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 Fletcher, English musician of Dire Straits and Mark Knopfler's solo band
Guy Fieri, American chef, restaurateur, and television personality
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 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, Isle of Man TT racer, truck mechanic, TV personality & legend
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 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 (b. 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 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

Sir 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 Caballero, a regular character on the Canadian sketch comedy TV series SCTV played by Joe Flaherty
Guy Smiley, a Muppet character from Sesame Street who is a game show host
Guy Secretan, from the British sitcom Green Wing
Guy Hastings, from the TV series Alcatraz
Guy Hamdon the main protagonist in the Australian cartoon Shezow created by Obie Scott Wade
Guy Gardner, a Green Lantern comic book character from DC Comics
Guy Montag, in Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451
Guy Francon, from Ayn Rand's novel The Fountainhead
Guy Malton, from C.J. Sansom's Matthew Shardlake novels
Guy Noir, a gumshoe detective on Prairie Home Companion segments
Guy (Final Fight), from the Final Fight and Street Fighter series
Might Guy, character from Naruto
Guy Cecil, one of the main characters in the video game Tales of the Abyss
Guy LeDouche, the name used for the Takeshi's Castle character Junji Inagawa on that series' American parody/adaptation MXC
Guy Forcas, from the 2009 UBI Soft game Anno 1404
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 (Fire Emblem), from the video game Fire Emblem: Rekka no Ken
Guy Patterson, drummer from the fictional band "The Wonders" in the movie That Thing You Do

References

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