Floyd
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Floyd is a variant spelling of the Welsh name Lloyd, which means grey.
People:
- Floyd Council, musician
- Floyd Mayweather Jr., four-division boxing champion
- Floyd Mayweather Sr., welterweight boxer
- Floyd Olson, former Governor of Minnesota
- Floyd Patterson, two-time heavyweight boxing champion
- Floyd Rose, inventor of Floyd Rose guitar bridge
- Floyd Vivino, also known as Uncle Floyd, host of "The Uncle Floyd Show"
- Carlisle Floyd, composer
- Charles Floyd, multiple people, including bank robber Pretty Boy Floyd
- Keith Floyd, British chef
- Robert Floyd, computer scientist
- Sleepy Floyd, former professional basketball player
- William Floyd, signer of the Declaration of Independence as a representative of New York.
- Floyd, Iowa, community in Floyd County.
- Floyd, New Mexico, community in Roosevelt County.
- Floyd, New York, town in Oneida County.
- Floyd, Virginia, town in Floyd County.
- Floyd County, Georgia
- Floyd County, Indiana
- Floyd County, Kentucky
- Floyd County, Virginia
- Floyd River in Iowa
- Floyd-Warshall algorithm, a graph shortest-path algorithm
- Floyd's Bluff, a hill near Sioux City, Iowa
- Hurricane Floyd, an affected hurricane of 1999.
- Pink Floyd, English band
- Pretty Boy Floyd, American band
- Floyd is a robot character from the Infocom text adventure Planetfall.
- Heywood Floyd is a fictional character in the Space Odyssey series by Arthur C. Clarke.
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