Raymond Anthony Papa[1] (born 14 October 1976[2]) is a Filipino swimmer who has competed for the Philippines at the Summer Olympic Games.

He trained with the University of Michigan swim team under Jon Urbanchek while preparing for the 1996 Olympics.

[4] Papa still holds the Philippines record for the 200 meter backstroke event with the time of 2:00.96 which he set at the 1997 Southeast Asian Games.

It was also the SEA games record for the event which remained unbroken until 2015 when Singapore's Quah Zheng Wen broke it by clocking 2:00.55.

[citation needed] In 1997 he was ranked 16th in the world for his 2:00.96 in the 200 meter backstroke, a gold in the SouthEast Asian Games.