Gaines (surname)
Gaines is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
- Brian R. Gaines, British systems scientist and engineer
- Cassie Gaines, American singer; backup singer for Southern rock band Lynyrd Skynyrd, and sister of fellow band member Steve Gaines
- Charles Gaines, Pumping Iron, Stay Hungry
- Charles Gaines , American basketball player
- Chris Gaines, fictional alter ego of American country music singer Garth Brooks
- Chris Gaines , American football player
- Clarence Gaines, American basketball coach
- Corey Gaines, American basketball player and coach
- David Gaines, retired American professional basketball player
- David Gaines, NASCAR Limited Sportsman Division race car driver
- Edmund P. Gaines, United States Army officer, brother of George Strother Gaines
- Ernest J. Gaines, African American author
- George Gaines, Academy Award winner for Best Art Direction
- George Strother Gaines, American leader in the Mississippi Territory, brother of Edmund P. Gaines
- Greg Gaines, multiple people
- Jacques Gaines, Canadian singer, lead singer of Soul Attorneys
- John P. Gaines, Governor of Oregon Territory
- John W. Gaines, U.S. Congressman from Tennessee
- Lloyd L. Gaines,, pioneering American civil rights litigant
- Max Gaines, pioneering American comic book publisher, father of William Gaines
- Randal Gaines, American politician
- Reece Gaines, American professional basketball player
- Richard Gaines, actor
- Rowdy Gaines, American swimmer
- Roy Gaines, American blues guitarist
- Ruth Gaines-Shelton, American educator and writer
- Sheldon Gaines, American football player
- Steve Gaines, American musician, guitarist and songwriter for Southern rock band Lynyrd Skynyrd
- William Gaines, American publisher of EC Comics, founder of Mad magazine
- William E. Gaines, United States Representative, Civil War veteran
- William Gaines, Pulitzer Prize-winning American journalist and professor of journalism
