Kay Daly

This biography is republished from The Dictionary of Irish Biography and was written by Linde Lunney. Shared by permission in line with Creative Commons ‘Attribution’ (CC BY) licencing.

Born: 8 January 1919, United Kingdom
Died: 16 October 1975
Country most active: United States
Also known as: NA

Kathleen (‘Kay’) Daly (1919–75), also born in Castlecaulfield, was an advertising executive and responsible for several notable advertising campaigns; she was later vice-president of Revlon and said to be the highest-paid woman executive in the United States. The Daly sisters were featured in an article in Life magazine on 7 November 1949, as one of the ‘most successful sister acts in US business’, together earning over $100,000 a year.

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