* Academy Awards: Oscar ; Best Black-and-White Cinematography, Gregg Toland ; Best Special Effects, R. T. Layton ( photographic ), Ray Binger ( photographic ) and Thomas T. Moulton ( sound ); Best Film Editing, Sherman Todd ; Best Original Score, Richard Hageman ; Best Picture, John Ford ; Best Screenplay Writing, Dudley Nichols ; 1941.

Artists represented include Josef Albers, Donald Baechler, Thomas Hart Benton, Lucile Blanch, Louise Bourgeois, Charles Burchfield, Alexander Calder, Greg Colson, Dan Christensen, Ronald Davis, Stuart Davis, Richard Diebenkorn, Arthur Dove, William Eggleston, Helen Frankenthaler, Arshile Gorky, Keith Haring, Grace Hartigan, Marsden Hartley, Robert Henri, Eva Hesse, Hans Hofmann, Edward Hopper, Jasper Johns, Franz Kline, Willem de Kooning, Lee Krasner, Ronnie Landfield, John Marin, Knox Martin, John McCracken, John McLaughlin, Robert Motherwell, Bruce Nauman, Louise Nevelson, Barnett Newman, Kenneth Noland, Jackson Pollock, Maurice Prendergast, Kenneth Price, Robert Rauschenberg, Man Ray, Mark Rothko, Morgan Russell, Albert Pinkham Ryder, Cindy Sherman, John Sloan, Paul Pfeiffer, Andy Warhol, and hundreds of others.

LaMarr has done impressions of celebrities such as Sammy Davis, Jr., Tommy Davidson, Louis Farrakhan, Michael Jackson, Vernon Jordan, Martin Lawrence, Spike Lee, Sidney Poitier, Colin Powell, Prince, Bill Maher, Ben Vereen, Chris Tucker, Michael Winslow, Rick James, Billy Crystal, Bobby Brown, Bernard Shaw, Sinbad, Kanye West, Don King, Johnnie Cochran, Nat King Cole, Sherman Hemsley, Chris Rock, Ice-T, and Ray Charles.

Ashford has housed many musicians and many up and coming singer / songwriters from skiffle band Mungo Jerry founder, Ray Dorset, Chart-topping pop-punk band Dum Dums founder Josh Doyle to the organists and composers Sir Sydney Nicholson, New Zealand born singer / songwriter Herbie Sherman and Sir Malcolm Sargent.

* Sanctuary with Joe Ford, Ray Codrington, Steve Novosel, Steve Berrios, Artie Sherman and the Rick Schmidt Strings, 2003

Kaluta, Charles Vess, James Sherman, Steve Leialoha, Will SImpson, John Ridgeway, Phil Winslade, Mary Wilshire, Linda Medley, Ray Lago, Gabriel Morrissette, Dan Spiegle, Jason Temujin Minor, Ronn Sutton, and Lee Moyer.

The film features a number of cameo appearances by well-known film personalities including Robert B. Sherman, Arthur Hiller, John Singleton, Joe Dante, special effects legend Ray Harryhausen, and George Lucas as a ride patron.

In the film, he sits next to Arthur Hiller and Ray Harryhausen in a bar when they hear that " Uncle Dave " has been shot, a character played by Alan Young and modeled loosely after Walt Disney, the Sherman Brothers ' mentor.

Olsen and Johnson led a large cast of entertainers: the comedy team of Barto and Mann ( Dewey Barto and George Mann ); Charles Whithers ; celebrity impersonators, the Radio Rogues ; Hal Sherman ; Walter Nilsson ; singing group The Charioteers ; identical-twin dancers Bettymae and Beverly Crane ; stage magician Theo Hardeen ( better known as Houdini's younger brother ); the Hawaiian music of Ray Kinney and the Aloha Maids ; Bergh and Moore ; J. C. Olsen ; Reed, Dean and Reed ( Bonnie Reed, Syd Dean, and Mel Reed ); Roberta and Ray ; The Starlings ; Dorothy Thomas ; Shirley Wayne ; Cyrel Roodney and June Winters ; Billy Adams ; and Whitey's Steppers ( also known as Whitey's Lindy Hoppers ).

The other members of the group, all well known jazz musicians, included Matty Matlock on clarinet, Moe Schneider on trombone, piano player Ray Sherman, bass player Morty Corb, guitarist Bill Newman, and drummer Nick Fatool.

* Green Bay Packers – Mike Sherman ; replaced Ray Rhodes who was fired after the 1999 season.

Those members were quarterback Allie Sherman, running back and defensive back Ernie Steele, center Ray Graves, and tackles Al Wistert, Vic Sears, and Bucko Kilroy.

** Billy Ray Cyrus ( born 1961 ), American musician and actor

Notable jazz bassists from the 1940s to the 1950s included bassist Jimmy Blanton ( 1918 – 1942 ) whose short tenure in the Duke Ellington Swing band ( cut short by his death from tuberculosis ) introduced new melodic and harmonic solo ideas for the instrument ; bassist Ray Brown ( 1926 – 2002 ), known for backing Beboppers Dizzy Gillespie, Oscar Peterson, Art Tatum and Charlie Parker, and forming the Modern Jazz Quartet ; hard bop bassist Ron Carter ( born 1937 ), who has appeared on 3, 500 albums make him one of the most-recorded bassists in jazz history, including LPs by Thelonious Monk and Wes Montgomery and many Blue Note Records artists ; and Paul Chambers ( 1935 – 1969 ), a member of the Miles Davis Quintet ( including the landmark modal jazz recording Kind of Blue ) and many other 1950s and 1960s rhythm sections, was known for his virtuosic improvisations.

John Ray was born in the village of Black Notley.

* Ray Monk ( born 1957 ), professor of philosophy at the University of Southampton

Raymond " Ray " Kurzweil ( ; born February 12, 1948 ) is an American author, inventor and futurist.

* Bobby Stevens ( singer ) ( born 1936 ), British singer also known by his real name Ray Pilgrim

Tommy Ray Franks ( born June 17, 1945 ) is a retired general in the United States Army.

* Ray Winstone ( actor, born in Hackney )

Perot was born in Texarkana, Texas, to Lula May Perot ( née Ray ) and Gabriel Ross Perot.

Anthony Ray ( born August 12, 1963 ), better known by his stage name Sir Mix-a-Lot, is an American MC and producer based in Seattle, Washington.

Together they adopted a child born to Fitzgerald's half-sister, Frances, whom they christened Ray Brown, Jr. With Fitzgerald and Brown often busy touring and recording, the child was largely raised by her aunt, Virginia.

* Ray Durham ( born 1971 ), American baseball player

Dole was born in Russell, Kansas, the son of Bina M. ( née Talbott ; 1904 – 1983 ) and Doran Ray Dole ( 1901 – 1975 ).

Man Ray ( born Emmanuel Radnitzky, August 27, 1890November 18, 1976 ) was an American modernist artist who spent most of his career in Paris, France.

Man Ray was born as Emmanuel Radnitzky in South Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U. S. in 1890.

The couple have one daughter, Mabel Ray Willis, born in 2012.

He had two younger siblings ; sister Judy ( 1947 – 1951 ) and brother Jimmy Ray ( born June 20, 1948 ).

Daniel Ray " Dan " Coats ( born May 16, 1943 ) is the junior United States Senator from Indiana and member of the Republican Party.

Raymond Douglas " Ray " Davies, CBE ( ; born 21 June 1944 ) is an English rock musician.

Ray " Boom Boom " Mancini ( born Raymond Michael Mancino ; March 4, 1961 ) is a retired American boxer.

1970s glam rock singer Marc Bolan and actor Ray Winstone were born in Hackney Hospital, on Homerton High Street.

Recording artist Jimmy Ray was born in Walthamstow on 3 October, 1970.

* Jimmy Ray, recording artist, born Walthamstow 1970.

* Billy Ray Smith, Jr. ( born 1961 ), American football player

* 1951 – Ray Benson, American musician ( Asleep at the Wheel )

" In 1951, Davis appeared in her favorite screen role, Night Into Morning, a study of bereavement starring Ray Milland.

* 1951 – Ray Gravell, Welsh rugby player ( d. 2007 )

The Illustrated Man is a 1951 book of eighteen science fiction short stories by Ray Bradbury that explores the nature of mankind.

The Third Man was adapted as a one-hour radio play on two broadcasts of Lux Radio Theater, first on 9 April 1951 with Joseph Cotten, then on 8 February 1954 with Ray Milland.

On television, Elliott and Goulding hosted The Bob and Ray show from 1951 to 1953.

Then world middleweight champion Sugar Ray Robinson travelled to London and, on 10 July 1951, risked his title against Turpin, who won the world title by beating Robinson on a 15-round decision.

:" Let's Dance " by Ray Anthony (( Columbia L-258 )( 1951 ))

According to Nat Fleischer in The Ring, December 1951, page 3, this was an extremely dirty fight, with " wrestling, heeling, eye gouging, tripping, thumbing-in fact every dirty trick known to the old timers .." Referee Ray Miller " let the bout get out of hand ..." " The pattern of the ' contest ' never varied.

* In Fahrenheit 451 ( 1951 ), author Ray Bradbury has his protagonist Guy Montag read part of " Dover Beach " to his wife Mildred and her friends in order to show them what literature is about and why books should not be burnt.

He reached the zenith of his career with a succession of classic films such as, Strangers on a Train ( 1951 ) which is about two train passengers: tennis pro Guy ( Farley Granger ) and Bruno ( Robert Walker ) who staged a battle of wits and traded murders with each other, Dial M For Murder ( 1954 ) with Ray Milland as a villainous husband who attempts to murder his wealthy wife ( Grace Kelly ), Rear Window ( 1954 ) which is about man ( James Stewart ) being convinced that his neighbour is a killer, To Catch a Thief ( 1955 ), a lightweight thriller set in South of France, Vertigo ( 1958 ), with James Stewart as a retired police detective who becomes obsessed with the disturbed enigmatic ' wife ' ( Kim Novak ) of an old friend, and North by Northwest in which an advertising executive ( Cary Grant ) is mistaken for a non-existent spy and chased across the country while aided by a mysterious woman ( Eva Marie Saint ).

This is supported by Dr. Nihar Ray in " The History Of Bengali People, Ancient Period ", published in " Desh ", The Famous Bengali Literary Magazine in 1951, and included in the special issue of " Articles of One Century ".

Strangers on a Train was adapted for the radio program Lux Radio Theater on two occasions: on December 3, 1951 with Ruth Roman, Frank Lovejoy, and Ray Milland and on April 12, 1954 with Virginia Mayo, Dana Andrews, and Robert Cummings.

Despite her knowledge of the 1951 arrest, Marilyn Morrison, daughter of the owner of the Mocambo nightclub in West Hollywood, California, married Johnnie Ray in 1952.

Satyajit Ray cited Italian filmmaker Vittorio De Sica's Bicycle Thieves ( 1948 ) and French filmmaker Jean Renoir's The River ( 1951 ), which he assisted, as influences on his debut film Pather Panchali ( 1955 ).

One of these artists, Johnnie Ray, became a major hit in 1951 with " Cry " and " The Little White Cloud That Cried " with the Four Lads backing him.

The mold used for the belt starting in 1951 ( the 1950 belt spelled Mr. Hickok's name as " Ray ") has been found and will likely be used again.

* Nicholas Ray, director, married 1 June 1948, separated 1951, divorced 1952.

He was dismissed for a duck only once in Tests, lbw to Ray Lindwall in the 1st Test against Australia at Brisbane in 1951.

The Alaska Marine Highway was founded in 1948 by Haines residents Steve Homer and Ray Gelotte, who used a converted LCT-Mark VI landing craft which they christened the M / V Chilkat Their business was purchased by the territorial government in 1951 and renamed the Alaska Marine Highway System by the state government in 1963.

*" Cry " by Johnnie Ray was recorded on October 16, 1951.

" Here There Be Tygers " is a short story written by Ray Bradbury, originally published in the anthology New Tales of Space and Time in 1951.

Bernie Naylor Medalists: ( 18 total ) 1894: W. Duffy ( 15 ), 1898: H. Loel ( N / A ), 1899: H. Loel ( 50 ), 1900: A. Daly ( 30 ), 1901: H. Loel ( 45 ), 1902: H. Loel ( 35 ), 1903: T. McNamara ( 32 ), 1911: William Bellion ( 30 ), 1925: Ted Flemming ( 50 ), 1930: Frank Hopkins ( 79 ), 1932: Ted Tyson ( 96 ), 1936: Ted Tyson ( 126 ), 1942: Ted Brunton ( 94 ), 1945: Bill Baker ( 91 ), 1951: Ray Scott ( 141 ), 1955: Ray Scott ( 83 ), 1963: Ron Evans ( 97 ), 1973: Phil Smith ( 84 )