Jay (given name)
Jay is a common given name and nickname. It may be a nickname for Japhet, Jaymond, Jane, James, Javonne, Jamie, Jacob, Jared, Joaquin, Javad, Jeremy, Jeffrey, John, Jules, Jonathan, Joseph, Jason, Jamin, Jaylin, Jordan, Justin, Joel, Jayakumar, etc. In Hindu-influenced cultures, Jay or Jai is a common first name for a male derived from the Sanskrit for "win" or "victory."Sports
- Jay Adams, American skateboarder
- Jay Ajayi, English American NFL football player
- Jay Barnett, Australian association football player
- Jay Beagle, Canadian ice hockey player
- Jay Berger, American tennis player, highest world ranking # 7
- Jay Bothroyd, English football player
- Jay Bouwmeester, Canadian hockey player
- Jay Bruce, Major League Baseball player, three-time All-Star
- Jay Cutler , American football player
- Jay Cutler , American bodybuilder
- Jay Dahlgren, Canadian javelin thrower
- Jay DeMerit, American soccer player
- Jay Fiedler, American NFL football quarterback
- Jay Haas, American golfer
- Jay Jones, American football player
- Jay Lethal, American professional wrestler
- Jay McDonagh, American football player
- Jay McKee, Canadian ice hockey player
- Jay Moriarity, American big wave surfer
- Jay Novacek, American football player
- Jay Wheeldon, English footballer
Music
- Jay Aston, English singer
- Jay Bennett, American musician
- Jay Bentley, American musician
- Jay Chou, Taiwanese musician
- Jay Dee Daugherty, American drummer
- Jay Ferguson
- Jay Ferguson
- Jay Greenberg , American composer
- Jay Greenberg , American psychoanalyst and psychologist
- James "Jay" Huguely, American actor, recording artist known as Cledus Maggard & the Citizen's Band
- Jay Kay, English musician
- Jay Lane, American musician
- Jay Livingston, American composer
- Jay Osmond, American musician
- Jay Park, Korean American b-boy and singer
- Jay Sean, British musician
- John Jay Traynor, American singer, member of the group Jay and the Americans
- Jay Weinberg, American drummer
- Jay Wilbur, British bandleader
- Jay Zeffin English musician, composer
Television and film
- Jay Baruchel, Canadian actor
- Jay Chandrasekhar, American director
- Jay R. Ferguson, American actor
- Jay Harrington, American actor
- Jay Hernandez, American actor
- Jay Karnes, American actor
- Jay Laga'aia, New Zealand actor
- Jay Leno, American comedian and talk-show host
- Jay McCarroll, American fashion designer
- Jay Mohr, American actor
- Jay North, American actor
- Jay Purvis, Canadian carpenter and television presenter
- Jay Roach, American director
- Jay Ryan , New Zealand actor
- Jay Silverheels, Canadian actor
- Jay Thomas, American actor and talk-show host
Other
- Jay Helms, Founder of W2 Capitalist
- Jay Adair, American businessman, CEO of Copart
- Jay Bybee, American judge
- Jay Chaudhry, American billionaire, CEO and founder of Zscaler
- Jay Chiat, American advertising designer
- Jay Cooke, American financier
- Jay Gould, American financier
- Jay Inslee, American politician
- Jay Jasanoff, American linguist
- Jay McCallum, American judge and state legislator
- Jay McInerney, American writer
- Jay Miner, American computer pioneer
- Jay Monahan, PGA Tour commissioner
- Jay Nixon, American politician
- Jay Nordlinger, American journalist
- Jay Pritzker, American businessman
- Jay Rockefeller, American politician
- Jay P. Rolison, Jr., New York politician
- Jay Rosen, American writer
- Jay Sekulow, American lawyer
Fictional characters
- Jay Walker, the ninja of lightning in the television series
- Jay Cartwright, in the television series The Inbetweeners
- Jay Garrick, in the DC Comics universe
- Jay Gatsby, in the 1925 novel The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
- Jay Hogart, in the television series Degrassi: The Next Generation
- Jay Kyle, in the TV series My Wife and Kids
- Jay Landsman, in the television series The Wire
- Jay Sherman, in the animated series The Critic
- Jay, in the films of Kevin Smith
- Jay, in the television series The Tribe
- Jay, a male cheerful red-cheeked cordon-bleu in Angry Birds
- Jay, "The Leader" in the animated series Clash of the Titans
- Jay, in the web series Marble Hornets
- Jay, in the animated series The Ridonculous Race
- Jay, in the animated series Big Mouth
