Kay

The name Kay is both a surname and a given name. In English-speaking countries, it is usually a feminine name, often a short form of Katherine or one of its variants; but it is also used as a first name in its own right, and also as a masculine name (for example in India, the Netherlands, and Sweden).

• Kay Armen (1915–2011), stage name of Armenuhi Manoogian, American Armenian singer
• Kay Curley Bennett (1922–1997), Navajo artist and writer
• Kay Boyle (1902–1992), American writer
• Kay Burley (born 1960), Sky News founder and presenter
• Kay B. Cobb (1942–2023), American judge
• Kay Copland, Scottish sport shooter
• Kay Elson (born 1947), Australian politician
• Kay Francis (1905–1968), American actress
• Kay Hagan (1953–2019), American politician
• Kay Hull (born 1954), Australian politician
• Kay Bailey Hutchison (born 1943), American lawyer, politician, and diplomat
• Kay Ivey (born 1944), governor of Alabama
• Kay Kendall (1927–1959), British actress and comedian
• Kay Kinsman (1909–1998), Canadian artist and writer
• Kay Lahusen (1930–2021), American photographer, writer and gay rights activist
• Kay Matheson (1928–2013), teacher, Gaelic scholar, one of four students involved in the 1950 removal of the Stone of Scone
• Kay Mazzo (born 1946), American ballet dancer and educator
• Kay A. Orr (1939), 36th governor of Nebraska, US
• Kay Toinette K. T. Oslin (1942–2020), American country music singer-songwriter
• Kay Panabaker (born 1990), American actress
• Kay Parker (1944–2022), English pornographic actress
• Kay Purcell (1963–2020), English actress
• Kay Redfield Jamison (born 1946), American psychologist and writer
• Kay Starr (1922–2016), stage name of Katherine Starks, American pop and jazz singer
• Kay Thompson (1909–1998), American author
• Kay Tse (born 1977), Hong Kong Cantopop singer
• Kay (singer) (born 1985), Canadian singer-songwriter
• F. Kay Wallis (born c. 1944), American traditional healer and politician
• Kay Young (born 1944), Canadian politician

• Kay Bell, American football player and professional wrestler
• Kay Christofferson, American politician
• Kay van Dijk, Dutch volleyball player
• Kay Kyser, American bandleader and radio personality
• Kay Nielsen, Danish illustrator
• Kay Pollak, Swedish film director
• Kay Stephenson, American football player and coach
• Prince Kay One, German singer and rapper
• Jay Kay, British musician and frontman of British band Jamiroquai

• Agent K, a character in the Men In Black film series and animated series
• Kay Adams-Corleone, a character in Mario Puzo's novel The Godfather
• Sir Kay, character from Arthurian legend
• Kay Harker, character from the book The Box of Delights by John Masefield
• Kay, a protagonist in the video game Legend of Kay
• Kay, also spelled Kai, a character in Hans Christian Andersen's fairy tale The Snow Queen
• Kay, a character in the Vertigo comic series Fables, based on the above
• Kay Faraday, a character in Ace Attorney Investigations: Miles Edgeworth
• Kay Engel, a character in Freier Fall (2013 film)
• Kay, protagonist from the video game Sea of Solitude
• Kay Stone, Gwyneth Paltrow's character in Marty Supreme
• Kay Swiss, a character in Scott the Woz