Gay (surname)

Gay is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:

• Bill Gay (born 1927), American football player
• Bram Gay, trumpet player and brass band enthusiast
• Brian Gay, American golfer
• Cesc Gay (born 1967), movie director
• Claude Gay, French botanist
• Connie B. Gay (1914–1989), American country music promoter
• David Gay (1920–2010), British Army officer, recipient of the Military Cross, and English cricketer
• Edward Gay (disambiguation), several people
• Edwin Francis Gay (1867–1946), American economist
• Enola Gay, name of airplane that dropped nuclear bombs on Japan in 1945, named for Paul Tibbets' mother
• George H. Gay, Jr. (1917–1994), Naval aviator in World War II
• George K. Gay (1810–1882), English pioneer who participated in Oregon's Provisional Government
• Henry M. Gay, one of three founders of Triad Systems Corporation, now known as Activant
• Hobart R. Gay (1894–1983), American general
• Jacques Etienne Gay (1786–1864) French botanist
• Jason Gay, birth name of Christian singer-songwriter Jason Gray; made many recordings as Jason Gay before changing his name to Gray.
• Jean Baptiste Gay, vicomte de Martignac (1778–1832), French statesman
• John Gay (1685–1732), English dramatist
• John Gay (photographer) (1909–1999), English photographer
• Jonathan Gay, inventor of Macromedia Flash
• José Aurelio Gay (born 1965), Spanish football player and manager
• Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac (1778–1850), French physicist
• Mabel Gay (born 1983), Cuban triple jumper
• Maria Gay (1879–1943), Catalan opera singer
• Marvin Gay, Sr. (1914–1998), American minister of the House of God
• Mary Ann Harris Gay (1829–1918), American writer of Life in Dixie During the War
• Nikolai Ge or Gay (1831–1894), Russian painter
• Noel Gay (1898–1954), English composer of popular music
• Paul Gay (born 1968), French opera singer
• Peter Gay (1923–2015), German-born U.S. historian
• Randall Gay (born 1982), American football player
• Robert Gay (MP) (died 1738), English MP
• Robert C. Gay (born 1951), a general authority of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
• Robert J. Gay, American palaeontologist
• Robert Marie Gay (1927–2016), Canadian-born Ugandan Catholic prelate, Bishop of Kabale (1996–2003)
• Ross Gay, American poet and professor
• Rudy Gay (born 1986), American professional basketball player
• Susan Elizabeth Gay, chronicler of the history of Old Falmouth
• Tyson Gay (born 1982), American sprinter
• Walter Gay (1856-1937), American artist
• William Gay (disambiguation), several people
• Virginia Gay (born 1981), Australian actress