Rai or RAI may refer to:

Title of royalty and nobility

Rai (title) Rai is a historical title of royalty and nobility in the Indian subcontinent used by rulers and chieftains of many princely states. It is derived from ''Raja'' (king). The Marathi/Telugu variant Rai was used as a substitute to King. When Babu ...

, meaning 'king', equivalent to Rao or Roy, a princely title used by many Hindu rajput rulers in India *

Rai Bahadur Rai Bahadur (in North India) and Rao Bahadur (in South India), R.B., was a title of honour bestowed during British rule in India to individuals for outstanding service or acts of public welfare to the Empire. From 1911, the title was accompani ...

, a noble title given during British Raj in India *

Rai Sahib Rai Sahib / Rao Saheb / Roy Sahib / Rao Sahib (abbreviated R.S.) was a title of honour issued during the era of British Raj, British rule in India to individuals who performed faithful service or acts of public welfare to the nation. From 1911 ...

, a noble title given during British Raj in India

People

Rai (surname) Rai (; ; ; ) is a surname in use since historical times on the Indian subcontinent. Etymologically the term is inherited from () , from . ''Rai'' is a Doublet (linguistics), doublet with the : both words—''raja'' and —mean 'king' in Hindi. P ...

Rai people The Rai (Kirati language, Kirati: also known as Jimee or Khambu, ''Rāi''; Devanagari: wikt:राई, राई) are an ethnolinguistic group belonging to the Kirati people, Kirat family and primarily Sino-Tibetan, Sino-Tibetan linguistic ethni ...

, in Nepal and India *

Rai Sikh The Rai Sikh is a Sikh community, mainly found in the states of Punjab, India, Punjab, Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh, Uttrakhand, Delhi and Haryana in India. They came to India after partition of India from Okara District, Okara, Pakpattan District, ...

, adherents of Sikh faith

Given name

Raí Raimundo Souza Vieira de Oliveira (born 15 May 1965), popularly known as Raí (), is a Brazilian former professional footballer who played as an attacking midfielder. The younger brother of Sócrates,

(born 1965), Brazilian footballer * Raí (footballer, born 2002), full name ''Raí da Silva Pessanha'', Brazilian footballer * Lady Rai (–1530 BC), ancient Egyptian woman, nursemaid to Queen Ahmose-Nefertari * Rai Benjamin (born 1997), American hurdler * Rai Marchán (born 1993), Spanish footballer *

Rai Purdy Rai Purdy (born Horatio John Purdy; November 1910 – May 1990) was a Canadian television director and producer. He is a member of the Canadian Association of Broadcasters Hall of Fame. Early life Rai Purdy was born Horatio John Purdy in ...

(1910–1990), Canadian television director and producer *

Rai Ragbir Rai Ragbir is a Trinidad and Tobago politician. He represented Cumuto/Manzanilla in the House of Representatives from 2020 to 2025. Biography In 1990, he graduated as a Medical Doctor from the University of the West Indies and completed his p ...

, Trinidad and Tobago politician * Rai Simons (born 1996), Bermudian footballer *

Rai Thistlethwayte Rai Thistlethwayte (born 21 April 1980) is an Australian rock, pop and jazz musician and songwriter. Thistlethwayte is an accomplished pianist, guitarist, and vocalist. He is the lead singer, rhythm guitarist, and primary songwriter in the Aust ...

(born 1980), Australian musician *

Rai Vloet Rai Vloet (born 8 May 1995) is a Dutch professional footballer who plays as an attacking midfielder. Club career Vloet was born in Schijndel. He made his professional debut as Jong PSV player in the second division on 20 September 2013 against ...

(born 1995), Dutch footballer

Places

* Rai, Orne, France * Rai, Sonipat, Haryana, India * Rai, South Khorasan, Iran * Mount Rai Japan *

Chiang Rai Province Chiang Rai (, ; , ) is one of Thailand's seventy-six Provinces of Thailand, provinces that lies in Northern Thailand#Regional classification of northern Thailand, upper northern Thailand and is Thailand's northernmost province. It is bordered ...

Thailand * Bo Rai District Thailand * Giá Rai District in Vietnam *

RAI Amsterdam Convention Centre RAI Amsterdam Convention Centre, formerly Amsterdam RAI Exhibition and Convention Centre or simply RAI Amsterdam (Dutch pronunciation: , acronym for ''Rijwiel en Automobiel Industrie''), is a complex of conference and exhibition halls in the Zu ...

, Netherlands

Entertainment and media

RAI (), commercially styled as since 2000 and known until 1954 as (RAI), is the national public broadcasting company of Italy, owned by the Ministry of Economy and Finance. RAI operates many terrestrial and subscription television channels a ...

, the national public broadcasting company of Italy *

Raï Raï (, ; , , ), sometimes written rai, is a form of Algerian folk music that dates back to the 1920s. Singers of Raï are called () or (), i.e. 'young', as opposed to (, 'shaykh'), i.e. 'old', the name given to Chaabi singers. The tradi ...

, folk music originating in Oran, Algeria and popular in France *

Rai (comics) is a fictional superhero that appeared in books published by Valiant Comics. Rai was the first original hero created by Valiant and had its beginning as a flipbook back-up feature in ''Magnus, Robot Fighter'' #5 (October 1991), in ''Rai'' #1 (O ...

, fictional character in Valiant Comics * ''Raï'' (1995 film), a 1995 French film directed by Thomas Gilou * ''Rai'' (2016 film), Indian film about Muthappa Rai * ''Al Rai'' (Kuwaiti newspaper), a daily newspaper * ''Al Ra'i'' (Jordanian newspaper), a daily newspaper * Alrai TV, a Kuwaiti television channel

Science, healthcare, and technology

Radioactive iodine uptake test The radioactive iodine uptake test is a type of scan used in the diagnosis of thyroid problems, particularly hyperthyroidism. It is entirely different from radioactive iodine therapy (RAI therapy), which uses much higher doses to destroy cancerou ...

, a diagnostic scan * ''Rai'' (unit), a traditional Thai unit of area *

Rencontre Assyriologique Internationale The International Association for Assyriology (IAA) is a non-profit, non-political organization founded in July 2003, and seated in Leiden that "the fields of Cuneiform Studies, ancient Near Eastern History and Archaeology on an international basi ...

, annual conference of The International Association for Assyriology *

Root analogue dental implant A root-analogue dental implant (RAI) – also known as a truly anatomic dental implant, or an anatomical/custom implant – is a medical device to replace one or more roots of a single tooth immediately after dental extraction, extraction. In contr ...

Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland The Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland (RAI) is a long-established anthropological organisation, and Learned Society, with a global membership. Its remit includes all the component fields of anthropology, such as biolo ...

Transportation

Amsterdam RAI station Amsterdam RAI ( Dutch: ''Rijwiel en Automobiel Industrie'') is a railway station situated in southern Amsterdam, Netherlands. It is located between the two directions of the A10 Amsterdam ring road. It is also a metro station at which GVB runs ...

, a railway station in the Netherlands *

Islamic Republic of Iran Railways The Islamic Republic of Iran Railways (abbreviated as IRIR, or sometimes as RAI, or as IRI Railway) () is the national state-owned railway system of Iran. The Raja Passenger Train Company is an associate of the IR, and manages its passenger t ...

* Praia International Airport in Cape Verde * Rainham railway station in Kent (National Rail station code) *

Réseau Aérien Interinsulaire Air Tahiti is a French airline company which operates in French Polynesia. Its main hub is Faa'a International Airport. It is the largest private employer in French Polynesia. Company history Early seaplane operations The company was foun ...

, now Air Tahiti

Other uses

Rai (East Syrian Ecclesiastical Province) The Metropolitanate of Rai was an East Syriac metropolitan province of the Church of the East, between the eighth and twelfth centuries. The province of Rai had a suffragan diocese for Gurgan. Background In Tabaristan (northern Iran), the dioces ...

, a metropolitan province of the Church of the East *

Amsterdam RAI Exhibition and Convention Centre RAI Amsterdam Convention Centre, formerly Amsterdam RAI Exhibition and Convention Centre or simply RAI Amsterdam (Dutch pronunciation: , acronym for ''Rijwiel en Automobiel Industrie''), is a complex of Conference hall, conference and Convention ...

, an exhibition and convention Centre in Amsterdam * Rai language (disambiguation), a group of Sino-Tibetan languages *

Rai stones A rai stone (), or fei stone, is one of many large artifacts that were manufactured and treasured by the native inhabitants of the Yap islands in Federated States of Micronesia, Micronesia. They are also known as Yapese stone money or similar nam ...

, a currency used in Yap, Caroline Islands *

Rai University Rai University (RU) is a private university located in Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India. The university was established in 2012 by the Rai Foundation through the ''Gujarat Private Universities Act (Amendment), 2012'', the same act which established I ...

, in Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India *

Retailers Association of India Retail is the sale of goods and services to consumers, in contrast to wholesaling, which is the sale to business or institutional customers. A retailer purchases goods in large quantities from manufacturers, directly or through a wholesal ...

, an Indian trade association *

Reynolds American Inc. Reynolds American, Inc. is an American tobacco company which is a subsidiary of British American Tobacco and is the second-largest tobacco company in the United States. Its holdings include R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Company, American Snuff Compan ...

, an American tobacco company * Rai (), a Thai poetic form used in laws and chronicles *

Rai dynasty The Rai dynasty (–632 CE) was a Buddhist dynasty that ruled the Sindh region. All that is known about the dynasty comes from the '' Chachnama'', a 13th-century Persian work about Sindhi history. Nothing particular is known about the first thr ...

(–644 CE), a Buddhist dynasty based in Sindh in modern Pakistan * List of storms named Rai, Tropical cyclones with this name * Regia Aeronautica Italiana, an air force of Kingdom of Italy