Kenneth Francis Gray MBE (24 June 1938 – 18 November 1992) was an international rugby union player from New Zealand.

[1] Gray was regarded as an intelligent, vigorous and highly mobile forward who was especially noted a lineout jumper.

Gray served as a board member for New Zealand Rail and chairman of the Government Health Sponsorship Council.

Fran Wilde, who introduced the bill to legalise, said Gray did much to dispel public ignorance on the issue.

[1] In 1986 he was elected to the Wellington Regional Council in the Porirua ward on the Labour Party ticket where he continued to serve until his unexpected death in 1992.

[1][3] In the lead up to the 1987 election Gray put himself forward to replace the retiring Gerry Wall as Labour candidate for the Porirua electorate.

He was regarded as the favourite in the lead up but in a shock upset he missed out on the nomination to trade unionist Graham Kelly.

"[1] Gray died suddenly in his sleep of a heart attack on 18 November 1992, aged 54 at his home in Pāuatahanui.

[3] In the 1990 Queen's Birthday Honours, Gray was appointed a Member of the Order of the British Empire, for services to local-body affairs.