Given Name
Roy is a common male given name. Notable people with the given name include:
- Roy Acuff, American musician
- Roy Andrews, naturalist and explorer
- Roy Blount, Jr., writer and humorist
- Roy Blunt, United States congressman representing Missouri's 17th District
- Roy Campanella, Baseball Hall of Fame catcher
- 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 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, American baseball player
- Roy M. Goodman, former 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 Hargrove, American jazz musician
- Roy Harris, American classical music composer
- Roy Hartsfield, baseman player in early 1950s and first manager of the expansion Toronto Blue Jays in 1977
- Roy Hattersley, British Labour politician
- Roy Head, R&B and country music singer, best known for 1965 hit "Treat Her Right"
- Roy Hibbert, basketball player
- Roy Hodgson, English former football (soccer) 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 Johnson (pitcher), baseball pitcher, manager and longtime coach
- Roy Jones, Jr., professional boxer
- Roy Keane, Irish former football (soccer) player and current manager
- 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 Orbison, pioneer of rock and roll
- Roy Pinney, herpetologist, professional photographer, writer, spelunker, pilot and war correspondent
- Roy Rogers (born Leonard Schley), singing movie cowboy
- Roy Scheider, film actor
- Roy Schwitters, American physicist
- 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 (pitcher), baseball pitcher from the 1970s through the 1980s
- Roy White, all star baseball player
- Roy Williamson, Scottish folk singer
- Roy Wilkins, prominent civil rights activist
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Famous quotes containing the word name:
“What is it? a learned man
Could give it a clumsy name.
Let him name it who can,
The beauty would be the same.”
—Alfred Tennyson (18091892)