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Guy (given name)

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Guy (/ɡaɪ/, [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".

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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 Fieri, American chef, restaurateur, and television personality
  • Guy Fletcher, English musician of Dire Straits and Mark Knopfler's solo band
  • Guy Forget (born 1965), retired French tennis player
  • 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 Hamilton, British film director
  • 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 (born 1981), British motorcycle racer, truck mechanic and TV personality
  • 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 McAfee (1888–1960), owner of gambling saloons and brothels in Los Angeles, California and casinos in Las Vegas, Nevada.
  • 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 (born 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 Weill (1914-2006), Swiss-born American art collector.
  • 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

  • Guy Caballero, a regular character on the Canadian sketch comedy TV series SCTV played by Joe Flaherty
  • Guy (Fire Emblem), from the video game Fire Emblem: Rekka no Ken
  • Guy (Final Fight), from the Final Fight and Street Fighter series
  • Guy Gardner, a Green Lantern comic book character from DC Comics
  • Guy Montag, in Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451
  • Guy Noir, a gumshoe detective on Prairie Home Companion segments
  • 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 Secretan, from the British sitcom Green Wing
  • Guy Smiley, a Muppet character from Sesame Street who is a game show host
  • Guy, a hero of the First Doom Island War in the Lufia series
  • Guy, one of the four main player characters in Final Fantasy II
  • Guy Cecil, one of the main characters in the video game Tales of the Abyss
  • Guy Crouchback, the main protagonist of Evelyn Waugh's British World War II trilogy Sword of Honour
  • Guy Forcas, from the 2009 UBI Soft game Anno 1404
  • Guy Francon, from Ayn Rand's novel The Fountainhead
  • Guy Haines, the main protagonist of the 1951 Hitchcock murder mystery film Strangers on a Train
  • Guy Hampdon, the main protagonist of the Australian cartoon SheZow
  • Guy Hastings, from the TV series Alcatraz
  • Guy LeDouche, the name used for the Takeshi's Castle character Junji Inagawa on that series' American parody/adaptation MXC
  • Guy Malton, from C.J. Sansom's Matthew Shardlake novels
  • Guy Marriott, spy in the Australian radio serial Undercover
  • Guy Patterson, drummer from the fictional band "The Wonders" in the movie That Thing You Do
  • Might Guy, character from Naruto
  • Guy Fleegman, (Crewman #6) from Galaxy Quest

    • References

    Guy (given name) Wikipedia
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