Ray may refer to:
People:
- Raymond
- Ray (surname)
- Ray (given name)
In geography:
- Ray, Alabama
- Ray, Arizona
- Ray, Indiana and Michigan
- Ray, North Dakota
- Ray, Minnesota
- Ray County, Missouri, a county in the United States
- Ray Township, Michigan, a township in Macomb County
- Ray, Iran
- Ray, South Khorasan, Iran
- Ray Mountain, a volcano in British Columbia, Canada
- River Ray, two rivers in southern England
- Ray, a village in Ke Chong, Cambodia
In fiction:
- Ray (art journal), a British little magazine
- Ray (comics), a DC Comics character
- Ray (manga), a manga about a female doctor with X-ray vision
- Ray, a protagonist in Ray the Animation, a science fiction anime television series
In film:
- Ray (film), a 2004 movie biography of singer Ray Charles
In music:
- The Rays, an American musical group active in the 1950s
- Ray (Frazier Chorus album), an album by British pop band Frazier Chorus
- Ray (L'Arc-en-Ciel album), an album by Japanese rock band L'Arc-en-Ciel
- Rays (Michael Nesmith album), an album by former Monkee Michael Nesmith
- Ray (soundtrack), a soundtrack of the film Ray
- Ray (EP), an album by Japanese rock band Panic Channel
- "Ray" (song), a single by Swedish punk rock band Millencolin
Other:
- Ray (fish), a superorder of cartilaginous fishes
- Ray (fish fin anatomy), a bony or horny spine in the fin of a fish
- The Tampa Bay Rays, a Major League Baseball team
- Ray (geometry), part of a line which is finite in one direction
- Ray (optics), idealized narrow beam of light
- Ray (quantum theory), an equivalence class of state-vectors representing the same state.
- Ray (wrestler), Hong Kong professional wrestler
- Rays Engineering, a Japanese automotive wheel manufacturer
- Kia Ray, a prototype or concept car
- Medullary ray (disambiguation)
- USS Ray, a U.S. Navy vessel
- RAYS LX Linux Desktop Distribution
- Raha-automaattiyhdistys, a Finnish gambling service provider
Famous quotes containing the word ray:
“The gods are partial to no era, but steadily shines their light in the heavens, while the eye of the beholder is turned to stone. There was but the sun and the eye from the first. The ages have not added a new ray to the one, nor altered a fibre of the other.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“Polarized light showed the secret architecture of bodies; and when the second-sight of the mind is opened, now one color or form or gesture, and now another, has a pungency, as if a more interior ray had been emitted, disclosing its deep holdings in the frame of things.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“The reality is that zero defects in products plus zero pollution plus zero risk on the job is equivalent to maximum growth of government plus zero economic growth plus runaway inflation.”
—Dixie Lee Ray (b. 1924)