Lay may refer to: Lay person, any person who isn't a member of the clergy. a lyric song Germanic *laikaz any poem of the Poetic Edda Lai, a 13th- or 14th-century northern European song Breton lai poetically of bird song Oviparity, the release of an egg of an animal A type of pewter alloy A surname Kenneth Lay (1942–2006), U.S. businessman, former CEO of Enron Benjamin Lay (1681-1760), English Quaker and Abolitionist Jeffrey Lay (born 1969), Canadian rower Toponymy Lay, Loire, a Fren… (More on Lay)