Clay is a material primarily composed of a grouping of clay minerals, and can be used as an art medium.

Clay may also refer to:

Places

United States

  • Clay, Alabama, a city
  • Clay, California, a census-designated place
  • Clay, Kentucky, a home rule-class city
  • Clay, Missouri, an unincorporated community
  • Clay, New York, a town
  • Clay, Ohio, an unincorporated community
  • Clay, Texas, a census-designated place
  • Clay, West Virginia, a town
  • Clay, Wisconsin, a ghost town
  • Clay Center (disambiguation)
  • Clay County (disambiguation)
  • Clay Township (disambiguation)
  • Mount Clay, a peak in New Hampshire

Elsewhere

  • Clay, a townland in County Armagh, Northern Ireland
  • Clay, a townland in County Down, Northern Ireland
  • Clay, a townland in County Fermanagh, Northern Ireland
  • Clay Island, Nunavut, Canada

People and fictional characters

  • Clay (name), a list of people and fictional characters with the given name, surname or nickname

Arts, entertainment, and media

Films

  • Clay (1965 film), an Australian film
  • Clay (2008 film), based on the novel by David Almond
  • Clay (Clowns Laughing At You), a hacker group in Who Am I

Literature

  • Clay (novel), by David Almond
  • "Clay" (short story), by James Joyce

Music

  • "Clay", a song by Grace VanderWaal from Perfectly Imperfect
  • Clay Records, a record label
  • "Clay", a song by Goldfrapp from Tales of Us
  • "Clay", a song by Atmosphere
  • "Clay", a song by Stand Atlantic from Skinny Dipping

Other uses

  • Clay (musical), a 2008 hip hop musical by Matt Sax
  • "Clay", an episode of the television series Teletubbies
  • Modelling clay

Science and technology

  • Clay (industrial plasticine)
  • Clay Mathematics Institute, a private, non-profit foundation, based in Providence, Rhode Island
  • Clay moths, several relatively unrelated species (although most are of family Noctuidae):
  • Cyclophora linearia (clay triple-lines, family Geometridae)
  • Eugnorisma depuncta (plain clay) and several Diarsia and Xestia species (Noctuinae)
  • Mythimna ferrago (the clay, Hadeninae)
  • Paracolax tristalis (clay fan-foot, Herminiinae)

Other uses

  • Clay court, a type of tennis court
  • Hair clay, a type of hair product
  • Medicinal clay
  • Clay pigeons, or clays, used in clay pigeon shooting

See also

  • Clay City (disambiguation)
  • Claye (disambiguation)
  • Claysburg (disambiguation)
  • Claysville (disambiguation)
  • Klay (disambiguation)