Roy (family name)
Roy is a family name .
Name bearer
A.
- Alain Roy (* 1951), French bobsledder
- Aldo Roy (* 1942), Canadian weightlifter
- Allain Roy (* 1970), Canadian ice hockey goalkeeper
- Alphonse Roy (1897–1967), American politician
- Ananya Roy (* 1970), Indian scientist
- Anastasia Le-Roy (* 1987), Jamaican sprinter
- André Roy (* 1975), American ice hockey player
- Angela Roy (* 1957), German actress
- Antoine Roy (1764–1847), French lawyer and politician
- Arundhati Roy (* 1961), Indian writer
- Avijit Roy (1972 or 1973-2015), American religious critic of Bengali origin
B.
- Badal Roy (* 1945), Bengali tabla player and percussionist
- Bidhan Chandra Roy (1882–1962), Indian politician
- Bijoy Prasad Singh Roy (1894–1961), Indian entrepreneur and politician
- Bimal Roy (1909–1966), Indian film director
- Brandon Roy (* 1984), American basketball player
- Brigitte Roy (* 1959), French sports shooter
- Bryan Roy (* 1970), Dutch football player
C.
- Callista Roy (* 1939), American nursing theorist and professor
- Camille Roy (1870–1943), Canadian Francophone clergyman, Romance scholar and literary scholar
- Charles Smart Roy (1854-1897), British pathologist
- Charu Roy (1890–1971), Indian film director
- Chip Roy (* 1972), American politician
- Claude Roy (author) (1915–1997) French author and journalist
- Claude Roy (Medic) (1928-2015), Canadian Medic
- Claude Roy (politician) (* 1952), Canadian politician
D.
- David Tod Roy (1933–2016), American sinologist
- Debabrata Roy (* 1986), Indian soccer player
- Deep Roy (* 1957), Kenyan actor
- Derek Roy (born 1983), Canadian ice hockey player
- Dilip Kumar Roy (1897–1980), Indian musician, singer and writer
- Dipankar Roy (* 1982), Indian soccer player
- Drew Roy (* 1986), American actor
E.
- Emil Roy (1907–1997), American baseball player
- Erwin van Roy (1894− after 1960), German film actor and cabaret artist
- Esperanza Roy (born 1935), Spanish actress
F.
- Frank Roy (* 1958), Scottish politician
G
- Gabriel Roy (1940–2001), Swiss politician (CSI)
- Gabrielle Roy (1909–1983), Canadian writer
- Gaetan Roy , Canadian preacher and musician
- Gladys Roy (1896–1927), American wingwalker, barn stormer, stunt woman, and film actress
H
- Heinz Roy (1927–2019), German-Sorbian composer
- Hélène Fleury-Roy (1876–1957), French composer
J
- Jahar Roy (1929–1977), Indian actor
- Jean-Philippe Roy (* 1979), Canadian ski racer
- Jean-Pierre Roy (* 1963), Haitian ski racer
- Jean-Yves Roy (* 1969), Canadian ice hockey player
- Jérémy Roy (cyclist) (* 1983), French cyclist
- Jérémy Roy (ice hockey player) (born 1997), Canadian ice hockey player
- Jimmy Roy (* 1975), Canadian ice hockey player
- Jocelyne Roy-Vienneau (1956–2019), Canadian engineer, Lieutenant Governor of New Brunswick
- Jonathan Roy (* 1989), Canadian pop singer
- Jose Roy (1904–1985), Filipino politician
- Joseph Roy (1925-2004), Bishop of Mysore
- Joseph Roy (translator) (1830–1916), French translator
- Joyashree Roy (* 1957), Indian economist, energy and climate scientist
- Jules Roy (1907-2000), French writer
- Julia Roy (* 1989), Austrian-French film actress
K
- Keshav Roy (* 1926), Indian wrestler
- Kevin Roy (born 1963), Canadian weightlifter
- Kristina Roy (1860–1936), Slovak writer
L.
- Lesley Roy , Irish singer-songwriter
- Lindsay Roy (* 1949), Scottish politician
- Lisa Roy (* 1959), Canadian rower
- Louis Eugène Roy (1861–1939), Haitian politician, President of Haiti
- Louis le Roy (1924–2012), Dutch architect and author
M.
- Manabendra Nath Roy (1887–1954) Indian revolutionary, philosopher, political theorist and activist
- Marcel Roy (* 1942), Canadian racing cyclist
- Marcus Roy , maiden name of Fidelis von Sigmaringen (1578–1622)
- Marie-Antoine Roy (1893–1948), Canadian religious, Roman Catholic Bishop of Edmundston
- Marie-Françoise Roy (* 1950), French mathematician
- Mathieu Roy (ice hockey player, 1983) (born 1983), Canadian ice hockey player
- Mathieu Roy (ice hockey player, 1986) (* 1986), Canadian ice hockey player
- Matt Roy (bobsleigh driver) ( Matthew Spencer Roy ; * 1959), American bobsleigh athlete
- Matt Roy (ice hockey player) ( Matthew Alan Roy ; * 1995), American ice hockey player
- Maurice Roy (art historian) (1856–1932), French historian, art historian and Romanist
- Maurice Roy (dentist) (1866–1947), French dentist
- Maurice Roy (engineer) (1899–1985), French engineer
- Maurice Roy (clergyman) (1905–1985), Canadian clergyman, Archbishop of Québec
- Maxim Roy (born 1972), Canadian actress
N
- Nirupa Roy (* 1931), Indian actress
- Niyati Roy Shah (* 1930), Indian table tennis player
O
- Olivier Roy (political scientist) (* 1949), French political scientist, advisor, diplomat and UN envoy
- Olivier Roy (ice hockey player) (* 1991), Canadian ice hockey goalkeeper
- Olivier Roy (philosopher) , Canadian humanities scholar
P
- Patrick Roy (politician) (1957-2011), French politician (PS)
- Patrick Roy (* 1965), Canadian ice hockey goalkeeper
- Pierre Roy (painter) (1880–1950) French painter
- Pierre Roy (ice hockey player) (born 1952), Canadian ice hockey player
- Pierre-Charles Roy (1683–1764), French librettist
- Pola Roy (* 1975), German drummer
- Prafulla Roy (director) (1892– ??), Indian film director
- Prafulla Roy (author) , Bengali author
- Prafulla Chandra Roy (1861–1944), Indian chemist and university professor
- Pratap Kumar Roy († 2012), Indian journalist
R.
- Ram Mohan Roy (1772–1833), Bengali writer
- Raymond Roy (Bishop) (1919–2003), Canadian Bishop
- Raymond Roy-Camille (1927–1994), French orthopedist and traumatologist
- Reinhard Roy (* 1948), German artist
- Rémi Pelletier-Roy (* 1990), Canadian figure skater
- René Roy (* 1938), French astronomer and asteroid discoverer
- Richard Roy (* 1972), Haitian tennis player
- Rustum Roy (1924–2010), Indian-American materials scientist
S.
- Samarendra Nath Roy (1906–1964), Indian statistician
- Sandro Roy (* 1994), German violinist
- Sarah Roy (* 1986), Australian cyclist
- Serge Roy (soccer player) (born 1932), French soccer player
- Serge Roy (politician) (* 1946), Canadian politician
- Serge Roy (ice hockey player) (born 1962), Canadian ice hockey player
- Shehzad Roy (* 1979), Pakistani singer, philanthropist and humanist
- Soumendu Roy (* 1933), Indian cameraman
- Sree-Amol Roy (* 1987), Bangladeshi tennis player
- Stéphane Roy (composer) (born 1959), Canadian composer
- Stéphane Roy (ice hockey player, 1967) (* 1967), Canadian ice hockey player
- Stéphane Roy (ice hockey player, 1976) (* 1976), Canadian ice hockey player
- Subhashish Roy Chowdhary (* 1986), Indian soccer player
- Sushmitha Singha Roy (* 1984), Indian heptathlete
T
- Travis Roy (* 1975), American ice hockey player and author
- Tula Roy (* 1934), Swiss filmmaker and pioneer of Swiss film
U
- Utta Roy-Seifert (* 1926), Austrian translator
V
- Vesta M. Roy (1925–2002), American politician
W.
- William Roy (reformer) († 1528/1531), English reformer and martyr
- William Roy (General) (1726–1790), Scottish military man and naturalist
- William Roy (actor) (1928–2003), American child actor (as Billy Roy ), composer, musical arranger, and pianist
- William B. Roy (* 1958), American marksman
- William R. Roy (1926–2014), American politician
- Willy Roy (born 1943), American football player
See also
- Le Roy - here also to other people
- Roi
- Ray (family name) (transcription variant of the Bengali family name Roy )