75 mill ...

* Ray County, Missouri * Ray, North Dakota

Elsewhere

* Ray, a Cambodian village in

Ke Chong Keh Chong ( km, ឃុំកិះចុង) is a commune in Bar Kaev District in northeast Cambodia. It contains nine villages and has a population of 2,415. In the 2007 commune council elections, four of its seats went to the Cambodian People ...

* 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 is a high-end Japanese wheel manufacturer for both motorsport and street use. Their flagship brand, Volk Racing wheels, features a high-tech forging process exclusive to Rays Engineering. They are the current wheel suppliers to winning factor ...

, a Japanese automotive wheel manufacturer

Other uses

* Rays (retailer), an Australian outdoors store * Rāʾ ("ر"), a letter of the Arabic alphabet * Raha-automaattiyhdistys (Finland's Slot Machine Association), a Finnish gambling provider *

Tampa Bay Rays The Tampa Bay Rays are an American professional baseball team based in St. Petersburg, Florida. The Rays compete in Major League Baseball (MLB) as a member club of the American League (AL) East division. Since its inception, the team's home ven ...

, a Major League Baseball team