Raw

Raw is an adjective usually describing:

• Raw materials, basic materials from which products are manufactured or made
• Raw food, uncooked food

Raw or RAW may also refer to:

Computing and electronics

• .RAW, a proprietary mass spectrometry data format
• Raw audio format, a file type used to represent sound in uncompressed form
• Raw image format, a variety of image files used by digital cameras, containing unprocessed data
• Rawdisk, binary level disk access
• Read after write, technologies used for CD-R and CD-RW
• Read after write (RAW) hazard, a data dependency hazard considered in microprocessor architecture
• Raw display, a raw framed monitor.

Film and television

• Raw TV, a British TV production company
• Raw (film), a 2016 film
• Raw (TV series), an Irish drama series
• Eddie Murphy Raw, a 1987 live stand-up comedy recording
• Ramones: Raw, a 2004 music documentary
• Raw FM, an Australian television series
• WWE Raw, a weekly World Wrestling Entertainment program

Games

• Rules as written, or RAW, the literal rules of a game, similar to the letter of the law
• WWF Raw (1994 video game), professional wrestling video game
• RAW 2, Xbox professional wrestling video game
• WWE video games, category listing all games based on WWE RAW franchise and more

Magazines

• Raw (comics magazine), comics magazine launched in 1980
• Raw (music magazine), British magazine published by EMAP in the 1980s and 1990s
• Raw Magazine, published by World Wrestling Entertainment, see WWE Magazine

Music

Albums

• R.A.W. (album), a 2000 album by Daz Dillinger
• RAW (City Girls album), 2023
• Raw (Alyson Williams album), 1989
• Raw (Crack the Sky album), 1986
• Raw (Hopsin album), 2010
• Raw (Jimmy Barnes album), 2001
• Raw (Juvenile album), 2005
• Raw (Keith LeBlanc album), 1990
• Raw (Moxy album), 2002
• Raw (Ra album), 2006
• Raw (Sex Pistols album), recorded 1976, released 1997
• Raw (Shannon Noll album), 2021
• Raw (The Alarm album), 1991
• A Little More Personal (Raw), a 2005 album by Lindsay Lohan

Songs

• "Raw", a song by Bad Meets Evil from the Southpaw soundtrack
• "Raw", the lead single from Spandau Ballet's Heart Like a Sky
• "Raw", a song by Staind from Dysfunction
• "Raw Raw", a song by K.Flay from Inside Voices / Outside Voices

People

• Mr Raw, (born 1975), stage name of rapper Okechukwu Edwards Ukeje
• Robert Anton Wilson (1932–2007), an American author.
• The Mighty Raw, pseudonym of American musician Ron Wasserman
• David Raw (born 1944), English cricketer
• Harry Raw (born 1903), English footballer
• Nathan Raw (1866–1940), English physician and politician
• Peter Raw (1922–1988), Royal Australian Air Force officer
• Rowland Raw (1884–1915), English cricketer
• Simon Raw (born 1994), South African rugby union player
• Steve Raw (born 1966), English darts player
• Sydney Raw (1898–1967), Royal Navy vice admiral
• Vanessa Raw (born 1984), English triathlete
• Vause Raw (1921–2001), South African politician

Organisation

• Research and Analysis Wing, or RAW, India's external intelligence agency
• Rosa Antifa Wien, an Austrian left-wing action group

Other uses

• Raw, Northumberland, a former civil parish, now in Brinkburn, England
• Raw, North Yorkshire, England
• Raw (novel), 1998 novel by Scott Monk
• RAW (rolling papers), hemp based rolling papers introduced in 2005
• Raw (WWE brand), one of the WWE brands
• Radio Warwick, call letters RAW, the University of Warwick student radio station
• Raw Comedy Award, an Australian competition for stand-up comedians
• Rifleman's assault weapon, a rocket-propelled rifle-launched standoff munition

See also

• Raww, an American music group
• Rawe (disambiguation)
• Rau (disambiguation)