Guy (given name)
Guy (/ɡaɪ/, French: [ɡi]) is an English given name, which is derived from the French form of the Germanic name Guido.[1] "Guy" is also an Anglicization of the Hebrew name גיא, transliterated "Gai", which means "Ravine".[2]
People
Religious figures
- Saint Vitus, also known as Saint Guy, early Christian martyr
- Guy (Bishop of Amiens) (died 1075)
- Guy of Anderlecht (c. 950–1012), Belgian Christian saint
- Guy of Avesnes (c. 1253–1317), Bishop of Utrecht
Nobility
- Guy I (disambiguation)
- Guy II (disambiguation)
- Guy III (disambiguation)
- Guy, Count of Bigorre (died 1220)
- Guy, Count of Flanders (c. 1226–1305)
- Guy of Hauteville (c. 1061–1108), Duke of Amalfi
- Guy of Ibelin (disambiguation)
- Guy of Ivrea (940–965), Margrave of Ivrea
- Guy of Lusignan (c. 1150–1194), King of Jerusalem and later King of Cyprus
- Guy of Lusignan, Count of Angoulême (c. 1260/1265–1308)
- Guy de Montfort, Count of Nola (1244–c. 1288)
- Guy de Montfort, Lord of Sidon (died 1228)
- Guy of Nantes (died before 819), Warden of the Breton March
- Guy, Margrave of Tuscany (died 929), also Count and Duke of Lucca
- Guy, Duke of Sorrento (c. 1012–?)
- Guy IV of Spoleto (died 897), Duke of Spoleto and Camerino and Prince of Benevento; son of Guy II of Spoleto
- Guy of Thouars (died 1213), third husband of Constance, Duchess of Brittany, and regent of Brittany
Other
- Guy Adami, TV personality, one of the Fast Money (CNBC) Five
- Guy Bailey, President of Texas Tech University
- Guy Berryman, Scottish musician of Coldplay
- Guy Bertrand, French Canadian linguist and radio/TV personality
- Guy Branum, American comedian
- Guy Burgess, Soviet double agent, one of the Cambridge Five spy ring
- Guy Burnet, English actor who played Craig Dean on the soap opera Hollyoaks
- Guy Callaghan, New Zealand butterfly swimmer
- Guy Carbonneau, retired French-Canadian hockey player and former NHL head coach
- Guy Chambers, British song-writer of Robbie Williams fame
- Guy Charron, retired French Canadian hockey player and former NHL head coach
- Guy Chouinard, retired French Canadian hockey player
- Guy Debord, French author and filmmaker, Situationist
- Guy Distad, American television director
- Guy Fawkes, English Catholic famed for his involvement in the Gunpowder Plot
- Guy Fieri, American chef, restaurateur, and television personality
- Guy Fletcher, English musician of Dire Straits and Mark Knopfler's solo band
- Guy Forget (born 1965), retired French tennis player
- Guy Garvey, English musician. Singer and principal songwriter of the alternative rock band Elbow
- Guy Gibson, Second World War pilot awarded the Victoria Cross
- Guy Gillette, former U.S. Senator from Iowa
- Guy Gillette, American photographer
- Guy Goma, who gained fame when he was accidentally interviewed on BBC
- Guy Goodes, Israeli basketball player and coach
- Guy Hamilton, British film director
- Guy Harvey, marine wildlife artist and conservationist
- Guy Hebert, retired American hockey goalie
- Guy Kawasaki, former Apple employee and venture capitalist
- Guy Kewney, British journalist
- Guy Laliberté, founder and CEO of Cirque du Soleil
- Guy Lapébie (1916–2010), French cyclist
- Guy Lafleur, retired French Canadian Hall of Fame hockey player
- Guy Lapointe, retired French Canadian Hall of Fame hockey player
- Guy Le Borgne, French paratroop general
- Guy Le Jaouen (1933–2014), French politician.
- Guy Lombardo (1902–1977), Canadian-American bandleader and musician
- Guy Martin (born 1981), British motorcycle racer, truck mechanic and TV personality
- Guy de Maupassant, French writer and journalist
- Guy Manuel De Homem Christo, best known for being one half of the French house music duo Daft Punk
- Guy McAfee (1888–1960), owner of gambling saloons and brothels in Los Angeles, California and casinos in Las Vegas, Nevada.
- Guy Molinari (born 1928), former US Representative from New York
- Guy Mollet (1905–1975), former Prime Minister of France
- Guy Moon, a film and television composer
- Guy Murray, American track/cross country coach and former marathon runner
- Guy Nosbaum (1930–96), French Olympic medalist rower
- Guy Oseary, Israeli American businessman
- Guy Pearce, English-born Australian actor
- Guy Perry, American actor
- Guy Picciotto, of the band Fugazi
- Guy Pratt, British session musician
- Guy Ritchie (born 1968), British film director, formerly married to Madonna
- Guy de Rothschild (1909–2007), French banker
- Guy Roux, manager of AJ Auxerre (1961–2008)
- Guy Sebastian, winner of the first Australian Idol
- Guy Severin, former director of NPP Zvezda
- Guy Simonds, Canadian Major General
- Guy Siner, American-born English actor famous for portraying Hubert Gruber in the sitcom 'Allo 'Allo.
- Guy Sockrider (1921–2011), American industrialist and politician
- Guy Starik (born 1965), Israeli Olympic sport shooter
- Guy L. Steele, Jr., computer scientist and designer of the Scheme programming language
- Guy Roger Toindouba, Cameroonian football midfielder
- Guy Turnbow, American football player
- Guy Verhofstadt, Prime Minister of Belgium (1999–2008)
- Guy Waggoner (1883–1950), an American rancher and business executive.
- Guy Weill (1914-2006), Swiss-born American art collector.
- Guy Wetmore Carryl (1873–1904), American author and poet
- Guy Whatley, American organist
- Guy Whittall, retired Zimbabwean cricket player
- Guy Whittingham, British footballer
Mythical and fictional characters
- Guy Caballero, a regular character on the Canadian sketch comedy TV series SCTV played by Joe Flaherty
- Guy (Fire Emblem), from the video game Fire Emblem: Rekka no Ken
- Guy (Final Fight), from the Final Fight and Street Fighter series
- Guy Gardner, a Green Lantern comic book character from DC Comics
- Guy Montag, in Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451
- Guy Noir, a gumshoe detective on Prairie Home Companion segments
- Guy of Gisbourne, a villain in the Robin Hood legend
- Guy of Warwick, a legendary English hero popular in England and France from the 13th to 17th centuries
- Guy Secretan, from the British sitcom Green Wing
- Guy Smiley, a Muppet character from Sesame Street who is a game show host
- Guy, a hero of the First Doom Island War in the Lufia series
- Guy, one of the four main player characters in Final Fantasy II
- Guy Cecil, one of the main characters in the video game Tales of the Abyss
- Guy Crouchback, the main protagonist of Evelyn Waugh's British World War II trilogy Sword of Honour
- Guy Forcas, from the 2009 UBI Soft game Anno 1404
- Guy Francon, from Ayn Rand's novel The Fountainhead
- Guy Haines, the main protagonist of the 1951 Hitchcock murder mystery film Strangers on a Train
- Guy Hampdon, the main protagonist of the Australian cartoon SheZow
- Guy Hastings, from the TV series Alcatraz
- Guy LeDouche, the name used for the Takeshi's Castle character Junji Inagawa on that series' American parody/adaptation MXC
- Guy Malton, from C.J. Sansom's Matthew Shardlake novels
- Guy Marriott, spy in the Australian radio serial Undercover
- Guy Patterson, drummer from the fictional band "The Wonders" in the movie That Thing You Do
- Might Guy, character from Naruto
- Guy Fleegman, (Crewman #6) from Galaxy Quest
See also
References
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