Lay (surname)
Lay is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
- Alfred Morrison Lay, U.S. politician
- Beirne Lay, Jr., American author and World War II aviator
- Benjamin Lay, English Quaker and abolitionist
- Carol Lay, American author
- Cecil Howard Lay, English poet
- Charles Downing Lay, American landscape architect
- Donald P. Lay, American jurist
- Elzy Lay, U.S. outlaw
- George W. Lay, U.S. politician
- George Tradescant Lay, British naturalist, missionary and diplomat
- Herman Lay, American businessman
- Horatio Nelson Lay, British diplomat
- Humberto Lay, Peruvian evangelical pastor
- Jeffrey Lay, Canadian rower
- John Louis Lay, American inventor
- Josh Lay, American football player
- Kenneth Lay, U.S. businessman
- Ken Lay , Australian police commissioner
- Ko Lay, Burmese politician
- Oliver Ingraham Lay, American portrait painter.
- Sam Lay, American drummer and vocalist
- Stan Lay, New Zealand track and field athlete
- Susan Lay, English actress, musician, and TV presenter
