Guy (given name)

Guy (/ɡaɪ/, French: [ɡi]) is an English given name, which is derived from the French form of the Germanic name Guido. "Guy" is also an Anglicization of the Hebrew name גיא, transliterated "Gai", which means "Ravine".

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

See also

• Guido
• Gaetano