Famous People with Name Roy

Roy Halston Frowick            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Roy Halston Frowick: was an iconic clothing designer of the 1970s. His long dresses or copies of his style were popular fashion wear in mid-1970s discotheques.Born in Des Moines, Iowa, he graduated from Bosse High School in Evansville, Indiana. He began his career as a milliner (designing the pillbox hat Jacqueline Kennedy wore to her husband's 1961 Presidential inauguration) and when he moved to designing women's wear, Newsweek dubbed him "the premier fashion designer of all America."[1] His designs were worn by Bianca Jagger, Liza Minnelli, Anjelica Huston, Lauren Bacall, Babe Paley, and Elizabeth Taylor,[2] setting a style that would be closely associated with the international jet set of the era.

Roy Richard Scheider            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Roy Richard Scheider: was an Academy Award- and Golden Globe-nominated American actor. He was best known for his role as police chief Martin Brody in the 1975 blockbuster Jaws, his Academy Award nominated role as Joe Gideon in Bob Fosse's fictional self-biopic All That Jazz, and as Captain Nathan Bridger in Steven Spielberg's Emmy Award winning television series seaQuest DSV.

Roy Linwood Clark            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Roy Linwood Clark: is a versatile and well-known country music musician and performer. He is best known for hosting Hee Haw, one of the first nationally televised country variety shows in the United States, from 1969 - 1992.

Roy Kelton Orbison            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Roy Kelton Orbison: nicknamed "The Big O," was an influential Grammy Award-winning American singer-songwriter, guitarist and a pioneer of rock and roll whose recording career spanned more than four decades. Orbison is best known for the songs, "Ooby Dooby," "Only the Lonely," "In Dreams," "Oh, Pretty Woman," "Crying," "Running Scared," "You Got It". He was known for his smooth tenor voice, which could jump three octaves with little trouble. He was rarely seen on stage without his trademark black sunglasses. In 1987, he was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, and in 1989, he was posthumously inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame.

Roy Jones, Jr.            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Roy Jones, Jr.: Jones had a very successful career as an amateur boxer: He won the 1984 United States National Junior Olympics in the 119 lb (54 kg) weight division, the 1986 United States National Golden Gloves in the 139 lb (63 kg) weight division and the 1987 United S

Travis Roy            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Travis Roy: is an American former college ice hockey player.On October 20, 1995 – just eleven seconds into his first-ever shift for Boston University men's ice hockey team – a 20-year-old Roy slid head-first into the boards after a University of North Dakota player,

Robert H. Roy            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Robert H. Roy: was an American mechanical engineer and the former Dean of Engineering Science at Johns Hopkins University. He was a defender on the U.S. national lacrosse team that competed in the 1928 Summer Olympics in Amsterdam, where lacrosse was a demonstration spo

Jean-Philippe Roy            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Jean-Philippe Roy: is a Canadian alpine skier. Roy's best finish on the World Cup circuit is a 5th place in a giant slalom in Alta Badia. Roy also has two top-ten finishes at the World Alpine Ski Championships, finishing 8th in the 2001 combined and 7th in the 2007 giant sl

Vesta M. Roy            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Vesta M. Roy: was a Republican New Hampshire politician, born in Dearborn, Michigan.As president of the state Senate, she served as acting governor of New Hampshire from December 29, 1982 until January 6, 1983 as a result of the death of Governor Hugh Gallen shortly be

Karl Van Roy            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Karl Van Roy: is a Wisconsin politician and legislator.He served in the Wisconsin State Assembly since 2003.