Guyon

Guyon is a French surname.

Geographical distribution

As of 2014, 85.7% of all known bearers of the surname Guyon were residents of France (frequency 1:4,367), 4.8% of the United States (1:427,011), 2.4% of Canada (1:87,614), 1.7% of the Philippines (1:327,626) and 1.1% of Gabon (1:9,351).

In France, the frequency of the surname was higher than national average (1:4,367) in the following regions:

• 1. Bourgogne-Franche-Comté (1:1,012)
• 2. Pays de la Loire (1:1,802)
• 3. Centre-Val de Loire (1:2,925)
• 4. Brittany (1:3,370)
• 5. Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes (1:3,951)
• 6. Corsica (1:4,330)

People

• Adrien Guyon (1866–?), French Olympic fencer
• Alexandre Guyon (1829–1905), French actor
• Claude-Marie Guyon (1699–1771), French historian
• Isabelle Guyon (born 1961), French-born researcher in machine learning
• James Guyon Jr. (1778–1846), politician and cavalry officer from Staten Island, New York
• Jean Guyon du Buisson (1592–1663), master mason and early settler of Quebec, Canada
• Jean Casimir Félix Guyon (1831–1920), French urologist at the University of Paris
• Jean-Jacques Guyon (1932–2017), French Olympic equestrian
• Jeanne Guyon (1648–1717), French Christian mystic
• Joe Guyon (1892–1971), American professional football player and coach
• Lionel Guyon, French Olympic equestrian
• Marie-Therese Guyon Cadillac (1671–1746), early settler of Detroit, Michigan
• Maxime Guyon (born 1989), French jockey
• Maximilienne Guyon (1868–1903), French painter and illustrator
• Olivier Guyon (born 1975), French-American astronomer
• Pascal Guyon, French musician
• René Guyon (1876–1963), French jurist and sexual ethicist
• Richard Guyon (1813–1856), general in the Hungarian revolutionary army

Fictional characters

• Sir Guyon, fictional hero in Edmund Spencer's The Faerie Queene (1590)

See also

• Guion (name), a variant spelling