Roy
| Roy | |
|---|---|
| Gender | Male |
| Origin | |
| Word/name | Normandy |
| Meaning | King |
| Other names | |
| Alternative spelling | Roi |
| Related names | King, Fitzroy, Ray, Glenroy, Elroy, Leroi, Leroy, Royce, Royal |
Roy is a given name and a family surname. In Anglo-Norman England, the name derived from the Norman word roy, meaning "king".[1] It also appears in Scottish Gaelic, anglicized from the word ruadh, meaning "red". In India, Roy is an adopted surname generally given as a historical title of honor to Bengali people conferred by the British Raj. [2][3]
Given name
Roy is a common male given name. Notable people with the given name include:
- Roy de Silva, Sri Lankan Sinhala actor and director
- Roy Acuff, American musician
- Roy Andrews, American naturalist and explorer
- Roy Ascott, British artist and theorist
- Roy Blount, Jr., writer and humorist
- Roy Blunt, United States Senator and former congressman representing Missouri's 17th District
- Roy Campanella, American Baseball Hall of Fame catcher
- Roy Castle English dancer, singer, musician, comedian, actor, television presenter and musician.
- Roy Clark, country music musician, best known for his work on the television program Hee Haw
- Roy Christian, New Zealand rugby league footballer
- Roy Cohn, lawyer best known as Senator Joseph McCarthy's counsel from 1953 to 1954
- Roy Cooper, American politician
- Roy E. Disney (1930–2009), American businessman
- Roy O. Disney (1893–1971), American businessman
- Roy Drusky, country music singer
- Roy Face, often referred to as "Elroy Face", baseball all-star relief pitcher throughout the 1950s and 1960s
- Roy Firestone, sports talk show host
- Roy Foster (baseball), American baseball player
- Roy Gagnon, American football player
- Roy M. Goodman, New York state senator
- Roy Halladay, baseball pitcher
- Roy Halston Frowick (1932–1990), better known as Halston, clothing designer
- Roy Hamilton, popular R&B singer of the 1950s and 1960s
- Roy Hamilton (basketball) (born 1957), American basketball player and sports television producer
- Roy Hargrove, American jazz musician
- Roy Harper, musician
- Roy Harris, American classical music composer
- Roy Harrison, Irish former cricketer
- Roy Hartsfield, American baseball player in early 1950s and first manager of the expansion Toronto Blue Jays
- Roy Hattersley, British Labour politician
- Roy Head, R&B and country music singer
- Roy Hibbert, basketball player
- Roy Hodgson, English former football player and current manager
- Roy Horn, half of the Las Vegas show team Siegfried & Roy
- Roy Howell, baseball player
- Roy J. Glauber (born 1925), American physicist and 2005 Nobel prize winner
- Roy Lee Jackson, baseball pitcher in the 1970s and 1980s
- Roy Jenkins, British politician, statesman and author
- Roy Johnson (pitcher), baseball pitcher, manager and longtime coach
- Roy Jones, Jr., professional boxer
- Roy Keane, Irish former football player and current manager
- Roy Khan, former singer of power metal band Kamelot
- Roy Kim, born Kim Sang-woo, South Korean singer-songwriter
- Roy Kinnear (1934-1988), English actor
- Roy Lechthaler, American football player
- Roy Lichtenstein, American pop artist
- Roy Makaay, Dutch football (soccer) player and current manager
- Roy Masters (commentator), American talk radio personality, podcaster and spiritual counselor
- Roy McMillan, American baseball player
- Roy Morris (c. 1930 - 2011), British Scout Leader, recipient of the Silver Wolf Award
- Roy Moore, American politician and former state judge
- Roy Nelson (disambiguation), multiple people
- Roy Niederhoffer (born 1966), American hedge fund manager and philanthropist
- Roy Orbison, singer and pioneer of rock and roll
- Roy Oxlade, English painter and writer on art
- Roy Pinney, herpetologist, professional photographer, writer, spelunker, pilot and war correspondent
- Roy Rogers (born Leonard Schley), singing movie cowboy
- Roy Rosselló, former member of Puerto Rican Boyband Menudo from 1983- 1986.
- Roy Sanders (Louisiana politician), American educator and Louisiana state legislator
- Roy Scheider, film actor
- Roy Schwitters, American physicist
- Roy D. Shapiro, Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School
- Roy Shepherd, British ice hockey player
- Roy Shepherd (pianist), Australian pianist and teacher
- Roy Sievers, American baseball player
- Roy Smalley, Jr., American baseball player, father of Roy Smalley III
- Roy Smalley III, American baseball player, son of Roy Smalley, Jr.
- Roy Staiger, baseball player in the late 1970s
- Roy Thomas (), baseball pitcher from the 1970s through the 1980s
- Roy Underhill, host of the PBS series The Woodwright's Shop
- Roy Webb, gospel music pianist and speaker
- Roy White, American all-star baseball player
- Roy Williamson, Scottish folk singer
- Roy Wilkins, civil rights activists.
Surname
- Anupam Roy, singer and music director
- Ajoy Roy (born 1935), Bangladeshi physicist and human rights activist
- Anuradha Roy, Indian Bengali novelist and journalist
- Aruna Roy (born 1946), Indian Tamil social activist
- Arundhati Roy (born 1961), Indian Keralite novelist and peace activist
- Avik Roy, American political commentator
- Bidhan Chandra Roy (1882-1962), Indian Bengali politician
- Bikash Roy (1916-1987), Indian Bengali actor
- Bimal Roy (1909-1966), Indian Bengali film director
- Brandon Roy (born 1984), American basketball player
- Bryan Roy (born 1970), Dutch football (soccer) player and current manager
- Bunker Roy (born 1945), Indian Bengali social activist
- Claude Roy (physician) (born 1928), Canadian physician
- Claude Roy (poet) (1915–1997), French poet and essayist
- Claude Roy (politician) (born 1952), Canadian politician
- Debashree Roy (born 1961), Indian Bengali actress
- Deep Roy (born 1957), Kenyan-born Indian actor
- Derek Roy (born 1983), Canadian ice hockey player
- Derek Roy (comedian) (1922–1981), English comedian
- Dolon Roy (born 1970), Indian Bengali actress
- Drew Roy (born 1986), American actor
- Eric Roy (born 1948), New Zealand politician
- Éric Roy (born 1967), French footballer
- Fabien Roy (born 1928), Canadian politician
- Falguni Roy (1945-1981), Indian Bengali poet
- Gabrielle Roy (1909-1983), Canadian author
- Indra Lal Roy (1898-1918), Indian Bengali First World War flying ace
- Jahor Roy (1919-1977), Indian Bengali actor and comedian
- Jason Roy (born 1990), English cricketer
- James Roy (politician) (1893–1971), New Zealand politician
- James Roy (writer) (born 1968), Australian writer
- James A. Roy (born 1964), US Chief Master Sergeant of the Air Force
- Jeffrey Roy (born 1961), American politician and lawyer
- Jean Sebastien Roy, Canadian motocross rider who enjoyed success in the 2000s
- Jean-Yves Roy (born 1949), Canadian politician
- Juthika Roy (1920-2014), Indian Bengali singer
- Kalidas Roy (1889–1975), Indian Bengali poet
- Kanu Roy (born 1981), Indian Bengali film actor, and music composer
- Leela Roy (1900-1970), Indian Bengali independence activist and social reformer
- Leo Roy (1904-1955), American/Canadian boxer
- M. N. Roy (1887-1954), Indian Bengali philosopher and revolutionary
- Mathieu Roy (born 1983), Canadian ice hockey player
- Mathieu Roy (ice hockey) (born 1986), Canadian ice hockey player
- Nirupa Roy (1931-2004), Indian Gujarati actress
- Patrick Roy (born 1965), Canadian ice hockey head coach and former goaltender
- Prannoy Roy (born 1949), Indian Bengali journalist and media personality
- Prasanna Kumar Roy (1849–1932), Indian Bengali educationist
- Ram Mohan Roy (1772-1833), Indian Bengali religious, social and educational reformer
- Rahul Roy (born 1966), Indian film actor
- Sarat Chandra Roy (1871–1942), Indian Bengali anthropologist
- Satabdi Roy (born 1968), Indian Bengali actress
- Shasanka Mohan Roy (born 1941), Indian quantum physicist
- Shehzad Roy, Pakistani pop singer and social worker
- Subrata Roy (born 1948), Indian Bengali businessman
- Subimal Chandra Roy (1912-1971), Indian Bengali jurist
- Subodh Roy (1916–2006), Indian Bengali independence activist
- Sylvie Roy (1964-2016), Canadian politician
- Tarapada Roy (1936-2007), Indian Bengali author
- William Roy (1726–1790), Scottish surveyor
Fictional characters
- Roy, from Fire Emblem
- Roy Hobbs, protagonist of the Bernard Malamud novel The Natural
- Roy Batty, the leader of the renegade replicants in the film Blade Runner
- Roy Cropper, from the British soap opera Coronation Street
- Roy DeSoto, from the TV series Emergency!
- Roy O'Brien, eponymous animated protagonist of the TV series Roy
- Roy Trenneman, from the British sitcom The IT Crowd
- Roy (Little Britain), from the British sketch show Little Britain
- Roy Mustang, from the Fullmetal Alchemist manga series
- Roy (Peanuts), a minor character from the Peanuts comic strip
- Roy Harper (comics), a superhero in the DC Comics universe
- Roy Race, from the comic strip Roy of the Rovers
- Roy Rooster, in the comic strip US Acres
- Roy Greenhilt, from the webcomic Order of the Stick
- Roy Koopa, one of the Koopalings from Super Mario Bros. 3
- Roy Earle, from the game L.A. Noire
- Roy Neary, protagonist from the film Close Encounters of the Third Kind
- Roy Miller, protagonist from the film Knight and Day
- Roy Carson, from the America Movie Final Destination 5
See also
- Robert Roy MacGregor, commonly known as "Rob Roy"
- Ray (surname)
- Le Roy le veult
References
- ↑ Discover the meaning and history behind your last name, Ancestry.com, retrieved 25 September 2017 which cited Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4 for the surname "Roy".
- ↑ Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, 1989: from Skr. rāj: to reign, rule; cognate with L. rēx, rēg-is, rī, rīg king (see RICH).
- ↑ Oxford English Dictionary, 3rd edition (June 2008), on-line edition (September 2011): "spec. In full British Raj. Direct rule in India by the British (1858–1947); this period of dominion."
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