# Guiot

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**Guiot** or **Guyot** is an [Old French](/source/Old_French) name, an [augmentative](/source/Augmentative) of [Guy](/source/Guy_(given_name)).[1][2] It may also be related to the root *guille*, meaning deception or silliness.[3]

## People with the given name

- [Guiot de Dijon](/source/Guiot_de_Dijon) (fl. 1215–1225), Burgundian trouvère
- [Guiot or Guyot du Repaire](/source/Guiot_or_Guyot_du_Repaire) (1755–1818), French Army general
- [Guiot de Provins](/source/Guiot_de_Provins) (fl. 1180–1208), French poet and trouvère

## People with the surname

- [Andréa Guiot](/source/Andr%C3%A9a_Guiot) (1928–2021), French soprano
- [Arnold Henry Guyot](/source/Arnold_Henry_Guyot) (1807–1884), Swiss-American geologist and geographer
- [Géo-Charles](/source/G%C3%A9o-Charles) (born Charles Louis Proper Guyot; 1892–1963), French poet and gold medallist at the 1924 Summer Olympics
- [Charles Guyot (cyclist, born 1890)](/source/Charles_Guyot_(cyclist,_born_1890)) (1890–1958), Swiss cyclist
- [Charles Guyot (cyclist, born 1925)](/source/Charles_Guyot_(cyclist,_born_1925)) (1925–1973), Swiss cyclist
- [Christophe Guyot](/source/Christophe_Guyot) (born 1962), French Superbike competitor
- [Claude Guyot](/source/Claude_Guyot) (born 1947), French cyclist
- [Claude-Étienne Guyot](/source/Claude-%C3%89tienne_Guyot) (1768–1837), French general
- [Cyril Guyot](/source/Cyril_Guyot) (born 1980), French footballer
- [Éric Guyot](/source/%C3%89ric_Guyot) (born 1962), French cyclist
- [Jean Guyot](/source/Jean_Guyot) (1512–1588), Franco-Flemish renaissance composer
- [Jeanne Guiot](/source/Jeanne_Guiot), (1889-1963), French engineer specialising in metallurgy, women's rights campainer
- [Jules Guyot](/source/Jules_Guyot) (1807–1872), French physician and agronomist
- [Laurent Guyot](/source/Laurent_Guyot) (born 1969), French footballer and manager
- [Lawrence Guyot](/source/Lawrence_Guyot) (1939–2012), American civil rights activist
- [Nicolas Bernard Guiot de Lacour](/source/Nicolas_Bernard_Guiot_de_Lacour) (1771–1809), French Army general
- [Raymond Guiot](/source/Raymond_Guiot) (1930–2025), French flautist, pianist and composer
- [Régis Guyot](/source/R%C3%A9gis_Guyot) (born 1949), French civil servant (prefect)
- [René Guyot](/source/Ren%C3%A9_Guyot) (fl. 1882–1900), French Olympic trap shooter
- [Sarah Guyot](/source/Sarah_Guyot) (born 1991), French sprint canoeist
- [Sébastienne Guyot](/source/S%C3%A9bastienne_Guyot) (1896–1941), French engineer and Olympic athlete
- [Virginie Guyot](/source/Virginie_Guyot) (born 1976), French Air Force fighter pilot
- [Yves Guyot](/source/Yves_Guyot) (1843–1928), French politician and economist

## See also

- [Guyot (disambiguation)](/source/Guyot_(disambiguation))

## References

1. Wareing Endell Bardsley, Charles (1901). [*A Dictionary of English and Welsh Surnames: With Special American Instances*](https://books.google.com/books?id=MwMdAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA342). [H. Frowde](/source/H._Frowde). p. 342. ISBN 9780806300221. Retrieved 15 March 2019. – via Google Books.

1. [*The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland*](https://books.google.com/books?id=0AyDDQAAQBAJ&pg=PA1155). [Oxford University Press](/source/Oxford_University_Press). 17 November 2016. p. 1155. ISBN 9780192527479. Retrieved 15 March 2019. – via Google Books.

1. Markale, Jean (1 April 1999). [*The Grail: The Celtic Origins of the Sacred Icon*](https://books.google.com/books?id=ymIoDwAAQBAJ&pg=PT106). [Simon & Schuster](/source/Simon_%26_Schuster). ISBN 9781620554715. Retrieved 15 March 2019. – via Google Books.

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