Places in the United States

• Floyd, Arkansas
  Floyd, Arkansas
  Floyd is an unincorporated community in western White County, Arkansas. The rural community is situated along Highways 31 and 305, in addition to the county-maintained El Paso Road...
  
  
• Floyd, California (disambiguation)
  • Floyd, Fresno County, California
    Floyd, Fresno County, California
    Floyd is an unincorporated community in Fresno County, California. It is located on the Southern Pacific Railroad west of downtown Fresno, at an elevation of 246 feet ....
    
    
  • Floyd, Glenn County, California
    Floyd, Glenn County, California
    Floyd is a former settlement in Glenn County, California. It was located west of Orland on the road to Newville.A post office operated at Floyd from 1906 to 1911....
    
    
• Floyd County, Georgia
  Floyd County, Georgia
  Floyd County is a county located in the U.S. state of Georgia. As of 2000, the population was 90,565. Census estimates for 2007 show a population of 95,618...
  
  
• Floyd, Iowa
  Floyd, Iowa
  Floyd is a city in Floyd County, Iowa, United States. The population was 361 at the 2000 census.-Geography:Floyd is located at on the Cedar River....
  
  , community in Floyd County
• Floyd, New Mexico
  Floyd, New Mexico
  Floyd is a village in Roosevelt County, New Mexico, United States. The population was 78 at the 2000 census.-Geography:Floyd is located at ....
  
  , community in Roosevelt County
• Floyd, New York
  Floyd, New York
  Floyd is a town in Oneida County, New York, United States. The population was 3,869 at the 2000 census. The town is named after William Floyd, a signer of the Declaration of Independence....
  
  , town in Oneida County
• Floyd, Texas
  Floyd, Texas
  Floyd is an unincorporated community in Hunt County, Texas, United States. It is located eight miles west of Greenville.The Bland Independent School District serves area students....
  
  , community in Hunt County
• Floyd, Virginia
  Floyd, Virginia
  Floyd is a town in Floyd County, Virginia, United States. The population was 432 at the 2000 census. It is the county seat of Floyd County. The Town of Floyd was originally named Jacksonville as the surrounding county was formed during the tenure of President Andrew Jackson...
  
  , town in Floyd County
• Floyd's Bluff
  Floyd's Bluff
  Floyd's Bluff is a hill in southern Sioux City, Iowa that is named for Sergeant Charles Floyd.Floyd, who was the quartermaster for the Lewis and Clark Expedition's Corps of Discovery, was the only fatality during the expedition. The bluff was Floyd's original burial site in 1804, and is now the...
  
  , hill near Sioux City, Iowa

People with the surname Floyd

• Andress Small Floyd
  Andress Small Floyd
  Andress Small Floyd , was a philanthropist, who founded the Self-Master Colony.-Biography:He was born on June 7, 1873 in Saco, Maine to Ephriam Hicks Floyd and Olive Small. In 1899 he married Alice D. Hart. He died on January 10, 1933 in Union, New Jersey.-References:...
  
   of the Self-Masters Colony
  Self-Masters Colony
  The Self-Master Colony was an experiment in housing the homeless in Union Township, Union County, New Jersey. A lengthy article about it was published in the December 9, 1911 issue of Literary Digest magazine.-History:...
  
  
• Bubba Floyd
  Bubba Floyd
  Leslie Roe "Bubba" Floyd was a Major League Baseball shortstop who played in three games for the Detroit Tigers in 1944. The 26-year-old rookie stood 5'11" and weighed 160 lbs....
  
   (1917–2000), American baseball player
• Carlisle Floyd
  Carlisle Floyd
  Carlisle Floyd is an American opera composer. The son of a Methodist minister, he based many of his works on themes from the South...
  
   (born 1926), American opera composer
• Charles Floyd (disambiguation), several people
• Cliff Floyd
  Cliff Floyd
  Cornelius Clifford Floyd, Jr. is a former Major League Baseball outfielder.-Early years:Floyd was born to parents Cornelius Clifford Floyd, Sr. and Olivia Floyd. After spending 13 years as an only child, Floyd was joined by brother Julius...
  
  , Retired American Major League Baseball players
• Darrell Floyd (~1933–2000), American college basketball player
• Eddie Floyd
  Eddie Floyd
  Eddie Lee Floyd is an American soul/R&B singer and songwriter, best known for his work on the Stax record label in the 1960s and 1970s and the song "Knock on Wood".-Biography:...
  
  , an R&B/soul singer-songwriter
• Elson S. Floyd, president, Washington State University
  Washington State University
  Washington State University is a public research university based in Pullman, Washington, in the Palouse region of the Pacific Northwest. Founded in 1890, WSU is the state's original and largest land-grant university...
  
  
• George Rogers Clark Floyd
  George Rogers Clark Floyd
  George Rogers Clark Floyd was a West Virginia politician and businessman. He served as the Secretary of Wisconsin Territory from 1843 to 1846, and served in the West Virginia House of Delegates from 1872 to 1873....
  
  , American politician
• James Floyd (disambiguation), several people
• John Floyd (disambiguation), several people
• Keith Floyd
  Keith Floyd
  Keith Floyd was a British celebrity chef, television personality and restaurateur, who hosted cooking shows for the BBC and published many books combining cookery and travel...
  
   (1943-2009), British chef
• Malcolm Floyd (born 1972), retired American football player
• Malcom Floyd
  Malcom Floyd
  Malcom Floyd is an American football wide receiver for the San Diego Chargers of the National Football League. He was signed by the Chargers as an undrafted free agent in 2004. He played college football at Wyoming...
  
   (born 1981), American football player
• Leela Floyd
  Leela Floyd
  Leela Floyd is the author of Indian Music , published by Oxford University Press in 1980.-Early life:Born in Singapore as Leela Charles, she went to school in India and the UK. In 1958, her parents took her on a journey across the world by car from Southern India to England...
  
  , musician and artist
• Pretty Boy Floyd
  Pretty Boy Floyd
  Charles Arthur "Pretty Boy" Floyd was an American bank robber. He operated in the West South Central States, and his criminal exploits gained heavy press coverage in the 1930s. Like most other prominent outlaws of that era, he was killed by law enforcement officers...
  
   (1904–1934), American bank robber
• Raymond Floyd
  Raymond Floyd
  Raymond Loran "Ray" Floyd is an American professional golfer who has won numerous tournaments on both the PGA Tour and Champions Tour....
  
   (born 1942), American golfer
• Robert Floyd
  Robert Floyd
  Robert W Floyd was an eminent computer scientist.His contributions include the design of the Floyd–Warshall algorithm , which efficiently finds all shortest paths in a graph, Floyd's cycle-finding algorithm for detecting cycles in a sequence, and his work on parsing...
  
   (1936–2001), computer scientist
• Sleepy Floyd
  Sleepy Floyd
  Eric Augustus "Sleepy" Floyd is a retired American professional basketball player.A 6'3" guard, Floyd played competitively at Hunter Huss High School in Gastonia, and starred at Georgetown University before being drafted by the New Jersey Nets with the 13th pick of the 1982 NBA Draft...
  
   (born 1960), American professional basketball player
• Stanley Floyd
  Stanley Floyd
  Stanley Floyd is a retired track and field sprinter from the United States. Floyd attended the University of Houston and is perhaps best known for ranking first globally in the 100 metres during 1980. He was also the 1980 US champion in the men's 100 metres...
  
   (born 1961), American track and field sprinter
• William Floyd, Retired American football fullback
• William Floyd
  William Floyd
  William Floyd was a signer of the United States Declaration of Independence as a U.S. Representative from New York.-Biography:...
  
   (1734–1821), American signer of the Declaration of Independence as a representative of New York

People with the given name Floyd

• Floyd Abrams
  Floyd Abrams
  Floyd Abrams is an American attorney at Cahill Gordon & Reindel. He is an expert on constitutional law, and many arguments in the briefs he has written before the United States Supreme Court have been adopted as United States Constitutional interpretative law as it relates to the First Amendment...
  
   (born 1936), American attorney
• Floyd Collins
  Floyd Collins
  William Floyd Collins was a celebrated pioneer cave explorer in central Kentucky, an area that is the location of hundreds of miles of interconnected caves, including the Mammoth Cave National Park...
  
   (1887 - 1925), American pioneer caver
• Floyd Council
  Floyd Council
  Floyd Council was an American blues guitarist and singer. He became a well-known practitioner of the Piedmont blues sound from that area, popular throughout the southeastern region of the US in the 1930s....
  
   (1911–1976), American blues musician
• Floyd Cramer
  Floyd Cramer
  Floyd Cramer was an American Hall of Fame pianist who was one of the architects of the "Nashville sound." He popularized the "slip note" piano style where an out-of-tune note slides effortlessly into the correct note...
  
  , American pianist
• Floyd Favors
  Floyd Favors
  Floyd Favors is a retired boxer from the United States. He is best known for winning the amateur world title in the men's bantamweight division in 1982....
  
   (born 1963), American boxer
• Floyd Gadd, Canadian singer/soloist
• Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink
  Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink
  Jerrel Hasselbaink usually known as Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink is a Dutch former football striker who played for various clubs in the Netherlands, Portugal, England, and Spain, as well as the Dutch national team. He scored more than 200 career goals...
  
   (born 1972), Suriname-born Dutch footballer
• Floyd Heard
  Floyd Heard
  Floyd Wayne Heard is a retired track and field sprinter from the United States, best known for setting the 1986 world's best year performance in the men's 200 metres. He did so on 1986-07-07 at a meet in Moscow, Soviet Union, clocking 20.12...
  
   (born 1966), American track and field sprinter
• Floyd Landis
  Floyd Landis
  Floyd Landis is an American retired cyclist who after initially being awarded victory in the 2006 Tour de France was stripped of his title for a doping offense. He was an all-around rider, with special skills in climbing and time-trialing, and is also known to be a very fast descender.Landis...
  
   (born 1975), American cyclist
• Floyd Mayweather Jr.
  Floyd Mayweather Jr.
  Floyd Joy Mayweather, Jr. is an American professional boxer. He is a five-division world champion, where he has won seven world titles, as well as the lineal championship in three different weight classes...
  
   (born 1977), American five-division boxing champion
• Floyd Mayweather Sr.
  Floyd Mayweather Sr.
  Floyd Mayweather, Sr. is an American boxing trainer. A welterweight contender during the 1970s and 1980s, he recently returned to action in 2011 capturing the UBF title. Floyd Sr. is known for his defensive ability and overall knowledge of boxing strategy. He is the father and former trainer of...
  
  , American welterweight boxer and trainer
• Floyd B. Olson
  Floyd B. Olson
  Floyd Bjørnstjerne Olson was an American politician. He served as the 22nd Governor of Minnesota from January 6, 1931 to August 22, 1936. He died in office from stomach cancer. He was a member of the Minnesota Farmer-Labor Party, and was the first member of the Farmer-Labor Party to win the...
  
   (1891–1936), Governor of Minnesota
• Floyd Patterson
  Floyd Patterson
  Floyd Patterson was an American heavyweight boxer and former undisputed heavyweight champion. At 21, Patterson became the youngest man to win the world heavyweight title. He was also the first heavyweight boxer to regain the title. He had a record of 55 wins 8 losses and 1 draw, with 40 wins by...
  
   (1935–2006), two-time heavyweight boxing champion
• Floyd D. Rose, inventor of Floyd Rose guitar bridge
• Floyd Vivino
  Floyd Vivino
  Floyd Vivino aka "Uncle Floyd" is a television, film, and stage performer primarily known for his comedy/variety TV show The Uncle Floyd Show .-The Uncle Floyd Show:...
  
   (born 1951), American comedian known as Uncle Floyd

Fictional people

• Heywood Floyd, fictional character in the Space Odyssey series by Arthur C. Clarke
• Floyd Lawson
  Floyd Lawson
  Floyd Lawson was a fictional character on the American TV sitcom The Andy Griffith Show, which was inspired by a real barber in Andy Griffith's real-life hometown of Mt. Airy, North Carolina named Russell Hiatt who actually cut Andy Griffith's hair on a regular basis while Andy was young and living...
  
  , fictional barber from The Andy Griffith Show
• Sally Floyd
  Sally Floyd
  Sally Floyd is a fictional character that appears in comic books published by Marvel Comics. The character first appeared in Generation M #1 Sally Floyd is a fictional character that appears in comic books published by Marvel Comics. The character first appeared in Generation M #1 Sally Floyd is a...
  
  , fictional reporter in the Marvel Comics universe
• Floyd Pepper, a puppet character of TV series The Muppet Show
  The Muppet Show
  The Muppet Show is a British television programme produced by American puppeteer Jim Henson and featuring Muppets. After two pilot episodes were produced in 1974 and 1975, the show premiered on 5 September 1976 and five series were produced until 15 March 1981, lasting 120 episodes...
  
  
• Pink Floyd (fictional character)
  Pink Floyd (fictional character)
  Floyd Pinkerton, more commonly known as Pink Floyd, is the fictional central character of Pink Floyd's album/rock opera The Wall and the accompanying film Pink Floyd The Wall , in which he is portrayed by Bob Geldof. He is also mentioned in The Final Cut...
  
  , main character from the Pink Floyd
  Pink Floyd
  Pink Floyd were an English rock band that achieved worldwide success with their progressive and psychedelic rock music. Their work is marked by the use of philosophical lyrics, sonic experimentation, innovative album art, and elaborate live shows. Pink Floyd are one of the most commercially...
  
   album The Wall
  The Wall
  The Wall is the eleventh studio album by English progressive rock group Pink Floyd. Released as a double album on 30 November 1979, it was subsequently performed live with elaborate theatrical effects, and adapted into a feature film, Pink Floyd—The Wall.As with the band's previous three...
  
  

Others

• Floyd-Warshall algorithm
  Floyd-Warshall algorithm
  In computer science, the Floyd–Warshall algorithm is a graph analysis algorithm for finding shortest paths in a weighted graph and also for finding transitive closure of a relation R...
  
  , graph shortest-path algorithm
• Floyd Rose
  Floyd Rose
  The Floyd Rose Locking Tremolo, or simply Floyd Rose, is a type of locking vibrato arm for a guitar. The first of its kind, Floyd D. Rose invented the locking vibrato in 1977, and it is now manufactured by a company of the same name...
  
  , guitar manufacturing company
• Hurricane Floyd
  Hurricane Floyd
  Hurricane Floyd was the sixth named storm, fourth hurricane, and third major hurricane in the 1999 Atlantic hurricane season. Floyd triggered the third largest evacuation in US history when 2.6 million coastal residents of five states were ordered from their homes as it approached...
  
  , major hurricane of 1999
• Tropical Storm Floyd, for other storms named Floyd
• Pink Floyd
  Pink Floyd
  Pink Floyd were an English rock band that achieved worldwide success with their progressive and psychedelic rock music. Their work is marked by the use of philosophical lyrics, sonic experimentation, innovative album art, and elaborate live shows. Pink Floyd are one of the most commercially...
  
  , English progressive rock band
• Pretty Boy Floyd (band), American band
• Floyd of Rosedale
  Floyd of Rosedale
  Floyd of Rosedale is the name of a bronze pig trophy that is awarded to the winner of the annual college football game between the Universities of Iowa and Minnesota...
  
  , bronze trophy awarded to the winner of each college football game between Iowa and Minnesota
• Floyd (horse)
  Floyd (horse)
  Floyd was an English bred and English trained National Hunt racehorse sired by Relko. The horse was named after the english progressive rock band Pink Floyd....
  
   - a National Hunt
  National Hunt racing
  National Hunt racing is the official name given to the sport of horse racing in the United Kingdom, France and Ireland in which the horses are required to jump over obstacles called hurdles or fences...
  
   racehorse
• "Floyd
  Floyd (30 Rock)
  "Floyd" is the sixteenth episode of the fourth season of the American television comedy series 30 Rock, and the 74th overall episode of the series. It was written by series producer Paula Pell, and directed by Millicent Shelton. The episode originally aired on the National Broadcasting Company ...
  
  ," a 2010 episode of the sitcom 30 Rock
• "Floyd" - Lynyrd Skynyrd
  Lynyrd Skynyrd
  Lynyrd Skynyrd is an American rock band prominent in spreading Southern Rock during the 1970s.Originally formed as the "Noble Five" in Jacksonville, Florida, in 1964, the band rose to worldwide recognition on the basis of its driving live performances and signature tune, Freebird...
  
   (American rock band) song from God & Guns
  God & Guns
  -Personnel:*Johnny Van Zant – lead vocals*Daniel Maguire - guitars*Gary Rossington – guitars*Rickey Medlocke – guitars, backing vocals*Mark Matejka – guitars, backing vocals*Ean Evans – bass, backing vocals*Robert Kearns – bass, backing vocals...
  
  album