Floyd

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Floyd is a variant spelling of the Welsh name Lloyd, which means grey, and may refer to:

Contents 1 Places 2 People with the surname Floyd 3 People with the given name Floyd 4 Fictional people 5 Others

[edit] Places

• Floyd, Iowa, community in Floyd County
• Floyd, New Mexico, community in Roosevelt County
• Floyd, New York, town in Oneida County
• Floyd, Virginia, town in Floyd County

[edit] People with the surname Floyd

• Pretty Boy Floyd (1904–1934), American bank robber
• Bubba Floyd (1917–2000), American baseball player
• Carlisle Floyd (born 1926), American opera composer
• Charles Floyd, a number of people with this name
• Cliff Floyd, a Major League Baseball player currently with the Chicago Cubs.
• Sir John Floyd, 1st Baronet (1748–1818), British cavalry officer and professional soldier, fought in India
• John Floyd (Virginia politician) (1783–1837), Governor of Virginia
• John B. Floyd (1806–1863), Governor of Virginia, US Secretary of War, Confederate general
• Keith Floyd (born 1943), British chef
• Robert Floyd (1936–2001), computer scientist
• Sleepy Floyd (born 1960), American professional basketball player
• William Floyd (1734–1821), American signer of the Declaration of Independence as a representative of New York.

[edit] People with the given name Floyd

• Floyd Council (1911–1976), American blues musician
• Floyd Landis (born 1975), American cyclist
• Floyd Mayweather Jr. (born 1977), American four-division boxing champion
• Floyd Mayweather Sr., American welterweight boxer and trainer
• Floyd B. Olson (1891–1936), Governor of Minnesota
• Floyd Patterson (1935–2006), two-time heavyweight boxing champion
• Floyd D. Rose, inventor of Floyd Rose guitar bridge
• Floyd Vivino (born 1951), American comedian known as Uncle Floyd

[edit] Fictional people

• Floyd, robot character from the text adventure Planetfall
• Heywood Floyd, fictional character in the Space Odyssey series by Arthur C. Clarke
• Floyd Henderson, fictional character in the TV show Smart Guy
• Floyd Lawson, fictional barber from The Andy Griffith Show
• Sally Floyd, fictional reporter in the Marvel Comics universe
• Sgt. Floyd Pepper, fictional bassist for the Muppet band, Dr. Teeth and The Electric Mayhem
• Floyd, the main character of the comic book series FLOYD, by Kevin J. Johnston
• Floyd, the main character of the Dragon Magazine comic Floyd by Aaron Williams.

[edit] Others

• Floyd-Warshall algorithm, a graph shortest-path algorithm
• Floyd Rose, guitar manufacturing company
• Floyd's Bluff, a hill near Sioux City, Iowa
• Hurricane Floyd, a major hurricane of 1999
• Pink Floyd, an English band
• Pretty Boy Floyd (American), an American band