Roy - Given Name

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