Hoy (disambiguation)
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Hoy means today in Spanish
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It is also the name of a number of places, people, and things:
for 'high island' is a Scottish Island name.
There are also:
Spanish language
Spanish , also known as Castilian , is a Romance language in the Ibero-Romance group that evolved from several languages and dialects in central-northern Iberia around the 9th century and gradually spread with the expansion of the Kingdom of Castile into central and southern Iberia during the...
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It is also the name of a number of places, people, and things:
Scotland
Hoy from Háey, Old NorseOld Norse
Old Norse is a North Germanic language that was spoken by inhabitants of Scandinavia and inhabitants of their overseas settlements during the Viking Age, until about 1300....
for 'high island' is a Scottish Island name.
- Isle of HoyHoyHoy is an island in Orkney, Scotland. With an area of it is the second largest in the archipelago after the Mainland. It is connected by a causeway called The Ayre to South Walls...
, one of the Orkney Islands in Scotland.- The Old Man of HoyOld Man of HoyThe Old Man of Hoy is a sea stack of red sandstone perched on a plinth of igneous basalt rock, close to Rackwick Bay on the west coast of the island of Hoy, in the Orkney Islands, Scotland. It is a distinctive landmark seen from the Thurso to Stromness ferry, MV Hamnavoe, and is a famous rock climb...
, a famous stack off this island
- The Old Man of Hoy
- Hoy, ShetlandHoy, ShetlandHoy is a small island in Weisdale Voe, an arm of the sea in the Shetland islands, Scotland. Nearby are the smaller islets of Hoggs of Hoy and Junk. The Sound of Hoy lies between Hoy and Strom Ness peninsula on the Shetland Mainland. The highest point of the island is 35 metres above sea...
in Weisdale Voe, one of the Shetland Islands, . - Hoy Island, Isles of Gletness, off South East Mainland, Shetland
There are also:
- "Hoy High" and "Hoy Low" lighthouses on the Orkney island of GraemsayGraemsayGraemsay is an island in the western approaches to Scapa Flow, in the Orkney Islands of Scotland. The island has two lighthouses.-Geography and geology:...
People named Hoy
- Andrew HoyAndrew HoyAndrew Hoy is an Olympic-level equestrian rider, who competes for Australia. The Athens 2004 Summer Olympics were his sixth games....
(born 1959), Australian equestrian - Bettina HoyBettina HoyBettina Hoy is an Olympic-level equestrian rider, who competes for Germany in Eventing competitions...
(born 1962), German equestrian - Chris HoyChris HoySir Christopher Andrew "Chris" Hoy, MBE is a Scottish track cyclist representing Great Britain and Scotland. He is a multiple world champion and Olympic Games gold medal winner...
, Scottish track cyclist - Claire Hoy, Canadian journalist and author
- Col HoyCol HoyColin Hoy , was an Australian cricket Test match umpire, the first Queenslander to be appointed....
, Australian cricket umpire - Dummy HoyDummy HoyWilliam Ellsworth Hoy , nicknamed "Dummy," was an American center fielder in Major League Baseball who played for several teams from 1888 to 1902, most notably the Cincinnati Reds and two Washington, D.C...
(1862 – 1961), American Baseball player - James Hutchison HoyJames Hutchison HoyJames Hutchison Hoy, Baron Hoy PC was a Scottish Labour politician and life peer.Educated at Causewayside and Sciennes Public Schools, Edinburgh, he initially worked as an interior decorator. He was elected as Labour Member of Parliament for Leith at the 1945 general election, holding the seat...
(1909 - 1976), Scottish politician - Garry HoyGarry HoyGarry Hoy was a lawyer for the law firm of Holden Day Wilson in Toronto. He is best known for the circumstances of his death; in an attempt to prove to a group of his partners at the firm that the glass in the Toronto-Dominion Centre was unbreakable, he threw himself through a glass wall on the...
, Canadian lawyer - Henry HoyHenry HoyHenry Albert Hoy was a locomotive engineer with the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway . Hoy was born on 13 January 1855 in London, and educated at King Edward VI's Grammar School in St Albans, and at St John's College, Liverpool University....
(1855–1910) British locomotive engineer - Marie HoyMarie HoyMarie Hoy is an Australian musician and actor. As a vocalist and keyboardist, she has been a member of Sacred Cowboys, Orchestra Of Skin And Bone , No and a number of bands in the Melbourne Little band scene...
, Australian musician - Mick Hoy (musician), Irish musician
- Mick Hoy (footballer)Mick Hoy (footballer)Mick Hoy is a former Irish footballer who played for Glenavon, Dundalk and Ireland. During the 1950s Hoy returned to his local club, Tandragee Rovers, where he worked as a coach with the senior and youth teams.-Irish international:...
, Irish footballer - Pat HoyPat HoyPat Hoy is a politician in Ontario, Canada. He was a member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario, representing the riding of Chatham-Kent—Essex for the Ontario Liberal Party from 1995 to 2011....
(born 1950), Canadian politician - Peter HoyPeter HoyPeter Alexander Hoy is a former relief pitcher in Major League Baseball who played briefly for the Boston Red Sox during the 1992 season. Listed at 6' 7", 220 lb., Hoy batted and threw right-handed...
(born 1966), Canadian baseball player - Shirley HoyShirley HoyShirley Hoy is the current CEO of the Toronto Lands Corporation, a wholly owned subsidiary of the Toronto District School Board. She has held the position since January 5, 2009....
, Canadian bureaucrat - Will HoyWill HoyWilliam Ewing Hoy , was a British racing driver and the 1991 British Touring Car Champion, the highlight of a 20-year career in motor racing. Born in Melbourn, Cambridgeshire, Hoy did not begin racing until his late 20s and first raced at international level in 1985, taking on the full World...
(born 1953), British racecar driver.
Music
- Hoy (Gloria Estefan Single)Hoy (Gloria Estefan Single)"Hoy" was the second single released by Gloria Estefan on her tenth studio album Unwrapped.-Song history:This single become in one of the most successful Spanish singles ever released on her entire career, being a complete success on the charts, especially in Latin America...
, Second single released at Gloria Estefan 2003 "Unwrapped" Album - "Hoy," a song by Morbo from their 2001 album MorboMorbo (album)Morbo is Mexican electronica band Morbo's eponymous debut album issued by EMI Music in December 2001.-Track listing:-Performing:*Juan Carlos Lozano – vocals, guitar*Jay de la Cueva – percussion, bass*Paco Huidobro – drums, guitar...
- "Hoy-Hoy!Hoy-Hoy!Hoy Hoy! is the name of a Little Feat collection released in 1981 two years after the band's break-up following the death of founder Lowell George...
", an album by the band Little FeatLittle FeatLittle Feat is an American rock band formed by singer-songwriter, lead vocalist and guitarist Lowell George and keyboardist Bill Payne in 1969 in Los Angeles....
Other
- Hoy (boat)Hoy (boat)A hoy was a small sloop-rigged coasting ship or a heavy barge used for freight, usually displacing about 60 tons. The word derives from the Middle Dutch hoey. In 1495, one of the Paston Letters included the phrase, An hoye of Dorderycht , in such a way as to indicate that such contact was then...
, small sloop-rigged coasting ship or a heavy freight barge. - Hoy (U.S. newspaper), Spanish languageSpanish languageSpanish , also known as Castilian , is a Romance language in the Ibero-Romance group that evolved from several languages and dialects in central-northern Iberia around the 9th century and gradually spread with the expansion of the Kingdom of Castile into central and southern Iberia during the...
newspaper in several U.S. cities - Hoy (Ecuadorian newspaper)Hoy (Ecuadorian newspaper)Hoy, a morning newspaper in Ecuador, has been published continuously since 1982. Its parent office is located in the city of Quito, and it is currently published simultaneously in Guayaquil. It was founded on 7 June, 1982, by Jaime Mantilla Anderson...
, Quito newspaper - Hoy (Bolivian newspaper)
- Hoy (Peruvian newspaper)Hoy (Peruvian newspaper)HOY Regional is a Peruvian newspaper, published in the city of Huánuco. It first appeared in 1986, under the name Via Gerencia. It was founded by a professional journalist and entrepreneur, David Orosco Alania . Since 1996, it has been a daily newspaper, first under the name Diario Regional...
- Hoy por hoyHoy por hoyHoy por hoy is a Spanish radio program, produced by the news department of the Cadena SER. It is the most listened-to radio program in Spain with an average of about three million listeners a day and is considered the most listened-to program in Spanish radio history...
, Spanish radio program - House of Yi, The Imperial Household of JoseonJoseon DynastyJoseon , was a Korean state founded by Taejo Yi Seong-gye that lasted for approximately five centuries. It was founded in the aftermath of the overthrow of the Goryeo at what is today the city of Kaesong. Early on, Korea was retitled and the capital was relocated to modern-day Seoul...
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See also
- Hoey (disambiguation)
- Haughey (disambiguation)
- Oi (disambiguation)