Leroi

Leroi, Le Roi or Roi is a French given name and surname of Norman origin. It is a variant spelling of Leroy, meaning "The King". Its Old French source roi, roy (from Latin rex), gave rise to this name and variations during 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 (1961–2008), American saxophonist

As a surname

 * Ali LeRoi (born 1962), American television producer, director, writer and actor
 * Armand Marie Leroi (born 1964), New Zealand author, broadcaster, and professor of evolutionary developmental biology
 * Gary LeRoi Gray (born 1987), American actor
 * André Leroi-Gourhan (1911–1986), French archaeologist, paleontologist, paleoanthropologist, and anthropologist