Guy (given name)
Guy (/ɡaɪ/, French: [ɡi]) is a French and English given name, which is derived from the French form of the Italian and Germanic name Guido.[1] Unrelated to this, Guy is also an Anglicization of the Hebrew name Hebrew: גיא, romanized: Gai, which means "ravine".[2]
People
Religious figures
- Saint Vitus, also known as Saint Guy, early Christian martyr
- Guy (bishop of Amiens) (died 1075), eleventh-century churchman
- Guy of Anderlecht (950–1012), Belgian Christian saint
- Guy of Avesnes (1253–1317), Bishop of Utrecht
Nobility
- Guy I (disambiguation)
- Guy II (disambiguation)
- Guy III (disambiguation)
- Guy, Count of Flanders (c. 1226–1305), Guy of Dampierre
- Guy, Count of Nevers (died 1176), count of Nevers and Auxerre
- Guy of Hauteville (died 1108), Duke of Amalfi
- Guy of Ibelin (disambiguation)
- Guy of Ivrea (940–965), Margrave of Ivrea
- Guy of Lusignan (died 1194), King of Jerusalem and later King of Cyprus
- Guy of Lusignan, Count of Angoulême (c. 1260/1265–1308), ending of the senior male line of the House of Lusignan
- Guy de Montfort, Count of Bigorre (died 1220), son of Simon de Montfort, 5th Earl of Leicester
- Guy de Montfort, Count of Nola (1244–1288), son of Simon de Montfort, 6th Earl of Leicester and Eleanor of England
- Guy de Montfort, Lord of Sidon (died 1228), younger son of Simon III de Montfort and Amicia, sister of Robert FitzPernel, Earl of Leicester
- 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–?), the duke of Sorrento from 1035
- 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
Sports
- Guy Abrahams (born 1953), Panamanian runner
- Guy Accoceberry (born 1967), former French rugby union footballer
- Guy Akpagba (born 1990), Beninese footballer
- Guy Allen (born 1958), ProRodeo Hall of Fame cowboy
- Guy Amouretti (1925–2011), male French international table tennis player
- Guy Azouri (born 1963), Israeli football manager
- Guy Barnea (born 1987), Israeli Olympic swimmer
- Guy Barrabino (1934–2017), French fencer
- Guy Basquet (1921–2006), French rugby union player
- Guy Benjamin (born 1955), former American football quarterback
- Guy Callaghan (born 1970), New Zealand butterfly swimmer
- Guy Carbonneau (born 1960), retired French-Canadian hockey player and former NHL head coach
- Guy Charron (born 1949), retired French Canadian hockey player and former NHL head coach
- Guy Chouinard (born 1956), retired French Canadian hockey player
- Guy Forget (born 1965), retired French tennis player
- Guy Goodes (born 1971), Israeli basketball player and coach
- Guy Hebert (born 1967), retired American hockey goalie
- Guy Lafleur (1951–2022), French Canadian Hall of Fame hockey player
- Guy Lapébie (1916–2010), French cyclist
- Guy Lapointe (born 1948), retired French Canadian Hall of Fame hockey player
- Guy Murray, American track/cross country coach and former marathon runner
- Guy Nosbaum (1930–1996), French Olympic medalist rower
- Guy Palatin (born 2000), Israeli basketball player
- Guy Pnini (born 1983), Israeli basketball player
- Guy Roux (born 1938), French football player and manager of AJ Auxerre (1961–2008)
- Guy Starik (born 1965), Israeli Olympic sport shooter
- Guy Toindouba (born 1988), Cameroonian football midfielder
- Guy Turnbow (1908–1975), American football player
- Guy Whittall (born 1972), retired Zimbabwean cricket player
- Guy Whittingham (born 1964), British footballer
Other
- Guy Adami (born 1963), American television TV personality
- Guy Adams (born 1976), English author, comedian, and actor
- Guy Aitchison (born 1968), tattoo artist and a painter born in Michigan
- Guy Alexis Lobineau (1666–1727), Breton historian and Benedictine monk
- Guy Allison (born 1959), American composer, pianist, and producer
- Guy Anderson (1906–1998), American painter
- Guy André (born 1959), member of the Canadian House of Commons
- Guy André Boy (born 1952), French and American scientist and engineer
- Guy Andrews, American television writer
- Guy Arkins (1888–1980), Australian politician
- Guy Arnold (1932–2020), British author
- Guy Aroch, Israeli-American fashion and celebrity photographer
- Guy Arvely Dolsin (born 1957), Malagasy politician
- Guy Babylon (1956–2009), keyboardist/composer
- Guy Bacon (1936–2018), politician in Quebec, Canada
- Guy Bailey (born 1950), president of Texas Tech University
- Guy Bainbridge (1867–1943), British Army officer during the First World War
- Guy Bavli (born 1971), Israeli mentalist, illusionist, and lecturer
- Guy Beahm (born 1982), pro gamer, mainly known by his gamer tag Dr DisRespect
- Guy Beatty (1870–1954), officer in the British Indian Army
- Guy Bedarida (born 1963), Italian-born French jewelry designer
- Guy Bedos (1934–2020), actor and stand-up comedian
- Guy Beiner (born 1968), historian of the late-modern period
- Guy Bellamy (1935–2015), English author known for humorous novels
- Guy Ben-Ari (born 1984), Israeli painter
- Guy Ben-Ner (born 1969), Israeli video artist
- Guy Bennett (born 1960), poet/translator and author
- Guy Benson (born 1985), American political commentator and pundit
- Guy Berryman (born 1978), Scottish musician of Coldplay
- Guy Bertrand (broadcaster) (born 1954), French Canadian linguist and radio/TV personality
- Guy Bolton (1884–1979), Anglo-American playwright
- Guy Boyd (1923–1988), Australian sculptor
- Guy Boyd (born 1943), American actor
- Guy Branum (born 1975), American comedian
- Guy Burgess (1911–1963), Soviet double agent, one of the Cambridge Five spy ring
- Guy Burnet (born 1983), English actor who played Craig Dean on the soap opera Hollyoaks
- Guy Busick, American film and television screenwriter
- Guy Chambers (born 1963), British songwriter of Robbie Williams fame
- Guy Clark (1941–2016), American singer-songwriter
- Guy Consolmagno (born 1952), American Jesuit brother and astronomer
- Guy de Maupassant (1850–1893), French writer and journalist
- Guy de Rothschild (1909–2007), French banker
- Guy Debord (1931–1994), French author and filmmaker, Situationist
- Guy Distad, American television director
- Guy Drake (1904–1984), American singer and comedian
- Guy Waldo Dunnington (1906–1974), American biographer, professor, and translator
- Guy Fawkes (1570–1606), English Catholic famed for his involvement in the Gunpowder Plot
- Guy Fieri (born 1968), American chef, restaurateur, and television personality
- Guy Fletcher (born 1960), English musician of Dire Straits and Mark Knopfler's solo band
- Guy Garvey (born 1974), English musician. Singer and principal songwriter of the alternative rock band Elbow
- Guy Gavriel Kay (born 1954), Canadian fantasy writer
- Guy Gibson (1918–1944), British Second World War pilot awarded the Victoria Cross
- Guy Gillette (1879–1973), former U.S. Senator from Iowa
- Guy Goma (born 1969), who gained fame when he was accidentally interviewed on BBC
- Guy Hamilton (1922–2016), British film director
- Guy Harvey (born 1955), Jamaican marine wildlife artist and conservationist
- Guy Kawasaki (born 1954), American former Apple employee and venture capitalist
- Guy Kent (born 1989), American actor and producer
- Guy Kewney (1946–2010), British journalist
- Guy Kibbee (1882–1956), American actor
- Guy Laliberté (born 1959), Canadian businessman, founder and CEO of Cirque du Soleil
- Guy Le Borgne (1920–2007), French paratroop general
- Guy Le Jaouen (1933–2014), French politician
- Guy Lombardo (1902–1977), Canadian-American bandleader and musician
- Guy Madison (1922–1996), American actor
- Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo (born 1974), French musician, record producer, singer, songwriter, DJ and film director
- Guy Marchand (born 1937), French actor, musician and singer
- Guy Martin (born 1981), British motorcycle racer, truck mechanic and TV personality
- Guy McAfee (1888–1960), owner of gambling saloons and brothels in Los Angeles, California and casinos in Las Vegas, Nevada
- Guy Mitchell (1927–1999), American singer and actor
- Guy Molinari (1928–2018), former US Representative from New York
- Guy Mollet (1905–1975), former prime minister of France
- Guy Moon (born 1962), film and television composer
- Guy Oseary (born 1972), Israeli American businessman
- Guy Pearce (born 1967), English-born Australian actor
- Guy Perry, American actor
- Guy Picciotto (born 1965), of the band Fugazi
- Guy Pratt (born 1962), British session musician
- Guy Randrianarisoa (born 1962), Malagasy politician
- Guy Richer (born 1954), Canadian actor
- Guy Ritchie (born 1968), British film director, formerly married to Madonna
- Guy B. Roberts, American government official, lawyer, and retired United States Marine Corps colonel
- Guy Sebastian (born 1981), singer and winner of the first Australian Idol
- Bryan Guy Adams (born 1959), Canadian singer
- Guy Severin (1926–2008), former director of NPP Zvezda
- Guy Simonds (1903–1974), Canadian major general
- Guy Siner (born 1947), American-born English actor known for portraying Hubert Gruber in the sitcom 'Allo 'Allo!
- Guy Standing (1873–1937), English actor
- Guy Standing (economist) (born 1948), British economist
- Guy L. Steele Jr. (born 1954), American computer scientist and designer of the Scheme programming language
- Guy Talarico (born 1955), American state politician
- Guy Trosper (1911–1963), American screenwriter
- Guy Verhofstadt (born 1953), Prime Minister of Belgium (1999–2008)
- Guy Waggoner (1883–1950), American rancher and business executive
- Guy Warren (1923–2008), also known as Kofi Ghanaba, Ghanaian musician
- Guy Weill (1914–2006), Swiss-born American art collector
- Guy Wetmore Carryl (1873–1904), American author and poet
- Guy Whatley (born 1975), American organist
Fictional characters
- The Guy, a character in the film Spy Kids 3-D: Game Over
- Guy, a character from the video game Fire Emblem: The Blazing Blade
- Guy, a character from the Final Fight and Street Fighter series
- Guy, a character in The Croods franchise
- Guy, one of the four main player characters in Final Fantasy II
- Guy, a hero of the First Doom Island War in the Lufia series
- Guy, the protagonist of the 2021 film Free Guy
- Guy of Gisbourne, a villain in the Robin Hood legend
- Guy of Warwick, a legendary English hero
- Guy Caballero, a character in the Canadian sketch comedy TV series SCTV
- Guy Cecil, one of the main characters in the video game Tales of the Abyss
- Guy Crouchback, the main protagonist in Sword of Honour
- Guy Diamond, a character in Trolls: The Beat Goes On!
- Guy Fleegman, a character in Galaxy Quest
- Guy Forcas, a character in the 2009 Ubisoft game Anno 1404
- Guy Francon, a character in the novel The Fountainhead
- Guy Gagné, a character in Turbo
- Guy Gardner, a DC Comics character
- Guy Germaine, a character in The Mighty Ducks franchise
- Guy Haines, the main protagonist of the 1951 Hitchcock murder mystery film Strangers on a Train
- Guy Hamdon, the main protagonist of the Australian animated series SheZow
- Guy Hastings, a character in the 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 Montag, a character in the Ray Bradbury novel Fahrenheit 451
- Guy Noir, a character in A Prairie Home Companion
- Guy Patterson, a character in That Thing You Do!
- Guy Secretan, a character in the British sitcom Green Wing
- Guy Smiley, a Muppet character from Sesame Street
- Guy Spelunky, the main character from the video game Spelunky
- Guy Thierrault, the second Marvel Comics supervillain known as Flag-Smasher
- Might Guy, a character from the anime/manga series Naruto
See also
References
- Mike Campbell. "Names Related to Guy". Behind the Name. Retrieved 2018-03-19.
- "Appendix:Hebrew given names - Wiktionary". En.wiktionary.org. 2018-01-30. Retrieved 2018-03-19.
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