Ian McKay (1953–1982) was a British soldier who won a posthumous Victoria Cross in the Falklands War.
Ian John McKay, VC was a British Army soldier and a posthumous recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.
Ian McKay may also refer to:
- Ian McKay (footballer) (1923–2010), Australian rules footballer with North Adelaide
- Ian McKay (writer) (born 1962), English art critic, writer, and academic
- Ian McKay (historian) (born 1953), Canadian historian
- Ian McKay (judge) (1929–2014), New Zealand judge
- Ian G. McKay (born 1963), Canadian director of the Liberal Party of Canada
Ian Lawson McKay was an Australian rules footballer who played with North Adelaide in the SANFL. He played a total of 164 games for North Adelaide.
Ian McKay is a British writer, art critic, publisher and translator. A former editor of Contemporary Art magazine, and the founder-editor of The Journal of Geography and Urban Research, throughout the 1990s he was best-known for his writings on the arts of Eastern Europe, being cited as the first British art critic to emphasize the negative impact of the western art market in that region. Throughout the 1990s and early-2000s, he was a contributor to a wide range of art journals, as well as writing on subjects relating to photography, cinema, and music. Since 2007 his publishing activities have mainly centred on UK Rural Affairs, and the environment however. Though periodically he continues to publish works of art criticism, his most recent publications concern social justice in rural Britain, as well as environmental conservation in the wider European sphere. He has also worked as an academic in several UK universities.
Born in 1953, Ian McKay "is one of Canada's most prolific and well-respected historians" and Chair of the L.R. Wilson Institute for Canadian History at McMaster University. He was formerly a professor at Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, where he taught from 1988-2015. During his time at Queen's, he supervised or co-supervised over 33 doctoral theses and 49 master's theses and cognate essays. His primary interests are Canadian cultural and political history, the economic and social history of Atlantic Canada, historical memory and tourism, and the history of liberalism, both in its Canadian and transnational aspects. His long-term project is to write a comprehensive history of the Canadian left. He is the younger brother of poet Don McKay, whose works have earned similarly high praise.
