Guiot
Guiot or Guyot is an Old French name, an augmentative of Guy. It may also be related to the root guille, meaning deception or silliness.
Guiot or Guyot is an Old French name, an augmentative of Guy.[1][2] It may also be related to the root guille, meaning deception or silliness.[3]
People with the given name
[edit]- Guiot de Dijon (fl. 1215–1225), Burgundian trouvère
- Guiot or Guyot du Repaire (1755–1818), French Army general
- Guiot de Provins (fl. 1180–1208), French poet and trouvère
People with the surname
[edit]- Andréa Guiot (1928–2021), French soprano
- Arnold Henry Guyot (1807–1884), Swiss-American geologist and geographer
- Géo-Charles (born Charles Louis Proper Guyot; 1892–1963), French poet and gold medallist at the 1924 Summer Olympics
- Charles Guyot (cyclist, born 1890) (1890–1958), Swiss cyclist
- Charles Guyot (cyclist, born 1925) (1925–1973), Swiss cyclist
- Christophe Guyot (born 1962), French Superbike competitor
- Claude Guyot (born 1947), French cyclist
- Claude-Étienne Guyot (1768–1837), French general
- Cyril Guyot (born 1980), French footballer
- Éric Guyot (born 1962), French cyclist
- Jean Guyot (1512–1588), Franco-Flemish renaissance composer
- Jeanne Guiot, (1889-1963), French engineer specialising in metallurgy, women's rights campainer
- Jules Guyot (1807–1872), French physician and agronomist
- Laurent Guyot (born 1969), French footballer and manager
- Lawrence Guyot (1939–2012), American civil rights activist
- Nicolas Bernard Guiot de Lacour (1771–1809), French Army general
- Raymond Guiot (1930–2025), French flautist, pianist and composer
- Régis Guyot (born 1949), French civil servant (prefect)
- René Guyot (fl. 1882–1900), French Olympic trap shooter
- Sarah Guyot (born 1991), French sprint canoeist
- Sébastienne Guyot (1896–1941), French engineer and Olympic athlete
- Virginie Guyot (born 1976), French Air Force fighter pilot
- Yves Guyot (1843–1928), French politician and economist
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ Wareing Endell Bardsley, Charles (1901). A Dictionary of English and Welsh Surnames: With Special American Instances. H. Frowde. p. 342. ISBN 9780806300221. Retrieved 15 March 2019 – via Google Books.
{{cite book}}: ISBN / Date incompatibility (help) - ^ Hanks, Patrick; Coates, Richard; McClure, Peter, eds. (17 November 2016). The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland. Oxford University Press. p. 1155. ISBN 9780192527479. Retrieved 15 March 2019 – via Google Books.
- ^ Markale, Jean (1 April 1999). The Grail: The Celtic Origins of the Sacred Icon. Simon & Schuster. ISBN 9781620554715. Retrieved 15 March 2019 – via Google Books.