List of Famous people with last name Gay

Alberta Cooper Gay was an American domestic worker, schoolteacher and the mother of American recording artists Marvin Gaye and Frankie Gaye. Born in Rocky Mount, North Carolina, she married Gaye's estranged father, minister Marvin Gay, Sr., after relocating to Washington, D.C., in her early twenties. She was the only other person present at the murder of her son committed by his father.

Marie Françoise Sophie Gay was a French author who was born in Paris.

Edwin Francis Gay was an American economist, Professor of Economic History and first Dean of the Harvard Business School.

José Aurelio Gay López is a Spanish retired footballer who played as a midfielder, and the current manager of RCD Espanyol B.

Robert Marie Gay was a Canadian-born Ugandan Roman Catholic prelate. He was the second bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Kabale from 1996 to 2003.

John Gay was an English poet and dramatist and member of the Scriblerus Club. He is best remembered for The Beggar's Opera (1728), a ballad opera. The characters, including Captain Macheath and Polly Peachum, became household names.

John Gay was an American screenwriter, born in Whittier, California.

Jaques Étienne Gay was a Swiss-French botanist, civil servant, collector and taxonomist. His name is associated with plants in standardised botanical nomenclature, e.g. Crocus sieberi J.Gay. He was the most famous of the students of botanist Jean François Aimée Gaudin with whom he began collecting plants at the age of 14. He was married to Rosalie Nillion.