Mayes
Mayes is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
- Adrian Mayes, American football player
- Alan Mayes, English footballer
- Bernard Mayes, British-American lecturer and author
- Clifford Mayes, American professor of education
- Clyde Mayes, American professional basketball player
- Colin Mayes, Canadian politician
- Derrick Mayes, American football player
- Frances Mayes, American university professor, poet, memoirist, essayist, and novelist
- Ian Mayes, British journalist and editor
- Jeff Mayes, American politician
- Joel B. Mayes, Chief of the Cherokee Nation
- Johnny Mayes, Australian rugby league player
- Richard Mayes, English stage and television actor
- Ron Mayes, American educator and author
- Rueben Mayes, Canadian football player
- Rufus Mayes, American football player
- Samuel Houston Mayes, Chief of the Cherokee Nation from 1895 to 1899
- Sean Mayes, English rock musician and author
- Wendell Wise Mayes, Jr., American radio and cable television executive
- William Mayes, Jr., prominent pirate, proprietor of White Horse Tavern
- William Edward Mayes, English painter
