Floyd (given name)

Floyd is a masculine Anglo-Welsh given name deriving from the Welsh Llwyd (“gray, gray-haired”) and thus cognate with Lloyd.

Notable people with this name include:


 * Floyd Abrams (born 1936), American attorney
 * Floyd Bannister (born 1955), retired Major League Baseball pitcher
 * Floyd Collins (1887–1925), American pioneer caver
 * Floyd Council (1911–1976), American blues musician
 * Floyd Cramer (1933–1997), American pianist
 * Floyd Favors (born 1963), American boxer
 * Floyd Gottfredson (1905–1986), American cartoonist best known for his work on the Mickey Mouse comic strip
 * Floyd Heard (born 1966), American track and field sprinter
 * Floyd Hudlow (1943–2021), American football player
 * Floyd Jones (1917–1989), American blues singer
 * Floyd Landis (born 1975), American cyclist
 * Floyd Levine (born 1932), American film and television actor
 * Floyd Little (1942–2021), American football halfback
 * Floyd Mayweather Jr. (born 1977), American five-division boxing champion
 * Floyd Mayweather Sr., American welterweight boxer and trainer
 * Floyd MacMillan Davis (1896–1966), American painter and illustrator
 * Floyd Odlum (1892–1976), American lawyer and businessman
 * Floyd B. Olson (1891–1936), Governor of Minnesota
 * Floyd Patterson (1935–2006), two-time world heavyweight boxing champion
 * Floyd D. Rose, inventor of Floyd Rose guitar bridge
 * Floyd Simmons (1923–2008), American athlete
 * Floyd Simmons (American football) (1925–1996), American football player
 * Floyd Smart (1894–1955), American athlete
 * Floyd Talbert (1923-1982), member of Easy Company, Band of Brothers.
 * Floyd Tillman (1914–2003), American country musician
 * Floyd Vivino (born 1951), American comedian known as Uncle Floyd

Fictional characters:
 * Dr. Floyd Charles, a character in the Left Behind book series
 * Floyd Lawson, barber in the TV show The Andy Griffith Show
 * Floyd Lawton aka Deadshot, supervillain/antihero assassin in DC Comics and enemy of Batman
 * Floyd Malloy, antagonist in 1985 animated show M.A.S.K.
 * Floyd Pepper, a puppet character on the TV series The Muppet Show
 * Floyd, Dick's roommate, True Romance
 * Floyd, a mouse character from Garfield and Friends