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Leroi, Le Roi or Roi is a French given name and surname of
Norman Norman or Normans may refer to: Ethnic and cultural identity * The Normans, a people partly descended from Norse Vikings who settled in the territory of Normandy in France in the 9th and 10th centuries ** People or things connected with the Norma ...
origin. In France, this family name originated from the
Normans The Normans (Norman language, Norman: ''Normaunds''; ; ) were a population arising in the medieval Duchy of Normandy from the intermingling between Norsemen, Norse Viking settlers and locals of West Francia. The Norse settlements in West Franc ...
, the descendants of Norse
Vikings Vikings were seafaring people originally from Scandinavia (present-day Denmark, Norway, and Sweden), who from the late 8th to the late 11th centuries raided, pirated, traded, and settled throughout parts of Europe.Roesdahl, pp. 9â ...
who migrated to
Amigny Amigny () is a commune in the Manche department in the Normandy region in northwestern France. History When the Vikings raided northern France and their leader Rollo was granted Normandy, several Norwegian settlers came to migrate to Amigny. O ...
, a commune in
Manche Manche (, ; Norman language, Norman: ) is a coastal Departments of France, French ''département'' in Normandy (administrative region), Normandy on the English Channel, which is known as , literally "the sleeve", in French. Manche is bordered by ...
,
Normandy Normandy (; or ) is a geographical and cultural region in northwestern Europe, roughly coextensive with the historical Duchy of Normandy. Normandy comprises Normandy (administrative region), mainland Normandy (a part of France) and insular N ...
.. The derivation is from the
Old French Old French (, , ; ) was the language spoken in most of the northern half of France approximately between the late 8th -4; we might wonder whether there's a point at which it's appropriate to talk of the beginnings of French, that is, when it wa ...
''roy'', ''roi'' (), meaning "king", or "the king", which was a Epithet">byname An epithet (, ), also a byname, is a descriptive term (word or phrase) commonly accompanying or occurring in place of the name of a real or fictitious person, place, or thing. It is usually literally descriptive, as in Alfred the Great, Suleima ...
used before the Norman Conquest and a personal name in the Middle Ages.


As a given name

*Leroi Court (born 1963), Australian athlete *Leroi Jones or Amiri Baraka (1934–2014), African-American writer *
LeRoi Moore LeRoi Holloway Moore (September 7, 1961 – August 19, 2008) was an American saxophonist. He was a founding member of the Dave Matthews Band. Moore often arranged music for songs written by Dave Matthews. Moore also co-wrote many of the band's ...
(1961–2008), American saxophonist


As a surname

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Ali LeRoi Ali LeRoi is an American television producer, director, writer and actor. He is best known as the co-creator of the Chris Rock semi-autobiographical sitcom ''Everybody Hates Chris'', for which he won the NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Writing ...
(born 1962), American television producer, director, writer and actor *
Armand Marie Leroi Armand Marie Leroi (born 16 July 1964) is a New Zealand-born Dutch author, broadcaster, and professor of evolutionary developmental biology at Imperial College London, Imperial College in London. He received the Guardian First Book Award in 200 ...
(born 1964), New Zealand author, broadcaster, and professor of evolutionary developmental biology * Gary LeRoi Gray (born 1987), American actor *
Andr̩ Leroi-Gourhan Andr̩ Leroi-Gourhan (; ; 25 August 1911 Р19 February 1986) was a French archaeologist, paleontologist, paleoanthropologist, and anthropologist with an interest in technology and aesthetics and a penchant for philosophical reflection. ...
(1911–1986), French archaeologist, paleontologist, paleoanthropologist, and anthropologist


See also

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Leroy (name) Leroy, also Leeroy, LeeRoy, Lee Roy, LeRoy, Le Roy or Roy is both a male given name and a surname. France In France, this family name originated from the Normans, the descendants of Norse Vikings who migrated to Amigny, a commune in Manche, No ...
* Roy


References

{{given name, type=both Surnames of Norman origin