Hays (surname)
Hays is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
- Alexander Hays, general in the Federal army during the American Civil War
- Anna Mae Hays, first woman in the U.S. Army to be promoted to general
- Arthur Garfield Hays, attorney for the American Civil Liberties Union
- Brooks Hays, former United States Congressman from Arkansas
- Charles Melville Hays, American railroad executive who perished on the Titanic
- Dan Hays, Canadian politician
- David Hays , English-born Scottish cricketer
- David G. Hays, linguist, computer scientist and social scientist
- Ethel Hays, American syndicated cartoonist
- George Price Hays, Lt. General, Commander of the 10th Mountain Division in the European Theater of Operations in World War II.
- George Washington Hays, former governor of the state of Arkansas
- Harry Hays, Canadian Senator
- Harry T. Hays, general in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War
- Irene Hays, British civil servant and businesswoman
- Isaac Hays, American ophthalmologist and naturalist
- John Coffee Hays, Texas Ranger and sheriff in the Old West
- Kathleen Hays, American economics reporter
- Kathryn Hays, American actress
- Kevin Hays, jazz pianist
- 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, American actor
- Samuel Hays, Pennsylvanian Democratic politician
- Samuel Lewis Hays, Virginian politician
- Samuel P. Hays, American historian
- Spencer Hays, American businessman and art collector
- Todd Hays, American Olympic bobsledder
- Wayne Hays, former United States Congressman from Ohio
- William B. Hays, Mayor of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
- Will H. Hays, American politician and Postmaster General
- William Shakespeare Hays, American poet and lyricist
