List of Famous people with last name Rayleigh

Robert John Strutt, 4th Baron Rayleigh was a British peer and physicist. He discovered "active nitrogen" and was the first to distinguish the glow of the night sky.

John William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh,, was a British scientist who made extensive contributions to both theoretical and experimental physics. He spent all of his academic career at the University of Cambridge. Among many honors, he received the 1904 Nobel Prize in Physics "for his investigations of the densities of the most important gases and for his discovery of argon in connection with these studies." He served as President of the Royal Society from 1905 to 1908 and as Chancellor of the University of Cambridge from 1908 to 1919.