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Taylor is an occupational surname of English

England

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origin. Listed here are notable people who share this surname. For fictional characters with the name, see the Fictional characters section of the Taylor article.

Sports

Alan Taylor (footballer born 1953) (born 1953), English football player
Angelo Taylor
Angelo Taylor
Angelo F. Taylor is an American athlete, winner of 400 m hurdles at the 2000 and 2008 Summer Olympics....

(born 1978), American Olympic athlete
Brian Taylor (cricketer)
Brian Taylor (cricketer)
Brian Taylor, born at West Ham on 19 June 1932, was a cricketer who played for and captained Essex.Known as "Tonker" Taylor for his forthright approach to batting and his evident enjoyment of the game, Taylor was a high-class wicketkeeper who was thought of in his early playing days as a potential...

(born 1932), English cricketer
Chuck Taylor (salesman)
Chuck Taylor (salesman)
Charles Hollis "Chuck" Taylor was an American basketball player and shoe salesman/evangelist. He is best known for his association with the Chuck Taylor All-Stars sneaker, the most successful selling basketball shoe in history...

(1901–1969), basketball player and sneaker pioneer
Charles Asampong Taylor
Charles Asampong Taylor
Kweku Charles Bismark Taylor Asampong is a Ghanaian football player who currently plays for Bechem Chelsea...

(born 1981), Ghanaian football player
Danielle Taylor (footballer) (20th century), New Zealand international football (soccer) player
David Taylor (English cricketer)
David Taylor (English cricketer)
David Kenneth Taylor is an English cricketer. He was born in Oxford.Taylor played for Hampshire's Second XI in 1993 at the age of 18, and the following year captained a National Association of Young Cricketers side against Minor Counties. He had a further outing for Gloucestershire seconds in...

(born 1974)
David Taylor (footballer born 1965), former Welsh footballer
David Taylor (snooker player)
David Taylor (snooker player)
David Taylor is a semi-retired English professional snooker player. He won the World and English Amateur Championships in 1968, before the success of those wins encouraged him to turn professional. Although an excellent player, Taylor never quite reached the very top of the game...

(born 1943), snooker player
David Taylor (Scottish football)
David Taylor (Scottish football)
David Taylor is the joint General Secretary of the UEFA.Taylor was appointed to this role on June 1, 2007 after the UEFA extraordinary congress in Zurich on May 29, 2007 voted to replace the role of Chief Executive with that of General Secretary...

(born 1954), General Secretary of UEFA
David Taylor (wrestler)
David Taylor (wrestler)
David Taylor is an English professional wrestler best known for his time in World Championship Wrestling and World Wrestling Entertainment...

(born 1957), English pro wrestler
David Taylor (rugby league)
David Taylor (rugby league)
Dave Taylor is an Australian professional rugby league footballer for the South Sydney Rabbitohs of the National Rugby League...

(born 1988), Australian rugby league footballer
Dave Taylor (soccer) (20th century), New Zealand international football (soccer) player
Dave Taylor (ice hockey) (born 1955), retired professional hockey player
Dave Taylor (Thames Ironworks F.C. founder)
Dave Taylor (Thames Ironworks F.C. founder)
Dave Taylor was one of the co-founders of Thames Ironworks F.C., the team that became West Ham United F.C., in 1895.He was a foreman at the Thames Iron Works as well as being a local football referee....

(19th century), English ironworker & footballer
Dennis Taylor
Dennis Taylor
Dennis Taylor is a retired snooker player, and current BBC snooker commentator. Winner of two ranking events, he is best known for winning the 1985 World Championship, beating World number one Steve Davis on the final black in one of the sport's most memorable finals...

, (born 1949), Northern Irish snooker player
Dick Taylor (football manager)
Dick Taylor (football manager)
Richard Eric "Dick" Taylor was an English professional footballer who made 167 appearances in the Football League playing as a centre half for Grimsby Town and Scunthorpe United...

(fl.
Floruit
Floruit , abbreviated fl. , is a Latin verb meaning "flourished", denoting the period of time during which something was active...

1960s), English former manager of Aston Villa F.C.
Dick Taylor (Australian rules footballer)
Dick Taylor (Australian rules footballer)
Richard 'Dick' Taylor was an Australian rules footballer who played for Melbourne and North Melbourne in the Victorian Football League ....

(born 1901)
Fred Taylor (American football) (born 1976), American NFL running back
Fred Taylor (basketball player) (born 1948), American former NBA player
Frederick "Cyclone" Taylor
Cyclone Taylor
Frederick Wellington "Cyclone" Taylor, OBE, was a Canadian professional ice hockey player and civil servant. Taylor was one of the earliest professional players. He played professionally for the Portage Lakes Hockey Club, the Ottawa Hockey Club and the Vancouver Millionaires from 1905 to 1923...

(1884-1970), Canadian ice hockey forward
Fred Taylor (basketball coach)
Fred Taylor (basketball coach)
Frederick Rankin Taylor was a college men's basketball coach for The Ohio State University from 1959 to 1976.-College career:...

(1924-2002), American collage basketball coach
Fred Taylor (football coach)
Fred Taylor (football coach)
Fred Taylor was an American football coach. He served as head coach at Texas Christian University from 1967-1970. Taylor compiled a 15–25–1 overall, and was fired after the 1970 season....

, American college football coach at Texas Christian University
Fred Taylor (footballer)
Fred Taylor (footballer)
Fred Taylor was an English footballer who played for Gainsborough Trinity and Chelsea. He was a reliable right half back who worked hard and liked to move up the field during attacks.-Club career:...

, English footballer, played for Chelsea, 1909-1919
Gary Taylor-Fletcher
Gary Taylor-Fletcher
Gary Taylor-Fletcher is an English footballer. He plays for Blackpool and is a midfielder who can also play as a forward...

, English footballer, playing for Blackpool F.C.
Blackpool F.C.
Blackpool Football Club are an English football club founded in 1887 from the Lancashire seaside town of Blackpool. They are competing in the 2011–12 season of the The Championship, the second tier of professional football in England, having been relegated from the Premier League at the end of the...
George Taylor (baseball)
George Taylor (baseball)
George J. Taylor was the city editor of James Gordon Bennett's New York Herald. He noticed that his readers had a craving for baseball news. Together with Charles Byrne and Joseph Doyle they decided to form a team in Brooklyn to compete in the new Inter-State Association of Professional Baseball...

(1853–1911), American Brooklyn Dodgers player
Herbie Taylor
Herbie Taylor
Herbert Wilfred Taylor MC was a South African cricketer who played 42 Tests for his country including 18 as captain of the side. Specifically a batsman, he was an expert on the matting pitches which were prevalent in South Africa at the time and scored six of his seven centuries at home...

(1889–1973), South African cricketer
Ian Taylor
Ian Taylor (footballer)
Ian Kenneth Taylor is an English former footballer, best known for his time at Aston Villa. A midfielder, he had a fifteen year career in the Football League and Premier League, making 478 league appearances....

(born 1968), English footballer, played for Aston Villa
Ian Taylor (field hockey) (born 1954), English gold medalist at 1988 Seoul Olympics
Jack Taylor (19th century baseball player)
Jack Taylor (19th century baseball player)
John Besson "Brewery Jack" Taylor was a baseball player in the National League from 1891 to 1899. He is often confused with John W. "Jack" Taylor, who also played in the NL during an overlapping period...

(1873-1900)
Jack Taylor (20th century baseball player)
Jack Taylor (20th century baseball player)
John W. "Jack" Taylor was an award-winning right-handed pitcher in Major League Baseball for the Chicago Cubs baseball team.He was born in New Straitsville, Ohio.- Career :...

(1874-1938), Chicago Cubs pitcher
Jack Taylor (footballer)
Jack Taylor (footballer)
John "Jack" Taylor was an English footballer who became a manager.-Career:Taylor was a full-back who started his playing career with Wolverhampton Wanderers in 1931. He made his senior debut on 1 February 1936 in a 0-5 loss at Brentford...

(1914-1978), English footballer and football manager
Jack Taylor (Scottish footballer)
Jack Taylor (Scottish footballer)
Jack Taylor was a Scottish professional footballer.Born in Dumbarton in 1872, Taylor started off his career at local club Dumbarton F.C. before moving to play for St Mirren. In 1896 Taylor was signed by English club Everton whee he played in a number of positions...

(1872-after 1910), Everton F.C. player
Jack Taylor (referee)
Jack Taylor (referee)
John Keith "Jack" Taylor is an English former football referee, famous for officiating in the 1974 FIFA World Cup Final where he awarded two penalties during the first 30 minutes.-Refereeing career:...

(born 1930), English football referee for the 1974 World Cup Final
Jeff Taylor (basketball)
Jeff Taylor (basketball)
Jeff Taylor is a retired American professional basketball player who played for three years at Texas Tech University, before being drafted by the Houston Rockets in the 1982 NBA Draft...

(born 1960), American basketball player
Jeff Taylor (footballer)
Jeff Taylor (footballer)
Jeffrey Neilson "Jeff" Taylor was a professional footballer, who played for Huddersfield Town, Fulham and Brentford.His younger brother, Ken Taylor also played football for Huddersfield...

(1930–2010), English footballer for several clubs
Jeffery Taylor
Jeffery Taylor
Jeffery Matthew Taylor is a Swedish basketball player currently in his senior season at Vanderbilt University. A 6'7" swingman, he was rated by the NBA Draft projection site DraftExpress.com in August 2011 as the top rising senior in college basketball and a late first-round pick in the 2012 NBA...

(born 1989), Swedish basketball player; son of basketball player Jeff Taylor
Jermain Taylor
Jermain Taylor
Jermain Taylor is an American professional boxer and former undisputed middleweight champion. He made his professional boxing debut in 2001 and won his first 25 bouts, which included victories over former champions Raúl Márquez and William Joppy...

(born 1978), American boxer, former undisputed middleweight champion of the world
Jim Taylor (American football) (born 1935), Green Bay Packers player
Candy Jim Taylor
Candy Jim Taylor
James Allen "Candy Jim" Taylor was an American third baseman and manager in Negro league baseball.-Biography:Born in Anderson, South Carolina, Taylor was one of four brothers who played in the Negro Leagues, along with Ben, C. I. and "Steel Arm" Johnny...

(1884–1948), American Negro league baseball player and manager
Johnathan Taylor (American football player)
Johnathan Taylor (American football player)
Johnathan Ryan Taylor is a former American football defensive end in the National Football League. He was drafted out of Montana State University in the fourth round of the 2002 NFL Draft by the Detroit Lions...

(born 1979)
Kris Taylor
Kris Taylor
Kris Taylor is an English footballer who plays for Conference National side Darlington.Never making the first team at Manchester United, he spent over three seasons at Walsall, after signing in February 2003. He spent two seasons at Hereford United from 2007 to 2009, before moving on to Port Vale...

(born 1984), English footballer
Lindsay Taylor
Lindsay Taylor
Lindsay Corine Taylor is an American professional basketball player and a former college player who has played in the Women's National Basketball Association , Turkish Women's Basketball League, Ligue Féminine de Basketball , the WKBL, Polish Women's League, and the Women's Chinese Basketball...

(born 1981), American basketball player
Lorraine Taylor
Lorraine Taylor
Lorraine Robin Taylor is a former association football player who represented New Zealand at international level.Taylor made her Football Ferns debut in a 0–2 loss to Australia on 26 March 1989 and ended her international career with 22 caps to her credit.Taylor represented New Zealand at the...

(born 1961), New Zealand international football (soccer) player
Maik Taylor
Maik Taylor
Maik Stefan Taylor is a professional footballer who plays for Leeds United and is a former Northern Ireland international....

, German-British association football goalkeeper
Mary "Peta" Taylor (1914-1989), English cricketer
Matthew Taylor (footballer)
Matthew Taylor (footballer)
Matthew Simon "Matty" Taylor is an English footballer who plays for West Ham United. He is noted for his powerful long-range strikes.-Early career:...

(born 1981), English football player, currently playing in the Premier League for Bolton Wanderers
Matt Taylor (footballer)
Matt Taylor (footballer)
Matthew James Taylor is an English footballer who plays for Charlton Athletic.-Early career as a goalkeeper:Taylor began his career as a goalkeeper playing for Preston North End Boys before being a member of the Everton U17 Academy. He joined Burscough and, alongside brother Joe, played in the...

(born 1982), English football player, currently playing for Exeter City F.C.
Matt Taylor (American soccer player) (born 1981), American soccer player
Megan Taylor
Megan Taylor
Megan Devenish Taylor was a British figure skater competitive in the 1930s. She won the World Championships in 1938 and 1939.She was born in Rochdale and died in Jamaica...

(1920–1993), British Olympic speed skater
Natalie Taylor (born 1984), New Zealand Basketball player
Orville Taylor
Orville Taylor
Orville Taylor is a retired male sprinter from Jamaica. He claimed a silver medal at the 1995 Pan American Games in Mar del Plata, Argentina in the men's 4x400 metres relay, alongside Dennis Blake, Roxbert Martin, and Michael McDonald...

(born 1970), Jamaican track and field sprinter
Persis Goodale Thurston Taylor
Persis Goodale Thurston Taylor
Persis Goodale Thurston Taylor was a painter and sketch artist who was born in Kailua-Kona, Hawaii on September 28, 1821. Her parents, Reverend Asa Thurston and Lucy Goodale Thurston , were in the first company of American Christian missionaries to the Hawaiian Islands...

(1821-1906), American/Hawaiian painter and sketch artist
Phil Taylor (born 1960), English darts player, 15 time world champion
Phil Taylor (footballer)
Phil Taylor (footballer)
Philip Henry Taylor is an ex-English footballer who played for and managed Liverpool.-Player:Phil Taylor played for his hometown club Bristol Rovers as an apprentice before he was signed by Liverpool manager George Patterson for £5000 plus Ted Hartill in March 1936, he made his debut on the 28th...

(born 1917), English footballer and former manager of Liverpool FC
Rhys Taylor
Rhys Taylor
Rhys Francis Taylor is a Welsh goalkeeper for Chelsea. He attended Glan Afan Comprehensive School, Port Talbot and then moved to Richard Challoner School, New Malden.-Club career:...

(born 1990), Welsh footballer
Rob Taylor (footballer)
Rob Taylor (footballer)
Robert James "Rob" Taylor is an English footballer who plays for League Two side Port Vale. He plays on the left flank and is known for his pace and dribbling ability....

(born 1985), English footballer
Sarah Taylor (cricketer)
Sarah Taylor (cricketer)
Sarah Jane Taylor is an English cricketer. She is a wicketkeeper-batsman known for her free flowing stroke play, opening the batting in one day matches and batting in the middle order in Tests. She was a member of the England team which retained the Ashes in Australia in 2008. She plays county...

(born 1989), English cricketer
Sarah Taylor (tennis)
Sarah Taylor (tennis)
Sarah Taylor is a tennis coach and former professional American tennis player from New York City. Her highest ranking was World No. 68 on March 31, 2003....

(born 1981), American tennis player
Sean Taylor
Sean Taylor
Sean Michael Maurice Taylor was an American football free safety who played for the Washington Redskins of the National Football League. Taylor was drafted in the first round of the 2004 NFL Draft by the Redskins...

(1983-2007), American football player
Shaun Taylor
Shaun Taylor
Shaun Taylor is an English former professional footballer who made more than 500 appearances in the Football League and Premier League, playing for Exeter City, Swindon Town and Bristol City.Taylor was born in Plymouth...

(born 1963), British footballer
Steven Taylor (footballer)
Steven Taylor (footballer)
Steven Vincent Taylor is an English footballer, currently playing for Premier League club Newcastle United. He is a versatile central defender who can play at right back or, on rare occasions, at left back...

(born 1986), British footballer for Newcastle United
Zac Taylor
Zac Taylor
Zac Taylor in an American football quarterback. From 2005 to 2006, he was the starting quarterback for Cornhuskers football team at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln. He was recruited late in the 2004-2005 off-season by the Huskers, being a described "lucky break" due to the Huskers lack of...

, American football quarterback for the Winnipeg Blue Bombers

Liberal arts and sciences

A. J. P. Taylor
A. J. P. Taylor
Alan John Percivale Taylor, FBA was a British historian of the 20th century and renowned academic who became well known to millions through his popular television lectures.-Early life:...

(1906–1990), English historian
Alan D. Taylor
Alan D. Taylor
Alan Dana Taylor is a mathematician who, with Steven Brams, solved the problem of envy-free fair division for an arbitrary number of people with the Brams–Taylor procedure.Taylor received his Ph.D...

(20th century), mathematician
Alfred Edward Taylor
Alfred Edward Taylor
Alfred Edward Taylor was a British idealist philosopher most famous for his contributions to the philosophy of idealism in his writings on metaphysics, the philosophy of religion, moral philosophy, and the scholarship of Plato. He was a fellow of the British Academy and president of the...

(1869–1945), British philosopher
Bert Leston Taylor
Bert Leston Taylor
Bert Leston Taylor was an American columnist, humorist, poet, and author.Bert Leston Taylor became a journalist at seventeen, a librettist at twenty-one, and a successfully published author at thirty-five...

(1866–1921) American columnist, humorist, poet, and author
Brook Taylor
Brook Taylor
Brook Taylor FRS was an English mathematician who is best known for Taylor's theorem and the Taylor series.- Life and work :...

(1685–1731), English mathematician
Charles Taylor (philosopher)
Charles Taylor (philosopher)
Charles Margrave Taylor, is a Canadian philosopher from Montreal, Quebec best known for his contributions in political philosophy, the philosophy of social science, and in the history of philosophy. His contributions to these fields have earned him both the prestigious Kyoto Prize and the...

(born 1931), Canadian philosopher
Dwight Willard Taylor
Dwight Willard Taylor
Dwight Willard Taylor was an American malacologist and paleontologist, a researcher on mollusks. His undergraduate work was at the University of California, Berkeley and his PhD was from Harvard University....

(1932–2006, American malacologist
Edward Taylor
Edward Taylor
Edward Taylor was a colonial American poet, pastor and physician.-Early life:...

(ca. 1642–1729), colonial American poet, physician, and pastor
Edward Burnett Taylor (1832–1917), British anthropologist
F. Jay Taylor
F. Jay Taylor
Foster Jay Taylor, known as F. Jay Taylor , was a historian who served from 1962 to 1987 as the president of Louisiana Tech University in Ruston in Lincoln Parish in north Louisiana...

(born 1923), former university president
F. Sherwood Taylor
F. Sherwood Taylor
Dr Frank Sherwood Taylor, PhD was a British historian of science, museum curator, and chemist who was Director of the Science Museum in London, England....

(1897–1956), British historian of science and museum curator
Fred M. Taylor
Fred M. Taylor
Fred Manville Taylor was a U.S. economist and educator best known for his contribution to the theory of market socialism. He taught mostly history at Albion College from 1879 to 1892. He taught in the department of economics at University of Michigan from 1892 to 1929 after receiving his Ph.D. in...

(1855–1932), American economist
Frederick Taylor (historian)
Frederick Taylor (historian)
Frederick Taylor is a British historian and author of such works as Dresden: Tuesday, February 13, 1945 about the bombing of Dresden in World War II....

, British historian
Geoffrey Ingram Taylor
Geoffrey Ingram Taylor
Sir Geoffrey Ingram Taylor OM was a British physicist, mathematician and expert on fluid dynamics and wave theory. His biographer and one-time student, George Batchelor, described him as "one of the most notable scientists of this century".-Biography:Taylor was born in St. John's Wood, London...

(1886–1975), British physicist and mathematician
George Ledwell Taylor
George Ledwell Taylor
George Ledwell Taylor was an architect and landowner who lived in London.-Life:George Ledwell Taylor was born on 31 March 1788 and educated at Rawes's academy, Bromley. He became a pupil of the architect James Burton, and on Burton's retirement, of Joseph Parkinson , who was then engaged in laying...

(1788–1873), English architect
George W. Taylor (professor)
George W. Taylor (professor)
George W. Taylor was a notable professor of industrial relations at the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, and is credited with founding the academic field of study known as industrial relations. He served in several capacities in the federal government, most notably as a mediator...

(1901–1972), American academic and labor mediator
Jill Bolte Taylor
Jill Bolte Taylor
Jill Bolte Taylor is a neuroanatomist who specializes in the postmortem investigation of the human brain. She is affiliated with the Indiana University School of Medicine and is the national spokesperson for the Harvard Brain Tissue Resource Center...

(born 1959), American neuroanatomist
Richard Taylor (mathematician)
Richard Taylor (mathematician)
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(born 1962), British mathematician
Ruth Taylor (poet) (1961–2006), Canadian poet, editor and college professor

Politics

Alfred A. Taylor
Alfred A. Taylor
Alfred Alexander Taylor, nickname Alf Taylor , was a lawyer and politician, serving as United States Congressman from 1889–1895, and later elected the Governor of Tennessee, serving from 1921 to 1923. Notably, in 1886 he lost the gubernatorial race to his younger brother Robert, a Democrat.- Early...

, governor and U.S. Representative from Tennessee
Casper R. Taylor, Jr.
Casper R. Taylor, Jr.
Casper R. Taylor, Jr. served as Speaker of the Maryland House of Delegates from 1994–2003, the longest recorded Speaker's tenure in Maryland history.-Education:...

(born 1934), Maryland politician
Charles Ghankay Taylor (born 1948), former President of Liberia
David Taylor (British politician)
David Taylor (British politician)
David Leslie Taylor was an English Labour Co-operative politician, who was the Member of Parliament for North West Leicestershire from 1997 until his death in 2009.-Biography:...

, UK politician
Dave Taylor (Canadian politician), Alberta politician
David James Taylor
David James Taylor
David James Taylor was an Ontario farmer and political figure. He represented Grey North in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1919 to 1934 as a Liberal-United Farmers, United Farmers, Progressive and finally Liberal-Progressive member.He was born in Keppel Township, Ontario, the son of...

, Ontario politician
Dean P. Taylor
Dean P. Taylor
Dean Park Taylor served as a United States Congressman from New York for nearly 20 years and came from a family long involved in public service to New York. Taylor was born in Troy, Rensselaer County, N.Y., on January 1, 1902, and attended the Troy public schools, Colgate University, Hamilton, N.Y...

(1902-1977), American Congressman from New York
Dick Taylor (Iowa politician)
Dick Taylor (Iowa politician)
Richard D. "Dick" Taylor is a former Iowa State Representative from the 53rd and 33rd Districts. He served in the Iowa House of Representatives from 2000 to 2009. He resigned in October 2009 because of family health concerns....

(born 1931), Iowa state senator
Fawcett G. Taylor
Fawcett G. Taylor
Fawcett Gowler Taylor was a Manitoba politician, and was the leader of that province's Conservative Party from 1922 to 1933....

(1878–?), Canadian politician and judge
George Taylor (delegate)
George Taylor (delegate)
George Taylor was a Colonial ironmaster and a signer of the United States Declaration of Independence as a representative of Pennsylvania...

(c. 1716–1781), signer of the U.S. Declaration of Independence
George Taylor (Leeds South) (born 1840), Canadian House of Commons member
George Taylor (New York Representative)
George Taylor (New York Representative)
George Taylor was an American attorney and Democratic politician. He served as a U.S. Representative from New York....

(1820-1894), American Congressman from New York
George Sylvester Taylor
George Sylvester Taylor
George Sylvester Taylor became the first mayor of Chicopee, Massachusetts on January 5, 1891.He was born in Chicopee Falls, Massachusetts, one of ten children of Sylvestor Taylor and Sarah Eaton . He married Asenath Boylston Cobb on November 25, 1845, with whom he had six children...

(1822-1910), American Massachusetts state senator
George W. Taylor
George W. Taylor
George Washington Taylor was a U.S. Representative from Alabama.Born on "Roselawn" plantation near Montgomery, Alabama, Taylor attended private schools....

(1849-1932), American Congressman from Alabama
George William Taylor
George William Taylor
George William Taylor is a former politician in Ontario, Canada. He served in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1977 to 1985, and was a cabinet minister in the government of William Davis...

(born 1937), Canadian Solicitor General
Ian Taylor (born 1945), English politician and member of the Conservative Party
James Madison Taylor
James Madison Taylor
James Madison Taylor, better known as Matt Taylor, was an early settler of southeastern Idaho. He built a toll bridge over the Snake River at Black Rock Canyon. Idaho Falls was eventually established at the site of this bridge...

, aka Matt Taylor (fl.
Floruit
Floruit , abbreviated fl. , is a Latin verb meaning "flourished", denoting the period of time during which something was active...

1868-1886), early Idaho settler and builder of the Taylor bridge in what is now Idaho Falls
Larry Gene Taylor
Larry Gene Taylor
Larry "Gene" Taylor was a Republican politician from Missouri. He was a resident of Shell Knob, Missouri.He was a sixth generation Missourian, and the son of Dorothy Taylor and the late Missouri representative to the United States House of Representatives, Gene Taylor. He was married to Gay...

(1953–2005), American Missouri state senator
Mary Taylor (Ohio politician)
Mary Taylor (Ohio politician)
Mary Taylor is the 65th and current Lieutenant Governor of Ohio.-Early life and business career:Taylor was born in 1961. She attended the Springfield Township school system. She attended the University of Akron, obtaining a Bachelor degree in Accounting and Master's degree in Taxation...

, American politician from Ohio
Matthew Taylor (Labour politician)
Matthew Taylor (Labour politician)
Matthew Taylor is Chief Executive of the Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce in the United Kingdom.-Background:...

(born 1960), Chief Executive of the Royal Society of Arts, formerly advisor to Tony Blair and director of the IPPR
Matthew Taylor (Liberal politician) (born 1963), Cornish Liberal Democrat MP
Sarah Knox Taylor
Sarah Knox Taylor
Sarah Knox Taylor was the daughter of General Zachary Taylor, later President of the United States and Margaret Taylor, and was married to Jefferson Davis before he became President of the Confederate States of America.While living at Prairie du Chien, Wisconsin where her father commanded Fort...

(1814-1835), daughter of US President Zachary Taylor and wife of Jefferson Davis
Steve Taylor (politician)
Steve Taylor (politician)
Steve Taylor was a minor league baseball player and a Delaware politician.A native of Delaware, Taylor played baseball for the University of Delaware. He then played for the Columbus Clippers until he had an arm injury that removed him from baseball....

, Delaware state legislator
Steven W. Taylor
Steven W. Taylor
Steven W. Taylor, , is the Chief Justice of the Oklahoma Supreme Court.-Early life:Steven Taylor was born in Henryetta, Oklahoma. During his high school years at McAlester High School in McAlester, Oklahoma, he served as a student body president and as member of the speech and debate team, and the...

(born 1949), Oklahoma Supreme Court justice
Thomas Wardlaw Taylor
Thomas Wardlaw Taylor
Sir Thomas Wardlaw Taylor was a Canadian lawyer and judge.Born in Auchtermuchty, Scotland, he studied at Edinburgh University, and was admitted to the Upper Canadian bar in 1858. From 1872 to 1883 he was Master of Chancery, and from 1883 to 1887 puisne judge of the Manitoba Court of Queen's Bench...

(1833–1917), Canadian lawyer and judge
Zachary Taylor
Zachary Taylor
Zachary Taylor was the 12th President of the United States and an American military leader. Initially uninterested in politics, Taylor nonetheless ran as a Whig in the 1848 presidential election, defeating Lewis Cass...

(1784–1850), 12th President of the United States

Entertainment

Andy Taylor
Andy Taylor (guitarist)
Andy Taylor is an English guitarist, singer, songwriter, and record producer, best known as a member of Duran Duran and The Power Station....

(born 1961), English guitarist with Duran Duran
Cecil Taylor
Cecil Taylor
Cecil Percival Taylor is an American pianist and poet. Classically trained, Taylor is generally acknowledged as one of the pioneers of free jazz. His music is characterized by an extremely energetic, physical approach, producing complex improvised sounds, frequently involving tone clusters and...

(born 1929), American pianist and poet
Christine Taylor
Christine Taylor
Christine Taylor-Stiller is an American actress.- Early life :Taylor was born in Allentown, Pennsylvania, the daughter of Joan, a homemaker, and Skip Taylor, an owner of a security company. She grew up in neighboring Wescosville, Pennsylvania...

(born 1971), American actress, wife of Ben Stiller
Corey Taylor
Corey Taylor
Corey Todd Taylor sometimes known by the number 8, is an American musician best known as the lead vocalist and lyricist of Slipknot and Stone Sour. Taylor was raised by his single mother. He developed a fond feeling toward classic rock after his grandmother introduced him to it...

(born 1973), American vocalist in Slipknot
Dave D. Taylor
Dave D. Taylor
Dave D. Taylor is an American game programmer, best known as a former id Software employee and noted for his work promoting Linux gaming.In 1993 he graduated from University of Texas at Austin with a Bachelor of Science degree in electrical engineering....

, game programmer formerly employed by id Software
Dean Taylor (musician)
Dean Taylor (musician)
Dean Taylor is an American indie rock guitarist.-The Brian Jonestown Massacre:Taylor is most famous for his work with the neo-psychedelic rock band, The Brian Jonestown Massacre. He was an original member and contributed as a guitarist throughout the band's early career.Taylor was featured in the...

(late 20th century), American rock guitarist
Richard Clifford 'Dick' Taylor
Dick Taylor
Richard Clifford 'Dick' Taylor is an English musician who was an early bass guitarist for The Rolling Stones. He left to become an art student at Sidcup Art College and while there formed The Pretty Things in September 1963...

(born 1943), English musician and early Rolling Stones bassist
Dub Taylor
Dub Taylor
Walter Clarence Taylor, Jr. , better known as Dub Taylor, was an American actor who worked extensively in Westerns, but also in comedy from the 1940s into the 1990s.-Early life:...

(1907-1994), American Actor
Elizabeth Taylor
Elizabeth Taylor
Dame Elizabeth Rosemond "Liz" Taylor, DBE was a British-American actress. From her early years as a child star with MGM, she became one of the great screen actresses of Hollywood's Golden Age...

(1932-2011), English-American actress
Gwen Taylor
Gwen Taylor
Gwen Taylor is an actress who has appeared in many British television programmes, including Z-Cars, Murder Most Horrid, Yes, Prime Minister, Inspector Morse, Midsomer Murders and Belonging...

(born 1939), English actress
Isis Taylor
Isis Taylor
Isis Taylor is the stage name of an American pornographic actress.-Life and career:Taylor entered the adult film industry in 2008 at the age of 19.In November the following year, she was a Hustler Honey....

, (born 1989), American pornographic actress
Jack Taylor (musician)
Jack Taylor (musician)
Jack Taylor was an American musician and member of several popular bands. He was born Richard Violet in Urbana, Ohio.In his early twenties he played guitar with The Gibson Bros and went on to form the Columbus, Ohio, avant-garde noise band Monster Truck Five...

(1965-1997)
Jack Taylor (actor)
Jack Taylor (actor)
Jack Taylor is an American actor. He first relocated to Mexico in the late 1950s/early 1960s, and later to Spain, where he has appeared in many films, mostly horror and cheesy exploitation pictures...

(born 1936), American horror movie actor
Jack Taylor (heavyweight man)
Jack Taylor (heavyweight man)
Jack Taylor was the fattest man in Great Britain.He weighed and had to wear specially made trousers of waist. He became all but a recluse, spending his days simply eating and watching videos, and venturing outside exclusively for hospital appointments...

, (c. 1946–2006), heaviest man in Britain at his death
James Taylor
James Taylor
James Vernon Taylor is an American singer-songwriter and guitarist. A five-time Grammy Award winner, Taylor was inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in 2000....

(born 1948), American singer-songwriter
James "JT" Taylor (born 1953), lead singer of Kool & the Gang
Kool & the Gang
Kool & the Gang are an American jazz, R&B, soul, and funk group, originally formed as the Jazziacs in Jersey City, New Jersey in 1964.They went through several musical phases during the course of their recording career, starting out with a purist jazz sound, then becoming practitioners of R&B and...
Jane Taylor
Jane Taylor (poet)
Jane Taylor , was an English poet and novelist. She wrote the words for the song Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star in 1806 at age 23, while living in Shilling Street, Lavenham, Suffolk....

(1783 - 1824), English poet and novelist, wrote Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star
Janie Taylor, principal dancer for the New York City Ballet
Joanna Taylor
Joanna Taylor
Joanna Taylor , is an English actress and former model.-Career:A former student of the Guildford School of Acting, Joanna Taylor's big break came in 1999, when she won the role of Geri Hudson in Channel 4 teen soap Hollyoaks. She left in 2001, and has since starred in BBC One police drama,...

, (born 1978), English actress and former model
Julia Taylor
Julia Taylor
Julia Taylor is a European adult film actress. She has done many movies for Private Media Group, such as the part of Cleopatra in Private's releases Private Gold #61: Cleopatra and Private Gold #64: Cleopatra #2 – The Legend of Eros.-Awards:*2003 Venus Award – Best Actress *2004 European X Award –...

, (born 1978), Hungarian adult film actress
John Taylor (bass guitarist) (born 1960), British co-founder of Duran Duran
Karen Taylor (comedian)
Karen Taylor (comedian)
Karen Taylor is an English actress and comedian. She is a former finalist in the prestigious Daily Telegraph Open Mic Award and has fronted her own sketch show on BBC Three, entitled Touch Me, I'm Karen Taylor.Taylor studied Theatre Studies at the University of Warwick 1994-1998, where she got to...

(born 1979), British comedienne
Koko Taylor
Koko Taylor
Koko Taylor sometimes spelled KoKo Taylor was an American Chicago blues musician, popularly known as the "Queen of the Blues." She was known primarily for her rough, powerful vocals and traditional blues stylings....

(1928-2009), American singer
Larry Taylor
Larry Taylor
Larry Taylor is an American bass guitarist, best known for his work as a member of Canned Heat from 1967. Before joining Canned Heat he had been a session bassist for The Monkees and Jerry Lee Lewis...

(born 1942) (aka Samuel Taylor), American bass guitarist
Lili Taylor
Lili Taylor
Lili Anne Taylor is an American actress notable for her appearances in such award-winning indie films as Mystic Pizza, Say Anything..., Short Cuts and I Shot Andy Warhol, and the acclaimed TV show Six Feet Under....

(born 1967), American actress
Maria Taylor
Maria Taylor
Maria Diane Taylor is an American singer/songwriter from Birmingham, Alabama. She is also a member of the duo Azure Ray with Orenda Fink, as well as the band Now It's Overhead, both of which are signed with Saddle Creek Records...

(born 1976), American singer
Niki Taylor
Niki Taylor
Nicole Renee "Niki" Taylor is an American model.-Early life:Taylor was born in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, to Ken and Barbara Taylor, a highway patrol lieutenant and a photographer, respectively. She was raised in Pembroke Pines, Florida, and attended Cooper City High School...

(born 1975), American model and business woman
Noah Taylor
Noah Taylor
Noah George Taylor is an English-born Australian actor.-Early life:Taylor, elder of two boys, was born in London, England, the son of Maggie, a journalist and book editor, and Paul Taylor, a copywriter and journalist. Taylor's Australian parents returned to Australia when he was five, and he grew...

(born 1969), Australian actor
Paul Taylor (choreographer) (born 1930), American dancer and choreographer
R. Dean Taylor
R. Dean Taylor
R. Dean Taylor is a Canadian singer, most famous as a recording artist, songwriter and record producer for Motown Records company during the 1960s and 1970s...

(born 1939), Canadian singer-songwriter
Regina Taylor
Regina Taylor
Regina Taylor is an American actress and playwright. She has won several awards throughout her career, including a Golden Globe Award and NAACP Image Award.-Biography:...

, (born 1960), American actress and playwright
Rip Taylor
Rip Taylor
Charles Elmer "Rip" Taylor, Jr. is an American actor and comedian.-Early life:Taylor was born in Washington, D.C., the son of Elizabeth, a waitress, and Charles Elmer Taylor, Sr., a musician. As a young man, Taylor served in the Korean War while in the U.S...

(born 1934), American actor and comedian
Robert Taylor
Robert Taylor (actor)
Robert Taylor was an American film and television actor.-Early life:Born Spangler Arlington Brugh in Filley, Nebraska, he was the son of Ruth Adaline and Spangler Andrew Brugh, who was a farmer turned doctor...

(1911-1969), American actor
Rod Taylor (born 1932), Australian actor
Rod Taylor (singer)
Rod Taylor (singer)
Rod Taylor is a reggae singer and producer, born in Jamaica, West Indies-Biography:After forming a short-lived group called The Aliens with Barry Brown and Johnny Lee, Taylor recorded his first single, "Bad Man Comes and Goes" in 1975 for Ossie Hibbert...

, (born 1957), Jamaican singer
Roger Taylor, (born 1960), English drummer of Duran Duran
Roger Meddows-Taylor
Roger Meddows-Taylor
Roger Meddows Taylor , known as Roger Taylor, is a British musician, singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist. He is best known as the drummer, backing vocalist and occasional lead vocalist of British rock band Queen. As a drummer he is known for his "big" unique sound and is considered one of...

(born 1949), English drummer with the band Queen
Russi Taylor
Russi Taylor
Russi Taylor is an American voice actress. She is the current voice actress of Disney's Minnie Mouse character. She has held this role since 1986, longer than any other voice actress...

(born 1944), American voice actress
Ruth Taylor (actress)
Ruth Taylor (actress)
Ruth Taylor was an American actress in silent films and early talkies. Her son is the writer Buck Henry.-Early years:Born Ruth Alice Taylor to Norman and Ivah Taylor in Grand Rapids, Michigan...

(1908–1984), American film actress, starred in silent movies
Sarah Taylor (personality)
Sarah Taylor (personality)
- Early life :Taylor is from Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. She studied English and Women's Studies at McMaster University.- Career :She was discovered in the audience for the MuchMusic show MuchOnDemand in 2004, and was asked to be one of the VJs for the channel....

, Canadian television personality
Sean Taylor (musician) (born 1968), Australian guitarist
Sharon Taylor (actress)
Sharon Taylor (actress)
Sharon Taylor is a Canadian actress. She is best known for her role on the television series Stargate Atlantis as Amelia Banks.-Biography:...

, Canadian actress
Steve Taylor
Steve Taylor
Roland Stephen Taylor , is an American Christian singer, songwriter, record producer and film director.-Early life:Taylor, the eldest of three children, was born in Brawley, California. Taylor's father, Roland Taylor, was a Baptist minister. When Taylor was six years old, the family relocated to...

(born 1957), American recording artist and film director
Tiffany Taylor (born 1977), American model
Tim Brooke-Taylor
Tim Brooke-Taylor
Timothy Julian Brooke-Taylor OBE is an English comic actor. He became active in performing in comedy sketches while at Cambridge University, and became President of the Footlights club, touring internationally with the Footlights revue in 1964...

, (born 1940), English comic actor
Veronica Taylor
Veronica Taylor
Veronica Taylor is an American voice actress. Taylor is best known for her dubbing work in English-language anime adaptations, in particular for voicing Ash Ketchum in the English dub of the Japanese anime, Pokémon....

(born 1978), American voice actress
Taylor is the family name in the television show Home Improvement

Business

E.P. Taylor (1901–1989), Canadian businessman & horse breeder
Frank Taylor
Francis Taylor, Baron Taylor of Hadfield
Francis Taylor, Baron Taylor of Hadfield is best known as being the founder of Taylor Woodrow, a leading international contractor and developer.-Career:...

(1905-1995), English businessman, founder of Taylor Woodrow
Frederick Southgate Taylor
Frederick Southgate Taylor
Frederick Southgate Taylor , was a successful businessman, politician, avid philanthropist, and founder of Pi Kappa Alpha fraternity....

(1847-1896), American businessman, politician and founder of Pi Kappa Alpha fraternity
Frederick Winslow Taylor
Frederick Winslow Taylor
Frederick Winslow Taylor was an American mechanical engineer who sought to improve industrial efficiency. He is regarded as the father of scientific management and was one of the first management consultants...

(1856–1915), American engineer and management scholar
Jack C. Taylor
Jack C. Taylor
Jack Crawford Taylor is an American businessman and the founder of the Enterprise Rent-A-Car Company. With an estimated net worth of around $7.4 billion, he is ranked by Forbes as the 18th-richest American and the 40th-richest person in the world.Taylor enrolled in the Olin Business School at...

(born 1923), founder of Enterprise Rent-a-Car
John Taylor (Taylor Ham)
John Taylor (Taylor Ham)
John Taylor was an American businessman and politician who served in the New Jersey Senate. He formed Taylor Provisions Company and created Pork Roll. He also founded the Taylor Opera House in Trenton, New Jersey. Taylor Street in Trenton is also named for him.Taylor was born in Hamilton Square,...

(1837–1909), American businessman

Religion

Frederick Howard Taylor
Frederick Howard Taylor
Frederick Howard Taylor a.k.a F. Howard Taylor , was a British pioneer Protestant Christian missionary to China, author, speaker and second son of James Hudson Taylor, founder of the China Inland Mission , and Maria Jane...

(1862-1946), British pioneer Protestant Christian missionary to China
John Taylor (Mormon) (1808–1887), third President of the LDS Church
Mary Virginia Taylor
Mary Virginia Taylor
Mary Virginia Taylor is a bishop in The United Methodist Church in the U.S., serving the South Carolina Conference. She was Elected in 2004 on the 34th ballot, receiving 354 of 549 votes cast at the Southeastern Juridictional Conference. She was endorsed by the Holston Conference delegation.She...

(born 1950), American bishop in the United Methodist Church
Michael Taylor (Ossett)
Michael Taylor (Ossett)
Michael Taylor, an individual from the British town of Ossett, is notable for his alleged demonic possession. Christine Taylor, the wife of Michael Taylor, expressed to the Christian Fellowship Group, of which Michael was a part, that his relationship with the lay leader of the group, Marie...

Military

David W. Taylor
David W. Taylor
Rear Admiral David Watson Taylor, USN was a naval architect and engineer of the United States Navy. He served during World War I as Chief Constructor of the Navy, and Chief of the Bureau of Construction and Repair...

(1864-1940), U.S. Navy admiral and engineer
George Taylor (Alamo defender) (c. 1816–1836), soldier in Texas army, died in the Battle of the Alamo
George A. Taylor
George A. Taylor
George A. Taylor was an officer in the U.S. 1st Infantry Division during World War II. Graduate of the United States Military Academy, class of 1922.His famous quote from Omaha Beach:...

(1899–1969), American army officer at D-Day invasion, Battle of Normandy
George P. Taylor
George P. Taylor
Lieutenant General George Peach Taylor Jr. USAF was the 18th Surgeon General of the United States Air Force, Headquarters U.S. Air Force, Washington, D.C. General Taylor served as the senior Air Force officer responsible for comprehensive management of the Air Force Medical Service...

(fl.
Floruit
Floruit , abbreviated fl. , is a Latin verb meaning "flourished", denoting the period of time during which something was active...

1975-2007), American Air Force Surgeon General
George W. Taylor (general)
George W. Taylor (general)
George William Taylor was a general in the Union Army during the American Civil War. He commanded a brigade in the Army of the Potomac before being mortally wounded at the Second Battle of Bull Run in Northern Virginia.-Early life and career:Taylor was born at "Solitude," the family's mansion near...

, American Civil War general
Kenneth M. Taylor
Kenneth M. Taylor
Kenneth Marlar Taylor was a new United States Army Air Forces Second Lieutenant pilot stationed at Pearl Harbor during the Japanese attack on December 7, 1941. Along with his fellow pilot and friend George Welch, they got airborne while under fire and Taylor shot down four Japanese dive bombers...

(1919-2006), American pilot in World War II
Maxwell Davenport Taylor (1901–1987), American general and diplomat
Sarah Taylor (soldier)
Sarah Taylor (soldier)
Sarah Taylor , born Nicole Wilson, fought in the American Civil War as a soldier at the age of 18. She earned the nickname "The Tennessee Joan of Arc".-See also:*Crossdressing during wartime...

(1831 – 1872), American Civil War soldier

Journalism and literature

D. J. Taylor
D. J. Taylor
David John Taylor is a British critic, novelist and biographer. After attending school in Norwich, he read Modern History at St John's College, Oxford, and has received the 2003 Whitbread Biography Award for his biography of George Orwell. His novel Derby Day was longlisted for the 2011 Man Booker...

(born 1960), British author
David Taylor (vet) (20th century), author and television presenter on animal subjects
George Augustine Taylor
George Augustine Taylor
George Augustine Taylor was an Australian artist, journalist, and inventor.- Life :Taylor was born at Sydney in 1872. He first became known as an artist, and was a member of the Sydney Bohemian set in the 1890s, whose doings he was afterwards to record in his Those Were the Days, a volume of...

(1872-1928), Australian artist and journalist
G. P. Taylor
Graham Taylor (author)
Graham Peter Taylor , pen-name G. P. Taylor, is the author of the best-selling novels Shadowmancer, Wormwood and Tersias. Before taking up writing full-time, he was an Anglican vicar in the village of Cloughton, North Yorkshire.His works reflect his faith, carrying Christian messages like The...

(born 1958), British author
Matt Taylor (weather forecaster)
Matt Taylor (weather forecaster)
-Early life:Taylor has a degree in City and Regional Planning from Cardiff University where he studied before working for a local council in Lincolnshire...

(born 1976), BBC Weather presenter
Patrick Gordon Taylor
Patrick Gordon Taylor
Sir Patrick Gordon Taylor GC MC OBE was an Australian aviator and author. He was born at Mosman, Sydney, and died in Honolulu....

(1896–1966), Australian author and aviator
Russell Taylor
Russell Taylor
Russell Taylor MBE is a British writer, journalist and composer. He is best known as half of the team that created the comic strip Alex. He studied at St Anne's College, Oxford...

(born 1960), British writer and cartoonist
Ruth Ashton Taylor
Ruth Ashton Taylor
Ruth Ashton Taylor is a retired American television and radio newscaster, with a career in broadcasting that spanned over 50 years.She was the first female newscaster on television in Los Angeles and the West Coast....

, American television journalist
Sean Taylor (author)
Sean Taylor (author)
Sean Taylor is a British author of children's books. He grew up in Surrey and taught in Zimbabwe before studying at Cambridge, and divides his time between the United Kingdom and Brazil, where his wife is from....

, British children's book author
Tom Taylor (writer)
Tom Taylor (writer)
Tom Taylor is a comic book writer and award-winning playwright who has also written for radio, musicals, film, magazines, satirical news and sketch comedy...

(born 1978), Australian playwright and editorial writer
William Taylor (1765–1836), English scholar and linguist