Paley may refer to:
- Albert Paley (born 1944), a modernist American metal sculptor
- A. G. V. Paley, British army officer and first Chief of the Defence Staff of Ghana
- Edward Paley (1823–1895), Lancaster architect
- Frederick Apthorp Paley (1815–1888), English classical scholar
- Grace Paley (1922–2007), writer and peace activist
- Henry Paley (1859–1946), Lancaster architect, son of Edward
- Maureen Paley (born 1953), an American art dealer, based in London, England
- Nina Paley American cartoonist, animator and free culture activist
- Princess Olga Paley, second wife of Grand Duke Paul Alexandrovich of Russia
- Raymond Paley (1907–1933), mathematician
- Vladimir Paley (1897–1918), Russian poet, son of Olga
- William Paley (1743–1805), Christian apologist and philosopher
- William S. Paley (1901–1990), broadcaster
- Paley, Seine-et-Marne, a commune of the Seine-et-Marne département, in France
- Paley Street, a village in Berkshire
Famous quotes containing the word paley:
“... people will sometimes say, “Why don’t you write more politics?” And I have to explain to them that writing the lives of women is politics.”
—Grace Paley (b. 1922)
“The word career is a divisive word. It’s a word that divides the normal life from business or professional life.”
—Grace Paley (b. 1922)
“...I don’t have an inner drive to do as well as anybody else ... I have a great pleasure in writing and part of that is political and part of that is I’m surprised that I’ve done as well as I have. I really am just surprised.”
—Grace Paley (b. 1922)