John Kay may refer to:
- John Kay (flying shuttle) (1704–c. 1779), English inventor of textile machinery, notably the flying shuttle
- John Kay (spinning frame) (17??–17??), English developer of textile machinery, notably the spinning frame
- John Kay (caricaturist) (1742–1826), Scottish caricaturist
- Sir John Kay (judge) (1943–2004), British High Court judge
- John Kay (musician) (born 1944), musician and lead singer of Canadian-American rock band Steppenwolf
- John Kay (poet) (14th century), English Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom
- John Kay (economist) (born 1948), Scottish economist, Financial Times columnist and author
- John Kay (cricket journalist), British cricket correspondent for The Argus who introduced Basil d'Oliveira to English cricket
- John Kay (journalist) (born 1944), British journalist on Rupert Murdoch's The Sun
- John Kay (footballer), Scottish soccer player of the 1870s and 1880s
- John Caius the Elder, or John Kay, poet
- John Kay (poet born 1958), British poet and teacher
- John Kay (English footballer) (born 1964), English former footballer
- John A. Kay (1830–?), architect in Columbia, South Carolina
- Jon Kay (born 1970), BBC broadcast journalist
- Johnny Kay, lead guitarist for Bill Haley & His Comets from 1961 to 1967
Famous quotes containing the words john and/or kay:
“Now John wore clothing of camel’s hair with a leather belt around his waist, and his food was locusts and wild honey.”
—Bible: New Testament, Matthew 3:4.
“The naive notion that a mother naturally acquires the complex skills of childrearing simply because she has given birth now seems as absurd to me as enrolling in a nine-month class in composition and imagining that at the end of the course you are now prepared to begin writing War and Peace.”
—Mary Kay Blakely (20th century)