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Floyd is a surname of Welsh origin, deriving from Lloyd, which is ultimately an anglicized spelling of "Llwyd" (“gray, gray-haired”), and of Scottish origin deriving from Flood.^[1] Notable people with this surname include:

• Alfred Ernest Floyd (1877–1974), Australian musician
• Andress Small Floyd (1873–1933), founder of the Self-Master Colony
• Benjamin Rush Floyd, American politician
• Bobby Floyd (disambiguation), multiple people
• Bubba Floyd (1917–2000), American baseball player
• Carlisle Floyd (1926–2021), American opera composer
• Charles Floyd (disambiguation), several people
• Christiane Floyd (born 1943), Austrian computer scientist
• Cliff Floyd (born 1972), retired American Major League Baseball player
• Darrell Floyd (c. 1933 – 2000), American college basketball player
• Davis Floyd (1776–1834), American politician convicted of conspiring with Aaron Burr
• Eddie Floyd (born 1937), American R&B/soul singer-songwriter
• Elson S. Floyd (1956–2015), 10th president of Washington State University
• Emily Floyd (born 1972), Australian public artist, sculptor and printmaker
• Gavin Floyd (born 1983), Major League Baseball pitcher
• George Floyd (1973–2020), African-American man who was murdered during a police arrest
• George Floyd (American football) (born 1960), American football player
• George Rogers Clark Floyd (1810–1895), American politician
• James Floyd (disambiguation), several people
• Jehyve Floyd (born 1997), American basketball player in the Israeli Basketball Premier League
• John Floyd (disambiguation), several people
• Keith Floyd (1943–2009), British chef
• Malcolm Floyd (born 1972), retired American football player
• Malcom Floyd (born 1981), American football player
• Pretty Boy Floyd (Charles Arthur Floyd, 1904–1934), American bank robber
• Raymond Floyd (born 1942), American golfer
• Robert W. Floyd (1936–2001), computer scientist
• Sally Floyd (1950–2019), computer scientist
• Sleepy Floyd (Eric Augustus Floyd, born 1960), American professional basketball player
• Stanley Floyd (born 1961), American track and field sprinter
• Ty Floyd (born 2001), American baseball player
• William Floyd (1734–1821), American signer of the Declaration of Independence
• William Floyd (American football), retired American football fullback

• Heywood R. Floyd, in the Space Odyssey series by Arthur C. Clarke
• Sally Floyd (comics), reporter in the Marvel Comics universe
• Pink Floyd, protagonist of the 1979 concept album The Wall by the band Pink Floyd
• Lt. Robert "Bob" Floyd in Top Gun: Maverick

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