# Kay

The name Kay is found both as a surname and as 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). The alternative spelling Kaye is encountered as a surname, but also occasionally as a given name, such as actress Kaye Ballard.

## Name
### Female

* Kay Armen (1915–2011), stage name of Armenuhi Manoogian, American Armenian singer
* 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

### Male

* 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

### Fictional characters

* 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 Swiss, a character in Scott the Woz