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.