Loy

Loy may refer to:

People with the given name Loy or Loys or Loÿs:

  • Saint Loy, better known as Saint Eligius
  • Loy Allen Bowlin (1909-1995), outsider artist
  • Loy Allen Jr. (born 1966), former NASCAR driver
  • Loy Hanning, Major League Baseball pitcher in 1939 and 1942
  • Loy W. Henderson (1892-1986), United States Foreign Service Officer
  • Loy Hering, (c. 1484-1564), German Renaissance sculptor
  • Loy Mendonsa (21st century), Indian film singer
  • Loy Petersen (born 1945), retired American professional basketball player
  • Loy Vaught (born 1968), retired American basketball player
  • Loy F. Weaver (born 1942), politician from Louisiana, USA
  • Loys of Gruuthuse (c. 1422-1492), better known as Lewis de Bruges, lord of Gruuthuse
  • Loys Louis Bourgeois (composer) (c. 1510-1560), French composer and music theorist of the Renaissance
  • Loÿs Delteil (1869-1927), a French engraver and lithographer, publisher, dealer, and art historian

People with the surname Loy or Loys:

  • Angie Loy (born 1982), field hockey forward
  • Brendan Loy (21st century), American blogger
  • David Loy (born 1947), Buddhist philosopher
  • Douglas Loy (born 1961), Professor of Materials Science & Engineering and Chemistry at University of Arizona
  • Egon Loy (born 1931), German former professional football goalkeeper
  • Frank E. Loy, an American diplomat and former United States Under Secretary of State for Global Affairs
  • James Loy (born 1942), United States Coast Guard admiral, former TSA administrator, former Deputy Secretary of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security
  • Julien Loy (born 1976), French triathlete
  • Matthias Loy (1828-1915), American Lutheran theologian
  • Mina Loy (1882-1966), artist, poet, playwright, novelist, futurist, actor, Christian Scientist, designer of lamps and bohemian
  • Myrna Loy (1903-1993), American motion picture actress
  • Nanni Loy (1925-1995), Italian film, theatre and TV director
  • Rachel Loy (21st century), solo artist
  • Rory Loy (born 1988), Scottish footballer
  • Tristan Loy (born 1973), French long distance and marathon speed skater and inline speed skater
  • Yap Ah Loy (1837-1885), regarded as the founding father of modern Kuala Lumpur
  • François De Loys (1892-1935), Swiss oil geologist and discoverer of "Loy's Ape"

Other uses:

  • Loy (gastropod), a genus of sea slugs within the superfamily Onchidoridoidea
  • Loy, County Tyrone, a townland in County Tyrone, Northern Ireland
  • Loy's Ape, an unconfirmed species of primate formally known as ameranthropoides loysi
  • USS Loy (DE-160), a destroyer escort of the United States Navy
  • Loy (spade), a type of spade once used for manual ploughing in Ireland