Hays (surname)
# Hays (surname)

Hays is an English and Irish surname, a variant to the name Hayes. Notable people with the surname include:

* Alexander Hays (1819–1864), general in the Federal army during the American Civil War
* Anna Mae Hays (1920–2018), first woman in the U.S. Army to be promoted to general
* Arthur Garfield Hays (1881–1954), attorney for the American Civil Liberties Union
* Austin Hays (born 1995), American baseball player
* Brooks Hays (1898–1981), United States Congressman from Arkansas
* Butch Hays (born 1962), American-Australian basketball player
* Charles Melville Hays (1856–1912), American railroad executive who perished on the Titanic
* Dan Hays (born 1939), Canadian politician
* Daniel P. Hays (1854–1923), American lawyer
* David Hays (cricketer) (born 1944), English-born Scottish cricketer
* David G. Hays (1928–1995), linguist, computer scientist and social scientist
* Ethel Hays (1892–1989), American syndicated cartoonist
* George Price Hays (1892–1978), Lt. General, Commander of the 10th Mountain Division in the European Theater of Operations in World War II.
* George Washington Hays (1863–1927), governor of the state of Arkansas
* Harry Hays (1909–1982), Canadian Senator
* Harry T. Hays (1820–1876), general in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War
* Irene Hays (born 1954), British civil servant and businesswoman
* Isaac Hays (1796–1879), American ophthalmologist and naturalist
* John Coffee Hays (1817–1883), Texas Ranger and sheriff in the Old West
* Judith Salzedo Hays, married name of Judith Salzedo Peixotto (1823–1881), American teacher and principal
* Kathleen Hays, American economics reporter
* Kathryn Hays (1934–2022), American actress
* Kevin Hays (born 1968), American jazz pianist
* Larry Hays, American college baseball coach
* Moses Judah Hays (1799–1861), Canadian businessman and municipal leader
* Paul Hays, Reading Clerk for the U.S. House of Representatives
* Richard B. Hays, American college professor at Duke University
* Robert Hays (born 1947), American actor
* Samuel Hays (disambiguation), several people
* Spencer Hays (1936–2017), American businessman and art collector
* Todd Hays (born 1969), American Olympic bobsledder
* Wayne Hays (1911–1989), United States Congressman from Ohio
* William B. Hays (1844–1912), Mayor of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
* Will H. Hays (1879–1954), American politician and Postmaster General
* William Shakespeare Hays (1837–1907), American poet and lyricist
