Guy (given name)

Guy (French pronunciation /giː/, common English /gai/) is a given name, which may derive from two sources:

• Through Germanic, it is the French and English form of Guido.
• Through Hebrew, it is an Anglicization of the name גיא, also transliterated "Gai", which means "valley".

Notable people with the name include:

• Guy Adami, TV personality, one of the Fast Money (CNBC) Five
• Guy Bailey, President of Texas Tech University
• Guy Berryman, British musician of Coldplay
• Guy Branum, American comedian
• Guy Burgess, British/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 Fawkes, English Catholic, famed for his involvement in the Gunpowder Plot
• Guy Fieri, winner of the second season of The Next Food Network Star
• Guy Goma, who gained fame when he was accidentally interviewed on BBC
• Guy Hebert, retired American hockey goalie
• Guy Kawasaki, former Apple employee and venture capitalist
• 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 Lombardo, Canadian-American bandleader and musician
• Guy of Lusignan, king-consort of Jerusalem and king of Cyprus
• Guy de Maupassant, French writer and journalist
• Guy Mollet (1905–1975), former Prime Minister of France
• Guy Murray, American track/cross country coach and former marathon runner
• 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 Sebastian, winner of the first Australian Idol
• Guy Severin, former director of NPP Zvezda
• Guy L. Steele, Jr., computer scientist and designer of the Scheme programming language
• Guy of Tuscany, Count and Duke of Lucca, and Margrave of Tuscany (915 - 929)
• Guy Verhofstadt, Prime Minister of Belgium 1999-2008
• Guy Wetmore Carryl (1873–1904), American author and poet
• Guy Whatley, American organist
• Guy Whittingham, British footballer, of Aston Villa fame

Fictional

• Guy Caballero, a regular character on the Canadian sketch comedy TV series SCTV played by Joe Flaherty
• Guy Gardner, a Green Lantern comic book character from DC Comics.
• Sir Guy of Gisbourne, villain in the Robin Hood legend
• Guy Montag, character in Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451
• Guy Smiley, muppet character from Sesame Street who is a game show host
• Guy (Final Fight), a character from Final Fight and Street Fighter series
• Mighty 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
• Dr. Guy LaFleur, biochemist who appears in one episode and is referenced repeatedly and posthumously in the NBC series Chuck