Keyes
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Keyes is a common 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"...

. It may refer to several notable people:
  • Alan Keyes
    Alan Keyes
    Alan Lee Keyes is an American conservative political activist, author, former diplomat, and perennial candidate for public office. A doctoral graduate of Harvard University, Keyes began his diplomatic career in the U.S...

     (born 1950), American politician and diplomat
  • Carlito Keyes, fictional character
  • Charles Henry Keyes
    Charles Henry Keyes
    Charles Henry Keyes, Ph.D. , was a notable American educator. He was the first president of the Throop Polytechnic Institute and he became the first president of Skidmore College in 1912....

     (1858–1925), American educator
  • Charles Reuben Keyes
    Charles R. Keyes
    For the Iowa geologist, see Charles Rollin Keyes.Charles Reuben Keyes was a pioneering Iowa archaeologist, and linguist. He is best remembered as the founder of modern Iowa archaeology. While his early work dealt with lingusitcs, by the 1920s Keyes focused his research almost exclusively on...

     (1871-1951), American archaeologist
  • Charles Rollin Keyes
    Charles Rollin Keyes
    For the Iowa archaeologist, see Charles Reuben Keyes.Charles Rollin Keyes was a U.S. geologist and in 1918 was a U.S. Senate candidate in Iowa. Born in Des Moines, Iowa, he graduated from Iowa State University in 1887. He worked for the United States Geological Survey. He earned a Ph.D. from Johns...

     (1864-1942), American geologist
  • Daniel Keyes
    Daniel Keyes
    Daniel Keyes is an American author best known for his Hugo award-winning short story and Nebula award-winning novel Flowers for Algernon. Keyes was given the Author Emeritus honor by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America in 2000.-Early life and career:Keyes was born in Brooklyn, New...

     (born 1927), American author
  • Erasmus D. Keyes
    Erasmus D. Keyes
    Erasmus Darwin Keyes was a businessman, banker, and military general, noted for leading the IV Corps of the Union Army of the Potomac during the first half of the American Civil War.-Early life and career:...

     (1810-1895), American general
  • Eric Keyes
    Eric Keyes
    Eric Keyes is a guitarist and singer based in Denton, TX. He is well known as a performer as well as for his proficiency on guitar....

     (born 1969), guitarist
  • Evelyn Keyes
    Evelyn Keyes
    Evelyn Louise Keyes was an American film actress. She is best-known for her role as Suellen O'Hara in the 1939 film Gone with the Wind.-Early life:...

     (1916-2008), American actress
  • Frances Parkinson Keyes
    Frances Parkinson Keyes
    Frances Parkinson Keyes was an American author, and a convert to Roman Catholicism, whose works frequently featured Catholic themes and beliefs. Her last name rhymes with "skies," not "keys."-Life and career:...

     (1885-1970), American author
  • Geoffrey Charles Tasker Keyes
    Geoffrey Charles Tasker Keyes
    Lieutenant-Colonel Geoffrey Charles Tasker Keyes, VC, MC was a Scottish recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces...

     (1917-1941), VC, British Major killed in the raid on Rommel
  • Geoffrey Keyes
    Geoffrey Keyes
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     (1888-1967), major general in the U.S. Army during World War II
  • Gregory Keyes
    Gregory Keyes
    Gregory Keyes is an American writer of science fiction and fantasy who has written both original and media-related novels under both the names "J. Gregory Keyes" and "Greg Keyes". He is famous for his quartet The Age of Unreason, a steampunk/alchemical story starring Benjamin Franklin and Isaac...

     (born 1963), science fiction and fantasy writer
  • Henry Keyes
    Henry Keyes
    Henry Keyes was a prominent politician and railroad executive from Vermont. He was a state senator and was a candidate for governor of Vermont three times. He also served as president of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway.In 1825 he moved to Newbury, Vermont, where he preferred to stay as...

     (1810-1870), American politician and railroad executive
  • Henry W. Keyes
    Henry W. Keyes
    Henry Wilder Keyes was an American farmer, banker, and Republican politician from Haverhill, New Hampshire. Born in 1863 in Newbury, Vermont, he was raised in New Hampshire. His father was a prominent New England farmer, merchant, and railroad investor. Keyes graduated from Harvard with a B.A...

     (1863-1938), politician
  • Homer Eaton Keyes
    Homer Eaton Keyes
    Homer Eaton Keyes , was an author and professor at Dartmouth College, and the founder and editor of the magazine Antiques.-Biography:...

     (1875-1938), Dartmouth professor
  • Jocelyn Marcel Keyes (born 1950), American political activist
  • Joe Keyes
    Joe Keyes
    Joe Keyes was an American jazz trumpeter who played in several leading bands in the 1930s and 1940s, including those of Bennie Moten, Count Basie, and Oran "Hot Lips" Page.-Life and career:...

     (c.1907-1950), American jazz trumpeter
  • Ken Keyes (politician)
    Ken Keyes (politician)
    Kenneth A. Keyes is a former politician in Ontario, Canada. He was a Liberal member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1985 to 1990, and served as a cabinet minister in the government of David Peterson.Keyes was educated at Toronto Teacher's College, Queen's University and the University...

     (born 1930), Ontario politician
  • Ken Keyes, Jr.
    Ken Keyes, Jr.
    Ken Keyes, Jr. was a personal growth author and lecturer, and the creator of the Living Love method, a self-help system...

     (1921-1995), author and lecturer
  • Laurel Elizabeth Keyes
    Laurel Elizabeth Keyes
    Laurel Elizabeth Keyes was an American author, lecturer and counselor. She is best-known for her early works on sound therapy and weight management.-Biography:...

     (died 1983), counselor
  • Marian Keyes
    Marian Keyes
    Marian Keyes is an Irish Book Awards-winner Irish novelist and non-fiction writer, best known for her work in women's literature. She has sold over more 22 million copies worldwide and been translated into 32 languages...

     (born 1963), Irish writer
  • Maya Keyes
    Maya Keyes
    Maya Jeane Marcel-Keyes is an American social and political activist and daughter of Alan Keyes, a candidate for the 2008 Republican presidential nomination. Marcel-Keyes has been involved with the anarchist and gay rights movements, despite her staunch conservative upbringing...

     (born 1985), daughter of American politician and diplomat Alan Keyes
  • Michael Keyes
    Michael Keyes
    Michael J. Keyes was an Irish Labour Party politician. He was first elected to Dáil Éireann on his second attempt in 1927 as a Labour Party TD for Limerick. He lost his seat in the second election in 1927 and failed to be elected in 1932, however, he returned to the Dáil in 1933. In 1949 he joined...

    , former Irish politician
  • Miranda Keyes, fictional character in Halo 3
    Halo 3
    Halo 3 is a first-person shooter video game developed by Bungie for the Xbox 360 console. The third installment in the Halo franchise, the game concludes the story arc begun in Halo: Combat Evolved and continued in Halo 2...

  • Perley Keyes
    Perley Keyes
    Perley Keyes was an American politician from New York.-Life:...

     (1774-1834), New York politician
  • Ralph Keyes
    Ralph Keyes
    Ralph Keyes is a rugby player who won 8 caps playing at fly-half for the Irish rugby union side. He made his international test debut at the age of 24 on 1 March 1986 against England...

     (born 1961), Rugby Player
  • Ralph Keyes (author)
    Ralph Keyes (author)
    Ralph Keyes is an author and lecturer who has written 16 books including Is There Life After High School?, which was adapted as a musical that opened on Broadway in 1982 and is still produced by theater groups across the United States...

     (born 1945)
  • Roger John Brownlow Keyes, 1st Baron Keyes
    Roger John Brownlow Keyes, 1st Baron Keyes
    Admiral of the Fleet Roger John Brownlow Keyes, 1st Baron Keyes, Bt GCB KCVO CMG DSO RN was a noted British admiral, with an active service life that included 19th-century African anti-slavery patrols to the Allied landings in Leyte in World War II...

     (1872-1945), British admiral and hero
  • Sammy Keyes
    Sammy Keyes
    Sammy Keyes is a series of mystery novels written by Wendelin Van Draanen for children aged 9–15. The series focuses on Sammy's adventures as an amateur sleuth. The books, which are narrated in the first-person perspective by Sammy, involve detective fiction as well as comedy...

    , fictional character
  • Sidney Keyes
    Sidney Keyes
    Sidney Arthur Kilworth Keyes was an English poet of World War II.- Early years :Keyes was born on 27 May 1922. He attended Tonbridge School for his secondary education and later, for his tertiary, the University of Oxford...

     (1922-1943), English poet and soldier during World War II.
  • Stan Keyes
    Stan Keyes
    Stanley Kazmierczak Keyes, PC is a Canadian diplomat and former politician.Keyes was first elected to the House of Commons in 1988 election as the Liberal Party of Canada Member of Parliament for Hamilton West. He was subsequently reelected in 1993, 1997 and 2000 elections...

     (born 1953), Canadian politician
  • Thomas Keyes
    Thomas Keyes
    Thomas Keyes was the Royal Gatekeeper to the Queen regnant, Elizabeth I of England. He married her Majesty's cousin, Lady Mary Grey in 1564 without her consent. Upon hearing the ill-advised ceremony had taken place, Elizabeth is said to have declared with great wrath, ".....

     (1523-1571), Royal gatekeeper to Queen Elizabeth I of England
    Elizabeth I of England
    Elizabeth I was queen regnant of England and Ireland from 17 November 1558 until her death. Sometimes called The Virgin Queen, Gloriana, or Good Queen Bess, Elizabeth was the fifth and last monarch of the Tudor dynasty...

  • Wade Keyes
    Wade Keyes
    Wade Keyes was a prominent Confederate politician.He was born in Mooresville, Alabama, the son of General George and Nellie Keyes. He was educated by private tutors and attended LaGrange College and the University of Virginia before moving to Lexington, Kentucky, in late 1840s to study law...

     (1821-1879), Confederate
    Confederate States of America
    The Confederate States of America was a government set up from 1861 to 1865 by 11 Southern slave states of the United States of America that had declared their secession from the U.S...

     politician


It may also refer to:
  • Baron Keyes
    Baron Keyes
    Baron Keyes, of Zeebrugge, and Dover in the County of Kent, is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. It was created in 1943 for the prominent naval commander Admiral of the Fleet Sir Roger Keyes, 1st Baronet...

    , a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom
  • Roswell Keyes Colcord (1839-1939), Governor of Nevada from 1891 to 1895
  • Captain Jacob Keyes and his daughter Miranda, fictional characters from the video game Halo


Keyes may also refer to several places in the United States
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

:
  • Keyes, California
    Keyes, California
    Keyes is a census-designated place in Stanislaus County, California, United States. The population was 5,601 at the 2010 census, up from 4,575 at the 2000 census...

  • Keyes, Oklahoma
    Keyes, Oklahoma
    Keyes is a town in Cimarron County, Oklahoma, United States. The population was 324 at the 2010 census.-Geography:Keyes is located at .According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of , all of it land.-Demographics:...


See also

  • Cays, often pronounced "keys"
  • Key (disambiguation)
  • Kay (surname)
    Kay (surname)
    Kay is a surname, and may refer to* Alan Kay, American computer scientist and visionary* Alexander Kay, British television presenter* Andrew Kay, American computer company CEO* Antony Kay, English footballer...

  • Key (surname)
    Key (surname)
    Key is a surname, and may refer to:* Alexander Key* Berthold Wells Key* cEvin Key* Dana Key* David M. Key* David McK. Key* Ellen Key* Francis Scott Key, author of the United States national anthem* James L...

  • Keys (surname)
    Keys (surname)
    Keys is a surname, and may refer to:*Alicia Keys, an American soul/jazz/pop musician*David Keys , stage name of David Nicholas Robert Johnson*David Keys , a British archaeological journalist*Anetta Keys, a nude model and pornstar...

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