Floyd (given name)
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Floyd is a masculine English given name. Notable people with the 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 D. Culbertson, Jr. (1908-1981), American lawyer and politician
- 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 (born 1943), American football player
- Floyd Jones (1917–1989), American blues singer
- Floyd Landis (born 1975), American cyclist
- 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 Tillman (1914-2003), American country musician
- Floyd Vivino (born 1951), American comedian known as Uncle Floyd
Fictional characters:
- Floyd Lawson, barber in the TV show The Andy Griffith Show
- Floyd Pepper, a puppet character on the TV series The Muppet Show
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