Rayford

Rayford is both a given name and surname.

People

Given name

• Rayford Barnes (1920-2000), American film and TV character actor
• Rayford Cooks (born 1962), American football player
• Rayford B. High Jr., American bishop
• Rayford Logan (1897-1982), African-American historian and Pan-African activist
• Rayford Petty, American college football coach
• Rayford Price (1937-2023), American politician
• Rayford Jeffrey Ray, American bishop
• Ray Robinson (Australian cricketer) (1914-1965), Australian cricketer
• Trae Young (Rayford Trae Young, born 1998), American basketball player

Surname

• Alma Rayford (1903-1987), American silent film actress
• Caesar Rayford (born 1986), American football defensive lineman with the Utah Blaze of the AFL
• Floyd Rayford (born 1957), African-American retired Major League Baseball player
• Robert Rayford (1953-1969), American teenager and earliest confirmed HIV/AIDS case in North America
• Sugaray Rayford (born 1969), American singer and songwriter

Fictional

• Rayford Steele, the protagonist in the Left Behind series of novels
  • Rayford "Raymie" Steele, son of Rayford and Irene Steele
• Re=L Rayford from the Japanese light novel and anime television series Akashic Records of Bastard Magic Instructor

See also

• Raeford, North Carolina
• Raiford, Florida
  • Florida State Prison, called "Raiford" because its postal address is Raiford, Florida
  • "Four Walls of Raiford", a song on Legend (Lynyrd Skynyrd album)
• Dan R. McGehee (1883-1962), American representative
• Rayford Price (born 1937), American politician
• Walter R. Tucker Jr. (1924-1990), American dentist and politician
• Walter R. Tucker III (born 1957), American politician and son of Walter Jr.