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).

Women

  • 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 ), American traditional healer and politician
  • Kay Young (born 1944), Canadian politician

Men

  • 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

Fiction

  • 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

See also

  • K, the eleventh letter in the Latin alphabet
  • Kai
  • Kay (surname)
  • Kay Musical Instrument Company, a US musical instrument manufacturer
  • Hurricane Kay (disambiguation)
  • Kaya (disambiguation)
  • Kaye (disambiguation)
  • Kayla (disambiguation)
  • Kaylee