Ray Cordeiro

Reinaldo Maria Cordeiro MBE SBS (Chinese: 郭利民;[1] 12 December 1924 – 13 January 2023), known professionally as Uncle Ray, was a Hong Kong broadcaster, disc jockey and actor.

[3] Born Reinaldo Maria Cordeiro in Wan Chai, Hong Kong, on 12 December 1924, Uncle Ray was one of six siblings.

Cordeiro's paternal grandfather was born in Shanghai and met his grandmother in the Portuguese colony of Macau, before moving to Hong Kong in 1868.

During the war, his mother and sisters moved to Macau while Cordeiro stayed with his father, who worked with HSBC in Hong Kong.

[5] In 1970, he started the series All the Way with Ray, the longest-running radio programme in Hong Kong which ran for 51 years until 15 May 2021.

[9] On 15 May 2021, Cordeiro retired at the age of 96 after hosting his final radio show, which had been running on public broadcaster RTHK since 1970.