Robert Boyd

Bob or Robert Boyd may refer to:

Noblemen

• Robert Boyd, 1st Lord Boyd (died c. 1482), Scottish statesman
• Robert Boyd, 4th Lord Boyd (died 1557/8), Scottish nobleman, grandson of the 1st Lord Boyd
• Robert Boyd, 5th Lord Boyd (c. 1517–1590), Scottish nobleman
• Robert Boyd, 7th Lord Boyd (1595–1628), Scottish noble
• Robert Boyd, 8th Lord Boyd (c. 1618–1640), Scottish noble and politician

Scientists

• Robert Boyd (stenographer) (1870–?), inventor of Boyd's Syllabic Shorthand
• Robert A. Boyd (1918–2006), leader of the James Bay hydroelectric project
• Robert W. Boyd (born 1948), scientist and author of Nonlinear Optics
• Robert Boyd (physicist) (1922–2004), pioneer of British space science
• Robert Boyd (paediatrician) (born 1938), British paediatrician
• Robert Boyd (anthropologist) (born 1948), American anthropologist

Sportsmen

• Bob Boyd (American football) (1928–2009), American football end and wide receiver
• Bob Boyd (baseball) (1919–2004), American first baseman in the Negro Leagues and Major League Baseball
• Bob Boyd (basketball) (1930–2015), collegiate men's basketball coach
• Bob Boyd (footballer) (c. 1865–?), Scottish footballer
• Bob Boyd (golfer) (1955–2011), American golfer
• Bob Boyd (ice hockey) (born 1951), Canadian former professional ice hockey player
• Bobby Boyd (born 1937), American football player for the Baltimore Colts

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 (bishop) (1890–1958), Anglican bishop of Killaloe and Clonfert and of Derry and Raphoe
• Robert Boyd (journalist), winner of the 1973 Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting
• Robert Boyd (writer) (1803–1883), writer on diseases of the insane
• Robert Boyd (comics), comics editor and critic on The Big Book Of
• Robert Boyd (director), Canadian film director (South of Wawa, The Canadian Conspiracy)
• Dice (rapper), rapper from Detroit whose real name is Robert Boyd
• Robert Napuʻuako Boyd (1864–1914), Hawaiian insurgent leader
• Robert Boyd (civil servant), civil servant in British Ceylon

See also

• Robert Boyd Brazier (1916–1942), naval officer
• Robert Boyd Publications, publisher