Famous People with Name Ray

Ray Ragelis            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Ray Ragelis: was an American professional basketball player.A 6'4" forward from Northwestern University, Ragelis was selected in the second round of the 1951 NBA Draft by the Rochester Royals. He played one season with Rochester, averaging 1.3 points per game.[1]

Ray Bolger            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Ray Bolger: was an American entertainer of stage and screen, best known for his portrayal of the Scarecrow and Kansas farmworker Hunk in the 1939 film, The Wizard of Oz.Bolger was born Raymond Wallace Bulcao and spent his early life in a predominantly Irish neighborhood in Dorchester, Massachusetts. His father, James Edward Bulcao, was a Portuguese-American house-painter, and his mother, Anne Wallace, an Irish-American, was a homemaker. Both parents were Roman Catholics. Bolger was inspired by the vaudeville shows he attended when he was young to become an entertainer himself. He began his career as a dancer. His limber body and ability to ad lib movement won him many starring roles on Broadway in the 1930s. Eventually, his career would also encompass film, television and nightclub work.

Ray Walston            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Ray Walston: was an American stage, television and feature film actor who played the title character on the situation comedy My Favorite Martian and Judge Henry Bone on the drama series Picket Fences.

Ray Harryhausen            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Ray Harryhausen: is an Academy Award-winning American film producer and, most notably, a special effects creator most famous for his brand of stop-motion model animation.

Ray Price            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Ray Price: is an American country and western singer/songwriter/guitarist. Some of his more famous songs include "Release Me", "Crazy Arms", "Heartaches By the Number", "City Lights", "My Shoes Keep Walking Back To You", "For The Good Times", "I Won't Mention It Again", "The Best Thing That Ever Happened To Me", and "Danny Boy." He was elected to the Country Music Hall of Fame in 1996.

Edward Ray "Ed" Fiori            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Edward Ray "Ed" Fiori: (born on April 21, 1953) is an American professional golfer

Allan Ray            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Allan Ray: is an American professional Basketball player formerly with the Boston Celtics of the National Basketball Association and currently signed on to play with Italian Serie A club Lottomatica Roma for the 2007-2008 season. He played college Basketball for four years at Villanova University.

Clifford Ray            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Clifford Ray: is an American Basketball coach and former professional Basketball player. A 6-9 center, he played three of his ten seasons in the NBA with the Chicago Bulls (1971-74) and the other seven with the Golden State Warriors (1974-81).

John Alvin Ray            Origin/Culture/Country: American

John Alvin Ray: was an American singer, songwriter, and pianist. Popular for most of the 1950s, Ray has been cited by critics as a major precursor of what would become rock 'n roll, for his jazz and blues-influenced music and his animated stage persona.[1]

James Earl Ray            Origin/Culture/Country: American

James Earl Ray: was convicted of the assassination of American civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., which occurred on April 4, 1968 in Memphis, Tennessee. Ray had been placed on the FBI Ten Most Wanted Fugitives list twice.James Earl Ray came from a poor family in Alton, Illinois and left school at 15. He joined the army and served in Germany. In 1949 he was convicted of burglary in California and in 1952 he served two years for armed robbery of a taxi driver in Illinois. In 1955 he was convicted of mail fraud. After an armed robbery in Missouri in 1959, Ray was sentenced to 20 years as a habitual offender. In 1967 he escaped by hiding in a truck transporting bread from the prison bakery.[1]