lloyd
The name Lloyd is a variation of the Welsh word llwyd or clwyd, which means "grey" or "brown". (Llwyd is also used as a personal name.) The double-l represents the voiceless alveolar lateral fricative of Welsh, and was sometimes also represented as fl, yielding the related name Floyd.
People named Lloyd
- Llwyd ap Cil Coed, a character in the Mabinogi
- Lloyd Banks (1982- ), a rapper who is part of G-Unit
- Lloyd Bentsen (1921-2006), United States Senator and Secretary of the Treasury
- Lloyd Carr (1945-), head coach of the University of Michigan football team
- Lloyd Polite (more commonly referred to as just Lloyd (1986- ), R&B singer
- Sir Alan Lloyd Hodgkin (1914-1998), British physiologist, biophysicist & Nobel Prize winner
- A.L. Lloyd (Albert Lancaster Lloyd) (1908-1982), English ethnomusicologist
- Andrew Lloyd Webber, Baron Lloyd-Webber (1948- ), English composer of musical theatre
- Christopher Lloyd (1938- ), American character actor
- David Lloyd George, 1st Earl Lloyd George of Dwyfor (1863-1945)British politician & Prime Minister
- Edward Lloyd (d. 1713) coffeehouse owner (see also below for Lloyd's)
- Major General Edward Lloyd (Colonial Governor), governor of Maryland Colony 1709-1714
- Edward Lloyd (delegate) (1744-1796), Maryland delegate to the Continental Congress
- Edward Lloyd (Governor of Maryland) (1779–1834), governor of Maryland in the United States 1809-1811
- Edward Lhuyd (1660–1709), Welsh naturalist, botanist, linguist, geographer and antiquary
- Frank Lloyd Wright (1867-1959), American architect
- Genevieve Lloyd, Australian philosopher and feminist
- George Lloyd (composer) (1913-1998), British late-Romantic composer
- George Ambrose Lloyd, 1st Baron Lloyd (1879-1941), British High Commissioner of Egypt
- Gordon W. Lloyd (1832–1905), English/American architect
- Harold Lloyd (1893–1971), American actor and filmmaker known for his silent film comedies
- Jake Lloyd (1989- ), American actor
- Jim Lloyd (1954- ), Australian politician
- John Lloyd (historian)
- John Lloyd, chief witness for the prosecution in the Lincoln Assassination trial
- John Uri Lloyd (1849-1936), American pharmacist
- John Lloyd (tennis player) (1954- ) British tennis player & ex-husband of Chris Evert
- John Lloyd (writer) (1951- ), British comedy writer and television producer
- John Lloyd (composer) (c.1475-1523), English (or Welsh) composer
- John Lloyd, Bishop of St David's, Vice-Chancellor of Oxford University 1682–1685
- John Henry Lloyd, "Pop" Lloyd (1884-1965), Negro Leagues baseball player
- John William Lloyd, an American individualist anarchist
- Saint John Lloyd, one of the Catholic Forty Martyrs of England and Wales
- Julian Lloyd Webber (1951- ), composer, cellist & brother of Andrew Lloyd Webber
- Lulu Hull Lloyd, namesake of Caltech's Lloyd House
- Lloyd, African-American R&B singer and The Inc./Def Jam recording artist
- Richard Lloyd (1951- ) American founding member of punk band Television
- Robert Lloyd (poet) (1733-1764), English poet and satirist.
- Robert Lloyd (singer) (1940- ) English bass, opera singer (see de:Robert Lloyd)
- Sabrina Lloyd (1970- ), American actor
- Sam Lloyd, actor and nephew of Christopher Lloyd
- Sampson Lloyd, co-creator of Lloyds Bank, the first bank in Birmingham, England
- Samuel Loyd (1841-1911), American puzzle author and recreational mathematician
- Selwyn Lloyd, Baron Selwyn-Lloyd (1904-1978) British politician and general
- Seth Lloyd (1960- ), Professor of Mechanical Engineering at MIT
- Terry Lloyd (1952-2003), British television journalist killed in crossfire in Iraq
Institutions named Lloyd
- Named for the coffeehouse of Edward Lloyd in London:
- Lloyd's of London, insurance market
- Lloyd's List, journal on shipping
- Lloyd's Register, ship classification and risk management organisation
- Lloyd, a former German automobile brand from the Borgward group of Bremen
- Lloyd cars, a former British automobile brand
- Lloyds TSB Group plc, a British financial institution
- Lloyd Wise, a group of intellectual property attorney firms based in England and Asia
- Hapag-Lloyd, a German transportation company
- Lloyd Aereo Boliviano, Bolivian commericial airline
Fictional characters named Lloyd
- Lloyd Irving, from the video game Tales of Symphonia
- Lloyd Nebulon, from the animated series Lloyd in Space
- Lloyd Christmas, from the movie Dumb & Dumber
- Lloyd Braun, from the show Seinfeld
- Lloyd (Legend of Dragoon), from the video game The Legend of Dragoon
- Lloyd Diffy, from Phil of the Future, Phil Diffy's Dad.
- Lloyd Henreid, a character from Stephen King's The Stand.
- Lloyd the Bartender, a bartender in Stephen King's The Shining.
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