Ryder (name)

Ryder is both a surname and masculine given name. Notable people with the name include:

Surname:
 * Albert Pinkham Ryder (1847–1917), American painter
 * Alfred Ryder (1916–1995), American actor, born as Alfred Jacob Corn
 * Arthur W. Ryder (1877–1938) American professor of Sanskrit and translator
 * Charles W. Ryder (1892–1960), US Army General
 * Charles Henry Dudley Ryder (1868–1945), English army officer and explorer
 * Chauncey Foster Ryder (1868–1949), American painter
 * Cynthia Ryder (born 1966), American rower
 * Deb Ryder, American blues singer and songwriter
 * Derek Ryder (born 1947), English footballer
 * Dial D. Ryder (1938–2011), American gunsmith
 * Don Ryder, Baron Ryder of Eaton Hastings (1916–2003), chairman of the UK National Enterprise Board, responsible for the 1975 Ryder Report
 * Donald J. Ryder, U.S. military lawyer, responsible for the 2003 Ryder Report on prisoner abuse in Iraq
 * Dudley Ryder, 1st Earl of Harrowby (1762–1847), English politician
 * Dudley Ryder, 2nd Earl of Harrowby (1798–1882), English politician
 * Dudley Ryder, 3rd Earl of Harrowby (1831–1900), English politician
 * Dudley Ryder, 7th Earl of Harrowby (1922–2007), deputy chairman of Coutts bank and NatWest
 * Graham Ryder (1949–2002), English lunar scientist
 * Henry Ignatius Dudley Ryder (1837–1907), English Roman Catholic priest
 * James A. Ryder (1800–1860), American Jesuit priest
 * Jeremy Ryder (born 1954), British musician known professionally as Jack Hues
 * Jesse Ryder (born 1984), New Zealand cricketer
 * John Ryder (disambiguation), multiple people
 * Jonathan Ryder, pseudonym of American thriller author Robert Ludlum
 * Margaret Ryder (1908–1998), British artist
 * Michael Ryder (born 1980), NHL hockey player
 * Mitch Ryder (born 1945), American musician
 * Paddy Ryder (born 1988), Australian football player
 * Richard Ryder (1766–1832), British 19th century politician
 * Richard Andrew Ryder (born 1949), British politician
 * Richard D. Ryder (born 1940), British animal rights activist
 * Robert Edward Dudley Ryder (1908–1986), British military hero and politician
 * Samuel Ryder (1858–1936), businessman and golf enthusiast
 * Serena Ryder (born 1983), Canadian singer/songwriter
 * Shaun Ryder (born 1962), British singer/songwriter
 * Theodore Ryder (1916–1993), one of the first people to receive insulin as a treatment for diabetes
 * Thomas P. Ryder (born 1985), Anglo-Scot rugby union player
 * Thomas Ryder (1863–1935), American baseball player
 * Tom Ryder (born 1949), American lawyer and politician
 * William T. Ryder (1913–1992), Brigadier general and first American paratrooper
 * Dr Andrew Ryder (born 1964) researcher and campaigner for Roma communities
 * Winona Ryder (born 1971), American actress
 * James A. Ryder, founder of Ryder System, Inc.
 * Zack Ryder (born 1985), a former ring name of American professional wrestler Matt Cardona

Given name:
 * Ryder Hesjedal (born 1980), Canadian professional racing cyclist
 * Ryder Matos Santos (born 1993), Brazilian footballer
 * Ryder Windham, American writer

Fictional characters:
 * Honey Ryder, the Bond girl in the 1962 film ''Dr. No
 * Charles Ryder, the protagnaist of Evelyn Waugh's Brideshead Revisited
 * James Ryder, in The Blue Carbuncle, a Sherlock Holmes story by Arthur Conan Doyle
 * Lance "Ryder" Wilson, a fictional character in the video game Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas
 * Red Ryder, a fictional cowboy character
 * Ryder, a character in the Skrull Kill Krew comics
 * Ryder Callahan, a character on the CBS soap opera The Young and the Restless
 * John Ryder, a character in the 1986 film The Hitcher and its 2007 remake
 * Ryder, the main human character of the Canadian animated preschool TV series PAW Patrol
 * Ryder, the protagonist of the Kazuo Ishiguro novel The Unconsoled
 * Scott/Sara Ryder, main character of the video game Mass Effect: Andromeda
 * Ryder White, a character in the video game series Dead Island
 * Mr. Ryder, the biracial main character of Charles W. Chesnutt's short story The Wife of His Youth