John Kay
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- John Kay (flying shuttle)John Kay (flying shuttle)John Kay was the inventor of the flying shuttle, which was a key contribution to the Industrial Revolution. He is often confused with his namesake: fellow Lancastrian textile machinery inventor, the unrelated John Kay who built the first "spinning frame".-Life in England:John Kay was born...
(1704–c.1779), English inventor of textile machinery, notably the flying shuttle - John Kay (spinning frame)John Kay (spinning frame)John Kay was a clockmaker from Warrington, Lancashire, England known for the scandal associated with the invention of the spinning frame in 1767: an important stage in the development of textile manufacturing in the Industrial Revolution...
(17??–17??), English developer of textile machinery, notably the spinning frame (not the same as John Kay the inventor of the flying shuttle) - John Kay (caricaturist)John Kay (caricaturist)John Kay was a Scottish caricaturist and engraver.He was born near Dalkeith, where his father was a mason. At thirteen he was apprenticed to a barber, whom he served for six years. He then went to Edinburgh, where in 1771 he obtained the freedom of the city by joining the corporation of...
(1742–1826), Scottish caricaturist - Sir John Kay (judge)John Kay (judge)Sir John William Kay PC was a Lord Justice of the Court of Appeal of England and Wales and member of the Privy Council from 2000 until his death....
(1943–2004), British High Court judge - John Kay (musician)John Kay (musician)John Kay is a German-Canadian singer, songwriter and guitarist known as the frontman of Steppenwolf...
(born 1944), musician and lead singer of Canadian rock band Steppenwolf - John Kay (poet)John Kay (poet)John Kay was a fifteenth-century English poet who described himself as the versificator regis to Edward IV of England. If it ever existed, none of his poetic work remains....
(14th century), English Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom - John Kay (economist)John Kay (economist)John Kay is a leading British business economist of centrist persuasion.Kay was educated at the Royal High School, Edinburgh University, and Nuffield College, Oxford...
(born 1948), Scottish economist, Financial Times columnist and author - John Kay (cricket journalist)John Kay (cricket journalist)John Kay was a British cricket correspondent for the Manchester Evening News from the end of the Second World War to 1975 and for the Brighton Argus...
, British cricket correspondent for The Argus who introduced Basil d'Oliveira to English cricket - John Kay (journalist)John Kay (journalist)John Kay is a British journalist who has worked for The Sun newspaper since 1974, and was appointed the publication's chief reporter in 1990...
(born 1944), British journalist on Rupert Murdoch's The Sun - John Kay (footballer)John Kay (footballer)John Leck Kay was a Scottish footballer of the 1870s and 1880s.Kay's first senior club was Third Lanark where he won a Scottish Cup runners-up medal in 1878. He moved to Queen's Park in 1879 where he won three successive Scottish Cup winners' medals in 1880, 1881 and 1882...
, Scottish soccer player of the 1870s and 1880s - John Caius the ElderJohn Caius the ElderJohn Caius or Kay, sometimes called the elder, , was an English poet.Caius is the author of an English poem relating the history of the siege of Rhodes unsuccessfully undertaken by Mahommed II in 1480. It was printed in London in 1506, but has no printer's name, and although some of the type...
, or John Kay, poet
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- Jon KayJon KayJon Kay is an English television presenter known for his work on BBC News.-History:Kay grew up in Cheshire, and at 18 attended the University of Exeter in Devon. After graduation in 1992, he joined the BBC as a trainee local reporter...
, BBC broadcast journalist - Johnny Kay, lead guitarist for Bill Haley and His Comets from 1961 to 1967