Roy

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Roy
GenderMale
Origin
Word/nameOld Norman, Old French, Bengali, Scottish Gaelic
Meaningking or red
Region of originEngland, France, Bengal, Scotland
Other names
Alternative spellingRoi
Related namesFitzroy, Ray, Glenroy, Elroy, Leroi, Leroy, Royce, Royal, Rai, Rao, Rudd

Roy is a masculine given name and a family surname with varied origin. In Anglo-Norman England, the name derived from the Norman roy, meaning "king", while its Old French cognate, rey or roy (modern roi), likewise gave rise to Roy as a variant in the Francophone world. In India, Roy is a variant of the surname Rai,[1] likewise meaning "king".[2] It also arose independently in Scotland, an anglicisation from the Scottish Gaelic nickname ruadh, meaning "red".[1]

Given name[]

  • Roy Acuff (1903–1992), American country music singer and fiddler
  • Roy Andersen (born 1955), runner
  • Roy Andersen (South Africa) (born 1948), South African businessman and military officer
  • Roy Anderson (American football) (born 1980), American football coach
  • Sir Roy M. Anderson (born 1947), British scientific adviser
  • Roy Andersson (born 1943), Swedish film director
  • Roy Andersson (footballer) (born 1949), footballer from Sweden
  • Roy Chapman Andrews (1884–1960), American naturalist and explorer
  • Roy Ascott (born 1934), British artist and theorist
  • Roy Black (singer) (1943–1991), German singer and actor
  • Roy Blount Jr. (born 1941), American writer, speaker, reporter and humorist
  • Roy Blunt (born 1950), United States Senator and former congressman
  • Roy Bucher (1895-1980), British-Indian soldier and Commander-in-Chief
  • Roy C (1939–2020), American soul and R&B singer and songwriter
  • Roy Campanella (1921–1993), American Hall of Fame baseball catcher
  • Roy Campanella II (born 1948), television director and producer, son of the above
  • Roy Castle (1932–1994), English dancer, singer, musician, comedian, actor, television presenter and musician
  • Roy Cimatu (born 1946), Filipino government administrator and retired army general
  • Roy Clark (1933–2018), American country music singer and musician
  • Roy Christian (born 1943), New Zealand rugby league footballer
  • Roy Cohn (1927–1986), American lawyer best known as Senator Joseph McCarthy's counsel from 1953 to 1954
  • Roy Cooper (born 1957), American politician and governor of North Carolina
  • Roy DeMeo (1940–1983), Italian-American mobster
  • Roy de Silva (1937–2018), Sri Lankan Sinhala actor and director
  • Roy E. Disney (1930–2009), American businessman
  • Roy O. Disney (1893–1971), American businessman
  • Roy Drusky (1930–2004), American country music singer and songwriter
  • Roy Face (born 1928), often referred to as "Elroy Face", American baseball relief pitcher
  • Roy Firestone (born 1953), American sports talk show host
  • Roy Foster (baseball) (1945–2008), American baseball player
  • Roy Gagnon (1913–2000), American football player
  • Roy J. Glauber (1925–2018), American physicist and 2005 Nobel prize winner
  • Roy M. Goodman (1930–2014), New York state senator
  • Roy Halladay (1977–2017), American baseball pitcher
  • Roy Halliday (1923–2007), British vice-admiral
  • Roy Halston Frowick (1932–1990), better known as Halston, clothing designer
  • Roy Hamilton (1929–1969), American singer
  • Roy Hamilton (basketball) (born 1957), American basketball player and sports television producer
  • Roy Hargrove (1969–2018), American jazz trumpeter
  • Roy Harper (disambiguation)
  • Roy Harris (disambiguation)
  • Roy Harrison (born 1939), Irish former cricketer
  • Roy M. Harrison (born 1948), environmental chemist
  • Roy Hartsfield (1925–2011), American Major League Baseball player and manager
  • Roy Hattersley (born 1932), British politician, author and journalist
  • Roy Head (1941–2020), American country music, rockabilly, and R&B singer
  • Roy Hibbert (born 1986), Jamaican-American retired basketball player
  • Roy Hodgson (born 1947), English former football player and current manager
  • Roy Horn (born Uwe Ludwig Horn in 1944), half of the Las Vegas show team Siegfried & Roy
  • Roy Howell (born 1953), American former Major League baseball player
  • Roy Lee Jackson (born 1954), American former Major League Baseball pitcher
  • Roy Douglas Jayetileke, Sri Lankan Sinhala army officer
  • Roy Jenkins (1920–2003), Welsh politician and author
  • Roy Johnson (pitcher) (1895–1986), baseball pitcher, manager and longtime coach
  • Roy Jones, Jr. (born 1969), professional boxer
  • Roy Keane (born 1971), Irish former football player and current manager
  • Roy Khan (born 1970), former singer of power metal band Kamelot
  • Roy Kim (born 1993), born Kim Sang-woo, South Korean singer-songwriter
  • Roy Kinnear (1934–1988), English actor
  • Roy Lechthaler (1908–1980), American football player
  • Roy Li Fey Huei (born 1965), Singaporean musician
  • Roy Lichtenstein (1923–1997), American pop artist
  • Roy Lopez (American football) (born 1997), American football player
  • Roy Makaay (born 1975), Dutch footballer and current manager
  • Roy Masters (commentator) (born 1928), American talk radio personality, podcaster and spiritual counselor
  • Roy McMillan (1929–1997), American baseball player
  • Roy Morris (c. 1930–2011), British Scout Leader, recipient of the Silver Wolf Award
  • Roy Moore (born 1947), American politician and former state judge
  • Roy Nachum (born 1979), Israeli contemporary artist
  • Roy Nelson (disambiguation), multiple people
  • Roy Niederhoffer (born 1966), American hedge fund manager and philanthropist
  • Roy Nissany (born 1994), Israeli racing driver
  • Roy Olmstead (1886-1966), American policeman, then bootlegger
  • Roy Orbison (1936–1988), American singer-songwriter
  • Roy Oxlade (1929–2014), English painter and writer on art
  • Roy Pinney (1911–2010), herpetologist, professional photographer, writer, spelunker, pilot and war correspondent
  • Roy Rogers (1911–1998), American singing movie cowboy
  • Roy Rosselló (born 1970), former member of Puerto Rican Boyband Menudo from 1983–1986.
  • Roy Sanders (Louisiana politician) (1904–1976), American educator and Louisiana state legislator
  • Roy Scheider (1932–2008), film actor
  • Roy Schwitters (born 1944), American physicist
  • Roy D. Shapiro, Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School
  • Roy Shepherd (born 1931), British ice hockey player
  • Roy Shepherd (pianist) (1907–1986), Australian pianist and teacher
  • Roy Sievers (1926–2017), American baseball player
  • Roy Smalley, Jr. (1926–2011), American baseball player, father of Roy Smalley III
  • Roy Smalley III (born 1952), American baseball player, son of Roy Smalley, Jr.
  • Roy Staiger (born 1950), baseball player in the late 1970s
  • Roy Thomas (pitcher) (born 1953), American baseball player
  • Roy Underhill (born 1950), host of the PBS series The Woodwright's Shop
  • Roy Webb (1888–1982), gospel music pianist and speaker
  • Roy White (born 1943), American all-star baseball player
  • Roy Williams (basketball coach) (born 1950), American college basketball coach
  • Roy Williamson (1936–1990), Scottish folk singer
  • Roy Wilkins (1901–1981), civil rights activist
  • Roy Wood (born 1946), English singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist

Surname[]

Fictional characters[]

  • Esme & Roy's eponymous monster
  • Kiriti Roy, a Bengali fictional detective character created by Nihar Ranjan Gupta
  • Philly Boy Roy, from the radio show and podcast The Best Show with Tom Scharpling
  • Roy (Fire Emblem), character from Nintendo's Fire Emblem and Super Smash Bros. video game series
  • Roy (Little Britain), from the British sketch show Little Britain
  • Roy, a minor character from the Peanuts comic strip
  • Roy Anderson (The Office), from The Office U.S. TV series
  • Roy Batty, the leader of the renegade replicants in the film Blade Runner
  • Roy G. Bivolo, DC Comics supervillain known as Rainbow Raider
  • Roy Carson, from the American movie Final Destination 5
  • Roy Cropper, from the British soap opera Coronation Street
  • Roy Earle, from the game L.A. Noire
  • Roy Gherbil, an occurring character on the Snow Plow Show
  • Roy Greenhilt, from the webcomic Order of the Stick
  • Roy Gribbleston, Yellow Guy's father from Don't Hug Me I'm Scared
  • Roy Harper (comics), a superhero in the DC Comics universe
  • Roy Hobbs, protagonist of the Bernard Malamud novel The Natural and The Natural (film)
  • Roy "Jawjack" Kelton, a character from the 1988 movie 14 Going on 30
  • Roy Koopa, one of the Koopalings from Super Mario Bros. 3
  • Roy Miller, protagonist from the 2010 film Green Zone (film)
  • Roy Miller, protagonist from the 2010 film Knight and Day
  • Roy Mustang, from the Fullmetal Alchemist manga series
  • Roy Neary, protagonist from the film Close Encounters of the Third Kind played by Richard Dreyfuss
  • Roy O'Brien, eponymous animated protagonist of the TV series Roy
  • Roy Race, from the comic strip Roy of the Rovers
  • Roy Rooster, in the comic strip U.S. Acres
  • Roy Trenneman, from the British sitcom The IT Crowd
  • The Roy family, from the American television series Succession
  • Roy Kent, from the television series Ted Lasso

See also[]

References[]

  1. ^ a b Patrick Hankes (2003). Dictionary of American Family Names. Vol. 3. Oxford University Press. p. 230. ISBN 0-19-508137-4..
  2. ^ Patrick Hankes (2003). Dictionary of American Family Names. Vol. 1. Oxford University Press. p. xcvii. ISBN 0-19-508137-4..
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