Cary (surname)
Cary is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
- Alexander Cary, Master of Falkland, son of Lucius Cary, 15th Viscount Falkland
- Alice Cary, American poet
- Annie Louise Cary , American singer
- Anthony Cary, 5th Viscount of Falkland, Scottish nobleman
- Caitlin Cary, American country singer
- Charles P. Cary, American educator
- Constance Cary Harrison, American writer
- Diana Serra Cary, American actress
- Diane Cary, American actress
- Dick Cary, American jazz musician
- Elizabeth Cary, Lady Falkland, English poet, translator and dramatist
- Elizabeth Cabot Agassiz, born Elizabeth Cabot Cary,, American educator
- Columba Cary-Elwes, British monk
- Frank T. Cary, American businessman
- Glover H. Cary, member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Kentucky
- Henry Cary, several people
- Hetty Cary, known for making the first three battle flags of the Confederacy
- Henry Howard Cary, founder of Applied Physics Corporation
- John Cary, British cartographer
- John Cary, American physicist specializing in particle accelerators, plasma physics, and computational physics. Professor University of Colorado Boulder and Founder of Tech-X corporation
- Joyce Cary, Irish novelist and artist
- Liam Cary, American Catholic bishop
- Lott Cary, African-American Baptist minister
- Lucius Cary, 2nd Viscount Falkland, English politician, soldier and author
- Lucius Cary, 10th Viscount Falkland, British colonial administrator
- Lucius Cary, 15th Viscount Falkland, British Liberal Democrat politician
- Mary Ann Shadd, Quaker and social reformer, married name Cary
- Patrick Cary, English poet, son of 1st Viscount Falkland
- Phillip Cary, American Augustine scholar and philosophy professor
- Phoebe Cary, American poet
- Pierre Cary, French landowner and politician
- Reby Cary, American politician and writer
- Robert Cary , English chronologist
- Robert Webster Cary, U.S. Medal of Honor recipient
- Samuel Fenton Cary, American politician and prohibitionist
- Tristram Cary, English composer
- Trumbull Cary, New York politician
