Ray or Raymond Williams may refer to:

Sportspeople

Football (soccer)

Ray Williams (footballer, born 1930) William Raymond Williams (born 30 December 1930) is an English former professional association football, footballer who played for Tranmere Rovers F.C., Tranmere Rovers. References

1930 births Possibly living people Footballers from B ...

, English football player for Tranmere Rovers *

Ray Williams (footballer, born 1931) Raymond Williams (1 May 1931 – September 2015) was a Welsh professional footballer who played as a right-back. He made appearances in the English Football League with Wrexham Wrexham ( ; ) is a city status in the United Kingdom, city in ...

(1931–2015), Welsh football player for Wrexham *

Ray Williams (footballer, born 1946) Raymond Williams (born 30 August 1946) is an English former footballer who played as a striker. Starting his career at Stoke City, he did not make a first-team appearance and so moved on to Stafford Rangers, and also worked as a teacher. He h ...

, English football player

Rugby

Ray Williams (rugby union, born 1927) Henry Raymond "Ray" Williams (13 November 1927 – 5 January 2014) was a Welsh international rugby union wing who played club rugby for Felinfoel and Llanelli. Williams was capped three times for Wales, playing between 1954 and 1958. He was al ...

(1927–2014), Welsh international rugby union winger *

Ray Williams (rugby union coach) Ray Williams, OBE (25 August 1927 – 3 December 2014) was the world's first professional full-time rugby union coach. He was the national coaching director of the Welsh Rugby Union (WRU) in the late 1960s and through the 1970s, devising the str ...

(1927–2014), Welsh rugby union coach and administrator * Ray Williams (rugby league) (20th century), New Zealand rugby league player *

Ray Williams (rugby union, born 1909) Raymond Norman Williams (25 April 1909 – 8 October 2001) was a New Zealand rugby union player. A wing, Williams represented Canterbury at a provincial level, and was a member of the New Zealand national side, the All Blacks The New Z ...

(1909–2001), New Zealand international rugby union winger

Other sports

Ray Williams (American football) Raymond Darrell Williams (born September 22, 1958) is a former American football running back who played for the Detroit Lions of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football at Washington State University Washington Sta ...

(born 1958), American football player *

Ray Williams (basketball) Thomas Ray Williams (October 14, 1954 – March 22, 2013) was an American professional basketball player who played in the National Basketball Association (NBA) from 1977 to 1987. Born in Mount Vernon, New York, he was the younger brother of Gus ...

(1954–2013), basketball player *

Ray Williams (weightlifter) Raymond Williams (born 9 September 1959 in Holyhead, North Wales) is a Welsh weightlifter. Williams was voted Young Welsh Sports Personality of the Year in 1977 after being placed in the junior weightlifting championships. He joined the army ...

(born 1959), Commonwealth gold medallist *

Ray Williams (bowls) Ray Williams (1949), was a Welsh international lawn bowls player. Bowls career He won a bronze medal in the men's pairs at the 1978 Commonwealth Games The 1978 Commonwealth Games were held in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, from 3 to 12 August ...

(1951–2016), Welsh lawn bowls player *

Ray Orlando Williams Ray Orlando Williams (born 1986) is an American powerlifter Powerlifting is a competitive strength sport that consists of three attempts at maximal weight on three lifts: squat, bench press, and deadlift. As in the sport of Olympic weightli ...

(born 1986), American powerlifter

Other people

Raymond Williams Raymond Henry Williams (31 August 1921 – 26 January 1988) was a Welsh socialist writer, academic, novelist and critic influential within the New Left and in wider culture. His writings on politics, culture, the media and literature contribu ...

(1921–1988), British academic *

Ray Williams (businessman) Raymond Reginald Williams (born 1937) is an Australian businessperson and corporate criminal. In 2005 he was imprisoned for a minimum of two years and nine months for filing false financial statements and failing his duty as a director. Afte ...

(born 1937), founder of HIH Insurance (Australia) *

Ray Williams (producer) Ray Williams is a British A&R music producer and publisher. He discovered Elton John and introduced him to Bernie Taupin. Williams has been a prominent figure of the music and film industry for many years as a press agent, A&R head, artist manag ...

(born 1947), music publicist *

Ray Williams (politician) Raymond Craig Williams (born 27 September 1960) is an Australian politician who has been a member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly representing the seat of Kellyville for the Liberal Party since 2023. He previously represented the el ...

(born 1960), Australian politician * Ray Robinson Williams (1899–1987), South Carolina state senator, 1940–1953 * Ray Williams (educator), director of education at the Blanton Museum of Art {{human name disambiguation, Williams, Ray