Guyon is a French surname. Geographical distribution As of 2014, 85.7% of all known bearers of the surname Guyon were residents of France (frequency 1:4,367), 4.8% of the United States (1:427,011), 2.4% of Canada (1:87,614), 1.7% of the Philippines (1:327,626) and 1.1% of Gabon (1:9,351). In France, the frequency of the surname was higher than national average (1:4,367) in the following regions: 1. Bourgogne-Franche-Comté (1:1,012) 2. Pays de la Loire (1:1,802) 3. Centre-Val de Loire (1:2,925) 4. Brittany (1:3,370) 5. Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes (1:3,951) 6. Corsica (1:4,330) People Adrien Guyon (1866–?), French Olympic fencer Alexandre Guyon (1829–1905), French actor Isabelle Guyon (born 1961), French-born researcher in machine learning James Guyon Jr. (1778–1846), politician and cavalry officer from Staten Island, New York Jean Guyon du Buisson (1592–1663), master mason and early settler of Quebec, Canada Jean Casimir Félix Guyon (1831–1920), French urologist at the University of Paris Jean-Jacques Guyon (1932–2017), French Olympic equestrian Jeanne Guyon (1648–1717), French Christian mystic Joe Guyon (1892–1971), American professional football player and coach Lionel Guyon, French Olympic equestrian Marie-Therese Guyon Cadillac (1671–1746), early settler of Detroit, Michigan Maxime Guyon (born 1989), French jockey Maximilienne Guyon (1868–1903), French painter and illustrator Olivier Guyon (born 1975), French-American astronomer Pascal Guyon, French musician René Guyon (1876–1963), French jurist and sexual ethicist Richard Guyon (1813–1856), general in the Hungarian revolutionary army Sir Guyon, fictional hero in Edmund Spencer's The Faerie Queene (1590) See also Guion (name), a variant spelling References French-language surnames Surnames of French origin