Kay Explained
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 of Kaye is encountered as a surname, but also occasionally as a given name: for instance, 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), American traditional healer and politician
- Kay Young (born 1944), Canadian politician
Male
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
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