Rai

Rai may refer to:

Acronyms

• RAI, radioactive iodine, in the medical context of the treatment of thyroid problems
• RAI, Radiotelevisione Italiana, Italian public broadcasting
• Praia International Airport in Cape Verde, IATA airport code
• Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland
• Rijwiel Automobile Industrie, which gives its initials to Amsterdam RAI railway station in south Amsterdam and the nearby conference complex Amsterdam RAI Exhibition and Convention Centre
• Islamic Republic of Iran Railways is abbreviated as RAI
• Réseau Aérien Interinsulaire, a former name of the airline Air Tahiti

Fictional characters

• Rai (comics), fictional character from Valiant Comics
• Rai Bakuoh, one of the characters from the fighting game Waku Waku 7
• Rai, the protagonist of the anime Ginga Sengoku Gun'yūden Rai.

Geography

• Rai (area), a traditional Thai unit of area, equaling 1,600 m²
• Rai, Orne, a commune of the Orne département, in France
• Rai, South Khorasan, a village in South Khorasan Province, Iran

People

• Rai (Indian), an Indian honorific title
• Rai (Punjabi surname), a Punjabi surname
• Rai (surname) (Kanji 雷, Hiragana らい), a Japanese surname derived from the Chinese Lei (雷)
• Anurita Rai, Indian dancer
• Aishwarya Rai, (born 1973) Former Miss World (1994) and Indian Actress
• Bechara Boutros al-Rahi, or Beshara Rai, incumbent Maronite patriarch in Lebanon
• Bali Rai, young-adult fiction novelist from Leicester, England
• Kayyar Kinhanna Rai, Kannada writer and activist in India
• Lakshmi Rai, South Indian actress
• Lala Lajpat Rai, an Indian author, freedrom fighter and politician (1865-1928)
• Prakash Rai, South Indian actor
• Raí, Brazilian football (soccer) player
• Amit Rai Film Director
• Kalpnath Rai politician
• Acharya Kuber Nath Rai Writer
• Viveki Rai Hindi Writer
• Kusum Rai Politician
• Ram Bahadur Rai Journalist
• Jharkhande Rai Ex MP
• Gauri Shankar Rai Ex MP
• Lajpat Rai Doctor

Social and ethnic groups

• Rai (ethnic group), an ethnolinguistic group of Nepal
• Rai (Indian), a title in India, with various related meanings and compound forms of Rajput & Bhumihar caste

Other uses

• Raï, a form of folk music that originated in Oran, Algeria, from Bedouin shepherds and evolved into a popular genre
• Rai (Thai: ร่าย), a Thai poetic form used in laws and chronicles
• Rai languages, Dhanwar Rai language
• Rai University, a university in India
• Rai stones, a kind of stone currency used in Yap (Caroline Islands)
• Rai (also Raai), the Hindi term for Mustard seeds
• Rai (paradise) a term for paradise found in Slavic languages.
• Amsterdam RAI Exhibition and Convention Centre, or RAI for short, is a conference center in Amsterdam the Netherlands.
• Raï (1995 film), a French film directed by ar Thomas Gilou.

See also

• Raï (disambiguation)
• Ray, Iran