Cayley (surname)

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

• Arthur Cayley (1821–1895), British mathematician
• Charles Bagot Cayley (1823–1883), British linguist and friend of Christina Rossetti
• Forde Everard de Wend Cayley (1915-2004), British physician held as a Japanese prisoner of war during the Second World War
• Henry Cayley (1834-1904), Deputy Surgeon-General and the British army in India, honorary surgeon to Queen Victoria and King Edward VII
• G. C. Cayley (1866–1944), senior Royal Navy and Royal Air Force officer
• George Cayley (1773–1857), English naturalist, physical scientist, engineer, inventor, politician, and pioneer of flight
• Hugh Cayley, Canadian journalist and politician, son of William and namesake of the village in Alberta
• Neville Henry Cayley (1853–1903), Australian artist
• Neville William Cayley (1886–1950), Australian author, artist and amateur ornithologist
• William Cayley, Canadian politician, father of Hugh
• William Cayley (MP) (1700-1768), British consul in Spain and Portugal and MP