Guy
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Guy or guys may refer to:
In places:
In characters
In other uses:
- Guy (given name)Guy (given name)Guy is a given name, which may derive from two sources:* Through Germanic, it is the French and English form of Guido....
- Guy, an effigy burned on bonfire night (as in 'Penny for the Guy' - see Guy Fawkes, section "Legacy", for the sense development to the colloquial meaning of "a guy" meaning "a man")
- As "you guys", one of the new forms for the plural "you".
In places:
- Guy, ArkansasGuy, ArkansasGuy is a town in Faulkner County, Arkansas, United States. The population was 202 at the 2000 census. It is part of the Little Rock–North Little Rock–Conway Metropolitan Statistical Area.-Geography:Guy is located at ....
- Guy, IndianaGuy, IndianaGuy is an unincorporated community in Liberty Township, Howard County, Indiana, United States. It is part of the Kokomo, Indiana Metropolitan Statistical Area....
- Guy, TexasGuy, TexasGuy is a small unincorporated community in Fort Bend County, Texas, United States.-Education:Guy is located in the Needville Independent School District. Needville High School serves the community.-External links:* Handbook of Texas...
- Guys, TennesseeGuys, TennesseeGuys is a town in McNairy County, Tennessee, United States. The population was 483 at the 2000 census.-Geography:Guys is located at ....
In characters
- Guy (Final Fight)Guy (Final Fight)is a video game character who first appears in the 1989 arcade beat-em-up Final Fight by Capcom. Guy would later reemerge, along with other Final Fight characters, as a fighting game character in Street Fighter Alpha: Warriors' Dreams and its sequels...
, character from the Final Fight and Street Fighter games - Guy (Fire Emblem), character from Fire Emblem: Rekka no Ken
- Guy SmileyGuy SmileyGuy Smiley is a character on Sesame Street who was dubbed "America's favorite game show host." His skits are among those on the show that parody commercial media. Guy has also hosted parodies of This Is Your Life called "Here Is Your Life." Guests who were profiled included a loaf of bread, a tooth...
, character from Sesame Street - Guy #1 and Guy #2, characters in We Like Sportz, by The Lonely Island
- Guy Cecil, character from the game Tales of the AbyssTales of the Abyssis a console role-playing game developed by Namco Tales Studio and published by Namco in Japan and Namco Bandai Games in North America. Tales of the Abyss's characteristic genre name is The Meaning Of Birth RPG . It is the eighth mothership title in the Tales series, and was released for the...
In other uses:
- Guy (sailing)Guy (sailing)A guy is a term for a line attached to and intended to control the end of a spar on a sailboat. On a modern sloop-rigged sailboat with a symmetric spinnaker, the spinnaker pole is the spar most commonly controlled by one or more guys.There are two primary types of guys used to control a...
, rope to control a spar on a sailboat - Guy (grape), another name for the French wine grape Gouais blanc
- Guy (band)Guy (band)Guy are a hip hop, R&B and soul band most closely associated with the new jack swing style of the 1980s and 1990s.-Origins :Guy was formed in Harlem, New York in 1987 by R&B singer-songwriters Aaron Hall, young musician/record producer Teddy Riley and Timmy Gatling...
, R&B group - Guy (film)Guy (film)Guy is a 1997 film directed by Michael Lindsay-Hogg and written by Kirby Dick. The drama stars Hope Davis, Vincent D'Onofrio, Lucy Liu, Sandy Martin, Michael Massee, John F. O'Donohue and Richard Portnow. The movie was initially released in the United States on 17 December 1997. It's United Kingdom...
, 1997 film starring Vincent D'Onofrio - Guy-wireGuy-wireA guy-wire or guy-rope, also known as simply a guy, is a tensioned cable designed to add stability to structures . One end of the cable is attached to the structure, and the other is anchored to the ground at a distance from the structure's base...
, wire used to keep a structure in place against the effects of wind - Guy MotorsGuy MotorsGuy Motors was a British company based in Fallings Park, Wolverhampton that made cars, lorries, buses, and trolleybuses.-History:Guy Motors Ltd was founded in 1914 by Sydney Guy who had been the Works Manager of nearby Sunbeam. A factory was built on the site at Fallings Park, Wolverhampton...
, former British bus and truck builder - Guy the GorillaGuy the GorillaGuy the Gorilla was a Western Lowland Gorilla who was London Zoo's famous resident, something of a celebrity in the 1960s–70s and was often profiled on kids TV shows and natural history productions...
, ((1946 – 1978), a Western Lowland Gorilla and 1960s–70s "celebrity" at London Zoo
Surname
- Athol GuyAthol GuyAthol Guy , is a member of the Australian pop music-folk music group The Seekers. Guy played the double bass. He was characterised by his wearing of black horn-rimmed glasses...
(born 1940), Australian musician - Barry GuyBarry GuyBarry John Guy is a British composer and double bass player. His range of interests encompasses early music, contemporary composition, jazz and improvisation, and he has worked with a wide variety of orchestras in the UK and Europe...
(born 1947), British composer - Billy GuyBilly Guy-Biography:Billy Guy is best known as a member of The Coasters, singing lead on such hits as "Searchin'," "Little Egypt," "Run Red Run," "Wait A Minute," among others. Before Guy joined The Coasters in 1955, he was part of a comedy singing duo called "Bip and Bop." One single called "Ding Ding...
(1936–2002), American singer - Brent GuyBrent Guy-External links:*...
(born 1960), American football coach - Buddy GuyBuddy GuyGeorge "Buddy" Guy is an American blues and jazz guitarist and singer. He is a critically acclaimed artist who has established himself as a pioneer of the Chicago blues sound, and has served as an influence to some of the most notable musicians of his generation...
(born 1936), American guitarist - Constantin GuysConstantin GuysConstantin Guys, Ernest-Adolphe-Hyacinthe-Constantin, was a Crimean War correspondent, water color painter and illustrator for British and French newspapers. Baudelaire called him the "painter of modern life," and wrote a long essay on Guys in which he extensively praised his works, under the...
(1802–1892), French journalist - Edna GuyEdna GuyEdna Guy was an African-American modern dance pioneer. Born in 1907 in Summit, New Jersey, Guy lived at a time when blacks and whites did not appear on stage together. At the age of fifteen she begged her mother to take her to a dance concert in Greenwich Village where she watched Modern Dance...
(1907–1982), American dancer - Étienne GuyÉtienne GuyÉtienne Guy was a surveyor and political figure in Lower Canada.He was born in Montreal in 1774, the son of Pierre Guy, studied at the Collège Saint-Raphaël and then spent a bit over a year at the College of New Jersey. In 1796, he was elected to the Legislative Assembly of Lower Canada in...
(1774–1820), Canadian surveyor and politician - Fabrice GuyFabrice GuyFabrice Guy is a former French nordic combined skier who competed during the 1990s. At the 1992 Winter Olympics in Albertville he won gold in the 15 km individual, then won a bronze in the 4 x 5 km team competition at the 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano...
(born 1968), French skier - Fritz GuyFritz GuyFritz Guy is a Seventh-day Adventist theologian and Research Professor of Philosophical Theology at La Sierra University in Riverside, California. He has worked as a college and university professor, an academic administrator, and a church pastor...
(born 1930), American theologian - Greg GuyGreg GuyGreg Guy is a retired American professional basketball most known for being the NCAA Division I scoring champion during the 1992–93 season.A native of Oak Park, Illinois, Guy went to Oak Park and River Forest High School...
, American basketball player - Henry Lewis GuyHenry Lewis GuySir Henry Lewis Guy CBE, FRS, was a leading British mechanical engineer, notable in particular for his work on steam turbine design.-Early life:Guy was born at Penarth, in the Vale of Glamorgan, Wales in 1887...
(1887–1956), British mechanical engineer - Jasmine GuyJasmine GuyJasmine Guy is an American actress, singer and dancer. She is best known for her starring role as Whitley Gilbert in the television sitcom A Different World.-Biography:...
(born 1962), American actress - John Guy (governor) (died 1629), English merchant and Governor of Newfoundland
- John Guy (historian)John Guy (historian)John Guy is a British historian and biographer.Born in Australia, he moved to Britain with his parents in 1952. He was educated at King Edward VII School in Lytham, and Clare College, Cambridge, where he read history, taking a First. At Cambridge, Guy studied under the Tudor specialist Geoffrey...
(born 1949), British historian - Nathan GuyNathan GuyNathan Guy is a New Zealand politician, and currently serves as a member of Parliament representing the National Party.-Background:...
(born 1970), New Zealand politician - Phil GuyPhil GuyPhil Guy was an American blues guitarist. He was the younger brother of Buddy Guy.-Biography:Born in Lettsworth, Louisiana, Guy played with the harmonica player Raful Neal for ten years in the Baton Rouge, Louisiana area before relocating to Chicago in 1969 where he joined his brothers' band...
(1940–2008), American guitarist - Ray GuyRay GuyWilliam Ray Guy is a retired American football punter for the Oakland/Los Angeles Raiders. Coming from the University of Southern Mississippi, he was the only pure punter ever to be drafted in the first round of the NFL draft when the Oakland Raiders selected him in 1973.Guy was a key member of...
(born 1949), American football player - Richard Guy (born 1916), British mathematician
- Rosa GuyRosa GuyRosa Cuthbert Guy is an American writer.-Biography:Rosa Guy was raised in Harlem from the age of seven and now lives in New York. She immigrated to Harlem, New York in 1932. Soon after her parents, Henry and Audrey Cuthbert, died, she and her sister went to many foster homes...
(born 1925), American writer - Thomas GuyThomas GuyThomas Guy was a British bookseller, speculator and de facto founder of Guy's Hospital, London-Early life:Thomas Guy was born a son of a lighterman, wharf owner and coal-dealer at Southwark. In 1668, after eight years as an apprentice of a bookseller, he began his own bookstore in Lombard Street...
(1644–1724), British hospital founder - William GuyWilliam GuyWilliam Augustus Guy was a British physician and medical statistician.-Life:He was born in Chichester and educated at Christ's Hospital and Guy's Hospital; he then studied at the University of Heidelberg and the University of Paris before getting a Bachelor of Medicine degree from the University...
(1810–1885), British physician - William L. GuyWilliam L. GuyWilliam Lewis Guy was the governor of the U.S. state of North Dakota from 1961 to 1973. At , he is the oldest of the six living current or past governors of North Dakota.-Biography:...
(born 1919), American politician
See also
- Guy Fawkes NightGuy Fawkes NightGuy Fawkes Night, also known as Guy Fawkes Day, Bonfire Night and Firework Night, is an annual commemoration observed on 5 November, primarily in England. Its history begins with the events of 5 November 1605, when Guy Fawkes, a member of the Gunpowder Plot, was arrested while guarding...
- Guy-Concordia (Montreal Metro)Guy-Concordia (Montreal Metro)Guy-Concordia is a station on the Green Line of the Montreal Metro rapid transit system operated by the Société de transport de Montréal . It is downtown in the borough of Ville-Marie in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. The station opened on October 14, 1966, as part of the original network of the metro...
, Montreal metro station - Guy I (disambiguation)
- Guy II (disambiguation)
- Guinness Yeast ExtractGuinness Yeast ExtractGuinness Yeast Extract, commonly known by its initials GYE, was an Irish savoury spread, made from yeast extract. It was a by-product of the Guinness beer brewing process and produced by Arthur Guinness Son & Co., Dublin...
or GYE