Deshayes

• Catherine Deshayes, widow Monvoisin, known as "La Voisin", a French sorceress
• Gérard Paul Deshayes, a French geologist and conchologist
• Jean-Baptiste-Henri Deshays or Deshayes , a French painter
• Prosper-Didier Deshayes, an opera composer and dancer who lived and worked in France.
• François-Georges Fouques Deshayes, known as Desfontaines or Desfontaines-Lavallée, a French writer and playwright