Roy
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, likewise gave rise to Roy as a variant in the Francophone world. In India, Roy is a variant of the surname Rai, likewise meaning "king". It also arose independently in Scotland, an anglicisation from the Scottish Gaelic nickname ruadh, meaning "red".
Given name
- Roy Acuff, American musician
- Roy Andersen, runner
- Roy Andersen , South African businessman and military officer
- Roy Anderson , American football coach
- Sir Roy M. Anderson, British scientific adviser
- Roy Andersson, Swedish film director
- Roy Andersson , footballer from Sweden
- Roy Chapman Andrews, American naturalist and explorer
- Roy Ascott, British artist and theorist
- Roy Black , German singer and actor
- Roy Blount Jr., American writer, speaker, reporter and humorist
- Roy Blunt, United States Senator and former congressman
- Roy Campanella, American Hall of Fame baseball catcher
- Roy Campanella II, television director and producer, son of the above
- Roy Castle, English dancer, singer, musician, comedian, actor, television presenter and musician
- Roy Clark, American singer and musician
- Roy Christian, New Zealand rugby league footballer
- Roy Cohn, American lawyer best known as Senator Joseph McCarthy's counsel from 1953 to 1954
- Roy Cooper, American politician and governor of North Carolina
- Roy de Silva, Sri Lankan Sinhala actor and director
- Roy E. Disney, American businessman
- Roy O. Disney, American businessman
- Roy Drusky, American country music singer
- Roy Face, often referred to as "Elroy Face", American baseball relief pitcher
- Roy Firestone, American sports talk show host
- Roy Foster , American baseball player
- Roy Gagnon, American football player
- Roy J. Glauber, American physicist and 2005 Nobel prize winner
- Roy M. Goodman, New York state senator
- Roy Halladay, American baseball pitcher
- Roy Halliday, British vice-admiral
- Roy Halston Frowick, better known as Halston, clothing designer
- Roy Hamilton, American singer
- Roy Hamilton , American basketball player and sports television producer
- Roy Hargrove, American jazz trumpeter
- Roy Harper
- Roy Harris
- Roy Harrison, Irish former cricketer
- Roy M. Harrison, environmental chemist
- Roy Hartsfield, American Major League Baseball player and manager
- Roy Hattersley, British politician, author and journalist
- Roy Head, R&B and country music singer
- Roy Hibbert, Jamaican-American retired basketball player
- Roy Hodgson, English former football player and current manager
- Roy Horn, half of the Las Vegas show team Siegfried & Roy
- Roy Howell, American former Major League baseball player
- Roy Lee Jackson, American former Major League Baseball pitcher
- Roy Jenkins, Welsh politician and author
- Roy Johnson , 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, English actor
- Roy Lechthaler, American football player
- Roy Lichtenstein, American pop artist
- Roy Makaay, Dutch football player and current manager
- Roy Masters , American talk radio personality, podcaster and spiritual counselor
- Roy McMillan, American baseball player
- Roy Morris, British Scout Leader, recipient of the Silver Wolf Award
- Roy Moore, American politician and former state judge
- Roy Nachum, Israeli contemporary artist
- Roy Nelson, multiple people
- Roy Niederhoffer, American hedge fund manager and philanthropist
- Roy Orbison, American singer-songwriter
- Roy Oxlade, English painter and writer on art
- Roy Pinney, herpetologist, professional photographer, writer, spelunker, pilot and war correspondent
- Roy Rogers, American singing movie cowboy
- Roy Rosselló, former member of Puerto Rican Boyband Menudo from 1983–1986.
- Roy Sanders , 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 , 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 , American baseball player
- 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 Williams , American college basketball coach
- Roy Williamson, Scottish folk singer
- Roy Wilkins, civil rights activist
Surname
- Anupam Roy, Indian singer and music director
- Ajoy Roy, Bangladeshi physicist and human rights activist
- Anuradha Roy, Indian Bengali novelist and journalist
- Aruna Roy, Indian Tamil social activist
- Arundhati Roy, Indian Keralite novelist and political activist
- Avik Roy, American political commentator
- Bidhan Chandra Roy, Indian Bengali politician
- Bikash Roy, Indian Bengali actor
- Bimal Roy, Indian Bengali film director
- Brandon Roy, American basketball player
- Bravvion Roy, American football player
- Bryan Roy, Dutch football player and current manager
- Bunker Roy, Indian Bengali social activist
- Claude Roy , Canadian physician
- Claude Roy , French poet and essayist
- Claude Roy , Canadian politician
- Conrad Roy, American marine salvage captain whose suicide resulted in the manslaughter conviction of his girlfriend
- Debashree Roy, Indian Bengali actress
- Deep Roy, Kenyan-born Indian actor
- Derek Roy, Canadian ice hockey player
- Derek Roy , English comedian
- Dolon Roy, Indian Bengali actress
- Drew Roy, American actor
- Eric Roy, New Zealand politician
- Éric Roy, French footballer
- Fabien Roy, Canadian politician
- Falguni Roy, Indian Bengali poet
- Gabrielle Roy, Canadian author
- Helen Roy, British ecologist, entomologist and academic
- Indra Lal Roy, Indian Bengali First World War flying ace
- Jahor Roy, Indian Bengali actor and comedian
- James Roy , New Zealand politician
- James Roy , Australian writer
- James A. Roy, US Chief Master Sergeant of the Air Force
- Jason Roy, English cricketer
- Jeffrey Roy, American politician and lawyer
- Jean Sebastien Roy, Canadian motocross rider who enjoyed success in the 2000s
- Jean-Yves Roy, Canadian politician
- Juthika Roy, Indian Bengali singer
- Kalidas Roy, Indian Bengali poet
- Kanu Roy, Indian Bengali film actor, and music composer
- Leela Roy, Indian Bengali independence activist and social reformer
- Leo Roy, American/Canadian boxer
- M. N. Roy, Indian Bengali philosopher and revolutionary
- Mathieu Roy, Canadian ice hockey player
- Mathieu Roy , Canadian ice hockey player
- Nirupa Roy, Indian Gujarati actress
- Patrick Roy, Canadian ice hockey head coach and former goaltender
- Prannoy Roy, Indian Bengali journalist and media personality
- Prasanna Kumar Roy, Indian Bengali educationist
- Ram Mohan Roy, Indian Bengali religious, social and educational reformer
- Rahul Roy, Indian film actor
- Sarat Chandra Roy, Indian Bengali anthropologist
- Satabdi Roy, Indian Bengali actress
- Shasanka Mohan Roy, Indian quantum physicist
- Shehzad Roy, Pakistani pop singer and social worker
- Subrata Roy, Indian Bengali businessman
- Subimal Chandra Roy, Indian Bengali jurist
- Subodh Roy, Indian Bengali independence activist
- Sylvie Roy, Canadian politician
- Tarapada Roy, Indian Bengali author
- William Roy, Scottish surveyor
Fictional characters
- Esme & Roy's eponymous monster
- Roy, protagonist of the video game and a character in Super Smash Bros. series
- Roy, from the British sketch show Little Britain
- Roy, a minor character from the Peanuts comic strip
- Roy Anderson, from The Office U.S. TV series
- Roy Batty, the leader of the renegade replicants in the film Blade Runner
- 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 Greenhilt, from the webcomic Order of the Stick
- Roy Harper, a superhero in the DC Comics universe
- Roy Hobbs, protagonist of the Bernard Malamud novel The Natural and the film adaptation
- Roy Koopa, one of the Koopalings from Super Mario Bros. 3
- Roy Miller, protagonist from the film Knight and Day
- Roy Mustang, from the Fullmetal Alchemist manga series
- Roy Neary, protagonist from the film Close Encounters of the Third Kind
- 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 US Acres
- Roy Trenneman, from the British sitcom The IT Crowd