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  Roy may refer to:

Places

Canada
  • Roy, British Columbia
    Roy, British Columbia

    Roy was a List of canneries in British Columbia on the British Columbia Coast, Canada, located on Loughborough Inlet north of the town of Campbell River, British Columbia and the Discovery Islands....


United States
  • Roy, Louisiana
    Roy, Louisiana

    Roy, better known in the area as Roytown, is a community that sets about 2 miles south of Castor, Louisiana in the United States. Roy was built up around a sawmill that came into the area at the latter end of the early 1990's....
  • Roy, New Mexico
    Roy, New Mexico

    Roy is a village in Harding County, New Mexico, New Mexico, United States. The population was 304 at the 2000 United States Census. The village has massively been losing population, but is still a major center for Northeastern New Mexico....
  • Roy, Utah
    Roy, Utah

    Roy is a city in Weber County, Utah, Utah, United States, along Interstate 15 . The population was 32,885 at the United States Census, 2000. It is part of the Ogden, Utah–Clearfield, Utah, Utah Ogden-Clearfield metropolitan area....
    • Roy (UTA station)
      Roy (UTA station)

      The Roy FrontRunner station is a train station in Roy, Utah, Utah, United States served by FrontRunner, Utah Transit Authority's commuter rail service from Pleasant View, Utah to Salt Lake City, Utah....
      , a transit station
  • Roy, Washington
    Roy, Washington

    Roy is a city in Pierce County, Washington, Washington, United States. The population was 260 at the 2000 United States Census....


People


Family name

  • Arundhati Roy
    Arundhati Roy

    Suzanna Arundhati Roy is an Indian writer and activist who won the Booker Prize in 1997 for her novel, The God of Small Things, and in 2002, the Lannan Foundation Cultural Freedom Prize....
    , an Indian novelist and peace activist
  • Bidhan Chandra Roy
    Bidhan Chandra Roy

    Bidhan Chandra Roy, Member of the Royal College of Physicians, Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons was the second Chief Minister of West Bengal, India....
     (1882-1962), Indian politician
  • Brandon Roy
    Brandon Roy

    Brandon Dawayne Roy is an United States professional basketball player for the Portland Trail Blazers of the National Basketball Association. He was selected sixth in the 2006 NBA Draft, having completed four years playing for the Washington Huskies....
    , American basketball player
  • Bryan Roy
    Bryan Roy

    Bryan Edward Steven Roy is a retired The Netherlands footballer and current football coach in the Ajax Amsterdam youth team system. He started his professional playing career in Ajax in 1987, winning the UEFA Cup in 1992 UEFA Cup Final....
    , Dutch football (soccer) player
  • Claude Roy (politician)
    Claude Roy (politician)

    Claude Roy is a politician from Quebec, Canada. He was an Action d?mocratique du Qu?bec Member of the National Assembly of Quebec for the electoral district of Montmagny-L'Islet from 2007 to 2008....
    , Canadian politician
  • Deep Roy
    Deep Roy

    Gurdeep Roy , sometimes credited as Roy Deep, Gordeep Roy, or just Deep Roy, is an actor, stuntman and puppeteer.Born Mohinder Purba in Nairobi, Kenya to Indian parents, Roy is a 4 ft 4 in tall dwarfism....
    , actor
  • Derek Roy
    Derek Roy

    Derek Roy is a Canada professional ice hockey centre who currently plays for the Buffalo Sabres of the National Hockey League ....
    , Canadian ice hockey player
  • Fabien Roy
    Fabien Roy

    Fabien Roy was a politician in Quebec, Canada, in the 1970s. Roy was elected to the National Assembly of Quebec and the Canadian House of Commons, and advocated social credit theories of monetary reform....
    , politician
  • Gabrielle Roy
    Gabrielle Roy

    Gabrielle Roy, Order of Canada, Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada was a Canada author.Born in Saint Boniface, Manitoba , Manitoba, Roy was educated at Saint Joseph's Academy....
    , author
  • Indra Lal Roy
    Indra Lal Roy

    Indra Lal Roy , Distinguished Flying Cross was a Indian flying ace. He served in the World War I with the Royal Flying Corps and its successor, the Royal Air Force....
    , an Indian flying ace of World War I
  • Jean Sebastien Roy
    Jean Sebastien Roy

    Jean Sebastien Roy, also known as JSR, is a Canada professional motocross rider and has won 5 Canadian National Motocross Championships dating from 2001-2005....
    , motocross driver
  • Jean-Yves Roy
    Jean-Yves Roy

    Jean-Yves Roy is a Canada politician. He is a Bloc Qu?b?cois member of the Canadian House of Commons representing the electoral district of Haute-Gasp?sie?La Mitis?Matane?Matap?dia, and has been since he was first elected in the Canadian federal election, 2000....
    , politician
  • M. N. Roy, an Indian-born philosopher and 20th century revolutionary in India, Mexico, the Middle East, the Soviet Union, Indonesia and China
  • Mathieu Roy
    Mathieu Roy

    Mathieu Roy is a professional ice hockey Defenceman with the Edmonton Oilers of the National Hockey League....
    , Canadian ice hockey player
  • Monique Roy Verville
    Monique Roy Verville

    Monique Roy Verville is a politician from Quebec, Canada. She was an Action d?mocratique du Qu?bec Member of the National Assembly of Quebec for the electoral district of La Prairie from 2007 to 2008....
    , Canadian politician
  • Patrick Roy
    Patrick Roy

    Patrick Jacques Roy , is a retired ice hockey goaltender. Nicknamed "St. Patrick", Roy split his professional career between the Montreal Canadiens and Colorado Avalanche of the National Hockey League, winning two Stanley Cup championships with each franchise....
    , Canadian ice hockey player
  • Sylvie Roy
    Sylvie Roy

    Sylvie Roy is a politician in Quebec, Canada, and the Action d?mocratique du Qu?bec Member of the National Assembly of Quebec for the electoral district of Lotbini?re ....
    , Canadian politician
  • William Roy
    William Roy

    General William Roy , was a Scotland military engineer, Surveyor , and antiquarian. He was an innovator who applied new scientific discoveries and newly emerging technologies to the accurate Geodesy mapping of Great Britain....
     (1726-1790), Scottish surveyor


Given name

Roy is a common male given name. The following people and characters are commonly known by this name alone:

  • Roy Campanella
    Roy Campanella

    Roy Campanella , nicknamed "Campy", was an United States baseball player — primarily at the position of catcher — in the Negro Leagues and Major League Baseball....
    , Baseball Hall of Fame catcher from the Brooklyn Dodgers
  • Roy Halladay
    Roy Halladay

    Harry Leroy Halladay III , usually referred to as Roy or his nickname Doc, is a Major League Baseball starting pitcher for the Toronto Blue Jays....
    , Baseball Cy Young
    Cy Young

    Denton True "Cy" Young was an American baseball player who Pitch for five different professional baseball teams from 1890 to 1911.During his 22-year career, Young recorded numerous professional pitcher records in Major League Baseball, some of which have stood for a century....
     winner, Toronto Blue Jays
    Toronto Blue Jays

    The Toronto Blue Jays are a professional baseball based in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. The Blue Jays are a member of the American League East of Major League Baseball 's American League....
     pitcher
  • Roy Horn, half of the Las Vegas show team Siegfried & Roy
    Siegfried & Roy

    File:Siegfriedandroysculpture.jpgSiegfried & Roy are two German-American entertainers known for their long running show of magic and illusion in Las Vegas, Nevada, USA....
  • Roy Jones, Jr., professional boxer
  • Roy Lichtenstein
    Roy Lichtenstein

    Roy Fox Lichtenstein was a prominent United States pop artist, his work heavily influenced by both popular advertising and the comic book style....
    , a renowned pop artist
  • Roy Masters (commentator), American talk radio personality, podcaster, and spiritual counselor
  • Roy Orbison
    Roy Orbison

    Roy Kelton Orbison was an influential Grammy Award-winning United States singer-songwriter, guitarist and a pioneer of rock and roll whose recording career spanned more than four decades....
    , pioneer of rock and roll
  • Roy Scheider
    Roy Scheider

    Roy Richard Scheider was an American actor. He is best known for his role as police chief Martin Brody in Jaws , his role as Joe Gideon in All That Jazz, and as detective Buddy 'Cloudy' Russo in The French Connection . Scheider's final role comes as Joseph in the 2009 thriller Iron Cross ....
    , film actor
  • Andrew Symonds
    Andrew Symonds

    Andrew Symonds is an all-rounder in the Australian cricket team cricket team. A two-time Cricket World Cup winner, Symonds is a right-handed middle order batsman and alternates between Seam bowling and off-spin bowling....
    , Australian cricketer nicknamed "Roy"


Fictional
  • Roy (Peanuts), a minor character from the Peanuts comic strip
  • Roy (Fire Emblem), a character from the game Fire Emblem: Fuin no Tsurugi (Sword of Seals)
  • Roy Greenhilt
    Roy Greenhilt

    Roy Greenhilt is a major character in the webcomic, The Order of the Stick, written by Rich Burlew. A 29-year-old veteran Fighter , Roy assembled the Order and acted as party leader....
    , a character from the webcomic Order of the Stick
  • Roy Mustang
    Roy Mustang

    Roy Mustang is a character from the Fullmetal Alchemist anime and manga series. Holding the title of the Flame Alchemist, he is a skilled State Alchemist who ambitiously strives to become the next leader of Amestris....
    , a character from the Fullmetal Alchemist anime and manga series


Other

  • A unit in the Ukrainian military; see Sotnia
    Sotnia

    Sotnia was a traditional division of the Cossacks regiments from earliest records of the Zaporizhian Sich, and means 'a hundred'.During the Cossack service in the Imperial Russian Army the typical regiment had five sotnias or squadrons....


See also

  • Royston
    Royston

    Royston is the name of several places:* Royston, South Yorkshire, England* Royston, British Columbia, Canada* Royston, Hertfordshire England...
  • Robert Roy MacGregor
    Robert Roy MacGregor

    Robert Roy MacGregor, usually known simply as Rob Roy or alternately Red MacGregor, was a famous Scotland folk hero and outlaw of the early 18th century, who is sometimes known as the Scottish Robin Hood....
    , commonly known as "Rob Roy"
  • Roi
    ROI

    RoiRoi may refer to:*Roi, a 1993 song by The Breeders in their album Last Splash*Roi Et and Roi Et province in Thailand*Roi Klein, an Israeli Defense major...
  • Ray (surname)
    Ray (surname)

    Ray is a common surname in India, and is also found in many English-speaking countries. In India, the same name is also sometimes spelled Royor Rai, and comes from the same root as Raj, which is also the root of the Latin rex , English reign and royal, etc....