Rai

Rai or RAI may refer to:

Title of royalty and nobility

• Rai (title), meaning 'king', equivalent to Rao or Roy, a princely title used by many Hindu rulers in India
• Rai Bahadur, a noble title given during British Raj in India
• Rai Sahib, a noble title given during British Raj in India

People

• Rai (surname)
• Rai people, in Nepal and India
• Rai Sikh, adherents of Sikh faith

Given name

• Raí (born 1965), Brazilian footballer
• Raí (footballer, born 2002), full name Raí da Silva Pessanha, Brazilian footballer
• Lady Rai (c. 1570/1560–1530 BC), ancient Egyptian woman, nursemaid to Queen Ahmose-Nefertari
• Rai Benjamin (born 1997), American hurdler
• Rai Marchán (born 1993), Spanish footballer
• Rai Purdy (1910–1990), Canadian television director and producer
• Rai Ragbir, Trinidad and Tobago politician
• Rai Simons (born 1996), Bermudian footballer
• Rai Thistlethwayte (born 1980), Australian musician
• Rai Vloet (born 1995), Dutch footballer

Places

• Rai, Orne, France
• Rai, Sonipat, Haryana, India
• Rai, South Khorasan, Iran
• Mount Rai Japan
• Chiang Rai Province Thailand
• Bo Rai District Thailand
• Giá Rai District in Vietnam
• RAI Amsterdam Convention Centre, Netherlands

Entertainment and media

• RAI, the national public broadcasting company of Italy
• Raï, folk music originating in Oran, Algeria and popular in France
• Rai (comics), 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, a diagnostic scan
• Rai (unit), a traditional Thai unit of area
• Rencontre Assyriologique Internationale, annual conference of The International Association for Assyriology
• Root analogue dental implant
• Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland
• Rural Access Index, an indicator developed by the World Bank to measure how well rural populations are connected

Transportation

• Amsterdam RAI station, a railway station in the Netherlands
• Islamic Republic of Iran Railways
• Praia International Airport in Cape Verde
• Rainham railway station in Kent (National Rail station code)
• Réseau Aérien Interinsulaire, now Air Tahiti

Other uses

• Rai (East Syrian Ecclesiastical Province), a metropolitan province of the Church of the East
• Amsterdam RAI Exhibition and Convention Centre, an exhibition and convention Centre in Amsterdam
• Rai language (disambiguation), a group of Sino-Tibetan languages
• Rai stones, a currency used in Yap, Caroline Islands
• Rai University, in Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India
• Retailers Association of India, an Indian trade association
• Reynolds American Inc., an American tobacco company
• Rai (Thai: ร่าย), a Thai poetic form used in laws and chronicles
• Rai dynasty (c. 416–644 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

See also

• Rai Cultura
• Rei (disambiguation)
• Ray (disambiguation)
• Rey (disambiguation)
• Rao (disambiguation)