Mayes is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:

• Adrian Mayes (born 1980), American football player
• Alan Mayes (born 1953), English footballer
• Bernard Mayes (1929–2014), British-American lecturer and author
• Clifford Mayes (born 1953), American professor of education
• Clyde Mayes (born 1953), American professional basketball player
• Colin Mayes (born 1948), Canadian politician
• Derrick Mayes (born 1974), American football player
• Frances Mayes (born 1940), American university professor, poet, memoirist, essayist, and novelist
• Ian Mayes, British journalist and editor
• Jeff Mayes (born 1971), American politician
• Joel B. Mayes (died 1891), Chief of the Cherokee Nation
• Johnny Mayes (1947–2025), Australian rugby league player
• Kris Mayes (born 1970/71), American attorney, reporter, and politician who is the Arizona Attorney General
• Pete Mayes (1938–2008), American blues singer, guitarist and songwriter
• Richard Mayes (1922–2006), English stage and television actor
• Robert Burns Mayes (1867–1921), justice of the Supreme Court of Mississippi
• Ron Mayes (born 1954), American educator and author
• Rueben Mayes (born 1963), Canadian football player
• Rufus Mayes (1947–1990), American football player
• Samuel Houston Mayes (1845–1927), Chief of the Cherokee Nation from 1895 to 1899
• Sean Mayes (1949–1995), English rock musician and author
• Wendell Wise Mayes Jr. (1924–2021), American radio and cable television executive
• William Mayes Jr., prominent pirate, proprietor of White Horse Tavern (Rhode Island)
• William Edward Mayes (1861–1952), English painter

See also

• Mays (disambiguation)
• Maze (disambiguation)
• Maize (disambiguation)
• Mais (disambiguation)
• Maye (disambiguation)

Surname list

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