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

Nobility

Other
  • Guy Abrahams (born 1953), Panamanian runner
  • Guy Accoceberry (born 1967), former French rugby union footballer
  • 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 Akpagba (born 1990), Beninese footballer
  • Guy Alexis Lobineau (1666–1727), Breton historian and Benedictine monk
  • Guy Allen (born 1958), ProRodeo Hall of Fame cowboy
  • Guy Allison (born 1959), American composer, pianist, and producer
  • Guy Amouretti (1925–2011), male French international table tennis player
  • 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 Azouri (born 1963), Israeli football manager
  • 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 Barnea (born 1987), Israeli Olympic swimmer
  • Guy Barrabino (1934–2017), French fencer
  • Guy Basquet (1921–2006), French rugby union player
  • 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 (born 1934), 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 Benjamin (born 1955), former American football quarterback
  • 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 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 Callaghan (born 1970), New Zealand butterfly swimmer
  • Guy Carbonneau (born 1960), retired French-Canadian hockey player and former NHL head coach
  • Guy Chambers (born 1963), British songwriter of Robbie Williams fame
  • Guy Charron (born 1949), retired French Canadian hockey player and former NHL head coach
  • Guy Chouinard (born 1956), retired French Canadian hockey player
  • Guy Clark (1941–2016), American singer-songwriter
  • 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 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 Forget (born 1965), retired French tennis player
  • 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 Gillette (photographer) (1922–2013), American photographer
  • Guy Goma (born 1969), who gained fame when he was accidentally interviewed on BBC
  • Guy Goodes (born 1971), Israeli basketball player and coach
  • Guy Hamilton (1922–2016), British film director
  • Guy Harvey (born 1955), Jamaican marine wildlife artist and conservationist
  • Guy Hebert (born 1967), retired American hockey goalie
  • 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 Lafleur (born 1951), retired French Canadian Hall of Fame hockey player
  • Guy Laliberté (born 1959), Canadian businessman, founder and CEO of Cirque du Soleil
  • Guy Lapébie (1916–2010), French cyclist
  • Guy Lapointe (born 1948), retired French Canadian Hall of Fame hockey player
  • 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 Murray, American track/cross country coach and former marathon runner
  • Guy Nosbaum (1930–1996), French Olympic medalist rower
  • 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 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 Roux (born 1938), French football player and manager of AJ Auxerre (1961–2008)
  • Guy Sebastian (born 1981), singer and winner of the first Australian Idol
  • Bryan Guy Adams, 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 famous for portraying Hubert Gruber in the sitcom 'Allo 'Allo!
  • Guy Sockrider (1921–2011), American industrialist and politician
  • Guy Standing (1873–1937), English actor
  • Guy Standing (economist) (born 1948), British economist
  • Guy Starik (born 1965), Israeli Olympic sport shooter
  • Guy L. Steele Jr. (born 1954), American computer scientist and designer of the Scheme programming language
  • Guy Toindouba (born 1988), Cameroonian football midfielder
  • Guy Turnbow (1908–1975), American football player
  • Guy Verhofstadt (born 1953), Prime Minister of Belgium (1999–2008)
  • Guy Waggoner (1883–1950), 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 (born 1975), American organist
  • Guy Whittall (born 1972), retired Zimbabwean cricket player
  • Guy Whittingham (born 1964), 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 (comics), 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 (Final Fantasy II), 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 Hamdon, 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, a character from Naruto
  • Guy Fleegman (Crewman #6), from Galaxy Quest
  • Guy (Croods), a boy in The Croods

See also

References
  1. Mike Campbell. "Names Related to Guy". Behind the Name. Retrieved 2018-03-19.
  2. "Appendix:Hebrew given names - Wiktionary". En.wiktionary.org. 2018-01-30. Retrieved 2018-03-19.
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