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).
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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 c. 1944), 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 Larsen, Danish author and historian
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
Kay (Arthurian legend), a knightly 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