Famous People with Name Kay

Kay Boyle            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Kay Boyle: , was an award-winning writer, educator, and political activist.The granddaughter of a publisher, Kay Boyle grew up in several cities but principally in Cincinnati, Ohio. Her father was a lawyer but her greatest influence came from her mother Katherine Evans, a literary and social activist who believed that the wealthy had an obligation to help the less well off. As such, in later years, Kay Boyle championed integration and civil rights. She also advocated banning nuclear weapons, and American withdrawal from the Vietnam War.

Kay Thompson            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Kay Thompson: was an American author, composer, musician, actress, and singer. She is perhaps best known as the creator of the Eloise children's books.Kay Thompson was born to parents Leo George (born ca. 1875), an Austrian immigrant, and Hattie A. (born ca. 1888), a native of Kansas. The second of four children, Kay had three other siblings: sisters M. Blanche (born ca. 1907) and Marian A. (born ca. 1915); and a brother, Leo George, Jr. (born ca. 1913). The Finks raised their family in St. Louis, where father Leo was a jewelry store owner.

Kay Ann Lenz            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Kay Ann Lenz: Born in Los Angeles, California, the daughter of a producer/commentator father and a model/radio engineer mother, she began working as a child actress, appearing in such television shows as The Andy Griffith Show as well as in stage productions

Kay Hanley            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Kay Hanley: Hanley was born in Dorchester, Massachusetts. Interestingly, she grew up diagonally across the street from Donnie and Mark Wahlberg. She was a member of Letters To Cleo from 1990 to 2000 (the length of the band's existence). She came up with the band's na

Kay Granger            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Kay Granger: a Republican politician from the U.S. state of Texas, currently represents the 12th congressional district (map) in the U.S. House of Representatives.Granger was born in Greenville, Texas, and attended Eastern Hills High School, which recognized her as Distinguished Eastern Hills High School Graduate in 1993.[1] She graduated from Texas Wesleyan University.

Paul Kay            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Paul Kay: an emeritus professor of linguistics at the University of California, Berkeley, United States. He joined the University in 1966 as a member of the Department of Anthropology, transferring to the Department of Linguistics in 1982. He is best known for his work with anthropologist Brent Berlin on colour: Basic Color Terms: Their Universality and Evolution (1969) ISBN 1-57586-162-3. More recently, he has worked in the area of Construction Grammar with Charles J. Fillmore, authoring the textbook Construction Grammar (1996 manuscript). He is currently working on an extension of Construction Grammar called Sign-Based Construction Grammar, authoring a book on this topic with Charles Fillmore, Ivan Sag and Laura Michaelis.

Beatrice Kay            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Beatrice Kay: was a singer, vaudevillian, music hall performer, stage and film actress. She was born in New York, New York and died in North Hollywood, California.Kay performed at various media outlets, including burlesque, vaudeville, radio, motion pictures, sound rec

Wendell Palmer Kay            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Wendell Palmer Kay: was an American Democratic politician from Alaska.After U.S. Senator Bob Bartlett, a fellow Democrat, died in office in 1968, then-Republican Governor Walter Joseph Hickel appointed Ted Stevens, former U.S. Attorney and a high-level official in the United

Thomas Benjamin Kay            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Thomas Benjamin Kay: was an American politician and businessman in the state of Oregon. A native of New Jersey, he moved to Oregon with his family at the age of one where he later took over the family’s woolen mill business. A Republican, he served in both houses of the Orego