Rayner is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: *

Amy Rayner Amy Elizabeth Fearn (''née'' Rayner; born 20 November 1977) is an English football referee from Loughborough, Leicestershire, who in 2010 became the first woman to referee in The Football League. With a degree in economics and a full-time career ...

(born 1977), English football referee *

Angela Rayner Angela Rayner (' Bowen; born 28 March 1980) is a British politician serving as Shadow Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, Shadow Minister for the Cabinet Office and Shadow Secretary of State for the Future of Work since 2021. She has been Sha ...

, British Labour Party politician, trade unionist, Member of Parliament (MP) for Ashton-under-Lyne since 2015, Deputy leader of the Labour Party, Shadow First Secretary of State and Deputy leader of the Opposition since 2020 *

Billy Rayner Billy Rayner (22 May 1935 – 18 July 2006) was an Australian rugby league footballer who played in the 1950s and 1960s. Career Originally from Yass, New South Wales, Billy Rayner went on to play 195 games for Parramatta during a long 11-y ...

(1935–2006), Australian rugby league player *

Cameron Rayner Cameron Rayner (born 21 October 1999) is a professional Australian rules footballer playing for the Brisbane Lions in the Australian Football League (AFL). He was drafted by Brisbane with the first overall selection in the 2017 national draf ...

(born 1999), Australian rules footballer *

Chuck Rayner Claude Earl "Chuck" Rayner (August 11, 1920 – October 6, 2002), nicknamed "Bonnie Prince Charlie", was a Canadian professional hockey goaltender who played nine seasons in the National Hockey League for the New York Americans and New York Range ...

(1920–2002), Canadian professional hockey player *

Claire Rayner Claire Berenice Rayner, OBE (; née Chetwynd; 22 January 1931 – 11 October 2010) was an English journalist, broadcaster, novelist and nurse, best known for her role for many years as an advice columnist. Early life Rayner was born to Jewish ...

(1931–2010), British journalist and agony aunt *

Dave Rayner David Michael Rayner (born October 26, 1982) is a former American football placekicker in the National Football League. He was selected by the Indianapolis Colts in the sixth round of the 2005 NFL Draft. He played college football at Michigan ...

(born 1982), American professional football player * Denys Rayner (1908–1967), British sailor, writer, and designer of small boats *

Eddie Rayner Anthony Edward Charles Rayner (born 19 November 1952) is a New Zealand musician who spent twelve years as a keyboardist in the band Split Enz. He has also played in the groups Orb, Space Waltz, Crowded House, The Makers, The Angels in 1986-19 ...

(born 1952), New Zealand musician * Henry Rayner (1902–1957), Australian and British artist * Isidor Rayner (1850–1912), United States Senator *

Jack Rayner Rupert John Raynor (11 April 1921 – 17 May 2008) was an Australian state and national representative rugby league player and NSWRFL coach. His club playing career was with the South Sydney Rabbitohs from 1946 to 1957 and he also represented ...

(1921–2008), Australian rugby league player *

Jacqueline Rayner Jacqueline Rayner is a British author, best known for her work with the licensed fiction based on the long-running British science fiction television series ''Doctor Who''. Biography Her first professional writing credit came when she adapted Pau ...

, British author and television writer *

Jay Rayner Jason Matthew Rayner (born 14 September 1966) is an English journalist and food critic. Early life Jason Matthew Rayner was born on 14 September 1966. He is the younger son of Desmond Rayner and journalist Claire Rayner. His family is Jewish. H ...

(born 1966), British journalist, writer, and broadcaster *

John Rayner Rabbi John Desmond Rayner (30 May 1924 – 19 September 2005) was born in Berlin as Hans Sigismund Rahmer. He left Berlin in 1939 on one of the last Kindertransports. There were about 10,000 children on the train. Both his parents, Ferdinand Rahm ...

(1924–2005), Rabbi CBE * Keith Rayner (bishop) (born 1929), Australian Anglican archbishop *

Keith Rayner (psychologist) Keith Rayner (June 20, 1943 – January 21, 2015) was a cognitive psychologist best known for pioneering modern eye-tracking methodology in reading and visual perception. Career Rayner obtained his B.S. and M.S. in Psychology at the University ...

, UC San Diego Professor of Psychology *

Kenneth Rayner Kenneth Rayner (June 20, 1808 – March 5, 1884) was an American lawyer and politician who served three terms as a whig U.S. Congressman from North Carolina between 1839 and 1845. Early life and career Born in Bertie County, North Carolina, R ...

(1808–1884), U.S. Congressman *

Kyle Rayner Kyle Rayner (), one of the characters known as Green Lantern, is a superhero appearing in American comic books published by DC Comics. The character is depicted as being associated with the Green Lantern Corps, an extraterrestrial police force of ...

, fictional comic-book character * Lionel Benjamin Rayner (1788–1855), English actor *

Louise Rayner Louise Ingram Rayner (21 June 1832 – 8 October 1924) was a British watercolour artist. Family Rayner was born in Matlock Bath in Derbyshire.Simon Fenwick, ‘Rayner, Samuel (1806–1879)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford ...

(1832–1924), British watercolor artist * Mabel Rayner (c.1890-1948), English botanist * Margaret Rayner (1929–2019), British mathematician * Mark A. Rayner, Canadian author *

Michael Rayner Michael Rayner (6 December 1932 – 13 July 2015)Mackie, David. "Obituaries: Michael Rayner", ''Gilbert and Sullivan News'', Vol. V, No. 9, Autumn/Winter 2015, pp. 17–18, The Gilbert and Sullivan Society was an English opera singer, best kno ...

(1933–2015), British opera singer * Michael H. Rayner (1943–2004), Canadian accountant, Acting Auditor General of Canada * Moira Rayner (born 1948), New Zealand-born, Australian-based barrister and human rights advocate * Peter Alan Rayner (1924–2007), British coin-book author *

Ray Rayner Ray Rayner (born Raymond M. Rahner; July 23, 1919 – January 21, 2004) was an American television presenter, actor and author, he was the staple of Chicago children's television in the 1960s and 1970s on WGN-TV. Early life Rayner (the name was ...

(1919–2004), American television performer *

Rosalie Rayner Rosalie Alberta Rayner (September 25, 1898 – June 18, 1935) was a research psychologist, and the assistant and later wife of Johns Hopkins University psychology professor John B. Watson, with whom she carried out the famous Little Albert experim ...

(1898–1935), assistant and wife of psychologist John B. Watson * Walter Rayner, British football manager

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Rayners Lane Rayners Lane is a suburban district in the London Borough of Harrow that forms the western part of Harrow. Located between Pinner and West Harrow, it takes its name from a road in the area, also called Rayners Lane (formerly also spelt ''Rayner ...

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