Boyd (surname)
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Boyd is a surname of Scottish origin, and may refer to
- Adam Boyd, English footballer
- Alan Lennox-Boyd, British politician (Viscount Boyd)
- Alan Stephenson Boyd, American politician
- Alex Boyd, Scottish photographer
- Alfred Boyd, Canadian politician
- Alicja Tendt-Boyd, Polish singer
- Allen Boyd, American politician
- Andrew Kennedy Hutchison Boyd (1825-1899), Scottish writer
- Anne Boyd, Australian composer
- Archibald Boyd-Carpenter, British politician
- Arnold W. Boyd, British ornithologist
- Arthur Merric Boyd, Australian painter
- Arthur Merric Bloomfield Boyd, Australian painter
- Augusto Samuel Boyd, President of Panama
- Belle Boyd, American spy for the Confederacy
- Benjamin Boyd, Australian pioneer
- Bill Boyd, one of several people including
- Bill Boyd member of the Poker Hall of Fame
- Bill Boyd CEO of Boyd Gaming Corporation
- Bill Boyd (William Lemuel Boyd), (1914-1977), American singer
- Billy Boyd, Scottish actor
- Blanche McCrary Boyd, American novelist
- Bob Boyd, one of several people including
- Brandon Boyd, American musician, singer with Incubus
- Boyd, Brian, New Zealand English professor
- Carla Boyd, Australian basketball player
- Cayden Boyd, American actor
- Christopher Boyd, webmaster
- Colin Boyd, Scottish lawyer
- Damon Boyd, Australian musician
- Danah boyd (sic), American blogger
- Darius Boyd, Australian rugby league player
- Darren Boyd, British actor
- David Boyd, one of several people including
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- David Boyd (author), Canadian children's author
- David Boyd (artist), Australian artist
- Boyd, David, Canadian writer
- Douglas Boyd, British oboist and conductor
- Dutch Boyd, American poker player
- Edwin Alonzo Boyd, Canadian bank robber
- Edith B. Boyd, one of the Del Rubio triplets
- Elena Boyd, one of the Del Rubio triplets
- Eliza Stewart Boyd, first woman on a jury
- Esna Boyd, Australian tennis player
- Eva Boyd, American singer Little Eva
- Federico Boyd, President of Panama
- George Boyd (footballer), English footballer
- George Boyd (playwright), Canadian playwright
- George Milward Boyd, Canadian politician
- George Boyd-Rochfort, Irish soldier
- Gregory A. Boyd, American evangelical pastor, theologian, and author.
- Guy Boyd, Australian sculptor
- Harriet Boyd-Hawes, American archaeologist
- James Boyd, American novelist
- James E. Boyd, American politician
- James William Boyd, American figure of 'Lincoln conspiracy'
- Jason Boyd, British actor in Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
- Jenna Boyd, American actress
- Jenny Boyd, British model, sister of Pattie Boyd
- Jerry Boyd, boxing trainer writing as F.X. Toole
- Jim Boyd, one of several people including
- Jim Boyd, musician from the Colville Indian Reservation
- Jim Boyd, television news anchor
- Jim Boyd (actor), The Electric Company actor
- Jimmy Boyd (born 1940), American singer
- Joe Boyd, American record producer
- John Boyd, one of several people including
- John Boyd (ambassador) (born 1936), British ambassador and master of Churchill College, Cambridge
- John Boyd (military strategist) (1927–1997), U.S. colonel
- John Boyd, pseudonym of Boyd Bradfield Upchurch (born 1919), science fiction author
- John Boyd (Canadian parliamentarian) (1826–1893)
- John Boyd (playwright) (1912–2002), Northern Irish playwright
- John Boyd (Texas politician)
- John Alexander Boyd, Canadian judge
- John Covert Boyd, American physician
- John Frank Boyd (1853–1945), Nebraska judge and representative
- John Morton Boyd, Scottish zoologist and writer
- John Parker Boyd, American General
- John Boyd-Carpenter, British politician
- John Boyd Orr, Scottish nutritionist and Nobel Peace Prize winner
- Johnny Boyd, American racing driver
- Joseph Boyd, American sailor
- Joseph A. Boyd Jr., former Florida Chief Justice
- Kenneth Lee Boyd, American murderer
- Kris Boyd, Scottish footballer
- L. M. Boyd, American columnist
- LaVell Boyd, American football player
- Les Boyd, Australian rugby league player
- Linn Boyd, American politician
- Liona Boyd, Canadian musician
- Louise Boyd, American explorer
- Malcolm Boyd, American televangelist
- Mark Alexander Boyd (1563-1601), Scottish poet
- Marion Boyd, Canadian politician
- Martin Boyd, Australian architect and writer
- Merric Boyd, Australian artist
- Mike Boyd, Canadian police chief
- Milly Boyd, one of the Del Rubio triplets
- Nancy Boyd, pseudonym of American poet Edna St. Vincent Millay
- Neva Boyd, American educator
- Norma Elizabeth Boyd, American sorority organiser
- Oil Can Boyd, American baseball player
- Pattie Boyd, British model and photographer
- Penleigh Boyd, Australian artist
- Peter Boyd (Trevor Eve), fictional character in the TV series Waking the Dead
- Robert Boyd, 1st Lord Boyd
- Robert Boyd, American inventor of Boyd's Syllabic Shorthand
- Robin Boyd, Australian architect
- Ron Boyd, comics artist
- Russell Boyd, American cinematographer
- Sam Boyd, American gambling entrepreneur
- Sarah Boyd-Carpenter, now Sarah Hogg, Baroness Hogg
- Simon Lennox-Boyd
- Stephen Boyd, Irish actor
- Steve Boyd, American porn star
- Theodore Penleigh Boyd, Australian painter
- Thomas Boyd, one of several people including
- Thomas Boyd (1867-1927), Irish poet
- Thomas Alexander Boyd (1898-1935) American novelist
- Travis Edward Boyd, American Drummer (1987-?)
- Tom Boyd, Scottish footballer
- Tommy Boyd, English TV and radio presenter
- Viscount Boyd
- Walter Boyd, Jamaican footballer
- Wes Boyd, American software businessman and activist
- William Boyd, one of several people including
- William Boyd (actor), better known as Hopalong Cassidy
- William Boyd (musician), American musician
- William Boyd (Colonel), United States Army Air Forces, base commander, Selfridge Field, Michigan, reprimanded in 1944 for ordering racially-segregated facilities for officers in violation of War Department regulations. (See Freeman Field Mutiny.)
- William Boyd (pathologist)
- William Boyd (writer)
- William Boyd (Moderator), former Moderator of the Presbyterian Church in Ireland
- William C. Boyd, the US immunologist
- William Lemuel Boyd, western musician
- William Boyd, 3rd Earl of Kilmarnock (died 1717)
- William Boyd, 4th Earl of Kilmarnock (1704-1746)
- William Merric Boyd, Australian artist
- William R. "Bob" Boyd, American college baseball coach
- Woody Boyd, fictional character from Cheers
- Zachary Boyd, Scottish theologian
As an aristocratic family name
- Robert Boyd, 1st Lord Boyd (d. 1482)
- James Boyd, 2nd Lord Boyd (d. 1484)
- Thomas Boyd, 1st Earl of Arran
- Alexander Boyd, 3rd Lord Boyd (d. 1508)
- Robert Boyd, 4th Lord Boyd (d. c.1557) (acceded Lordship 1547)
- Robert Boyd, 5th Lord Boyd (c.1517-1559) (acceded Lordship 1558)
- Thomas Boyd, 6th Lord Boyd (c.1547-1611) (acceded Lordship 1560)
- Robert Boyd, 7th Lord Boyd (1595-1628)
- Robert Boyd, 8th Lord Boyd (c.1618-1640)
- James Boyd, 9th Lord Boyd (a.1595)-1654)
- William Boyd, 10th Lord Boyd (b.1646-1692) created Earl Kilmarnock in 1661
- William Boyd, 1st Earl of Kilmarnock (b.1646-1692)
- William Boyd, 2nd Earl of Kilmarnock (b.1676-1692)
- William Boyd, 3rd Earl of Kilmarnock (b.1692-1717)
- William Boyd, 4th Earl of Kilmarnock (b.1709-1746) (attainted/forfeit 1746)
- James Boyd, later James Hay, 15th Earl of Erroll
[edit] See also
- Boyd
- Clan Boyd, Scotland
- Boyd Family, Australia
- Boyd Gang, Canada