Roy
Roy may refer to:
Places
Canada
United States
People
Family name
- Annadashankar Roy, Bengali author and poet
- Arundhati Roy, an Indian novelist and peace activist
- Bidhan Chandra Roy, Indian politician
- Bimal Roy, film director
- Brandon Roy, American basketball player
- Drew Roy, American actor who guest stars in Hannah Montana and iCarly
- Bryan Roy, Dutch football (soccer) player
- Claude Roy (politician), Canadian politician
- Deep Roy, actor
- Derek Roy, Canadian ice hockey player
- Dilipkumar Roy, Bengali musician, musicologist, novelist, poet and essayist
- Fabien Roy, politician
- Falguni Roy, Bengali poet
- Gabrielle Roy, author
- Indra Lal Roy, an Indian flying ace of World War I
- Jahor Roy, Bengali actor and comedian
- Jean Sebastien Roy, motocross rider
- Jean-Yves Roy, politician
- Juthika Roy, bhajan singer
- Kalidas Roy, Bengali poet
- Kanu Roy, Indian film actor, and music composer
- Leela Roy, Indian leftist politician, independence activist and social reformer
- M. N. Roy, an Indian-born philosopher and 20th century revolutionary
- Mathieu Roy, Canadian ice hockey player
- Monique Roy Verville, Canadian politician
- Patrick Roy, Canadian ice hockey player
- Prafulla Chandra Roy, Bengali academic and entrepreneur
- Prannoy Roy, Indian media personality
- Prasanna Kumar Roy, Indian educationist
- Ram Mohan Roy Indian religious, social, and educational reformer
- Subroto Mohonto Roy, Indian Software Programmer / Developer & Jewellery Designer
- Subodh Roy, Indian independence activist
- Sylvie Roy, Canadian politician
- Tarapada Roy, Bengali author
- William Roy, Scottish surveyor
- Norman Watt-Roy Bassist of Ian Dury & The Blockheads
Given name
Roy is a common male given name.
- Roy Acuff, American musician
- Roy Andrews, naturalist and explorer who became the head of the American Museum of Natural History
- Roy Blount, Jr., Well-known writer and humorist
- Roy Blunt, United States congressman representing Missouri's 17th District
- Roy Campanella, Baseball Hall of Fame catcher from the Brooklyn Dodgers
- Roy Clark, Country music musician, best-known for his work on television program, Hee Haw
- Roy Christian, New Zealand rugby league footballer
- Roy Cohn, lawyer who became well-known from being Senator Joseph McCarthy's counsel from 1953 to 1954
- Roy E. Disney (1930-2009), American businessman
- Roy O. Disney (1893-1971), American businessman
- Roy Drusky, country music singer
- Roy Face, often referred to as "Elroy Face", three-time all-star relief pitcher throughout the 50s and 60s
- Roy Firestone, sports talk show host
- Roy Foster, American baseball player
- Roy Goodman, former New York state senator
- Roy Halladay, Baseball Cy Young Award winner, Toronto Blue Jays pitcher from 1998 to 2009. Currently with the Philadelphia Phillies.
- Roy Halston Frowick, also known as Halston (23 April 1932 – 26 March 1990); a famous clothing designer of the 1970s.
- Roy Hamilton, popular R&B singer of the 1950s and 1960s
- Roy Hargrove, American jazz musician
- Roy Harris, American classical music composer
- Roy Hartsfield, Boston Braves second baseman in early 1950s. Was first manager of the expansion Toronto Blue Jays in 1977; served in that capacity through the 1979 season
- Roy Head, R&B and country music singer, best-known for 1965 hit, "Treat Her Right"
- Roy Horn, half of the Las Vegas show team, Siegfried & Roy
- Roy Howell, third baseman for the Texas Rangers, Toronto Blue Jays, and Milwaukee Brewers, 1974-1984. Was selected as an American League All-Star in 1978
- Roy Lee Jackson, pitcher for the New York Mets, San Diego Padres, Minnesota Twins, and Toronto Blue Jays, 1970s-1980s
- Roy Johnson, pitcher for the Philadelphia Athletics, manager of the Chicago Cubs, longtime baseball coach
- Roy Jones, Jr., professional boxer
- Roy Keane, Irish association-football player
- Roy Lichtenstein, American pop artist
- Roy Masters (commentator), American talk radio personality, podcaster, and spiritual counselor
- Roy McMillan, American baseball player
- Roy Orbison, pioneer of rock and roll
- Roy Pinney, herpetologist, professional photographer, writer, spelunker, pilot, and war correspondent
- Roy Rogers (born Leonard Schley), singing movie cowboy
- Roy Scheider, film actor
- Roy Sievers, American baseball player
- Roy Smalley, Jr., American baseball player, father of Roy Smalley III
- Roy Smalley III, American baseball player, son of Roy Smalley, Jr.
- Roy Staiger, Third baseman for the New York Mets and New York Yankees in the late 1970s
- Roy Thomas, Baseball pitcher from the 1970s through the 1980s
- Roy White, two-time all star switch-hitting outfielder for the New York Yankees, with whom he played from 1965 to 1979
- Roy Wilkins, prominent civil rights activist
Fictional characters
- Roy (Peanuts), a minor character from the Peanuts comic strip
- Roy (Fire Emblem), a character from the game Fire Emblem: Fūin no Tsurugi (Sword of Seals)
- Roy DeSoto, a character from the TV series Emergency!
- Roy Greenhilt, a character from the webcomic Order of the Stick
- Roy Hobbs, protagonist in Bernard Malamud novel, "The Natural"; part of Hobbs was played by Robert Redford in movie version.
- Roy Batty, the leader of the renegade Nexus-6 replicants in Blade Runner
- Roy Mustang, a character from the Fullmetal Alchemist anime and manga series
- Roy O'Brien, eponymous animated protagonist of Roy
- Roy Dallas, an Air Force Captain in the novel Zombie, Zombie.
- Roy Trenneman, a character from the British sitcom The IT Crowd
Other
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