Gray (surname)
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Gray is a surname that is either of Scottish or Irish origin, or is a variant of the surname "Grey".
Among the Scottish and Irish Grays, the surname usually has a Gaelic source. Similar to most Irish and Scottish surnames, Gray is usually a literal translation or a phonetic transcription being an "Anglicization" of the original Gaelic surnames of both countries. A phonetic transcription of the Gaelic "MacRaith" (sounds like Mc-Raw) and commonly translates to "McGrath" or "McGraw" (meaning "son of grace") but can also turn up as "Gray." The literal translation of Gaelic to English is Mac Giolla Riabhaigh, Mac Riabhaigh, or Ó Riabhaigh, meaning 'son/grandson of the gray.'[citation needed]
In England, the name is typically of Norman origin, stemming from one of the knights who accompanied William the Conqueror in 1066, Anchetil de Greye.
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- Aaron Gray, basketball player for the Chicago Bulls
- Adrian Gray, English darts player
- Ahuva Gray
- Alan Gray (1855–1935), British organist and composer
- Alasdair Gray (born 1934), Scottish writer and artist
- Alexander Gray (RAF officer) (1896–1980), British Air Vice Marshal
- Alexander Gray (poet) (1882–1968), Scottish economist and poet
- Alfred Gray (mathematician) (1939–1998), American mathematician
- Alfred M. Gray, Jr. (born 1928), American general
- Allan Gray (composer) (1902–1973), film score composer
- Andrew Gray, 1st Lord Gray (c. 1390 – 1469), Scottish nobleman, politician and diplomat
- Andy Gray (disambiguation)
- Archie Gray (born 1878), Scottish footballer
- Arthur Wellesley Gray (1876–1944), Canadian politician, creator of Wells Gray Provincial Park
- Asa Gray (1810–1888), American botanist
- Avis Gray (born 1954), Canadian politician
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- Carl R. Gray, American railroad president
- Cecil Gray (American football), American football offensive tackle and defensive end
- Charles Gray (disambiguation):
- Charles Gray (actor), British actor
- Charles Gray (English judge), English judge
- Charles McNeill Gray, American politician
- Charlotte Gray (disambiguation)
- Cheryl A. Gray Evans, Louisiana politician
- Chris Gray (disambiguation)
- Clifton Daggett Gray, American Baptist, President of Bates College
- Coleen Gray, American actress
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- Dan W. Gray, American politician
- Dave Gray, major league pitcher
- David Gray (disambiguation):
- David Malcolm Gray (mass murderer); see Aramoana massacre
- David Gray (poet) (1838–1861)
- David Gray (musician)
- David Gray (snooker player)
- Dean Gray, pseudonym
- Devin Gray (1972–2013), American basketball player
- Dick Gray, Irish-American baseball player
- Dobie Gray, American musician
- Dolores Gray, American musical theatre actress
- Dorian Gray, fictional character in Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray
- Dulcie Gray, British actress
- Dunc Gray, Australian cyclist
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- Eddie Gray (disambiguation):
- Eddie Gray (footballer), Scottish footballer
- Eddie Gray (NASCAR driver), American race car driver
- Edmund Dwyer-Gray, Irish-Australian politician
- Edward Leslie Gray, Canadian politician and member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta
- Edward Whitaker Gray, English physician & botanist
- Effie Gray, wife of John Ruskin and John Everett Millais
- Eileen Gray, Irish furniture designer and architect
- Elisha Gray, American electrical engineer
- Elizabeth Gray, Canadian radio broadcaster
- Elspet Gray, Scottish actress
- Erin Gray, American actress
- Eva Gray, British actress
- Evan Gray, New Zealand cricketer
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- Farrah Gray
- Frank Gray
- Frank Gray (researcher)
- Frank Gray (politician)
- Fred Gray (disambiguation)
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- Gabriel "Sylar" Gray, character on the television show Heroes
- Gary Gray (disambiguation)
- F. Gary Gray
- Gary LeRoi Gray
- George Gray (disambiguation):
- George Gray (game show host), host of The Weakest Link
- George William Gray, developer of cyano-biphenyl liquid crystals used in Liquid crystal displays (LCDs)
- George Gray (senator) (1824–1925), U.S. Senator from Delaware
- George Gray (wrestler) (born 1960), also known as “One Man Gang”
- George Robert Gray (1808–1872), zoologist
- George Kruger Gray (1880–1943), English artist and coin designer
- Gilda Gray
- Glen Gray
- Gustave Le Gray
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- Hamish Gray, Baron Gray of Contin
- Hanna Holborn Gray
- Harold Gray, American cartoonist
- Harry Gray (business) (1919–2009), American business executive
- Harry B. Gray (born 1935), American chemist
- Hawthorne C. Gray (1889–1927), American balloonist
- Henry Gray (1827–1861), anatomist
- Henry Gray (politician), American Civil War general and Confederate congressman
- Henry Peters Gray
- Herb Gray, politician
- Herb Gray (football player), football player
- Horace Gray
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- The Honourable Sir Ian Campbell-Gray
- Iain Gray
- Isaac P. Gray
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- James Gray (disambiguation):
- James Gray (UK politician), British politician
- James Gray (movie maker), film maker
- James L Gray, Scottish turbine design engineer
- James Lorne Gray, Canadian president of Atomic Energy of Canada Limited
- James Gray (film director)
- James H. Gray
- James M. Gray (1851–1935), Bishop in the Reformed Episcopal Church, Bible scholar, preacher, and poet
- Jim Gray (computer scientist) (James N. Gray), Microsoft researcher, lost at sea
- James P. Gray, presiding judge of the Superior Court of Orange County, California
- Jamie Gray, Scottish murderer
- Jason Gray-Stanford, Canadian actor
- Jeffrey Alan Gray, British psychologist
- Jerry Gray, American football player
- Jerry Gray (arranger), (1915–1976), arranger, composer, and conductor
- Jim Gray (sportscaster), American sportscaster
- Jim Gray (UDA member), leader of the Ulster Defence Association in Northern Ireland
- John Gray (disambiguation):
- John N. Gray (born 1948), British political philosopher and professor
- John Gray (U.S. author) (born 1951), author best known for his book Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus
- John Gray (North Dakota), (1877–1952), North Dakota State Treasurer
- John Gray (New Zealand politician) (fl. 1854–1855), member of the New Zealand Parliament
- John Edward Gray (1800–1875), British zoologist
- John Gray (American Revolutionary War) (1764–1868), U.S. soldier, supposedly the longest surviving veteran of the war
- John MacLachlan Gray (born 1946), Canadian playwright, composer, and performer
- John Gray (poet) (1866–1934), English poet and priest
- John Gray (director) (fl. 1982–present), U.S. writer and director
- John Gray (Canadian author) (fl. 2003–present), biographer and former newspaper bureau chief author
- John Gray (banker) (c. 1755 – 1829), president of the Bank of Montreal
- John Gray (ice hockey), ice hockey player in the World Hockey Association
- John Franklin Gray, (1804–1881), American educator and physician and the first practitioner of homoeopathy in the United States
- John Hamilton Gray (Prince Edward Island politician) Canadian politician and one of the Fathers of Confederation
- John Hamilton Gray (New Brunswick politician), Canadian politician, jurist and one of the Fathers of Confederation
- John de Grey, Bishop of Norwich in the English county of Norfolk
- Johnny Gray, American 800m runner
- Joseph Anthony Gray, US Congressman from Pennsylvania
- Joseph M. M. Gray, Chancellor of American University from 1933 until 1941
- Josh Gray, English footballer
- Julian Gray, English footballer
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- Kay Gray, Wisconsin wine grape
- Kelly Gray, American soccer player
- Kelly Gray (musician), American producer and guitarist
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- Larry Gray, Jazz musician
- Lawrence Gray, American actor
- Lee Gray, American DJ
- Les Gray, English singer
- Liam Gray, Scottish footballer
- Linda Gray, American actress
- Linda Esther Gray (born 1948), Scottish opera singer
- Lord Gray, title in the Peerage of Scotland
- Louis Harold Gray, British physicist
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- Mackenzie Gray, Canadian actor
- Macy Gray, American R&B, soul and neo soul singer, songwriter, record producer and actress
- Marlin Gray, American murderer
- Martin Gray (disambiguation):
- Martin Gray (Holocaust survivor), Polish emigrant who served in the Red Army and NKVD
- Martin Gray (footballer) (born 1971), English former footballer
- Matt Gray (born 1936), Scottish footballer (Third Lanark, Manchester City)
- Mel Gray (disambiguation)
- Michael Gray (footballer), English football full-back
- Michael Gray (DJ), British DJ and house music producer
- Mike Gray, American writer, screenwriter, cinematographer, film producer and director
- Morris A. Gray, Canadian politician
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- Pat Gray, American radio personality
- Patrick Gray, 4th Lord Gray, (died 1584) Scottish nobleman
- Patrick Gray, 6th Lord Gray, (died 1612) Scottish nobleman, grandson of the above
- L. Patrick Gray, Acting director of the FBI from 1972 to 1973
- Paul Gray (disambiguation):
- Paul Gray (civil servant), current chairman of HM Revenue & Customs, British government department
- Paul Gray (IT), IT pioneer
- Paul Gray (English musician), bassist of The Damned
- Paul Gray (songwriter), Australian singer, songwriter and record producer
- Paul Edward Gray, fourteenth president of MIT
- Paul Gray (Slipknot), American musician
- Paul Edward Gray, American engineer
- Percy Gray, American artist
- Peter Gray (disambiguation)
- Peter Gray (historian) (born 1965), Professor of Modern Irish History at Queen's University Belfast
- Peter Gray (judge), Federal Court of Australia judge
- Peter Gray (psychologist), American psychologist and author of the introductory psychology textbook, Psychology
- Peter Gray (writer), Scottish writer
- Peter S. Gray, Olympic equestrian for Bermuda and Canada
- Peter W. Gray (1819–1874), American lawyer, judge, and legislator from Texas
- Pete Gray (1915–2002), one-armed Major League baseball player
- Pete Gray (activist) (1980–2011), Australian environmental and anti-war activist
- Polly Gray, character in Peaky Blinders
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- Quinn Gray, American football quarterback
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- Richard Gray (game designer), video game designer
- Richard E. Gray, NASA test pilot
- Robert Gray (sea-captain), American merchant sea-captain
- Robert Gray (poet), Australian poet
- Robert Hampton Gray, Canadian Naval pilot
- Robert Isaac Dey Gray, Canadian lawyer, judge, and politician
- Robert Whytlaw-Gray, German chemist
- Auld Robin Gray, title of a Scots ballad by the Scottish poet Lady Anne Lindsay
- Robin Gray (Australian politician)
- Robin Gray (New Zealand politician), politician
- Rocky Gray, American musician and songwriter
- Ron Gray (disambiguation)
- Ross F. Gray, American soldier
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- Sally Gray, English actress
- Samuel Frederick Gray (1766–1828), British Botanist (IPNI = Gray)
- Samuel Gray (Australian politician), Australian politician
- Simon Gray, English playwright
- Spalding Gray, American actor, screenwriter and playwright
- Stephen Gray (scientist) (1666–1736), English astronomer and scientist
- Stephen Gray (writer) (born 1941), South African author
- Steven Gray (footballer) (born 1981), Irish defender for Derry City F.C.
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- T. M. Gray, American horror novelist and illustrator
- Tamyra Gray, American actress and singer
- Thomas Gray, British poet and scholar
- Thomas Gray (VC), British soldier
- Thomas Cecil Gray, British anaesthetist
- Thomas Lomar Gray, British engineer
- Tom Gray, bluegrass musician
- Tony Gray (disambiguation)
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- Valerie Gray, fictional character from the television series Danny Phantom
- Veleka Gray, American actress
- Vincent C. Gray, American politician
- Violet Gray, fictional character from the Peanuts comic strip
- Vivean Gray, British Actress
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- Walter de Gray, English prelate and politician
- Wardell Gray, American jazz bebop saxophonist
- Wayne D. Gray, cognitive science professor
- Wells Gray (1876–1944), Canadian politician, creator of Wells Gray Provincial Park
- William G. Gray (1913–1995), author and occultist
- William H. Gray (congressman), former American congressman
- William M. Gray, hurricane expert
- William Anstruther-Gray (senior), Scottish soldier and politician
- William John St Clair Anstruther-Gray, Scottish politician
- Willoughby Gray, English actor
- Wyndol Gray, (1922–1994), American basketball player
See also
- Gray (disambiguation)
- Gray (taxonomic authority)
- Grey (surname)
- McGrath (disambiguation)
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