Clay (name)
Clay is both an English surname, and a masculine given name. It may be short for Clayton, and sometimes a nickname for Clarence.
People with the given name
- Clay Aiken, American popular music singer
- Clay Buchholz, Major League Baseball pitcher for the Boston Red Sox
- Clay Calvert American lawyer and academic
- Clay Martin Croker, American voice actor and animator
- Clay Dalrymple, former American professional baseball player
- Clay Dreslough, American video game designer
- Clay Guida, American mixed martial artist
- Clay Hensley, American baseball player
- Clay Higgins, American politician
- Clay Jenkins, American politician and lawyer
- Clay S. Jenkinson, American Rhodes Scholar and popular historical re-enactor
- Clay Johnston (academic), American neurologist and university administrator
- Clay Johnston (American football), American football player
- Clay Kaytis, American animator and director
- Clay Matthews Sr., American football player
- Clay Matthews Jr., American football player, son of the above
- Clay Matthews III, American football player, son of the above
- Clay Riley, American politician
- Clay Milner Russell, English actor
- Clay V. Spear, American associate justice of the Idaho Supreme Court
- Clay Spohn American visual artist, educator
- Clay Sweeting, Bahamian politician
- Clay Travis, American sports journalist
- Clay Walker, American country music singer
- Clay Webb, American football player
- Clay, pseudonym Dream, American YouTuber and Minecraft gamer
People with the nickname
- Clay Cook, American guitarist, keyboardist, mandolinist, steel guitarist, and vocalist in Zac Brown Band
- Clay Regazzoni, Swiss racing car driver
Fictional characters
- Clay, the MudWing from Wings of Fire (novel series)
- Clay, the first host of Playhouse Disney
- Clay Bailey, in the American animated television series Xiaolin Showdown
- Clay Calloway, from the film Sing 2
- Clay Davis, in American TV series The Wire
- Clay Jensen, in the novel and Netflix series 13 Reasons Why
- Clay Kaczmarek, from the Assassin's Creed games
- Clay Moorington, a character in Nexo Knights
- Clay Morrow, from American TV series Sons of Anarchy
- Clay Puppington, a main character from the American TV series Moral Orel
- Clay Simons, in the game Grand Theft Auto: The Lost and Damned
- Clay Terran, from the game series Ace Attorney: Dual Destinies
- Caduceus Clay, from the American web series Critical Role
- Faceas Clay, an antagonist from the Strider Hiryu manga and NES game
- Clay, a villager from the Nintendo Switch game “Animal Crossing”
- Lincoln Clay, from the video game ''Mafia III''