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).

Man Ray,            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Man Ray,: was an American artist who spent most of his career in Paris, France. Perhaps best described simply as a modernist, he was a significant contributor to both the Dada and Surrealist movements, although his ties to each were informal. Best known in the art

Man Ray            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Man Ray: was an American artist who spent most of his career in Paris, France. Perhaps best described simply as a modernist, he was a significant contributor to both the Dada and Surrealist movements, although his ties to each were informal. Best known in the art world for his avant-garde photography, Man Ray produced major works in a variety of media and considered himself a painter above all.

Amy Elizabeth Ray            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Amy Elizabeth Ray: an American singer-songwriter and member of the well-known contemporary folk duo Indigo Girls.On March 6, 2001 she released her first solo album, Stag, a southern and punk rock album. The Butchies provided support for five songs, and Nineteen Forty-Five a

Diane Ray            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Diane Ray: an American pop and rock and roll singer of the early 1960s. She is best known for her 1963 hit single, "Please Don't Talk to the Lifeguard". Without any further chart presence, Ray remains a one-hit wonder

Mary Elise Ray            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Mary Elise Ray: is an American gymnast who represented the United States at the 2000 Olympics in Sydney and the 1999 World Championships.