title: Hays (surname)
text: # 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
  