Hayes (surname)
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Hayes is a common English language
English language
English is a West Germanic language that arose in the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of England and spread into what was to become south-east Scotland under the influence of the Anglian medieval kingdom of Northumbria...

 surname
Surname
A surname is a name added to a given name and is part of a personal name. In many cases, a surname is a family name. Many dictionaries define "surname" as a synonym of "family name"...

. In the United States Census, 1990
United States Census, 1990
The Twenty-first United States Census, conducted by the Census Bureau, determined the resident population of the United States to be 248,709,873, an increase of 9.8 percent over the 226,545,805 persons enumerated during the 1980 Census....

, Hayes was the 100th most common surname recorded. The oldest record of the surname dates to 1197 in the Eynsham Cartulary of Oxfordshire, where it appears on the form Heise. There are nineteen coats of arms assumed by or granted to individuals with this or a similar surname. Though primarily a surname, "Hayes" rarely appears as a given name
Given name
A given name, in Western contexts often referred to as a first name, is a personal name that specifies and differentiates between members of a group of individuals, especially in a family, all of whose members usually share the same family name...

 in census records.

Origin

In England
England
England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...

, Hayes arose as a locational surname, associated with one of the several places named "Hayes", such as locations in Kent
Hayes, Bromley
Hayes is a place in the London Borough of Bromley, south-east London, England. It has two main areas of activity: the ancient village and suburban Hayes.-The ancient village of Nimrods :...

, Middlesex
Hayes, Hillingdon
Hayes is a town in the London Borough of Hillingdon, West London. It is a suburban development situated west of Charing Cross. Hayes was developed in the late 19th and 20th centuries as an industrial locality to which residential districts were later added in order to house factory workers...

, Devon and Dorset. Such place names had two origins, one based on the Old English haes (brushwood, underwood) and the other based on horg (enclosure) or hege (hedge). The distribution of Hayes in Great Britain in 1881 and 1998 is similar and restricted to areas of England well separated from Scotland and showing some penetration into Wales. This surname has gained in popularity in the century between 1881 and 1998, but remains at a rank of <150 and a frequency lower than that in the United States and some other countries of the Commonwealth
Commonwealth of Nations
The Commonwealth of Nations, normally referred to as the Commonwealth and formerly known as the British Commonwealth, is an intergovernmental organisation of fifty-four independent member states...

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In Scotland
Scottish people
The Scottish people , or Scots, are a nation and ethnic group native to Scotland. Historically they emerged from an amalgamation of the Picts and Gaels, incorporating neighbouring Britons to the south as well as invading Germanic peoples such as the Anglo-Saxons and the Norse.In modern use,...

, Hayes is a Scoto-Norman
Scoto-Norman
The term Scoto-Norman is used to described people, families, institutions and archaeological artifacts that are partly Scottish and partly Norman...

 surname, a direct translation of the Normans
Normans
The Normans were the people who gave their name to Normandy, a region in northern France. They were descended from Norse Viking conquerors of the territory and the native population of Frankish and Gallo-Roman stock...

' locational surname "de la Haye", meaning "of La Haye", La Haye ("the hedge") being the name of several towns on the Cotentin peninsula
Cotentin Peninsula
The Cotentin Peninsula, also known as the Cherbourg Peninsula, is a peninsula in Normandy, forming part of the north-western coast of France. It juts out north-westwards into the English Channel, towards Great Britain...

 of Normandy, France. The first Norman namebearer to arrive in Scotland was William II de la Haye in the time of the Norman invasion
Norman conquest of England
The Norman conquest of England began on 28 September 1066 with the invasion of England by William, Duke of Normandy. William became known as William the Conqueror after his victory at the Battle of Hastings on 14 October 1066, defeating King Harold II of England...

. Clan Hay
Clan Hay
Clan Hay is a Scottish clan that has played an important part in the history and politics of Scotland. Members of the clan are to be found in most parts of Scotland and in many other parts of the world. However, the North East of Scotland, i.e...

 descends from him.

In Ireland
Irish people
The Irish people are an ethnic group who originate in Ireland, an island in northwestern Europe. Ireland has been populated for around 9,000 years , with the Irish people's earliest ancestors recorded having legends of being descended from groups such as the Nemedians, Fomorians, Fir Bolg, Tuatha...

, Hayes originated as a Gaelic
Irish language
Irish , also known as Irish Gaelic, is a Goidelic language of the Indo-European language family, originating in Ireland and historically spoken by the Irish people. Irish is now spoken as a first language by a minority of Irish people, as well as being a second language of a larger proportion of...

 polygenetic surname "O hAodha", meaning descendant of Aodh ("fire"), or of Aed
Aed (god)
Aed, or Aodh, is the prince of the Daoine Sidhe and a god of the underworld in Irish mythology. He is known from inscriptions as the eldest son of Lir, High King of the Tuatha de Dannan, and Aobh, a daughter of Bodb Dearg....

, an Irish mythological god. Septs
Sept (social)
A sept is an English word for a division of a family, especially a division of a clan. The word might have its origin from Latin saeptum "enclosure, fold", or it can be an alteration of sect.The term is found in both Ireland and Scotland...

 in most counties anglicised "O hAodha" to "Hayes". In County Cork
County Cork
County Cork is a county in Ireland. It is located in the South-West Region and is also part of the province of Munster. It is named after the city of Cork . Cork County Council is the local authority for the county...

, it became "O'Hea". In County Ulster, it became "Hughes
Hughes
Hughes may refer to:*Hughes *Hughes Medal*David E. Hughes inventorPlaces:* Hughes Range In Australia:* Division of Hughes, electoral district* Hughes, Australian Capital Territory, suburb of Canberra...

", the patronymic
Patronymic
A patronym, or patronymic, is a component of a personal name based on the name of one's father, grandfather or an even earlier male ancestor. A component of a name based on the name of one's mother or a female ancestor is a matronymic. Each is a means of conveying lineage.In many areas patronyms...

 of Hugh
Hugh
-Cypriot/Frankish/French:* Hugh I, Count of Angoulême * Hugh II, Count of Angoulême * Hugh III, Count of Angoulême * Hugh IV, Count of Angoulême...

, an anglicized variant of the given name Aodh. Hayes is noted on a public record in County Wexford
County Wexford
County Wexford is a county in Ireland. It is part of the South-East Region and is also located in the province of Leinster. It is named after the town of Wexford. In pre-Norman times it was part of the Kingdom of Uí Cheinnselaig, whose capital was at Ferns. Wexford County Council is the local...

 as early as 1182. In County Cork, under the Munster providence, Hayes falls under the banner of the McNamara clan in the Dalcassian Sept. The Hayes clan is also been known to hail allegiance to Clan Cian, the ruling O'Carroll clan, of southern Ireland
Southern Ireland
Southern Ireland was a short-lived autonomous region of the United Kingdom established on 3 May 1921 and dissolved on 6 December 1922.Southern Ireland was established under the Government of Ireland Act 1920 together with its sister region, Northern Ireland...

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Notable Hayes

Listed here are people who share the 'Hayes' surname, organized by birth year, to assist in assembling a view of the geographic distribution of this surname over time.
Born after 1600
Wiebbe Hayes
Wiebbe Hayes
Wiebbe Hayes was a colonial soldier from Winschoten, Netherlands. Hayes became a national hero after he led a group of soldiers, sailors and other survivors of the shipwreck of the Batavia against the murderous mutineers led by Jeronimus Cornelisz at the Houtman Abrolhos Islands , off the Western...

 
c. 1608 unknown DutchColonial
Colonial troops
Colonial troops or colonial army refers to various military units recruited from, or used as garrison troops in, colonial territories.- Colonial background :...

 soldier of the Dutch East India Company
Dutch East India Company
The Dutch East India Company was a chartered company established in 1602, when the States-General of the Netherlands granted it a 21-year monopoly to carry out colonial activities in Asia...

 and a decorated national hero.
Born after 1700
John Hayes (explorer)
John Hayes (explorer)
Sir John Hayes was an 18th century explorer for the British East India Company, who explored eastern Tasmania and named the Derwent River in 1793.-References:John Hayes is one of the unsung heroes of animation....

 
1768 1831 BritishExplorer for the British East India Company
Born after 1800
Catherine Hayes
Catherine Hayes
Catherine Hayes [married name Bushnell] was the first Irish-born opera diva to achieve international acclaim....

 
1818 1861 IrishFirst internationally acclaimed Irish-born opera diva; highest paid singer of her time
Rutherford B. Hayes
Rutherford B. Hayes
Rutherford Birchard Hayes was the 19th President of the United States . As president, he oversaw the end of Reconstruction and the United States' entry into the Second Industrial Revolution...

 
1822 1893 AmericanNineteenth President of the United States
Bully Hayes
Bully Hayes
William Henry "Bully" Hayes has been described as a South Sea pirate and "the last of the Buccaneers", who together with Ben Pease, engaged in blackbirding in the 1860s and 1870s. Hayes operated across the breadth of the Pacific in the 1850s until his murder on 31 March 1877 by his cook Peter...

 
c.1829 c.1877 AmericanSouth Sea pirate
Lucy Webb Hayes
Lucy Webb Hayes
Lucille "Lucy" Ware Webb Hayes was a First Lady of the United States and the wife of President Rutherford B. Hayes.Historians have christened her "Lemonade Lucy" due to her staunch support of the temperance movement...

 
1831 1889 AmericanFirst Lady to President Rutherford B. Hayes
Isaac Israel Hayes
Isaac Israel Hayes
Isaac Israel Hayes was an Arctic explorer and physician.Hayes was born in Chester County, Pennsylvania. After completing his medical studies at the University of Pennsylvania, Hayes signed on as ship's surgeon for an 1853-5 expedition led by Elisha Kent Kane to search for John Franklin...

 
1832 1881 AmericanArctic explorer and physician
William B. Hayes
William B. Hayes
William Bratton Hays served as Mayor of Pittsburgh from 1903 to 1906.-Early life:Hays was born into a meat packing family in 1844...

 
1844 1912 AmericanForty-first Mayor of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Thomas Hayes (19th century)
Thomas Hayes (19th century)
Thomas Hayes was a land owner in the western addition to San Francisco in the 19th century. Hayes Valley in the western addition and Hayes Street are named after him. He was the original franchisee of the Market Street Railway, and county clerk between 1853 and 1856. The franchise for what would...

 
before 1849 1868 Irish-AmericanLand owner in San Francisco area; made key contributions to the development of the San Francisco rail system
Patrick Joseph Hayes  1867 1938 AmericanCardinal of the Roman Catholic Church; eighth Bishop (fifth Archbishop) of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of New York; first papal military vicar for the United States
John Hayes (Australian politician)
John Hayes (Australian politician)
John Blyth Hayes was Premier of Tasmania from 12 August 1922 to 14 August 1923. Hayes was also the President of the Australian Senate from 1 July 1938 to 30 June 1941.Hayes was born in Bridgewater, and died in Launceston....

 
1868 1956 AustralianThirty-first Premier of Tasmania; eighth President of the Australian Senate
Frank Hayes (actor)
Frank Hayes (actor)
Frank Hayes was an American film actor of the silent era. He appeared in 73 films between 1913 and 1924. An actor with a unique hatchet face appearance he appeared mostly in comedies...

 
1871 1923 AmericanSilent film actor
Ernie Hayes
Ernie Hayes
Ernest George Hayes MBE was a cricketer who played for Surrey, Leicestershire and England....

 
1876 1953 EnglishProfessional cricketer; Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE)
Vince Hayes
Vince Hayes
James Vincent "Vince" Hayes , also known as Vic Hayes, was an English footballer who played at right-back. Born in Miles Platting, Manchester, he was trained in boilermaking in his early years. He joined Newton Heath in February 1901. At Newton Heath, which was renamed Manchester United in 1902, he...

 
1879 after 1910 EnglishProfessional football (soccer) player
Stephen Hayes (hurler)
Stephen Hayes (hurler)
Stephen Hayes was an Irish sportsperson. He played hurling with his local club Blackrock and with the Cork senior inter-county team in the 1880s and 1890s. Murphy captained Cork to a third All-Ireland victory in-a-row in 1894.-Club:Hayes played his club hurling with the famous Blackrock club in...

 
before 1880 (unknown) IrishProfessional hurler
Frank Hayes (unionist)
Frank Hayes (unionist)
Frank J. Hayes was a miner and president of the United Mine Workers of America from 1917 to 1920.He was born in the coal mining town of What Cheer, Iowa, in 1882, but moved with his family as a boy to Illinois...

 
1882 1948 AmericanPresident of the United Mine Workers of America; lieutenant governor of Colorado
J. Milton Hayes
J. Milton Hayes
John Milton Hayes , better known as J. Milton Hayes, was an English actor and poet, best known for his 1911 dramatic monologue The Green Eye of the Yellow God, much parodied by his contemporary Stanley Holloway and later by The Goon Show. He also wrote and performed many other monologues...

 
1884 1940 EnglishActor and poet; known for his dramatic monologues
Ralph Leo Hayes
Ralph Leo Hayes
Ralph Leo Hayes was a 20th century bishop of the Catholic Church in the United States. He served as the fourth bishop of the Diocese of Helena in the state of Montana from 1933–1935, and as the fifth bishop of the Diocese of Davenport in the state of Iowa from 1944-1966...

 
1884 1970 AmericanCatholic bishop of Helena, Montana and Davenport, Iowa: Rector of the Pontifical North American College in Rome, Italy
George 'Gabby' Hayes
George 'Gabby' Hayes
George Francis "Gabby" Hayes was an American radio, film, and television actor. He was best known for his numerous appearances in Western movies as the colorful sidekick to the leading man.-Early years:...

 
1885 1969 AmericanTelevision and film actor; recipient of a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame; inductee into the Western Performers Hall of Fame
Johnny Hayes
Johnny Hayes
John "Johnny" Joseph Hayes was an American athlete, a member of the Irish American Athletic Club, and winner of the marathon race at the 1908 Summer Olympics...

 
1886 1965 AmericanOlympic Gold medalist in the marathon raceSecond generation Irish-American
Michael Hayes (politician)
Michael Hayes (politician)
Michael Hayes was an Irish politician. He was elected to Dáil Éireann at the 1921 general election and served until 1933. He served as Minister for Education during 1922...

 
1889 1976 IrishNational politician
Seán Hayes (Tipperary politician)
Seán Hayes (Tipperary politician)
Seán Hayes was a Fianna Fáil politician in Ireland. He was a Teachta Dala for 10 year, and later a senator for 22 years....

 
1890 1968 IrishNational politician
Born after 1900
Helen Hayes
Helen Hayes
Helen Hayes Brown was an American actress whose career spanned almost 70 years. She eventually garnered the nickname "First Lady of the American Theatre" and was one of twelve people who have won an Emmy, a Grammy, an Oscar and a Tony Award...

 
1900 1993 AmericanActress; winner of Oscar, Tony, Emmy and Grammy awards
John Daniel Hayes
John Daniel Hayes
John Daniel Hayes, was a rear admiral in the United States Navy and a naval historian.-Naval career:...

 
1902 1991 AmericanRear admiral in the United states Navy; naval historian and teacher of naval history
Clancy Hayes
Clancy Hayes
Clarence Leonard Hayes was a jazz vocalist, banjoist and guitarist born November 14, 1908 in Caney, Kansas. He lived in Parsons, Kansas for a short time, and the town is the subject of his song "The Parsons, Kansas Blues": . He worked always as a professional musician, turning up in San Francisco...

 
1908 1972 AmericanJazz singer, banjoist, guitarist
Patricia Hayes
Patricia Hayes
Patricia Lawlor Hayes, OBE was an English comedy actress.Hayes was born in Streatham, London. As a child Hayes attended Sacred Heart School in Wandsworth....

 
1909 1996 EnglishTelevision and film actress; Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE)
Woody Hayes
Woody Hayes
Wayne Woodrow "Woody" Hayes was an American football player and coach. He served as the head coach at Denison University , Miami University , and Ohio State University , compiling a career college football record of 238–72–10.During his 28 seasons as the head coach of the Ohio...

 
1913 1987 AmericanCollege football coach; inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame
Bill Hayes (footballer)
Bill Hayes (footballer)
William Edward "Bill" Hayes , commonly referred to as Bill Hayes or Billy Hayes, is a former Irish footballer who played for Huddersfield Town, Cork United and Burnley. As an international, Hayes played for both Ireland teams - the FAI XI and the IFA XI...

 
1915 1987 IrishProfessional football (soccer) player
John Hayes (harness racer)
John Hayes (harness racer)
John G. Hayes , was a harness racing driver/trainer/owner.Born in Oshawa, Ontario, Canada, he was the son of a dairy farmer who went on to become a prominent figure in harness racing and the first Canadian to be selected to the Little Brown Jug's Wall of Fame...

 
1917 1998 CanadianProfessional horse racer; inducted into the Canadia Horse Racing Hall of Fame
Richard Hayes (Irish politician)
Richard Hayes (Irish politician)
Richard Francis Hayes was an Irish politician, historian and medical doctor. He was elected as a Sinn Féin MP for Limerick East at the 1918 general election...

 
before 1918 1958 IrishNational politician
Seán Hayes (Cork politician)  before 1918 1941 IrishNational politician
John Michael Hayes
John Michael Hayes
John Michael Hayes was an American screenwriter, who scripted several of Alfred Hitchcock's films in the 1950s, and subject of the book "" by Steven DeRosa.-Early life:...

 
1919 (living) AmericanScreenwriter and Alfred Hitchock collaborator; Edgar Award winner
Wallace D. Hayes
Wallace D. Hayes
Wallace D. Hayes was a professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering who made numerous fundamental contributions to the understanding of supersonic flight and supersonic aircraft design....

 
c.1919 2001 Chinese-AmericanProvided fundamental contributions to the understanding of supersonic and hypersonic flight
Stephen Hayes  before 1922 (living) IrishChief of Staff of the Irish Republican Army
Ira Hayes
Ira Hayes
Ira Hamilton Hayes was a Pima Native American and an American Marine who was one of the six men immortalized in the iconic photograph of the flag raising on Iwo Jima during World War II. Hayes was an enrolled member of the Gila River Indian Community in Sacaton, Arizona, and enlisted in the Marine...

 
1923 1955 PimaParamarine in the United States Marine Corps; one of five soldiers who appear in the iconic photograph of the raising of the American flag on the island of Iwo Jima during World War II
Colin Hayes
Colin Hayes
Colin Sidney Hayes was a champion trainer of thoroughbred racehorses based in Adelaide, Australia.During his career he trained 5,333 winners including 524 individual Group or Listed winners. He won 28 Adelaide and 13 Melbourne Trainers' Premierships.-Early days:Colin was born in Semaphore, South...

 
1924 1999 AustralianChampion thoroughbred racehorse trainer; Order of Australia (AM); Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE)
John B. Hayes
John B. Hayes
John Briggs Hayes was a retired United States Coast Guard admiral who served as the 16th Commandant of the United States Coast Guard from 1978 to 1982....

 
1924 2001 AmericanSixteenth Commandant of the United States Coast Guard
Bill Hayes (actor)  1925 (living) AmericanTelevision and stage actor, singer; plays the character Doug Williams on the soap opera Days of our Lives, also wrote The Ballad of Davey Crockett
John Hayes (cricketer)
John Hayes (cricketer)
John Arthur "Johnny" Hayes was a cricketer who played 15 Tests for New Zealand. Primarily a fast bowler bowling late away-swingers with a high action, he took 30 wickets in Tests. Perhaps his finest moment was taking 11 wickets for the New Zealanders against MCC at Lord's in 1958.Hayes was born...

 
1927 2007 New ZealanderProfessional cricketer
Willie Hayes
Willie Hayes
William John Hayes, also referred to as Willie Hayes or Billy Hayes, is a former Irish footballer who played as a goalkeeper for Limerick, Torquay United and Wrexham....

 
c.1928 (unknown) IrishProfessional football (soccer) player
John Hayes (art historian)
John Hayes (art historian)
John Trevor Hayes CBE FRSA was a British art historian and museum director. He was an authority on the paintings of Thomas Gainsborough.-Life and career:...

 
1929 2005 BritishAuthority on the paintings of Thomas Gainsborough; director of the London Museum and National Portrait Gallery
John Hayes (director)
John Hayes (director)
John Hayes was an American film director, producer, screenwriter, and actor. Hayes is best known for directing low-budget drive-in B-movie features and later, exploitation films.-Career:...

 
1930 2000 AmericanB-movie genre film director
David Hayes (sculptor)
David Hayes (sculptor)
-Life:David Hayes received an A.B. degree from the University of Notre Dame in 1953, and a M.F.A. degree from Indiana University in 1955 where he studied with David Smith....

 
1931 (living) AmericanAward-winning sculptor
Brian Hayes (broadcaster)
Brian Hayes (broadcaster)
Brian Hayes is a radio presenter who is known in United Kingdom for his phone-in shows.The son of a miner, he left school aged 15 and worked as a clerk for a mining company before obtaining a job as a newsreader for a radio station in Kalgoorlie, Western Australia...

 
1937 (living) AustralianRadio personality
Mickie Most
Mickie Most
Mickie Most was an English record producer, with a string of hit singles with acts such as The Animals, Arrows, Herman's Hermits, Donovan, Suzi Quatro and the Jeff Beck Group often issued on his own RAK Records label....

 
1938 2003 EnglishRecord producerborn "Michael Peter Hayes"
Vic Hayes
Vic Hayes
Victor "Vic" Hayes is a Senior Research Fellow at the Delft University of Technology. His role in establishing and chairing the IEEE 802.11 Standards Working Group for Wireless Local Area Networks has led to him being referred to by some as the "Father of Wi-Fi".-Awards and honors:He is the...

 
1941 (living) Dutch"Father of Wi-Fi
Wi-Fi
Wi-Fi or Wifi, is a mechanism for wirelessly connecting electronic devices. A device enabled with Wi-Fi, such as a personal computer, video game console, smartphone, or digital audio player, can connect to the Internet via a wireless network access point. An access point has a range of about 20...

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Bob Hayes
Bob Hayes
Robert Lee "Bullet Bob" Hayes was an Olympic sprinter turned American football wide receiver in the National Football League for the Dallas Cowboys. An American track and field athlete, he was a two-sport stand-out in college in both track and football at Florida A&M University...

 
1942 2002 AmericanOlympic Gold Medalist sprinter; professional football player; at one time considered the world's fastest man
Isaac Hayes
Isaac Hayes
Isaac Lee Hayes, Jr. was an American songwriter, musician, singer and actor. Hayes was one of the creative influences behind the southern soul music label Stax Records, where he served both as an in-house songwriter and as a record producer, teaming with his partner David Porter during the...

 
1942 2008 AmericanSoul and funk musician; winner of Oscar and Grammy awards
Patrick J. Hayes
Patrick J. Hayes
Patrick John Hayes or Pat Hayes is a British computer scientist who lives and works in the United States. , he is a Senior Research Scientist at the Institute for Human and Machine Cognition in Pensacola, Florida. He received a B.A. in Mathematics from University of Cambridge and a Ph.D...

 
1944 (living) BritishComputer scientist known for his seminal and continuing contributions to the field of Artificial Intelligence
Frank Hayes (cricketer)
Frank Hayes (cricketer)
Frank Charles Hayes is a former English cricketer, who played in nine Tests and six ODIs from 1973 to 1976...

 
1946 (living) EnglishProfessional cricketer
Billy Hayes (writer)  1947 (living) AmericanFilm writer, actor, director; author of Midnight Express
John Hayes (NZ politician)
John Hayes (NZ politician)
John Bernard Hayes, ONZM is a New Zealand politician and diplomat. He became a MP in 2005, representing the electorate of Wairarapa for the National Party.- Career :...

 
1948 (living) New ZealanderMember of Parliament
Mark Hayes (golfer)
Mark Hayes (golfer)
Mark S. Hayes is an American professional golfer.-Early years and amateur career:Hayes was born in Stillwater, Oklahoma. He played collegiately at Oklahoma State University, where he was a two-time All-American...

 
1949 (living) AmericanProfessional golfer
Stephen K. Hayes
Stephen K. Hayes
Stephen K. Hayes is an American Bujinkan ninjutsu master, Buddhist priest and writer.-Life and martial arts:Stephen K. Hayes was born in Wilmington, Delaware and raised in Dayton, Ohio. He graduated from Fairmont West High School, Kettering, Ohio in 1967. He began formal training in the martial...

 
1949 (living) AmericanMartial arts instructor and author; inductee into the Black Belt Hall of Fame (Instructor of the Year); former security advisor and bodyguard to the Dalai Lama of Tibet
Born after 1950
Dennis Hayes
Dennis Hayes
Dennis Hayes was the founder of Hayes Microcomputer Products, a maker of modems mostly known for introducing the Hayes command set which has subsequently been used in most modems produced to this day....

 
1950 (living) AmericanCo-developer of the first commercial modem for the IBM PC; founder of Hayes Microcomputer Products
Jerry Hayes
Jerry Hayes
Jeremy Joseph James Hayes, known as Jerry Hayes, is a British former Conservative politician, the MP for Harlow in Essex from 1983 until 1997. He subsequently returned to practising criminal law.-Political career:...

 
1953 (living) BritishNational politician; barrister
Mark Hayes (composer)
Mark Hayes (composer)
Mark Hayes is an American composer and arranger. His predominant output is of choral music in the Christian sacred music and gospel music genres.- Biography :Hayes was born in Ladysmith, Wisconsin...

 
1953 (living) AmericanGospel music composer
Beth Hayes
Beth Hayes
Beth Hayes was an American economist specializing in theoretical microeconomics. She has been memorialized by an award established by the University of Pennsylvania.-Educational Background:...

 
1955 1984 AmericanEconomist specializing in theoretical microeconomics
Chris Hayes (politician)
Chris Hayes (politician)
Christopher Patrick "Chris" Hayes , Australian Labor Party politician, was elected to the Australian House of Representatives on 19 March 2005 in a by-election for the Division of Werriwa, New South Wales, succeeding former party leader Mark Latham.Hayes was educated at De La Salle College,...

 
1955 (living) AustralianNational politician for the Division of Werriwa
Austin Hayes
Austin Hayes
Austin William Patrick Hayes was an English-born footballer of Irish descent, who played once as a full international for the Republic of Ireland in 1979, the same year that he collected a Football League Cup runners-up medal with Southampton.-Football career:Hayes was born in Hammersmith, London...

 
1958 1986 IrishProfessional football (soccer) player
John Henry Hayes
John Henry Hayes
John Henry Hayes FRSA is a British Conservative Party politician. He is the Member of Parliament for South Holland and The Deepings, and a member of the socially conservative Cornerstone Group...

 
1958 (living) EnglishNational politician
Michael Hayes (wrestler)
Michael Hayes (wrestler)
Michael Seitz is a retired American professional wrestler and former musician. Seitz is best known for leading The Fabulous Freebirds under the ring name Michael "P.S." Hayes and for his role as the announcer Dok Hendrix in the World Wrestling Federation...

 
1959 (living) AmericanProfessional wrestler and writer for professional wrestling events
Calvin Hayes  1960 (living) EnglishMusician; founding member of Johnny Hates Jazz
David A. Hayes  1962 (living) AustralianThoroughbred racehorse trainer
Bruce Hayes (swimmer)
Bruce Hayes (swimmer)
Lawrence Hayes is a retired American freestyle and individual medley swimmer in the early 1980s. Hayes is best known for anchoring the U.S...

 
1963 (living) AmericanOlympic Gold Medalist swimmer
David Hayes
David Hayes (conductor)
David Hayes is an American conductor.Hayes was educated at the University of Hartford, Hartt School of Music and The Curtis Institute of Music where his teacher was Otto-Werner Mueller...

 
(b.1963) American Conductor Director The Philadelphia Singers
The Philadelphia Singers
The Philadelphia Singers is a choir in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.A. The group was founded by Michael Korn in 1972 and is currently directed by David Hayes...

Stevie Plunder
Stevie Plunder
Stevie Plunder was an Australian guitarist, singer and songwriter, best known as founding member and guitarist for Australian piano-based rock band The Whitlams.-Early years:...

 
1963 1996 AustralianSinger/songwriter; founding member of The Whitlams
Bernie Hayes
Bernie Hayes
Bernie Hayes is an Australian singer/songwriter who has released two albums as a solo artist and written songs for other Australian artists notably "You Made Me Hard" which was the third single from the The Whitlams Love This City album....

 
before 1963 (living) AustralianSinger/songwriter
Christian Hayes
Christian Hayes
Christian Hayes , also known as Bic Hayes, is an English rock guitarist, singer and songwriter. His highest profile musical role has been fronting the band Dark Star between 1998 and 2001, whom he formed with fellow ex-Levitation members David Francolini and Laurence O'Keefe.He has also played in a...

 
1964 (living) EnglishRock singer, songwriter, guitarist
Michael Hayes (spree killer)
Michael Hayes (spree killer)
The Old Salisbury Road murders was a spree killing in North Carolina, committed by Michael Charles Hayes on July 17, 1988...

 
1964 (living) AmericanMurderer notable for successful use of insanity as a defense
J. P. Hayes  1965 (living) AmericanProfessional golfer
Andrea Hayes
Andrea Hayes
Andrea Jean Hayes is a retired female backstroke swimmer from the United States, who represented her native country at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, South Korea. She is best known for winning a gold medal at the inaugural 1985 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships in Tokyo, Japan.-References:*...

 
1969 (living) AmericanBackstroke swimmer
Brian Hayes (politician)
Brian Hayes (politician)
Brian Hayes is an Irish Fine Gael politician. He is currently a Teachta Dála for the Dublin South West constituency and also the Minister of State at the Department of Finance.-Early life:...

 
1969 (living) IrishNational politician
Sean Hayes (musician)
Sean Hayes (musician)
Sean Padrick Hayes is an American singer-songwriter.Hayes is a native of New York City, but raised in North Carolina. He began playing traditional American and Irish music with a band called the Boys of Bluehill...

 
1969 (living) AmericanFolk music singer-songwriter
Trisa Hayes
Trisa Hayes
Trisa Hayes Laughlin is an American professional wrestling valet, better known by her ring name, Beulah McGillicutty. She is best known for her appearances with Extreme Championship Wrestling in the late 1990s...

 
1969 (living) AmericanProfessional wrestler
Sean Hayes (actor)
Sean Hayes (actor)
Sean Patrick Hayes is an American actor and comedian. He is widely known for his role as Jack McFarland in the NBC sitcom Will & Grace, for which he won an Emmy Award, four SAG Awards, one American Comedy Award, and six Golden Globes nominations.He also portrayed comedian Jerry Lewis in the...

 
1970 (living) AmericanFilm and television actor; Emmy award winner
Chris Hayes (American football)
Chris Hayes (American football)
Christopher Kareem Hayes is a former American football defensive back in the National Football League for the Green Bay Packers, the New York Jets, and the New England Patriots. Hayes played college football at Washington State University.He was drafted by the New York Jets in the 7th round of...

 
1972 (living) AmericanProfessional football player
Darren Hayes
Darren Hayes
Darren Stanley Hayes is a UK-based Australian singer-songwriter. Hayes was the front man and singer of the pop duo Savage Garden, whose 1997 album Savage Garden peaked at No. 1 in Australia, No. 2 in United Kingdom and No. 3 in United States...

 
1972 (living) AustralianPop and electronica singer, songwriter
David Hayes (musician)
David Hayes (musician)
David Hayes is an American bass guitar player.Hayes has worked with Van Morrison, The Rowans, Terry & The Pirates, Southside Johnny and the Asbury Jukes, Country Joe McDonald and others....

 
before 1973 (living) AmericanBass guitar player
Edwina Hayes
Edwina Hayes
Edwina Hayes is an English singer-songwriter. She grew up in Preston, Lancashire before moving to the East Riding of Yorkshire where she gained her first musical experience playing cover versions.-Solo career:...

 
1973 (living) Irish-EnglishSinger, songwriter
John Hayes (rugby player)
John Hayes (rugby player)
John Hayes is an Irish rugby union player, who plays in the RaboDirect Pro12 and Heineken Cup for Munster. Having spent his underage career playing with the local Cappamore GAA club, he was 18 when he started playing rugby. It was his size which enabled him to overcome his late start to the sport...

 
1973 (living) IrishProfessional rugby union player
Janet Gray Hayes
Janet Gray Hayes
Janet Gray Hayes was the mayor of San Jose, California from 1975 - 1983. She was both the first woman to be elected mayor San Jose, and the first woman elected mayor of any major city in the United States.-References:...

 
before 1975 (living) AmericanSixtieth Mayor of San Jose, California
Josh Hayes
Josh Hayes
Joshua Kurt "Josh" Hayes is a professional motorcycle roadracer who turned pro in 1996. He currently races in the AMA Superbike series on a Graves Yamaha YZF-R1...

 
1975 (living) AmericanProfessional motorcycle racer
David Hayes (soccer)
David Hayes (soccer)
David Hayes is a American soccer player currently playing for FC Tampa Bay in the North American Soccer League....

 
1976 (living) AmericanProfessional football (soccer) player
Christopher Hayes (journalist)
Christopher Hayes (journalist)
Christopher L. "Chris" Hayes is an American broadcaster, journalist and liberal political commentator. Hayes hosts Up with Chris Hayes, a weekend news and opinion television show on MSNBC. Hayes had formerly been a frequent guest host and commentator on shows such as The Rachel Maddow Show and...

 
1979 (living) AmericanJournalist; editor of The Nation
Frank Hayes (musician)  before 1980 (living) AmericanFilk musician; computer technology columnist
Lenny Hayes
Lenny Hayes
Lenny Hayes is a professional Australian rules footballer playing with St Kilda Football Club in the Australian Football League.Hayes is a former captain of St Kilda and continues to be an onfield leader in the Saints' midfield....

 
1980 (living) Australian Rules Football
Australian rules football
Australian rules football, officially known as Australian football, also called football, Aussie rules or footy is a sport played between two teams of 22 players on either...

 player
David Hayes (writer)
David Hayes (writer)
David Hayes is Canadian feature writer, author, editor and teacher. He has written three nonfiction books: No Easy Answers: The Trial and Conviction of Bruce Curtis , Power and Influence: The Globe and Mail and the News Revolution and The Lost Squadron .He has also ghostwritten international...

 
before 1986 (living) CanadianNon-fiction author and essayist
Isaac Hayes III
Isaac Hayes III
Isaac Hayes III, aka IKE DIRTY is the son of the late soul musician Isaac Hayes and is a record producer and voice over actor who resides in Atlanta, Georgia.- Biography :...

 
1942 2008 AmericanRecord producer and voice actor

Additional notable people

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  • Brian Hayes (scientist)
    Brian Hayes (scientist)
    Brian Hayes is an American scientist, columnist and author.He is a senior writer and regular columnist for the magazine American Scientist, and was editor in chief for the magazine from 1990 to 1992. He has also edited and written columns for Scientific American, as well as writing for Computer...

  • Richard Hayes (professor), Academic in the areas of Buddhist philosophy and Sanskrit

Fictional characters sharing the Hayes surname

  • Ainsley Hayes in the American television series The West Wing
  • Angela Hayes in the Academy Award winning film "American Beauty
    American Beauty (film)
    American Beauty is a 1999 American drama film directed by Sam Mendes and written by Alan Ball. Kevin Spacey stars as Lester Burnham, a middle-aged magazine writer who has a midlife crisis when he becomes infatuated with his teenage daughter's best friend, Angela...

    " (1999)
  • Ben Hayes in the 2005 American film remake of King Kong
  • Blake Hayes
    Blake Hayes
    Blake Hayes was a fictional character in the American soap opera The Bold and the Beautiful. He was played by actor Peter Brown from 1991 to 1992.-Taylor's first husband:...

     in the American television soap opera The Bold and the Beautiful
  • Damian Hayes, a character in Degrassi: The Next Generation
  • Dolores Hayes, the eponymous character from the Vladimir Nabokov
    Vladimir Nabokov
    Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov was a multilingual Russian novelist and short story writer. Nabokov wrote his first nine novels in Russian, then rose to international prominence as a master English prose stylist...

     novel, Lolita
    Lolita
    Lolita is a novel by Vladimir Nabokov, first written in English and published in 1955 in Paris and 1958 in New York, and later translated by the author into Russian...

  • Harriet Hayes
    Harriet Hayes
    Hannah Harriet Hayes is a fictional character on the US television series Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip, played by Sarah Paulson. The character is loosely based on actress Kristin Chenoweth ;; there is an opinion that she is also at least partially based on former Saturday...

     (or Hannah Harriet Hayes) in the American television series Studio 60
  • Henry Hayes
    Henry Hayes
    Henry Hayes may refer to:*Henry Hayes , a fictional character in the Stargate universe*Henry Browne Hayes, Irish-born convict*Henry Hayes Lockwood, American soldier and authority on military tactics...

     in Stargate SG-1
    Stargate SG-1
    Stargate SG-1 is a Canadian-American adventure and military science fiction television series and part of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's Stargate franchise. The show, created by Brad Wright and Jonathan Glassner, is based on the 1994 feature film Stargate by Dean Devlin and Roland Emmerich...

  • Major J. Hayes in the third season of Star Trek: Enterprise
  • Karen Hayes
    Karen Hayes
    Karen Hayes is a fictional character on the television program 24 portrayed by actress Jayne Atkinson. She appeared as a recurring character in twelve episodes of the fifth season and was a main cast member in eighteen episodes of the sixth season....

     in the American television series 24
  • Lisa Hayes
    Lisa Hayes
    Lisa Hayes is one of the fictional characters in the first Robotech anime television series. She is known as Misa Hayase in The Super Dimension Fortress Macross, the series which was adapted into the first saga of Robotech.- Biography :...

     in the anime Robotech
    Robotech
    Robotech is an 85-episode science fiction anime adaptation produced by Harmony Gold USA in association with Tatsunoko Production Co., Ltd. and first released in the United States in 1985...

  • Logan Hayes in the American television Award Winning Soap Opera General Hospital
  • Maddie Hayes in the American television series Moonlighting
    Moonlighting (TV series)
    Moonlighting is an American television series that aired on ABC from March 3, 1985, to May 14, 1989. The network aired a total of 66 episodes...

  • Michael Hayes
    Michael Hayes
    Michael Hayes may refer to:* Michael Hayes , TV director of Dr. Who episodes, such as the serial City of Death* Michael Hayes , Irish Fine Gael politician...

     in American TV series by same name (1997–1998)
  • Farmer Michael Hayes in the Christy Moore
    Christy Moore
    Christopher Andrew "Christy" Moore is a popular Irish folk singer, songwriter, and guitarist. He is well known as one of the founding members of Planxty and Moving Hearts...

     song The Pursuit of Farmer Michael Hayes
  • Taylor Hayes in the American television soap opera The Bold and the Beautiful
  • William Hayes, the main character in the film "Midnight Express
    Midnight Express (film)
    Released on October 6, 1978, the soundtrack to Midnight Express was composed by Italian synth-pioneer Giorgio Moroder. The score won the Academy Award for Best Original Score of 1978.Side A:#Chase – Giorgio Moroder...

    " (1978)
  • Willie Mays Hayes in the films Major League
    Major League (film)
    Major League is a 1989 American satire comedy film written and directed by David S. Ward, starring Tom Berenger, Charlie Sheen, Wesley Snipes, James Gammon, and Corbin Bernsen. Made for US$11 million, Major League grossed nearly US$50 million in domestic release...

    and Major League II
    Major League II
    Major League II is a 1994 sequel to the 1989 film Major League. Major League II stars most of the same cast from the original, including Charlie Sheen, Tom Berenger, and Corbin Bernsen. Absent from this film is Wesley Snipes, who played Willie Mays Hayes in the first film and who by 1994 had become...


See also

  • Billy Hayes (disambiguation)Brian Hayes (disambiguation)
  • Chris Hayes (disambiguation)
  • David Hayes (disambiguation)
  • Frank Hayes (disambiguation)
    Frank Hayes (disambiguation)
    Frank Hayes is the name of:*Frank Hayes , American comic actor in silent films who was one of the Keystone Kops*Frank Hayes , American labor leader who was president of United Mine Workers of America from 1917 to 1920*Frank Hayes , American jockey who died of a heart attack in the midst of a...

  • Jeremy Hayes (disambiguation)John Hayes (disambiguation)
  • Mark Hayes (disambiguation)Michael Hayes (disambiguation)
  • Richard Hayes (disambiguation)
    Richard Hayes (disambiguation)
    Richard Hayes may refer to:*Richard Hayes , a professor of Buddhist philosophy.*Richard Hayes , Irish politician, historian, film censor and medical doctor...

  • Sean Hayes (disambiguation)
    Sean Hayes (disambiguation)
    Sean Hayes may refer to:*Seán Hayes , Sinn Féin member of the 1st Dáil Éireann, and the 2nd and 3rd*Seán Hayes , Fianna Fáil TD for Tipperary, later a senator...

    Stephen Hayes (disambiguation)
  • Thomas Hayes (disambiguation)
  • William Hayes (disambiguation)
  • Hays (disambiguation)
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