Laya is a surname. Notable people with the name include: *

Argelia Laya Argelia Laya (10 July 1926 – 27 November 1997) was an Afro-Venezuelan educator and women's rights activist. She campaigned for women's suffrage and was one of the first Venezuelan women to openly speak of a woman's right to have children outsi ...

(1926–1997), Venezuelan educator and activist *

Diouldé Laya Diouldé Laya (aka Juulde Layya; 1937 - 27 July 2014) was a noted Nigerien sociologist and from 1977 to 1997 was director of the Centre d'Etudes Linguistiques et Historiques par Tradition Orale (CELHTO) in Niamey. He published widely. Background ...

(1937–2014), Nigerien sociologist *

Jaime C. Laya Jaime del Carmen Laya, better known as Jimmy Laya (born January 8, 1939) is a Filipino banker, accountant, and cultural administrator who served as the first Secretary of the Department of Budget and Management (as Minister of Budget) of the Rep ...

(born 1939), Filipino banker and government official *

Jean-Louis Laya Jean-Louis Laya (4 December 1761, Paris – 25 August 1833, Meudon) was a French playwright. He wrote his first comedy in collaboration with Gabriel-Marie Legouvé in 1785. The piece, however, though accepted by the Comédie française, was never ...

(1761–1833), French playwright *

Léon Laya Léon Laya (c.1810 in Paris – 5 September 1872 in Paris) was a 19th-century French playwright. The académicien Jean-Louis Laya was his father. Léon Laya was the author of a number of successful comedies, alternating between the delicacy or pu ...

(–1872), French playwright

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