Mayes
# Mayes

Mayes is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:

* Adrian Mayes (born 1980), American football player
* Alan Mayes (born 1953), English footballer
* Bernard Mayes (1929–2014), British-American lecturer and author
* Clifford Mayes (born 1953), American professor of education
* Clyde Mayes (born 1953), American professional basketball player
* Colin Mayes (born 1948), Canadian politician
* Derrick Mayes (born 1974), American football player
* Frances Mayes (born 1940), American university professor, poet, memoirist, essayist, and novelist
* Ian Mayes, British journalist and editor
* Jeff Mayes (born 1971), American politician
* Joel B. Mayes (died 1891), Chief of the Cherokee Nation
* Johnny Mayes (born 1947), Australian rugby league player
* Pete Mayes (1938–2008), American blues singer, guitarist and songwriter
* Richard Mayes (1922–2006), English stage and television actor
* Robert Burns Mayes (1867–1921), justice of the Supreme Court of Mississippi
* Ron Mayes (born 1954), American educator and author
* Rueben Mayes (born 1963), Canadian football player
* Rufus Mayes (1947–1990), American football player
* Samuel Houston Mayes (1845–1927), Chief of the Cherokee Nation from 1895 to 1899
* Sean Mayes (1949–1995), English rock musician and author
* Wendell Wise Mayes Jr. (1924–2021), American radio and cable television executive
* William Mayes Jr., prominent pirate, proprietor of White Horse Tavern (Rhode Island)
* William Edward Mayes (1861–1952), English painter
