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[1].
- Through Hebrew, it is an Anglicization of the name גיא, also transliterated "Gai", which means "valley"[2].
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
References
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