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Roy Acuff (1903–1992), American country music singer and fiddler •
Roy Andersen (born 1955), Norwegian former long-distance runner •
Roy Andersen (general) (born 1948), South African businessman and military officer •
Roy Anderson (American football) (born 1980), American football coach •
Roy M. Anderson (born 1947), British scientific adviser •
Roy Andersson (born 1943), Swedish film director •
Roy Andersson (footballer) (born 1949), footballer from Sweden •
Roy Chapman Andrews (1884–1960), American naturalist and explorer •
Roy Ascott (born 1934), British artist and theorist •
Roy Ayers (1940–2025), American vibraphonist, record producer and composer •
Roy E. Ayers (1882–1955), American politician, governor of Montana •
Roy Black (singer) (1943–1991), German singer and actor •
Roy Blount Jr. (born 1941), American writer, speaker, reporter and humorist •
Roy Blunt (born 1950), United States Senator and former congressman •
Roy Bucher (1895–1980), British-Indian soldier and Commander-in-Chief •
Roy C (1939–2020), American soul and R&B singer and songwriter •
Roy Campanella (1921–1993), American Hall of Fame baseball catcher •
Roy Campanella II (born 1948), television director and producer, son of the above •
Roy Castle (1932–1994), English dancer, singer, musician, comedian, actor, television presenter and musician •
Roy Cimatu (born 1946), Filipino government administrator and retired army general •
Roy Clark (1933–2018), American country music singer and musician •
Roy Clarke (born 1930), English comedy writer •
Roy Choi (born 1970), Korean-American chef •
Roy Christian (1943–2024), New Zealand rugby league footballer •
Roy Cohn (1927–1986), American lawyer best known as Senator Joseph McCarthy's counsel from 1953 to 1954 •
Roy Asberry Cooper Jr. (1927–2014), American lawyer •
Roy Cooper (born 1957), American politician and governor of North Carolina (2017–2025) •
Roy Cooper (rodeo cowboy) (1955–2025), American rodeo cowboy •
Roy Crossley (1923–2003), English footballer •
Roy Degoregore (1922–1996), Nauruan politician •
Roy DeMeo (1940–1983), Italian-American mobster •
Roy de Silva (1937–2018), Sri Lankan Sinhala actor and director •
Roy E. Disney (1930–2009), American businessman •
Roy O. Disney (1893–1971), American businessman •
Roy Dobbin (1873–1939), founding member of the
Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists •
Roy Doron (born 1990), Israeli musician, singer, composer, and music producer •
Roy Drusky (1930–2004), American country music singer and songwriter •
Roy Face (born 1928), often referred to as "Elroy Face", American baseball relief pitcher •
Roy Firestone (born 1953), American sports talk show host •
Roy Foster (baseball) (1945–2008), American baseball player •
Roy Gagnon (1913–2000), American football player •
Roy Givens (1929–2019), American politician •
Roy J. Glauber (1925–2018), American physicist and 2005 Nobel prize winner •
Roy M. Goodman (1930–2014), New York state senator •
Roy Halladay (1977–2017), American baseball pitcher •
Roy Halliday (1923–2007), British vice-admiral • Roy Halston Frowick (1932–1990), better known as
Halston, clothing designer •
Roy Hamilton (1929–1969), American singer •
Roy Hamilton (basketball) (born 1957), American basketball player and sports television producer •
Roy Hargrove (1969–2018), American jazz trumpeter •
Roy Harper (disambiguation) •
Roy Harris (disambiguation) •
Roy Harrison (born 1939), Irish former cricketer •
Roy M. Harrison (born 1948), environmental chemist •
Roy Hartsfield (1925–2011), American Major League Baseball player and manager •
Roy Hattersley (born 1932), British politician, author and journalist •
Roy Haynes (1925–2024), American jazz drummer •
Roy Head (1941–2020), American country music, rockabilly, and R&B singer •
Roy Hibbert (born 1986), Jamaican-American retired basketball player •
Roy Hodgson (born 1947), English former football player and current manager • Roy Horn (born Uwe Ludwig Horn, 1944–2020), half of the Las Vegas show team
Siegfried & Roy •
Roy Howell (born 1953), American former Major League baseball player •
Roy Lee Jackson (born 1954), American Major League Baseball pitcher •
Roy Jacobsen (1954–2025), Norwegian writer •
Roy Douglas Jayetileke, Sri Lankan Sinhala army officer •
Roy Jenkins (1920–2003), Welsh politician and author •
Roy Johnson (pitcher) (1895–1986), baseball pitcher, manager and longtime coach •
Roy Jones Jr. (born 1969), professional boxer •
Roy Keane (born 1971), Irish former football player and current manager •
Roy Khan (born 1970), former singer of power metal band Kamelot •
Roy Kim (born 1993), born Kim Sang-woo, South Korean singer-songwriter •
Roy Kinnear (1934–1988), English actor • Roy Ladson Jr. (1983-), Lead singer of
Roy & Revelation •
Roy Lechthaler (1908–1980), American football player •
Roy Li (born 1965), Singaporean musician •
Roy Lichtenstein (1923–1997), American pop artist •
Roy Lopez (American football) (born 1997), American football player •
Roy Makaay (born 1975), Dutch footballer and current manager •
Roy Marika (c. 1925 – 1993), Aboriginal Australian artist and Indigenous rights activist •
Roy Marten (born Roy Wicaksono Abdul, 1952) Indonesian actor •
Roy Masters (commentator) (1928–2021), American talk radio personality •
Roy Mbaeteka (born 2000), Nigerian-American football player •
Roy McMillan (1929–1997), American baseball player •
Roy Medvedev (1925–2026), Russian historian and political writer •
Roy Moore (born 1947), American politician and former state judge •
Roy Morris ( – 2011), British Scout Leader, recipient of the Silver Wolf Award •
Roy Nachum (born 1979), Israeli contemporary artist •
Roy Nelson (disambiguation), multiple people •
Roy Niederhoffer (born 1966), American hedge fund manager and philanthropist •
Roy Nissany (born 1994), Israeli racing driver •
Roy Olmstead (1886–1966), American policeman, then bootlegger •
Roy Orbison (1936–1988), American singer-songwriter •
Roy Oxlade (1929–2014), English painter and writer on art •
Roy Parmelee (1907–1981), American baseball player •
Roy Earl Parrish (1888–1918), American politician •
Roy Pinney (1911–2010), herpetologist, professional photographer, writer, spelunker, pilot and war correspondent •
Roy Poels (born 1972), Dutch judoka •
Roy Roebuck (1929–2023), British politician •
Roy Rogers (1911–1998), American singing movie cowboy •
Roy Rowland (1910-1995), American film director •
Roy Rosselló (born 1970), member of Puerto Rican boy band Menudo from 1983 to 1986 •
Roy Scheider (1932–2008), film actor •
Roy Schwartz Tichon (born 1992), social entrepreneur promoting public transportation on Saturday in Israel •
Roy Schwitters (1944–2023), American physicist •
Roy D. Shapiro, professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School •
Roy Shepherd (1931–2008), British ice hockey player •
Roy Shepherd (pianist) (1907–1986), Australian pianist and teacher •
Roy Sievers (1926–2017), American baseball player •
Roy Smalley Jr. (1926–2011), American baseball player, father of Roy Smalley III •
Roy Smalley III (born 1952), American baseball player, son of Roy Smalley Jr. •
Roy Staiger (born 1950), baseball player in the late 1970s •
Roy Strong (born 1935), English art historian, museum curator, writer, broadcaster and landscape designer •
Roy Sullivan (1912–1983), American park ranger •
Roy Suryo (born 1968), former Minister of Youth and Sports Affairs of Indonesia •
Roy Thomas (pitcher) (born 1953), American baseball player •
Roy Underhill (born 1950), host of the PBS series ''The Woodwright's Shop'' •
Roy Wang, also known as Wang Yuan (born 2000), Chinese singer-songwriter, television host and actor •
Roy Webb (1888–1982), gospel music pianist and speaker •
Roy White (born 1943), American all-star baseball player •
Roy Williams (basketball coach) (born 1950), American college basketball coach •
Roy Williamson (1936–1990), Scottish folk singer •
Roy Wilkins (1901–1981), civil rights activist •
Roy Wood (born 1946), English singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist •
Roy Wood Jr. (born 1978), American comedian and humorist == Surname ==