Roy

Roy may refer to:

Places

Canada

• Roy, British Columbia

United States

• Roy, Louisiana
• Roy, Montana
• Roy, New Mexico
• Roy, Utah
  • Roy (UTA station), a transit station
• Roy, Washington

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

• Roy (TV series)
• A unit in the Ukrainian military; see Sotnia

See also

• All pages beginning with "Roy"
• Royston (disambiguation)
• Robert Roy MacGregor, commonly known as "Rob Roy"
• Roi
• Ray (surname)