Loy
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People with the given name Loy or Loys or Loÿs:
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People with the given name Loy or Loys or Loÿs:
- Saint Loy, better known as Saint EligiusSaint EligiusSaint Eligius is the patron saint of goldsmiths, other metalworkers, and coin collectors. He is also the patron saint of the Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers , a corps of the British Army, but he is best known for being the patron saint of horses and those who work with them...
- Loy Allen BowlinLoy Allen BowlinLoy Allen Bowlin , also known as The Original Rhinestone Cowboy, was an outsider artist from McComb, Mississippi. His artwork largely included bejeweling his clothing, Cadillac, home and even his dentures with thousands of rhinestones...
(1909-1995), outsider artist - Loy Allen Jr.Loy Allen Jr.Loy Allen Jr. , is a former NASCAR Winston Cup and Busch Series driver. He found his best results however in the ARCA series, with a win at Atlanta Motor Speedway in 1992 and two second place finishes at Talladega and Daytona in 1993.- Winston Cup Career :Allen Jr. made his Cup Debut at Daytona in...
(born 1966), former NASCAR driver - Loy HanningLoy HanningLoy Vernon Hanning was a Major League Baseball pitcher. He played parts of two seasons in the majors, and , for the St. Louis Browns.-Sources:...
, Major League Baseball pitcher in 1939 and 1942 - Loy W. HendersonLoy W. HendersonLoy Wesley Henderson was a United States Foreign Service Officer and diplomat.-Early life:Henderson was born in Rogers, Arkansas in 1892 to a poor Methodist preacher. He attended college in a small town in Kansas before transferring to Northwestern University...
(1892-1986), United States Foreign Service Officer - Loy HeringLoy HeringLoy Hering was a German Renaissance sculptor.-Biography:He began his career as an apprentice to Hans Beierlein in Augsburg. Between 1511 and 1512 he settled in Eichstätt, where in 1519 he was elected to the city council, from which he was elected to the post of Mayor several times...
, (c. 1484-1564), German Renaissance sculptor - Loy MendonsaLoy MendonsaLoy Mendonsa is part of the Shankar-Ehsaan-Loy trio which consist of himself, Shankar Mahadevan and Ehsaan Noorani. Before becoming a music composer, he was a keyboard musician for famous music composers such as A. R. Rahman and Nadeem-Shravan...
(21st century), Indian film singer - Loy PetersenLoy PetersenLoy M. Petersen is a retired American professional basketball player who played in the National Basketball Association from 1968–1970. A guard, he played in college for Oregon State University, and was drafted in the second round of the 1968 NBA Draft by the Chicago Bulls...
(born 1945), retired American professional basketball player - Loy VaughtLoy VaughtLoy Stephen Vaught is a retired American professional basketball player who spent ten seasons in the NBA, primarily with the Los Angeles Clippers....
(born 1968), retired American basketball player - Loy F. WeaverLoy F. WeaverLoy Frank Weaver is a retired banker from Homer, the seat of Claiborne Parish in north Louisiana, who served as a Democrat in the Louisiana House of Representatives from 1976-1984...
(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 DelteilLoÿs DelteilLoÿs Henri Delteil aka Leo Delteil , was a French engraver and lithographer, publisher, dealer, art historian and compiler of 19th century graphics catalogues....
(1869-1927), a French engraver and lithographer, publisher, dealer, and art historian
People with the surname Loy or Loys:
- Angie LoyAngie LoyAngie Loy is a field hockey forward from the United States, who earned her first career cap versus Ireland on January 14, 2004 at Stanford, California. Loy attended the Old Dominion University. She was raised in rural Perry County, PA and attended West Perry High School in Elliottsburg, PA...
(born 1982), field hockey forward - Brendan LoyBrendan LoyBrendan Loy is an American blogger. Loy's blog, then entitled The Irish Trojan's Blog, gained moderate attention on the Internet and in some media outlets for his posting on Hurricane Katrina. He currently runs two blogs. His primary blog "The Living Room Times" covers politics, sports, news,...
(21st century), American blogger - David LoyDavid LoyDavid Robert Loy is an American author and authorized teacher in the Sanbo Kyodan lineage of Japanese Zen Buddhism.-Early life:Loy was born in the Panama Canal Zone. His father was in the U.S. Navy so the family traveled a great deal. He attended Carleton College in Minnesota, and spent his junior...
(born 1947), Buddhist philosopher - Egon LoyEgon LoyEgon Loy is a German former professional football goalkeeper.-Early career:Egon Loy spent the first years of his senior career in Schwabach near Nuremberg. From local side TSV 04 Schwabach he was promoted to the first Bavarian amateur league. Until 1954 he played with his home club in the highest...
(born 1931), German former professional football goalkeeper - Frank E. LoyFrank E. LoyFrank E. Loy is an American diplomat, business and nonprofit executive, and attorney. He is best known for serving as United States Under Secretary of State for Global Affairs from November 2, 1998 to January 20, 2001, under President Bill Clinton...
, an American diplomat and former United States Under Secretary of State for Global Affairs - James LoyJames LoyAdmiral James Milton Loy served as Acting United States Secretary of Homeland Security in 2005 and United States Deputy Secretary of Homeland Security from December 4, 2003, to March 1, 2005...
(born 1942), United States Coast Guard admiral, former TSA administrator, former Deputy Secretary of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security - Julien LoyJulien LoyJulien Loy is a French triathlete.He won the gold medal at the 2007 ITU Long Distance Triathlon World Championships in Lorient, becoming the World Champion, beating his fellow country men Xavier Le Floch and Sebastien Berlier who finished in second and third position.He als won the gold medal at...
(born 1976), French triathlete - Matthias LoyMatthias LoyMatthias Loy was an American Lutheran theologian in the Evangelical Lutheran Joint Synod of Ohio.Loy was a prominent pastor, editor, author and hymnist and served as president of Capital University, Columbus, Ohio....
(1828-1915), American Lutheran theologian - Mina LoyMina LoyMina Loy born Mina Gertrude Löwry was an artist, poet, playwright, novelist, Futurist, actress, Christian Scientist, designer of lamps, and bohemian. She was one of the last of the first generation modernists to achieve posthumous recognition. Her poetry was admired by T. S...
(1882-1966), artist, poet, playwright, novelist, futurist, actor, Christian Scientist, designer of lamps and bohemian - Myrna LoyMyrna LoyMyrna Loy was an American actress. Trained as a dancer, she devoted herself fully to an acting career following a few minor roles in silent films. Originally typecast in exotic roles, often as a vamp or a woman of Asian descent, her career prospects improved following her portrayal of Nora Charles...
(1903-1993), American motion picture actress - Nanni LoyNanni LoyNanni Loy was an Italian film, theatre and TV director.Loy was born in Cagliari, Sardinia...
(1925-1995), Italian film, theatre and TV director - Rachel LoyRachel LoyRachel Loy is an indie recording artist originally from Austin, Texas. Loy burst onto the scene while still studying at Berklee College of Music with the hit song, "The Same Man," released by Sony, which is an account of a friend serving in Iraq...
(21st century), solo artist - Rory LoyRory LoyRory James Loy is a Scottish professional association football player who is currently playing for the English League One club Carlisle United.-Early life:...
(born 1988), Scottish footballer - Tristan LoyTristan LoyTristan Loy is a French long distance and marathon speedskater, long track speedskater, and inline speedskater.Loy won the 120 kilometres race of the 2006 Finland Ice Marathon in Kuopio. During the 2006 Six Days of the Greenery he did not win a race, nor the final classification, but he was named...
(born 1973), French long distance and marathon speed skater and inline speed skater - Yap Ah LoyYap Ah LoyYap Ah Loy , also known as Yap Tet Loy and Yap Mao Lan. He is regarded as the founding father of modern Kuala Lumpur, he developed Kuala Lumpur as a commercial and mining centre during the mid-19th century...
(1837-1885), regarded as the founding father of modern Kuala Lumpur - François De LoysFrançois De LoysLouis François Fernand Hector de Loys was a Swiss oil geologist who allegedly discovered a hitherto-unknown primate in 1920 during an oil survey expedition in Venezuela.-History:...
(1892-1935), Swiss oil geologist and discoverer of "Loy's Ape"
Other uses:
- Loy (gastropod)Loy (gastropod)Loy is a genus of sea slugs, dorid nudibranchs, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Corambidae within the superfamily Onchidoridoidea. -Species :Species within the genus Loy include:* Loy meyeni Martynov, 1994...
, a genus of sea slugs within the superfamily Onchidoridoidea - Loy's Ape, an unconfirmed species of primate formally known as ameranthropoides loysiAmeranthropoides loysi"Ameranthropoides loysi" is allegedly a large primate encountered by François De Loys in South America. Apart from testimony of claimed eyewitnesses, the only evidence of the animal is one ....
- USS Loy (DE-160)USS Loy (DE-160)USS Loy , a of the United States Navy, was named in honor of Gunner's Mate Third Class Jackson Keith Loy , who was killed in action aboard the off Lunga Point, Guadalcanal on 12 November 1942...
, a destroyer escort of the United States Navy - Loy (spade)Loy (spade)A loy is an early Irish spade with a long heavy handle made of ash, a narrow steel plate on the face and a single footrest. The word loy comes from the Gaelic word laí, which means spade...
, a type of spade once used for manual ploughing in Ireland