There have been numerous appearances from NPR personalities, including Bob Edwards, Susan Stamberg, Scott Simon, Ray Suarez, Will Shortz, Sylvia Poggioli, and commentator and author Daniel Pinkwater.

Past regular hosts have included John Hockenberry, Ray Suarez, and Juan Williams.

1993-1999: Ray Suarez

* America Abroad: host, Ray Suarez, from America Abroad Media

Lehrer underwent a heart valve surgery in April 2008, and, while he recuperated, Ray Suarez anchored in his stead until his return on June 28, 2008.

The program's senior correspondents are Gwen Ifill, Ray Suarez, Margaret Warner, Jeffrey Brown, and Judy Woodruff.

* The Old Neighborhood: What we lost in the great suburban migration: 1966-1999 by Ray Suarez

* " Book Club of the Air ", a segment of NPR's American radio show Talk of the Nation hosted by Ray Suarez

* NPR: Talk of the Nation: Donna Tartt and Anne Rice interviewed by Ray Suarez ( October 30, 1997 )

* NPR: Talk of the Nation: Donna Tartt and Anne Rice interviewed by Ray Suarez ( October 30, 1997 )

* Ray Suarez

It counts among its alumni producer and director Larry Charles, filmmaker Spike Lee, New York rock and comedy club owner ( Luna Lounge ) Rob Sacher, Pulitzer Prize winner Donald Margulies, Radio personality David Brody, photographer Gregory Crewdson, WWE wrestler Jayson Paul ( aka JTG ), scientist Robert Sapolsky, astrologer-journalist Eric Francis and news correspondent Ray Suarez.

** 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.

* Ray Sherman ( born 1951 ), American football player and coach

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

* 1957 – Ray Winstone, British actor

* 1957 – Ray Fernandez, American wrestler ( d. 2004 )

* 1957 – Ray Richmond, American columnist and critic

In The River's Edge ( 1957 ), he played the husband of the former girlfriend ( played by Debra Paget ) of a killer ( Ray Milland ), who turns up with a stolen fortune and forces Quinn and Paget at gunpoint to guide him safely to Mexico.

* Ray Evernham ( born 1957 ), NASCAR co-owner of Evernham Motorsports and former crew chief of Jeff Gordon

Major funding for the project was provided by Ray Stata ( MIT class of 1957 ) and Maria Stata.

During the 1950s, Ray Harryhausen, protege of master King Kong animator Willis O ' Brien, used stop-motion animation to create special effects for the following notable science fiction films: It Came from Beneath the Sea ( 1955 ), Earth vs. the Flying Saucers ( 1956 ) and 20 Million Miles to Earth ( 1957 ).

In 1957, Gertrude Berg made her last two appearances as Molly Goldberg: first on an episode of the NBC-TV variety series Washington Square with Ray Bolger, and then on a Kate Smith special that aired on ABC-TV.

The book has been reprinted many times: in 1953 by Galaxy, in 1957 and 1964 by Bantam, in 1958 and 1982 by Corgi as the first British edition, in 1968 by Sidgwick & Jackson in hardcover, in 1969, 1972, 1974 ( both paper and hard cover editions ) and 1981 by Sphere Science Fiction, in 1971 and 1975 by Fawcett Books, in 1983 by Del Ray Books, in 1986 in hardcover by Grafton and in 1990 again by Doubleday in hardcover ; in addition, it was reprinted as part of the Empire series, in 1986 by Ballantine Books, in 1992 by Spectra and in 2010 by Orb Books, in both print and Kindle editions.

The grave of Coleman HawkinsIn the 1950s, Hawkins performed with more traditional musicians such as Henry " Red " Allen and Roy Eldridge with whom he appeared at the 1957 Newport Jazz Festival and recorded Coleman Hawkins Encounters Ben Webster with fellow tenor saxophonist Ben Webster along with Oscar Peterson ( piano ), Herb Ellis ( guitar ), Ray Brown ( bass ), and Alvin Stoller ( drums ).

* Ray Solomonoff, An Inductive Inference Machine, IRE Convention Record, Section on Information Theory, Part 2, pp., 56-62, 1957.

* 1957: Getz Meets Mulligan in Hi-Fi ( with Stan Getz ( t. sax ), Lou Levy ( p ), Ray Brown ( b ), Stan Levey ( d ).

Encouraged by the efforts of Dorothy and Ray Goodman in the United States, Young continued to push the idea and in October 1957 the first Which?

Ray told this story to Kilgallen biographer Lee Israel in 1976, at which time neither had access to the kinescopes of those live telecasts that date from August 22, 1954 and June 9, 1957.

Kroc met McDonald's Corp. founder Ray Kroc while playing piano at a bar in St. Paul, Minnesota in 1957.

* Leonard Nimoy, Mr. Spock of Star Trek, plays Harry Wells in " Hot Dust " ( 1957 ) and Ray in " Blood Money " ( 1958 ).

* The Poll Winners ( Contemporary 1957 ) with Shelly Manne, Ray Brown

In 1957 British fisheries researchers Ray Beverton and Sidney Holt published a seminal work on North Sea commercial fisheries dynamics.

On December 24, 1957, Ray Barbuti appeared as a " contestant imposter " on the game show To Tell the Truth.

Raymond Andrew " Ray " Winstone ( pronounced Win-Stun ; born 19 February 1957 ) is an English film and television actor.

Coleman Hawkins Encounters Ben Webster with fellow tenor saxophonist Coleman Hawkins was recorded on December 16, 1957 along with Peterson, Herb Ellis ( guitar ), Ray Brown ( bass ), and Alvin Stoller ( drums ).

The recipients were Justice Stephen Breyer ( 1959 Marshall Scholar ), Dr. Ray Dolby ( 1957 Marshall Scholar ), Thomas L. Friedman ( 1975 Marshall Scholar ), President Nannerl Keohane ( 1961 Marshall Scholar ), Christopher Makins, Senator George J. Mitchell, and U. S. Secretary of State Colin Powell.

On January 31, 1957, Ray appeared on NBC's The Ford Show, Starring Tennessee Ernie Ford.

* Postmaster Dennis Ray Christian ( born 1957 ) pleaded guilty on 5 October 2004 to two charges of sexual assault and one of indecent assault against young girls.