Kay (surname)

This article is about people having the surname Kay. For Kay as a given name, and other uses of the word Kay, see Kay (disambiguation)

Kay is a Celtic surname. The surname is a diminutive of MacKay and McKay. Notable people with the surname include:

Alan Kay, American computer scientist and visionary
Alec Kay (1879–1917), Scottish footballer
Alex J. Kay, British historian
Alexander Kay, British television presenter
Andrew Kay, American computer company CEO
Antony Kay, English footballer (see also Tony Kay below)
Barnaby Kay, English actor
Barry Kay, Australian scenery and costume designer; photographer
Beatrice Kay, American actress
Ben Kay, English rugby player
Bernard Kay, British actor
Cassandra Kay, Australian vocalist
Connie Kay, American jazz drummer
Crystal Kay, J-pop singer
David Kay, American scientist
Dianne Kay, American actress
Don Kay (composer), Tasmanian composer
Doug Kay, football coach
Elizabeth Kay, British writer
Guy Gavriel Kay, Canadian fantasy writer
Hadley Kay, Canadian voice actor
Iain Kay, Zimbabwean farmer and politician
Jackie Kay, British poet and author
James Ellsworth De Kay, American zoologist
James Phillips Kay-Shuttleworth, British physician and politician
Janet Kay, British singer of Jamaican descent
Jason Kay, British singer Jay Kay of band Jamiroquai
John Kay (disambiguation), one of several people including
- John Kay (flying shuttle) (1704–1780), English inventor of textile machinery, notably the flying shuttle
- John Kay (spinning frame) (17??-17??), English developer of textile machinery, notably the spinning frame (not the same as John Kay immediately above)
- John Kay (caricaturist) (1742–1826), Scottish caricaturist
- Sir John Kay (judge) (1943–2004), Lord Justice of the Court of Appeal of England and Wale
- John Kay (musician) (born 1944), musician and lead singer of Canadian rock band Steppenwolf
- John Kay (poet) (14th century), English poet laureate
- John Kay (economist) (born 1948), Scottish economist, Financial Times columnist and author
- John Kay (journalist, born 1944), British journalist on Rupert Murdoch's The Sun
Joseph Kay, British economist
Karen Kay, British entertainer and mother of Jay Kay
Kathie Kay, Scottish singer
Kay Kay, Indian playback singer
Lesli Kay, American actress
Lily E. Kay, historian of science
Lisa Kay, actress
Lori Kay, artist
Manuela Kay, German writer and journalist
Marshall Kay, American geologist
Melody Kay, American actress
Michael Kay (announcer), American radio and television personality, play-by-play commentator for the New York Yankees
Michael Howard Kay, British software developer
Neal Kay, British DJ
Norman Kay (disambiguation), multiple people
Paul Kay, American linguist
Phil Kay, Scottish stand-up comedian
Peter Kay, British comedian
Ray Kay, Norwegian film director
Robert Kay (disambiguation)
Scott Kay, Jewelry Designer
Sonny Kay, American record label owner
Susan Kay, writer
Tony Kay, English footballer (see also Antony Kay above)
Ughtred Kay-Shuttleworth, 1st Baron Shuttleworth
Ulysses Kay, American composer
Vanessa Kay, American model and actress
Vernon Kay (born 1974), British television presenter
Wendell P. Kay (1913-1986), American attorney and politician
William Kay (disambiguation)

See also