Rémy (name)

Rémy, Remy, Rémi, Remie, Rémie or Remi is a name of French origin meaning “oarsman”, and is associated with the Latin name Remigius. It is used as either a surname or as a male or female given name.

People with the name Remy include:

Given name

 * Saint Rémy or Saint Remigius (437–533), male, baptised Clovis I, King of the Franks
 * Achille Rémy Percheron (1797–1869), male, French entomologist
 * Jean Rémy Ayouné, male, former foreign minister of Gabon
 * Jean-Rémy Badio (died 2007), Male, freelance Haitian photographer and journalist
 * Jean-Rémy Bessieux, Male, Roman Catholic missionary and bishop
 * Jean-Rémy Moët, Male, French wine merchant, ran the Moët et Chandon house founded by his grandfather
 * Caroline Rémy de Guebhard, Female, French writer
 * Nicolas Rémy Maire, Male, French bowmaker
 * Rémy Vincent Andrianjanaka, Male, Malagasy politician
 * Rémy Belleau, Male, French renaissance poet
 * Rémy Belvaux, Male, Belgian actor
 * Remy Bonjasky (born 1976), Male, Suriname-born Dutch professional K-1 kickboxer
 * Rémy Boullé (born 1988), Male, French paracanoeist
 * Rémy Cabella, Male, French footballer
 * Rémy Card, Male, French Linux software developer
 * Rémi Casty (born 1985), Male, French rugby league footballer
 * Rémy Ceillier (1688–1761), Male, French Benedictine monk and historian
 * Remy Charlip (1929–2012), Male, American children's book author and illustrator
 * Rémy Couvez, male, French hurdy-gurdy player
 * Remy de Gourmont (1858–1915), Male, French writer
 * Rémy Désilets, Male, Quebec politician
 * Rémy Di Gregorio (born 1985), Male, French professional cyclist
 * Remy Gardner, male, Australian motorcycle racer
 * Rémy Girard, Male, Quebec actor
 * Remy Hamilton (born 1974), Male, American football kicker
 * Remy Hermoso (1947–2020), Male, Venezuelan Major League Baseball shortstop
 * Remy Hii, Male, Australian actor
 * Rémy Jacques (1817–1905), Male, French lawyer and politician
 * Remy Keo, Male, Cambodian politician
 * Rémy Julienne, Male, French stunt performer
 * Remy LaCroix, Female, American pornographic actress
 * Remy Le Boeuf, (born 1986) Male, American saxophonist/composer
 * Remi Lindholm (born 1998), Male, Finnish cross-country skier
 * Remy Ma, Female, stage name of Reminisce Smith (born 1980), American female rapper
 * Rémy Maertens, Male, Belgian tug-of-war competitor in the 1920 Summer Olympics
 * Remy Martin (basketball) (born 1998), male, American basketball player
 * Rémy Martin (rugby union), Male, French rugby union flanker
 * Remy McBain (born 1991), Female, Puerto Rican volleyball player
 * Remy Munasifi, Male, Arab American stand-up comedian, parody musician and video artist
 * Rémy Noë (born 1974), Male, English painter of French-Dutch descent
 * Remy Ong, Male, Singaporean bowling champion
 * Rémy Pflimlin (1954–2016), Male, French media executive
 * Rémy Pointereau, Male, French politician
 * Remy Presas, Male, Filipino martial artist
 * Remy P. Presas, Male, American martial artist
 * Rémy Raffalli, Male, French World War II soldier
 * Rémy Riou (born 1987), Male, French soccer goalkeeper
 * Remy Ryan, Female, American actress
 * Remy Siemsen (born 1999), Australian footballer
 * Remy Shand, Male, Canadian r&b/soul artist
 * Rémy Trudel, Male, Canadian politician
 * Rémy Vercoutre, Male, soccer goalkeeper
 * Remy Wellen, Male, German ice hockey forward
 * Remy Zaken, Female, American actress
 * Rémy Zaugg, Male, Swiss painter
 * Rémy (rapper) (born 1997), male, French rapper

Surname

 * Alfred Remy, German-born American philologist and music theorist
 * Daniel de Rémy de Courcelle (1626–1698), Governor General of New France
 * Gilles Rémy, French businessman
 * Jack Remy, pornographic actor
 * Jacques Rémy, French soccer striker
 * Jean Rémy, French colonel and member of the Free French during World War II
 * Jerry Remy (1952–2021), American Major League Baseball player and Boston Red Sox broadcaster
 * Joseph Rémy, Belgian boxer
 * Loïc Rémy, French football striker
 * Ludger Rémy (1949–2017), German harpsichordist, conductor, musicologist
 * Nicholas Rémy, a French magistrate who became famous as a hunter of witches
 * Patrick Rémy (skier), French cross-country skier
 * Patrick Remy (footballer), French soccer striker and manager
 * Paul Rémy, French-Algerian tennis player
 * Pierre-Jean Rémy, French author and diplomat
 * Raoul Rémy, French professional cyclist
 * Sébastien Rémy, Luxembourgian soccer midfielder
 * Sylvain Remy, Beninese soccer defender
 * William Rémy, French soccer defender

Fictional characters

 * Remy Danton, a male character on the Netflix series House of Cards
 * Remi Briggs, also known as 'Jane Doe', a female main character played by Jamie Alexander in the NBC TV series Blindspot
 * Remy Scott, a male FBI agent character played by Dylan McDermott in FBI: Most Wanted
 * Remy Remington, male character from the animated television series Big City Greens
 * Remy (Ratatouille), a male rat chef, protagonist of Ratatouille (film) and Ratatouille the Musical''
 * Remy Baudouin, a male character in The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles
 * Remy Buxaplenty a male character from The Fairly OddParents
 * Dr. Remy "Thirteen" Hadley, a female character on the television series House, M.D.
 * Remy, a male and character in the movie Higher Learning
 * Rémy Legaludec, a male character in the novel The Da Vinci Code
 * Remy Marathe, a male fictional member of Les Assassins des Fauteuils Rollents, a Québécois separatist group in the 1996 novel Infinite Jest
 * Remy (Street Fighter), a male video game character
 * Gambit (Marvel Comics), real name Remy LeBeau, male character from X-Men comics
 * Remy Starr, a female fictional character in Sarah Dessen's 5th novel This Lullaby
 * Remy, the male landlord in the television series New Girl
 * Detective Lieutenant Remy McSwain, a male character played by Dennis Quaid in the film The Big Easy
 * Remi Delatour a male character on the television series Devious Maids
 * Remi Puguna a male character from Promare
 * Remi Hoshikawa, Five Yellow, a female character from Chikyu Sentai Fiveman
 * Rémi the orphan boy, main male character of the popular 1878 French novel Sans Famille by Hector Malot
 * Remi, male character and father of Otis, in the Netflix series Sex Education
 * Remy Bones, a male skeleton chef, in the Disney Junior television series Vampirina