Gay (given name)
Gay is a male or female given name, the 795th and 1295th most common female name in the United States, according to the 1990 U.S. census.
It can also be used as a short form of the female names Gaynell and Gaynor and as a short form of the male names Gaylen, Gabriel and Gaylord.
The writer Gay Talese's name is derived from Gaetano, his grandfather's name.
The first name of the popular male Irish television presenter Gabriel Byrne was always abbreviated as "Gay", as in the title of his radio show The Gay Byrne Show.
Women with the given name Gay
- Gay Abel-Bey, American film director, producer, writer, editor, and academic
- Gay Alcorn, Australian journalist and newspaper editor
- Gay Allison, Canadian poet, editor, and English teacher
- Gay Autterson, American voice actress
- Gay Blackstone, American television and stage producer
- Gay Block, fine art portrait photographer from Texas
- Gay A. Bradshaw, American psychologist, ecologist, and director
- Gay Bryant, British editor and writer
- Gay Caswell, writer and political figure in Saskatchewan, Canada
- Gay Courter, American film writer, author, and novelist
- Gay Cowbourne, Canadian politician
- Gay Hamilton, Scottish actress
- Gay Jacobsen D'Asaro, American Olympic foil fencer
- Gay Kayler, Australian country music entertainer, recording artist and singer
- Gay Kernan, American politician, Republican member of the New Mexico Senate
- Gay McDougall, American human rights activist
- Gay Outlaw, American sculptor, photographer and printmaker
- Gay Seabrook, American actress
- Gay Search, British horticulturalist
- Gay Thompson, Australian Labor member of parliament
- Gay-Yee Westerhoff, the Chinese-English cellist
- Gay Woods, Irish musician and singer
Men with the given name Gay
- Gay Wilson Allen, American academic and writer
- Gay Assulin, Israeli professional footballer
- Gay Brewer, American professional golfer
- Gay Bryan, American long and triple jumper
- Gay Byrne, Irish presenter and host of radio and television
- G. T. Dhungel, Indian politician
- Gay Elmore, American basketball player
- Gay Hayden, American pioneer
- Gay Hendricks, American author and psychologist
- Gay Kindersley, British champion amateur jump jockey and horse trainer
- Gay Mandeville, the first native-born Bishop of Barbados
- Gay McIntyre, Irish jazz musician
- Gay McKenna, Irish greyhound trainer
- Gay McManus, Irish Gaelic footballer
- Gay Mitchell, Irish Fine Gaelic politician
- Gay Mitchell (Gaelic footballer), Irish sportsperson
- Gay O'Carroll, Irish footballer
- Gay O'Driscoll, Irish retired Gaelic footballer
- Gay Sheerin, Gaelic footballer and manager
- Gay Talese, American author