Guy (given name)
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Guy is a given name, which may derive from two sources:
Notable people with the name include:
- Through GermanicGermanic nameGermanic given names are traditionally dithematic; that is, they are formed from two elements, by joining a prefix and a suffix. For example, King Æþelred's name was derived from æþel, for "noble", and ræd, for "counsel". Many of these names are still used today, while others have fallen out of use...
, it is the French and English form of GuidoGuidoGuido is a given name of Italian origin also utilised as a given name in Spanish. Guido is derived from the Ancient Germanic Wido. and Latin name Vito...
. - Through HebrewHebrew nameHebrew names are names that have a Hebrew language origin, classically from the Hebrew Bible. They are mostly used by people living in Jewish or Christian parts of the world, but some are also adapted to the Islamic world, particularly if a Hebrew name is mentioned in the Qur'an. When...
, it is an Anglicization of the name גיא, also transliterated "GaiGaiGai may refer to:*Gai, Austria, a town in the district of Leoben in Styria*Gai Assulin, a football player currently playing for Manchester City*Oleksiy Gai, a football player currently playing for Shaktar Donetsk...
," which means "valley."
Notable people with the name include:
- Guy AdamiGuy AdamiGuy Adami is a TV personality, author, financial analyst, & a professional investor. He is one of the original "Fast Money Five" on the show Fast Money . In 2008 he joined optionMONSTER with Pete Najarian and Jon Najarian as the lead analyst for equities research. He also came on board as managing...
, TV personality, one of the Fast Money (CNBC) Five - Guy BaileyGuy BaileyGuy Bailey is a sociolinguist and the president of Texas Tech University in Lubbock, Texas. Before assuming the role at Texas Tech, he was the chancellor of the University of Missouri–Kansas City...
, President of Texas Tech University - Guy BerrymanGuy BerrymanGuy Rupert Berryman is a Scottish musician known as the bassist for the groups Coldplay and Apparatjik. Berryman is left-handed but chooses to play the bass right-handed.-Coldplay:...
, British musician of Coldplay - Guy BranumGuy BranumGuy Branum is an American actor, comedian, and writer best known as the head writer of, and a sketch performer on, X-Play on the G4 network and was a regular panelist on "Chelsea Lately" on the E! network.-Life and career:...
, American comedian - Guy BurgessGuy BurgessGuy Francis De Moncy Burgess was a British-born intelligence officer and double agent, who worked for the Soviet Union. He was part of the Cambridge Five spy ring that betrayed Western secrets to the Soviets before and during the Cold War...
, British/Soviet double agent, one of the Cambridge Five spy ring - Guy BurnetGuy BurnetGuy Burnet , a British film and television actor. He is best known for his work on the show Hollyoaks, but in recent years has also completed a number of roles in feature films.-Personal:...
, English actor who played Craig Dean on the soap opera Hollyoaks - Guy CallaghanGuy CallaghanGuy Callaghan is a former butterfly swimmer from New Zealand, who competed at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, Spain for his native country....
, New Zealand butterfly swimmer - Guy CarbonneauGuy CarbonneauGuy Carbonneau is a Canadian retired professional ice hockey player in the National Hockey League. He is also the president of the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League 's Chicoutimi Saguenéens. He has two daughters Anne-Marie and Kristina, with wife Line Carbonneau. Anne-Marie married his former...
, retired French-Canadian hockey player and former NHL head coach - Guy ChambersGuy ChambersGuy Chambers is an English songwriter and record producer, perhaps best known for his long partnership with Robbie Williams.- Biography :...
, British song-writer of Robbie Williams fame - Guy CharronGuy CharronGuy Joseph Jean Charron is a former professional ice hockey centre. He played in the NHL from 1969 – 1981...
, retired French Canadian hockey player and former NHL head coach - Guy ChouinardGuy ChouinardGuy Camil "Gramps" Chouinard is a retired professional ice hockey player who played in the 1970s and 80's for the Atlanta Flames, Calgary Flames, and St. Louis Blues...
, retired French Canadian hockey player - Guy DebordGuy DebordGuy Ernest Debord was a French Marxist theorist, writer, filmmaker, member of the Letterist International, founder of a Letterist faction, and founding member of the Situationist International . He was also briefly a member of Socialisme ou Barbarie.-Early Life:Guy Debord was born in Paris in 1931...
, French author and filmmaker, Situationist - Guy FawkesGuy FawkesGuy Fawkes , also known as Guido Fawkes, the name he adopted while fighting for the Spanish in the Low Countries, belonged to a group of provincial English Catholics who planned the failed Gunpowder Plot of 1605.Fawkes was born and educated in York...
, English Catholic, famed for his involvement in the Gunpowder Plot - Guy FieriGuy FieriGuy Fieri is an American restaurateur, author, television personality, and game show host. He co-owns five restaurants in California and is widely known for his television series on the Food Network....
, winner of the second season of The Next Food Network Star - Guy GomaGuy GomaGuy Goma is a business studies graduate from Brazzaville in the Republic of the Congo who gained international fame when he was accidentally interviewed live on BBC News 24, a UK television news station, on Monday 8th May 2006.-The interview:...
, who gained fame when he was accidentally interviewed on BBC - Guy GoodesGuy GoodesGuy Goodes is a British-Israeli basketball coach, currently an assistant coach for Maccabi Tel Aviv, and a former professional basketball player.-Player:...
, Israeli basketball player and coach - Guy HarveyGuy HarveyGuy Harvey is a marine wildlife artist and conservationist. His depictions of sealife, especially of sportfish such as marlin, are very popular with sportfishermen and have been reproduced in prints, posters, t-shirts, jewelry, clothing, and other consumer items...
, marine wildlife artist and conservationist - Guy HebertGuy HebertGuy Andre Hebert is a retired American professional ice hockey goaltender. He is a graduate of La Salle Institute in Troy and Hamilton College in Clinton, New York. Despite being an American, he used the French pronunciation of his first and last name. During his NHL career he played for the St...
, retired American hockey goalie - Guy KawasakiGuy KawasakiGuy Kawasaki is a Silicon Valley venture capitalist, bestselling author, and Apple Fellow. He was one of the Apple employees originally responsible for marketing the Macintosh in 1984. He is currently a Managing Director of Garage Technology Ventures, and has been involved in the rumor reporting...
, former Apple employee and venture capitalist - Guy LalibertéGuy LalibertéGuy Laliberté, OC, CQ is a Canadian entrepreneur, philanthropist, poker player, space tourist and the current CEO of Cirque du Soleil...
, founder and CEO of Cirque du SoleilCirque du SoleilCirque du Soleil , is a Canadian entertainment company, self-described as a "dramatic mix of circus arts and street entertainment." Based in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, and located in the inner-city area of Saint-Michel, it was founded in Baie-Saint-Paul in 1984 by two former street performers, Guy... - Guy LapébieGuy LapébieGuy Lapébie was a French professional road bicycle racer. In the 1936 Olympics, Lapébie won two golden medals and one silver medal. He was born in Saint-Geours-de-Maremne and died in Bagnères-de-Luchon....
(1916–2010), French cyclist - Guy LafleurGuy LafleurGuy Damien "The Flower" / "Le Démon Blond" Lafleur, OC, CQ is a former Canadian professional ice hockey player who is widely regarded as one of the most naturally gifted and popular players ever to play professional ice hockey...
, retired French Canadian Hall of Fame hockey player - Guy LapointeGuy LapointeGuy Gerard "Pointu" Lapointe is a retired Canadian professional ice hockey defenceman who played for the Montreal Canadiens, St. Louis Blues and Boston Bruins in the National Hockey League...
, retired French Canadian Hall of Fame hockey player - Guy Le BorgneGuy Le BorgneGuy Le Borgne was a French Army general that fought in World War II, First Indochina War and Algerian War. He commanded several paratroop units during his career and was military governor of Lyon.- Biography :...
, French paratroop general - Guy LombardoGuy LombardoGaetano Alberto "Guy" Lombardo was a Canadian-American bandleader and violinist.Forming "The Royal Canadians" in 1924 with his brothers Carmen, Lebert, and Victor and other musicians from his hometown, Lombardo led the group to international success, billing themselves as creating "The Sweetest...
, Canadian-American bandleader and musician - Guy of LusignanGuy of LusignanGuy of Lusignan was a Poitevin knight, son of Hugh VIII of the prominent Lusignan dynasty. He was king of the crusader state of Jerusalem from 1186 to 1192 by right of marriage to Sibylla of Jerusalem, and of Cyprus from 1192 to 1194...
, king-consort of Jerusalem and king of Cyprus - Guy de MaupassantGuy de MaupassantHenri René Albert Guy de Maupassant was a popular 19th-century French writer, considered one of the fathers of the modern short story and one of the form's finest exponents....
, French writer and journalist - Guy MolletGuy MolletGuy Mollet was a French Socialist politician. He led the French Section of the Workers' International party from 1946 to 1969 and was Prime Minister in 1956–1957.-Early life and World War II:...
(1905–1975), former Prime Minister of France - Guy MurrayGuy MurrayGuy Murray is the current men's and women's cross country and track and field head coach at the University of Detroit Mercy. Murray was one of the top runners in U of D history as a distance runner and he was also a marathon runner...
, American track/cross country coach and former marathon runner - Guy NosbaumGuy NosbaumGuy Nosbaum was a French rower who competed in the 1952 Summer Olympics and in the 1960 Summer Olympics.He was Jewish, and was born in Corbeil....
(1930–96), French Olympic medalist rower - Guy PearceGuy PearceGuy Edward Pearce is an English-born Australian actor and musician, known for his roles as Leonard Shelby in Christopher Nolan's Memento, Lieutenant Ed Exley in L.A...
, English-born Australian actor - Guy PerryGuy PerryGuy Perry is an American actor.Perry is best known for films and television series such as The New Daughter, Zoolander, The Shield, Nip/Tuck and True Blood....
, American actor - Guy PicciottoGuy PicciottoGuy Picciotto is an American singer, songwriter, guitarist, musician, and producer from Washington, DC.He is most widely known for his role as the guitarist and vocalist of Fugazi, as well as Rites of Spring.-Rites of Spring & Early Projects:...
, of the band Fugazi - Guy PrattGuy PrattGuy Pratt is a session bassist and also a songwriter, actor and comedian. He is the son of actor Mike Pratt. In Kensington and Chelsea, London, in 1996, Pratt married Gala Wright, the daughter of Pink Floyd keyboardist Richard Wright...
, British session musician - Guy RitchieGuy RitchieGuy Stuart Ritchie is an English screenwriter and film maker who directed Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, Snatch, Revolver, RocknRolla and Sherlock Holmes.-Early life:...
(born 1968), British film director, formerly married to Madonna - Guy Roux, manager of AJ AuxerreAJ AuxerreAssociation de la Jeunesse Auxerroise is a French association football club based in the commune of Auxerre in Burgundy. The club was founded in 1905 and currently play in Ligue 1, the top division of French football. Auxerre plays its home matches at the Stade l'Abbé-Deschamps on the banks of the...
1961–2008 - Guy SebastianGuy SebastianGuy Theodore Sebastian is an Australian pop, R&B, and soul singer-songwriter who was the first winner of Australian Idol in 2003. He is currently a judge on the Australian version of The X Factor. Sebastian has released six top ten platinum/multi platinum albums, including a number-one and...
, winner of the first Australian Idol - Guy Severin, former director of NPP Zvezda
- Guy StarikGuy StarikGuy Starik is an Israeli sport shooter who has competed in four Olympics. He has won gold medals in shooting at both the European Championships and at four World Cups, and shares the world record in the 50 meter rifle prone competition....
(born 1965), Israeli Olympic sport shooter - Guy L. Steele, Jr.Guy L. Steele, Jr.Guy Lewis Steele Jr. , also known as "The Great Quux", and GLS , is an American computer scientist who has played an important role in designing and documenting several computer programming languages.-Biography:...
, computer scientist and designer of the Scheme programming language - Guy of TuscanyGuy of TuscanyGuy was the count and duke of Lucca and margrave of Tuscany from 915, the death of his father Adalbert II, to his own death. He was originally under the regency of his mother Bertha, daughter of Lothair II of Lotharingia, until 916.He kept court at Mantua around the year 920...
, Count and Duke of Lucca, and Margrave of Tuscany (915–929) - Guy VerhofstadtGuy VerhofstadtGuy Verhofstadt is a Belgian politician who was the 47th Prime Minister of Belgium from 1999 to 2008. He is currently a Member of the European Parliament and leader of the Group of the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe.- Early career :...
, Prime Minister of Belgium 1999–2008 - Guy Wetmore CarrylGuy Wetmore CarrylGuy Wetmore Carryl was an American humorist and poet.-Biography:Carryl was born in New York City, the first-born of author Charles Edward Carryl and Mary R. Wetmore....
(1873–1904), American author and poet - Guy WhatleyGuy WhatleyGuy Richard Whatley is an American organist and harpsichordist.Guy Whatley was born in Aberystwyth, Wales, in the United Kingdom...
, American organist - Guy WhittallGuy WhittallGuy James Whittall is a former Zimbabwean cricketer who played 46 Tests and 147 ODIs and captained Zimbabwe in four One Day Internationals. An all-rounder, he was a right-handed aggressive middle-order batsman and an effective right arm medium pace bowler.-Early days:Whittall was selected for the...
, retired Zimbabwean cricket player - Guy WhittinghamGuy WhittinghamGuy Whittingham is a retired professional footballer with over 450 appearances for a number of English clubs, after leaving the British Army. He is currently serving as joint caretaker manager of Portsmouth together with Stuart Gray...
, British footballer, of Aston Villa fame
Fictional
- Guy CaballeroGuy CaballeroGuy Caballero is a fictional character on the television series SCTV played by Joe Flaherty. President and owner of the fictional SCTV network, Caballero usually appeared on the series to introduce various network programs, although he also occasionally got wrapped up in behind-the-scenes...
, a regular character on the Canadian sketch comedy TV series SCTVSecond City TelevisionSecond City Television is a Canadian television sketch comedy show offshoot from Toronto's The Second City troupe that ran between 1976 and 1984.- Premise :...
played by Joe Flaherty - Guy GardnerGuy Gardner (comics)Guy Gardner is a fictional character, a comic book superhero published by DC Comics. He is a core member of the Green Lantern family of characters, and for a time was also a significant member of the Justice League family of characters.He was created by John Broome and Gil Kane in Green Lantern...
, a Green LanternGreen LanternThe Green Lantern is the shared primary alias of several fictional characters, superheroes appearing in comic books published by DC Comics. The first Green Lantern was created by writer Bill Finger and artist Martin Nodell in All-American Comics #16 .Each Green Lantern possesses a power ring and...
comic book character from DC Comics. - Sir Guy of GisbourneGuy of GisbourneSir Guy of Gisbourne is a character from the Robin Hood legends of English folklore. In The Ballad of Robin Hood and Guy of Gisborne , he hunts Robin for the Sheriff of Nottingham, but Robin kills him and cuts off his head...
, villain in the Robin Hood legend - Guy MontagGuy MontagGuy Montag is the protagonist in Ray Bradbury's dystopian 1953 novel Fahrenheit 451. He is depicted living in a futuristic town where he works as a fireman whose job is to burn books.-Montag's role in the storyline:...
, character in Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451 - 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...
, muppet character from Sesame StreetSesame StreetSesame Street has undergone significant changes in its history. According to writer Michael Davis, by the mid-1970s the show had become "an American institution". The cast and crew expanded during this time, including the hiring of women in the crew and additional minorities in the cast. The...
who is a game show host - 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...
, a character from Final Fight and Street Fighter series - Might Guy, character from Naruto
- Guy Cecil, one of the main characters in the video 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...
- Guy LeDouche, the name used for the Takeshi's CastleTakeshi's Castlewas a Japanese game show that aired between 1986 and 1989 on the Tokyo Broadcasting System. It featured the Japanese actor Takeshi Kitano as a count who owns a castle and sets up impossible challenges for players to get to him. The show has become a cult television hit around the world...
character Junji Inagawa on that series' American parody/adaptation MXCMXCMXC was an American comedy television program that aired on Spike TV from 2003 to 2007. It is a re-edit of footage from the Japanese game show Takeshi's Castle which originally aired in Japan from 1986 to 1989... - Dr. Guy LaFleur, biochemist who appears in one episode and is referenced repeatedly and posthumously in the NBCNBCThe National Broadcasting Company is an American commercial broadcasting television network and former radio network headquartered in the GE Building in New York City's Rockefeller Center with additional major offices near Los Angeles and in Chicago...
series ChuckChuck (TV series)Chuck is an action-comedy/spy-drama television program from the United States created by Josh Schwartz and Chris Fedak. The series is about an "average computer-whiz-next-door" named Chuck, played by Zachary Levi, who receives an encoded e-mail from an old college friend now working for the Central... - Guy Forcas, a character from the 2009 UBI Soft game Anno 1404