John Boyd

John Boyd is the name of:

Politicians

British

• Sir John Boyd, 1st Baronet (1718–1800), English sugar merchant
• Sir John Boyd, 2nd Baronet (1750–1815), son of the first baronet Boyd
• Sir John Boyd (diplomat) (born 1936), British ambassador and former master of Churchill College, Cambridge
• John Boyd (Irish politician) (1789–1862), UK MP for the Irish constituency of Coleraine, 1842–1852 and 1857–1862

American

• John Boyd (Assemblyman) (1824–?), English-born Wisconsin State Assemblyman
• John Boyd (Connecticut politician) (1799–1881), Connecticut state legislator and Secretary of State
• John Boyd (Texas Senator) (1796–1873), American early settler in Texas and state senator
• John Frank Boyd (1853–1945), Nebraska judge and representative
• John H. Boyd (1799–1868), U.S. Representative from New York
• John W. Boyd (1811–1892), Wisconsin State Senator

Canadian

• John Boyd (Canadian politician) (1826–1893), Senator and lieutenant-governor of New Brunswick
• Sir John Alexander Boyd (1837–1916), Canadian lawyer and judge

Military figures

• John Boyd (military strategist) (1927–1997), US Air Force Colonel and fighter pilot
• John Covert Boyd (1850–1924), Naval surgeon and fraternity founder
• John Parker Boyd (1764–1830), American general
• John McNeil Boyd R.N. (1812–1861), Captain of HMS Ajax died in the "Boyd disaster" 1861

Artists

• John H. Boyd (photographer) (1898–1971), photographer based in Toronto, Ontario
• John Boyd (playwright) (1912–2002), Northern Irish playwright
• John Boyd (author) (1919–2013), science fiction author
• John Boyd (milliner) (born 1925), fashion designer
• John Morton Boyd (1925–1998), Scottish zoologist and writer
• John Boyd (conductor) (born 1944), American conductor and arranger, worked with Joseph Hermann
• John Boyd (sound engineer), American sound engineer
• John Boyd (actor) (born 1981), American actor

Other

• John Boyd (footballer, born 1926), Scottish footballer (1948 Great Britain Olympic team)
• John Boyd (footballer, born 1969), Scottish footballer (Dumbarton FC, St Mirren)
• John McFarlane Boyd (1917–1989), Scottish trade unionist
• John W. Boyd, Jr. (born 1965), farmer and civil rights leader

See also

• John Boyd Orr, 1st Baron Boyd-Orr (1880–1971), Nobel peace laureate
• Boyd (surname)