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:
“You live in a puss-hole, you act accordingly.”
—Guy Trosper, U.S. screenwriter, and John Frankenheimer. Robert Stroud (Burt Lancaster)
“Although a firm swat could bring a recalcitrant child swiftly into line, the changes were usually external, lasting only as long as the swatter remained in view....Permanent transformation had to be internal....The habits of self discipline, as laborious and frustrating as they were to achieve, offered the only real possibility of keeping children safe from their own excesses as well as the omnipresent dangers of society.”
—Mary Kay Blakely (20th century)