RA or Ra can refer to:
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People
- Registered Architect, a designer who is licensed by a government to practice architecture
- Research assistant, a graduate student employed by a college or university for the purpose of academic research
- Resident assistant, a college student charged with supervising students living in a residence hall
- Royal Academician a member of the Royal Academy, also known as the Royal Academy of Arts
- Ra, the sun god of ancient Heliopolis
- Rā, personification of the sun in New Zealand Māori mythology
- Ra (Stargate), a character from the film Stargate
- Rå, a creature in Scandinavian mythology
- Alternate spelling of Roua, a Polynesian deity
- Short for Rakim
- Ra, the pseudonym of Raoul Sinier, a french digital painter and electronic musician.
- Ra, a nickname, and US based signature couture fashion clothing line endorsed by Robin Arcuri, a supermodel and actress.
Groups
- Registration authority, maintenance agency is a body given the responsibility of maintaining lists of codes
- Regulatory Affairs, a department in charge of government relations within regulated industries
- Regular Army, the permanent force of the United States Army that is maintained during peacetime
- Provisional Irish Republican Army (PIRA), as used by its sympathizers ("The 'RA")
- Rage Against the Machine, rock band from L.A.
- Rise Against, melodic hardcore band from Chicago, Illinois, USA
- Rowing Australia, the governing body for the sport of rowing in Australia.
- Royal Artillery, a Corps of the British Army
- Ra (Norwegian band), a Norwegian psytrance act
- Ra (U.S. band), an American rock band
- The RA Foundation for Research & Analysis, A research foundation based in The Netherlands
Places
- RA Nightclub at the Luxor Hotel in Las Vegas
- Robert Academy, the name for the former college section of Robert College of Istanbul
- Rolling Acres, a dead mall in Akron, OH.
- Roosevelt Academy, a small liberal arts college located in Middelburg in the Netherlands
- Ra, Fiji, a province of Fiji
- Roosna-Alliku, Estonia
Other
- Ra (kana), the Japanese kana ら and ラ
- Radio altimeter
- Radium or Ra on the periodic table
- Ra (board game), a board game for three to five players designed by Reiner Knizia and based on ancient Egyptian culture
- Relation algebra, a type of mathematical structure
- RemoteAccess BBS software
- Resettlement Administration, a New Deal program under Franklin D. Roosevelt
- Resident Advisor, an online electronic music magazine dedicated to the global dance music scene
- Rheumatoid arthritis, a chronic, inflammatory autoimmune disorder that causes the immune system to attack the joints
- Right ascension, an astronomical term for one of the two coordinates of a point on the celestial sphere when using the equatorial coordinate system
- Rocket Arena, a free mod for the multiplayer first-person shooter Quake series
- Nepal Airlines, IATA code
- A half-step below Re on the solfege musical scale
- Ra I and Ra II, reed boats used by Thor Heyerdahl's transatlantic expeditions
- Rayleigh number, in physics
- The Winged Dragon of Ra, from the Japanese Yu-Gi-Oh franchise
- Ra Cailum class battleship, a class of spaceships in the Gundam anime universe
- The file extension of a RealAudio file
- The abbreviation for Command & Conquer: Red Alert or its sequel Command & Conquer: Red Alert 2
- The irreverent "Religious Advisor" of a Hash House Harriers club
- Ra, the first studio album by the group Utopia
- RA0 to RA4 are ISO 217 standard paper sizes
- Radhiallahu 'anhu
- Retinol also known as retinoic acid (RA).
- The Maori word for The Sun.
