Robert Boyd

Robert Boyd may refer to:

Noblemen

• Robert Boyd, 1st Lord Boyd (d. c1470), Scottish statesman
• Robert Boyd, 4th Lord Boyd (d. c. 1550), Scottish nobleman, grandson of the 1st Lord Boyd
• Robert Boyd, 5th Lord Boyd (died 1590), Scottish nobleman
• Robert Boyd, 7th Lord Boyd (1595–1628)
• Robert Boyd, 8th Lord Boyd (c. 1618–1640)

Scientists

• Robert Boyd (stenographer) (born 1870), inventor of Boyd's Syllabic Shorthand
• Robert A. Boyd (1918-2006), leader of the James Bay hydroelectric project
• Robert W. Boyd (physicist), scientist and author of Nonlinear Optics
• Robert Boyd (physicist) (1922–2004)
• Robert Boyd (paediatrician) (born 1938)

Sportsmen

• Bob Boyd (baseball player)
• Bob Boyd (basketball)
• Bob Boyd (American football) (born 1928), American football player for the Los Angeles Rams
• Bobby Boyd (born 1937), American football player for the Baltimore Colts
• Robert Boyd (golfer)

Others

• Robert Boyd (university principal) (1578-1627), Principal of the University of Edinburgh
• Robert Boyd (British Army officer) (1710–1794), governor of Gibraltar
• Robert Boyd (journalist), winner of the 1973 Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting
• Robert Boyd (writer), writer on diseases of the insane
• Robert Boyd (comics), comics editor and critic
• Dice, a rapper from Detroit whose real name is Robert Boyd

See also

• Robert Boyd Brazier, naval officer
• Robert Boyd Publications, publisher