Billy Ray can refer to:
- Billy Ray (screenwriter), American producer and screenwriter
- "Billy Ray", a 1994 techno-pop song by Ann Arbor, Michigan-based band Opposite Day
Billy Ray is also the given name of:
- Billy Ray Barnes, American football player
- Billy Ray Brown, American golfer
- Billy Ray Cyrus, American country musician and actor
- Billy Ray Gallion, American television actor
- Billy Ray Hamilton, American convicted murderer
- Billie Ray Martin, German female singer
- Billy Ray Smith (disambiguation)
- Billy Ray Waldon, Native American activist
Famous quotes containing the words billy and/or ray:
““Although I’d lie lapped up in linen
A deal I’d sweat and little earn
If I should live as live the neighbours,”
Cried the beggar, Billy Byrne....”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)
“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)