Kay (surname)
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, Scottish footballer
- Alex J. Kay, British historian
- Alexander Kay, British television presenter
- Andrew Kay, American computer company CEO
- Antony Kay, English footballer
- 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
- Brian Kay, British singer and conductor
- Connie Kay, American jazz drummer
- Crystal Kay, J-pop singer
- David Kay, American scientist
- Dianne Kay, American actress
- Don Kay, Tasmanian composer
- Dorothy Kay, Irish-born South African artist
- Doug Kay, football coach
- Elizabeth Kay, British writer
- Emma Kay, British artist
- 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, one of several people including
- *John Kay , English inventor of textile machinery, notably the flying shuttle
- *John Kay , English developer of textile machinery, notably the spinning frame
- *John Kay , Scottish caricaturist
- *Sir John Kay , Lord Justice of the Court of Appeal of England and Wale
- *John Kay , musician and lead singer of Canadian rock band Steppenwolf
- *John Kay , English poet laureate
- *John Kay , Scottish economist, Financial Times columnist and author
- *John Kay, 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
- Leslie Ronald Kay, British executive head of Universities Central Council on Admissions
- Lily E. Kay, historian of science
- Lisa Kay, actress
- Lori Kay, artist
- Manuela Kay, German writer and journalist
- Margaret Kay, Aboriginal Australian museum owner and caretaker of sacred site
- Marshall Kay, American geologist
- Mary Kay, Greek photographer
- Melody Kay, American actress
- Michael Kay, 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, multiple people
- Paul Kay, American linguist
- Phil Kay, Scottish stand-up comedian
- Peter Kay, British comedian
- Ray Kay, Norwegian film director
- Richard Kay
- Robert Kay
- Scott Kay, Jewelry Designer
- Sonny Kay, American record label owner
- Susan Kay, writer
- Tony Kay, English footballer
- Ughtred Kay-Shuttleworth, 1st Baron Shuttleworth
- Ulysses Kay, American composer
- Vernon Kay, British television presenter
- Violet McNeish Kay, Scottish artist
- Wendell P. Kay, American attorney and politician
- William Kay