Leroi

. Written interchangeably in records as: Roi, Roy, Le Roy, and De Roy, the surname Le Roi originated from the Normans, the descendants of Norse Vikings who settled in Amigny, a commune in Manche, Normandy. It derived from the Old French roy, roi (), meaning "king", or "the king" which was a byname used before the Norman Conquest and a personal name in the Middle Ages. The Normans, or "Northmen", after having settled in their new lands in Northern France, quickly adopted the Old French dialects of the region and would later take their language and naming practices with them to England. ==As a given name==

• Leroi Court (born 1963), Australian athlete • Leroi Jones or Amiri Baraka (1934–2014), African-American writer • LeRoi Moore (1961–2008), American saxophonist ==As a surname==

• Ali LeRoi (born 1962), American television producer, director, writer and actor • Armand Marie Leroi (born 1964), New Zealand author, broadcaster, and professor of evolutionary developmental biology • Gary LeRoi Gray (born 1987), American actor • André Leroi-Gourhan (1911–1986), French archaeologist, paleontologist, paleoanthropologist, and anthropologist ==See also==