Fay (given name)

Fay is a unisex English given name meaning fairy. Alternately, it is a diminutive of Faith. It has been in use in English-speaking countries since the 1800s.

It may refer to:

Women with the name

• Fay Babcock (1895–1970), American film set director
• Fay Bainter (1893–1968), American actress
• Fay Baker (1917–1987), American actress
• Fay Chung (born 1941), Zimbabwean educator
• Fay Compton (1894–1978), English actress
• Fay Crocker (1914–1983), Uruguayan golfer
• Fay Davis (1873–1945), American actress
• Fay Dowker (21st century), British theoretical physicist
• Fay Farnum (1888–1977), American mathematician
• Fay Gale (1932–2008), Australian cultural geographer
• Fay Godwin (1931–2005), British photographer
• Fay Holden (1893–1973), American actress
• Fay Holderness (1881–1963), American actor
• Fay Jones (born 1985), British politician
• Fay Kanin (1917–2013), American screenwriter
• Fay Kelton (21st century), Australian actress
• Fay King, Multiple people
• Fay Kleinman (1912–2012), American painter
• Fay Lanphier (1905–1959), American model
• Fay Lemport (20th century), American actress
• Fay Masterson (born 1974), English actress
• Fay McAlpine (born 1960), New Zealand designer, typographer and academic at Massey University
• Fay McKay (1930–2008), American entertainer
• Fay McKenzie (1918–2019), American actor
• Fay Peck (1931–2016) was an American Expressionist artist.
• Fay Bellamy Powell (1938–2013), American civil rights activist
• Fay Presto (born 1948), British magician
• Fay Ripley (born 1966), English actress
• Fay Rusling (21st century), British comedy writer
• Fay Spain (1932–1983), American actress
• Fay Taylour (1904–1983), Irish motorcycle racer
• Fay Templeton (1865–1939), American actress
• Fay Tincher (1884–1983), American actress
• Fay Webb-Gardner (1885–1969), American political hostess
• Fay Weldon (1931–2023), English author
• Fay Gillis Wells (1908–2002), American aviator
• Fay Wray (1907–2004), American actress
• Fay Zwicky (1933–2017), Australian poet

Men with the name

• Fay Alexander (1924–2000), American stunt man and circus acrobat
• Fay B. Begor (1916–1943), American physician
• Fay Boozman (1946–2005), American ophthalmologist and politician
• Fay W. Brabson (1880–1970), U.S. Army officer and historian
• Fay G. Child (1908–1965), American politician and newspaper editor
• Fay Chong (1912–1973), Chinese-American artist and educator
• Fay Marvin Clark (1907–1991), American real-estate developer, entrepreneur and politician
• Fay-Cooper Cole (1881–1961), American professor of anthropology
• Fay Coyle (1933–2007), Northern Irish footballer
• Fay Cravens (1872–1955), American politician and newspaper editor
• Fay Devlin (21st century), Irish footballer
• Fayette Fay Oliver Farwell (1858–1935), American inventor
• Fay Harper (1866–1950), English footballer
• Fay Hempstead (1847–1934), American lawyer, author, and poet
• Fay Jackson (1888–1959), Canadian politician
• Fay King, Multiple people
• Fay Moulton (1876–1945), American sprinter
• Fay Na (19th century), King of Champasak
• Fay Allen Des Portes (1890–1944), American ambassador
• Fay B. Prickett (1893–1982), U.S. Army major general
• Fay Roope (1893–1961), American actor
• Fay Thomas (1903–1990), American baseball player
• Fay Vincent (born 1938), American film studio executive
• Lafayette Fay Washington (1915–1975), American baseball player
• Fay Wood, American football player and coach
• Fay Young (1884–1957), American journalist

Fictional characters

• Fay Marvin, a character in the 1991 American comedy movie What About Bob?

See also

• Fay (surname)
• Faye (given name)
• Fay-Ann
• Fay-Cooper

References