Famous People with Name Ray

Ray Charles Thielemann            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Ray Charles Thielemann: is a former American football guard in the National Football League for the Atlanta Falcons and the Washington Redskins. Thielemann played college football at the University of Arkansas.

Ray C. Dougherty            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Ray C. Dougherty: an American linguist and a member of the Arts and Science faculty at New York University. He received his bachelor's and master's degrees in engineering from Dartmouth College in the early 1960s and his Ph. D in linguistics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1968. At MIT, Dougherty was one of the first students of Noam Chomsky, working in the field of transformational grammar. During the Linguistics Wars of the 1970s, Dougherty was a critic of the generative semantics movement. Specializing in computational linguistics, Dougherty has published several books and articles on the subject. He is especially known for his work in Prolog programming.

Ray Robson            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Ray Robson: is an American chess player. He is the youngest FIDE and International chess master in the United States.Robson was born in Guam to Gary Robson, a professor at the college of education (applied linguistics) at St. Petersburg College, and Yee-chen, a kinde

Ray Edward Johnson            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Ray Edward Johnson: was a seminal figure of the Pop Art movement. Primarily a collage artist, Johnson was also an early performance and conceptual artist. Once called “New York’s most famous unknown artist", he is considered the “Founding Father of Mail Art" and pioneered the incorporation and use of language in the visual arts.In the late 1950s, Johnson began exploring the possibilities of Mail Art. He developed a network of friends, acquaintances and strangers to whom he sent highly conceptual images and texts. Like Marcel Duchamp, Johnson was one of the first artists to incorporate instructions for active participation in his artwork, as he encouraged the recipients to “add to” his work or to “please send to…” or to “return to Ray Johnson.” In 1962, Johnson founded the "New York Correspondance (sic) School," a name invented by Ed Plunkett[1] and used by Johnson for his international network of Mail Art participants he spawned by mailing an enormous amount of material

Ray Jackendoff            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Ray Jackendoff: an American linguist. He is professor of philosophy, Seth Merrin Chair in the Humanities and, with Daniel Dennett, Co-director of the Center for Cognitive Studies at Tufts University. He has always straddled the boundary between generative linguistics and cognitive linguistics, committed as he is both to the existence of an innate Universal Grammar (an important thesis of generative linguistics) and to giving an account of language that meshes well with the current understanding of the human mind and cognition (the main purpose of cognitive linguistics).

Elmer "Kid Violent" Ray            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Elmer "Kid Violent" Ray: was an American heavyweight boxer who fought from 1926 to 1949. Ray was known as a hard puncher and had a career record of 86 (with 70 knockouts)-13-1. Ray never fought for the title, but did fight future heavyweight champions Ezzard Charles and Jersey Jo

Fred Olen Ray            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Fred Olen Ray: is an American director, producer, screenwriter, actor, and cinematographer. He is the producer, director, and screenwriter of low to medium-budget feature films in many genres, including horror, science fiction, action/adventure, softcore sex films and c

Shawn Ray            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Shawn Ray: is a former professional bodybuilder and author. In over 30 major bodybuilding competitions, Ray only failed to place in the top five once. Signing his first professional bodybuilding sponsor contract in 1988, Ray has been featured in six video documentar

Robert Dolph Ray            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Robert Dolph Ray: served as the 38th Governor of Iowa from January 16, 1969 to January 14, 1983. He served in the United States Army. He received his B.A. in Business from Drake University in 1952 and his Law Degree in 1954. Following several years practicing law, Ray beca

Donald Ray "Billy" Matthews            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Donald Ray "Billy" Matthews: was a U.S. Representative from Florida. He served as a High school principal in Newberry, Florida in 1935 and 1936. He served as member of the State house of representatives in 1935. He served as member of the administrative staff of the University of Flo