Bayes is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Andrew Bayes (born 1978), American football player Gilbert Bayes (1872–1953), British sculptor Jasmine Bayes, British actress Jessie Bayes (1876–1970), British artist Joshua Bayes (1671–1746), English nonconformist minister and father of Thomas Nora Bayes (1880–1928), American singer and actress Paul Bayes (born 1953), Bishop in the Church of England Thomas Bayes (1702–1761), British mathematician, statistician and religious leader Walter Bayes (1869–1956), British painter
See also Bayesian probability, Bayes' theorem, and Bayes estimator, concepts in probability and statistics named after Thomas Bayes