# Fay (given name)

Fay is a unisex English given name meaning fairy. Alternately, it is a diminutive of Faith. It has been in use in English-speaking countries since the 1800s.
It may refer to:

## Women with the name

* Fay Babcock (1895–1970), American film set director
* Fay Bainter (1893–1968), American actress
* Fay Baker (1917–1987), American actress
* Fay Chung (born 1941), Zimbabwean educator
* Fay Compton (1894–1978), English actress
* Fay Crocker (1914–1983), Uruguayan golfer
* Fay Davis (1873–1945), American actress
* Fay Dowker (21st century), British theoretical physicist
* Fay Farnum (1888–1977), American mathematician
* Fay Gale (1932–2008), Australian cultural geographer
* Fay Godwin (1931–2005), British photographer
* Fay Holden (1893–1973), American actress
* Fay Holderness (1881–1963), American actor
* Fay Jones (born 1985), British politician
* Fay Kanin (1917–2013), American screenwriter
* Fay Kelton (21st century), Australian actress
* Fay King, Multiple people
* Fay Kleinman (1912–2012), American painter
* Fay Lanphier (1905–1959), American model
* Fay Lemport (20th century), American actress
* Fay Masterson (born 1974), English actress
* Fay McAlpine (born 1960), New Zealand designer, typographer and academic at Massey University
* Fay McKay (1930–2008), American entertainer
* Fay McKenzie (1918–2019), American actor
* Fay Peck (1931–2016) was an American Expressionist artist.
* Fay Bellamy Powell (1938–2013), American civil rights activist
* Fay Presto (born 1948), British magician
* Fay Ripley (born 1966), English actress
* Fay Rusling (21st century), British comedy writer
* Fay Spain (1932–1983), American actress
* Fay Taylour (1904–1983), Irish motorcycle racer
* Fay Templeton (1865–1939), American actress
* Fay Tincher (1884–1983), American actress
* Fay Webb-Gardner (1885–1969), American political hostess
* Fay Weldon (1931–2023), English author
* Fay Gillis Wells (1908–2002), American aviator
* Fay Wray (1907–2004), American actress
* Fay Zwicky (1933–2017), Australian poet

## Men with the name

* Fay Alexander (1924–2000), American stunt man and circus acrobat
* Fay B. Begor (1916–1943), American physician
* Fay Boozman (1946–2005), American ophthalmologist and politician
* Fay W. Brabson (1880–1970), U.S. Army officer and historian
* Fay G. Child (1908–1965), American politician and newspaper editor
* Fay Chong (1912–1973), Chinese-American artist and educator
* Fay Marvin Clark (1907–1991), American real-estate developer, entrepreneur and politician
* Fay-Cooper Cole (1881–1961), American professor of anthropology
* Fay Coyle (1933–2007), Northern Irish footballer
* Fay Cravens (1872–1955), American politician and newspaper editor
* Fay Devlin (21st century), Irish footballer
* Fayette Fay Oliver Farwell (1858–1935), American inventor
* Fay Harper (1866–1950), English footballer
* Fay Hempstead (1847–1934), American lawyer, author, and poet
* Fay Jackson (1888–1959), Canadian politician
* Fay King, Multiple people
* Fay Moulton (1876–1945), American sprinter
* Fay Na (19th century), King of Champasak
* Fay Allen Des Portes (1890–1944), American ambassador
* Fay B. Prickett (1893–1982), U.S. Army major general
* Fay Roope (1893–1961), American actor
* Fay Thomas (1903–1990), American baseball player
* Fay Vincent (born 1938), American film studio executive
* Lafayette Fay Washington (1915–1975), American baseball player
* Fay Wood, American football player and coach
* Fay Young (1884–1957), American journalist

## Fictional characters

* Fay Marvin, a character in the 1991 American comedy movie What About Bob?