Famous People with Name Kay

Kay Adams            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Kay Adams: is an American country singer.In the 1960s, Adams arrived on the country scene with the songs "Six Days A Waiting," "Old Heart Get Ready," "Anymore," "Don't Talk Trouble To Me," "Trapped," "Roll Out The Red Carpet," "I Cried At Your Wedding,"

Kay Ryan            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Kay Ryan: is an American poet and educator. She will be the sixteenth Poet Laureate of the United States.Ryan was born in San Jose, California and was raised in several areas of the San Joaquin Valley and the Mojave Desert.

Kay Redfield Jamison            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Kay Redfield Jamison: is an American clinical psychologist and writer who is one of the foremost experts on bipolar disorder, having suffered from the disorder since her early-mid twenties. She is Professor of Psychiatry at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and is an Honorary Professor of English at the University of St Andrews.

Kay Toinette Oslin            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Kay Toinette Oslin: a Grammy Award-winning country music singer and songwriter. Between 1981 and the present, she has released seven studio albums, and has charted more than fifteen singles on the Billboard country charts. Her chart singles include the Number One hits "Do Ya

Kay Starr            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Kay Starr: an American jazz singer who enjoyed considerable success in the 1950s.She was born Katherine Laverne Starks on a reservation in Dougherty, Oklahoma. Her father, Harry, was a full-blooded Iroquois Indian; her mother, Annie, was of mixed Irish and American

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