James Kay may refer to: *

James Kay (British inventor) James Kay (born near Entwistle, Lancashire, 1774; died Turton, Lancashire, 1857) was a British inventor who developed a successful wet spinning process for flax in 1824, helping industrialise linen spinning in the British Isles. Thus allowing ...

(1774–1857), British inventor *

James J. Kay James J. Kay (June 18, 1954 – May 30, 2004) was an ecological scientist and policy-maker. He was a respected physicist best known for his theoretical work on complexity and thermodynamics. Biography James Kay held a BS in physics from McGill ...

(1954–2004), ecological scientist and policy-maker *

Sir James Kay-Shuttleworth, 1st Baronet Sir James Phillips Kay-Shuttleworth, 1st Baronet (20 July 1804 – 26 May 1877, born James Kay) of Gawthorpe Hall, Lancashire, was a British politician and educationist. He founded a further-education college that would eventually become Plymo ...

(1804–1877), British politician and educationalist * James Kay (artist) (1858–1942), Scottish artist *

James Franklin Kay James Franklin Kay (born May 18, 1948) is the Joe R. Engle Professor of Homiletics and Liturgics Emeritus, and Dean and Vice President of Academic Affairs Emeritus at Princeton Theological Seminary. Biography Born in Kansas City, Missouri, Kay ea ...

(born 1948), American professor *

James Ellsworth De Kay James Ellsworth De Kay (alternatively spelled DeKay or Dekay) (October 12, 1792 – November 21, 1851) was an American zoologist. Biography James De Kay was born in Lisbon, Portugal, in 1792. When he was two years old, his family moved to New Yor ...

(1792–1851), American zoologist * James Kay (Kentucky politician) (born 1982), member of the Kentucky House of Representatives * James Kay (golfer) (1855–1927), Scottish golfer

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