Rayleigh

Rayleigh may refer to:

Science

 * Rayleigh scattering
 * Rayleigh–Jeans law
 * Rayleigh waves
 * Rayleigh (unit), a unit of photon flux named after the 4th Baron Rayleigh
 * Rayl, rayl or Rayleigh, two units of specific acoustic impedance and characteristic acoustic impedance, named after the 3rd Baron Rayleigh
 * Rayleigh criterion in angular resolution
 * Rayleigh distribution
 * Rayleigh fading
 * Rayleigh law on low-field magnetization
 * Rayleigh length
 * Rayleigh number, a dimensionless number for a fluid associated with buoyancy driven flow
 * Rayleigh quotient
 * Rayleigh–Ritz method
 * Plateau–Rayleigh instability explains why a falling stream of fluid breaks up into smaller packets
 * Rayleigh–Taylor instability an instability of an interface between two fluids

Title of nobility

 * Baron Rayleigh
 * Charlotte Mary Gertrude Strutt, 1st Baroness Rayleigh
 * John William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh, physicist, winner of a Nobel Prize in 1904
 * Robert John Strutt, 4th Baron Rayleigh, physicist; son of John William Strutt

Fictional name

 * Silvers Rayleigh, a fictional character in One Piece

Places

 * Rayleigh, British Columbia, Canada
 * Rayleigh, Essex, England
 * Rayleigh (lunar crater)
 * Rayleigh (Martian crater)