Title of Nobility
- John William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh (Lord Rayleigh), physicist, winner of a Nobel Prize in 1904
- Robert John Strutt, 4th Baron Rayleigh, physicist; son of John William Strutt
- Baron Rayleigh
- Charlotte Mary Gertrude Strutt, 1st Baroness Rayleigh
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