Hays (surname)

Hays is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:

• Alexander Hays (1819–1864), general in the Federal army during the American Civil War
• Anna Mae Hays (born 1920), first woman in the U.S. Army to be promoted to general
• Arthur Garfield Hays (1881–1954), attorney for the American Civil Liberties Union
• Brooks Hays (1898–1981), former United States Congressman from Arkansas
• Charles Melville Hays (1856–1912), American railroad executive who perished on the Titanic
• Dan Hays (born 1939), Canadian politician
• David Hays (born 1944), English-born Scottish cricketer
• Ethel Hays (1892–1989), American syndicated cartoonist
• George Price Hays (1892–1978), Lt. General, Commander of the 10th Mountain Division in the European Theater of Operations in World War II.
• George Washington Hays (1863–1927), former governor of the state of Arkansas
• Harry Hays (1909–1982), Canadian Senator
• Harry T. Hays (1820–1876), general in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War
• John Coffee Hays (1817–1883), Texas Ranger and sheriff in the Old West
• Kathleen Hays, American economics reporter
• Kathryn Hays (born 1933), American actress
• Kevin Hays (born 1968), jazz pianist
• Lauren Hays, American actress
• Larry Hays, American college baseball coach
• Paul Hays, Reading Clerk for the U.S. House of Representatives
• Richard B. Hays, American college professor at Duke University
• Robert Hays (born 1947), American actor
• Samuel Hays (1783–1868), Pennsylvanian Democratic politician
• Samuel Lewis Hays (1794–1871), Virginian politician
• Todd Hays (born 1969), American Olympic bobsledder
• Wayne Hays (1911–1989), former United States Congressman from Ohio
• William B. Hays (1844–1912), Mayor of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
• Will H. Hays (1879–1954), American politician and Postmaster General
• William Shakespeare Hays (1837–1907), American poet and lyricist