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Guy Debord
Guy Debord (1931-1994), French theorist, filmmaker and founder-leader of the Situationist International; author of The Society of the Spectacle (1967), theorist of the spectacle, dérive and détournement.
Guy Drut
Guy Drut, French 110 m hurdler born 1950 in Oignies: Olympic silver Munich 1972, gold Montreal 1976 in 13.30, 1974 European champion, hand-timed world record 13.0 (1975); later French sports minister 1995-97 and IOC member since 1996.
Guy E. Boeckxstaens
Guy E. Boeckxstaens, also published as Guy Boeckxstaens, is a Belgian physician-scientist in neurogastroenterology, a full professor at KU Leuven who led the European Achalasia Trial.
Guy Ecker
Guy Frederick Ecker (born 1959, São Paulo) is a Brazilian-born telenovela leading man: star of Café con aroma de mujer, La mentira, and Salomé, later NBC's Las Vegas and Telemundo's El Señor de los Cielos.
Guy Fawkes
Guy Fawkes (1570-1606), English Catholic soldier and explosives expert in the Gunpowder Plot, alias John Johnson; captured 5 November 1605 with 36 gunpowder barrels under the House of Lords, tortured, tried, executed 31 January 1606, commemorated on Bonfire Night.
Guy Fawkes mask
The Guy Fawkes mask, also known as the V for Vendetta mask or Anonymous mask, is a stylized protest mask designed by David Lloyd for the comic V for Vendetta.
Guy Fawkes Night
Guy Fawkes Night, or Bonfire Night, is the British 5 November commemoration of the failed 1605 Gunpowder Plot, when Guy Fawkes was caught with 36 barrels of gunpowder beneath the House of Lords; marked with bonfires, fireworks, and effigy burning.
Guy Fieri
Guy Fieri (born Guy Ramsey Ferry, 1968) is an American TV chef and restaurateur, host of Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives, winner of The Next Food Network Star 2006, with 80+ restaurants, Flavortown Kitchen, and major pandemic relief fundraising.
Guy Gardner (character)
Guy Gardner, DC Comics Green Lantern of Sector 2814, first appeared in Green Lantern #59 (1968) as Hal Jordan's near-successor to Abin Sur's ring, later Justice League International member, yellow-ringed Warrior, and Nathan Fillion's DCU character.
Guy Garvey
Guy Garvey (born 1974, Bury) is the lead singer and lyricist of Elbow, 2008 Mercury Prize winner, BBC 6 Music presenter of Finest Hour, and solo artist of Courting the Squall and The Squall.
Guy Gavriel Kay
Guy Gavriel Kay (born 1954, Weyburn, Saskatchewan) is a Canadian author of historical fantasy, co-editor of The Silmarillion, creator of The Fionavar Tapestry and Tigana, and winner of the 2008 World Fantasy Award for Ysabel.
Guy Gibson
Wing Commander Guy Penrose Gibson (1918–1944) was the RAF officer who formed and led 617 Squadron on the 1943 Dambusters raid (Operation Chastise), won the Victoria Cross, wrote Enemy Coast Ahead, and died in a 1944 Mosquito crash.
Guy Greville, 9th Earl of Warwick
Guy David Greville, 9th Earl of Warwick (born 1957), British hereditary peer; succeeded 20 January 1996 as 9th Earl of Warwick, 9th Earl Brooke of Warwick Castle, and 16th Baron Brooke; heir Charles Fulke Chester Greville, Lord Brooke.
Guy Guzzone
Guy Guzzone is an American Democratic politician who has represented District 13 in the Maryland State Senate since 2015 and chairs its Budget and Taxation Committee.
Guy H Palmer
Guy H Palmer is a veterinary pathologist and infectious-diseases researcher at Washington State University, founding director of its Paul G. Allen School for Global Health.
Guy Hamilton
Guy Hamilton (1922-2016) was a British film director of four James Bond films: Goldfinger, Diamonds Are Forever, Live and Let Die, and The Man with the Golden Gun; also directed The Colditz Story, Funeral in Berlin, Battle of Britain.
Guy Hands
Guy Hands is a British financier who founded the private equity firm Terra Firma Capital Partners, known for the EMI takeover and Four Seasons care homes deal.
Guy Henry (actor)
Guy Henry (born 1960, Maidstone, Kent) is a British character actor known for Henrik Hanssen in Holby City, Cassius in Rome, Pius Thicknesse in Harry Potter, and Grand Moff Tarkin in Rogue One.
Guy Hoffman
Guy Hoffman is an Israeli roboticist and associate professor at Cornell University known for expressive, non-anthropomorphic robots built around anticipation and timing, including the improvising marimba player Shimon.
Guy Hughes Palmer
Guy Hughes Palmer is an American veterinary pathologist at Washington State University, founding director of its Paul G. Allen School for Global Health and leader of Rabies Free Africa.
Guy J
Guy J (Guy Judah) is an Israeli progressive house producer and DJ who founded the Lost & Found label and is especially popular in Argentina.
Guy Kawasaki
Guy Takeo Kawasaki, born 1954 in Honolulu, Hawaii, is an American marketing executive, author, and speaker who popularized technology evangelism, first for Apple's Macintosh and since 2014 as Canva's chief evangelist.
Guy L. Steele Jr.
Guy L. Steele Jr. is an American computer scientist who co-created the Scheme programming language in 1975, co-wrote The Java Language Specification, and retired in January 2025.
Guy Lacombe
Guy Lacombe (born 1955, Villefranche-de-Rouergue) is a French footballer and coach, Olympic gold medalist in men's football at Los Angeles 1984, 1977 French champion with Nantes, later coach of Sochaux, PSG, Rennes, Monaco, and Zidane's mentor at Cannes.
Guy Lafleur
Guy Lafleur (1951-2022), "The Flower" and "le Démon blond", Canadian right winger; first overall 1971 draft pick, five Stanley Cups and 1,246 points with the Montreal Canadiens, Hockey Hall of Fame 1988.
Guy Laliberté
Guy Laliberté, born in 1959 in Quebec, is a Canadian businessman and former street performer who founded the circus company Cirque du Soleil in 1984.
Guy Laroque
Guy Laroque, born in 1946, is a French economist known for fixed-price equilibrium theory and structural studies of the French labor market, teaching at Sciences Po since 2011.
Guy Lombardo
Guy Lombardo (Gaetano Alberto Lombardo, 1902–1977), Canadian bandleader of Guy Lombardo and His Royal Canadians, 'the sweetest music this side of heaven,' whose 48 years of New Year's Eve broadcasts made 'Auld Lang Syne' an American midnight tradition; also a Gold Cup hydroplane racer.
Guy M. Goodwin
Guy M. Goodwin, known as Guy Goodwin, is a British psychiatrist and Emeritus Professor of Psychiatry at Oxford who led a 2022 psilocybin trial for depression.
Guy M. McKhann
Guy M. McKhann (1932–2023) was an American neurologist who founded the Johns Hopkins Department of Neurology in 1969 and established the widely used McKhann Criteria for diagnosing Alzheimer's disease.