Boyd (given name)
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Boyd may refer to:
- Boyd AdamsBoyd AdamsBoyd Adams is a former NASCAR driver who drove only one race in his entire career. He started his first and only race at the Nashville Speedway in Nashville, Tennessee, during the 1965 Nashville 400....
- Boyd AlexanderBoyd AlexanderBoyd Alexander was an English British Army officer, explorer and ornithologist.Lieutenant Boyd Francis Alexander was the oldest son of Lt Colonel Boyd Francis Alexander...
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- Boyd AtkinsBoyd AtkinsBoyd Atkins was an American jazz and blues reed player. He played saxophone and violin professionally.Atkins played with the Fate Marable band touring on the Mississippi River in the late 1910s. He was on the St. Louis, Missouri musical scene with the band of Dewey Jackson early in the 1920s...
- Boyd BanksBoyd BanksBoyd Banks is a Canadian stand-up comedian known for doing edgy material, and actor.-Biography:Banks has appeared in such films as Bruiser , Wild Iris , Dawn of the Dead , Phil the Alien , Land of the Dead , Cinderella Man , Diary of The Dead and Pontypool...
- Boyd BartlettBoyd BartlettBoyd Wheeler Bartlett was an American military officer, professor, school administrator, and physicist.-Education:Bartlett graduated from Bowdoin College in 1917. He graduated from the United States Military Academy in 1919 and was commissioned as a second lieutenant in the United States Army...
- Boyd Henry BodeBoyd Henry BodeBoyd Henry Bode was an American academic and philosopher, notable for his work on philosophy of education.Bode was born in Ridott, Illinois...
- Boyd BushmanBoyd BushmanBoyd Bushman is a retired senior research engineer who worked for Lockheed Martin Skunk Works, Texas Instruments and Hughes Aircraft. Regarded as one of the inventors of the Stinger missile.CAREER CLASSIFICATIONS: PROGRAM MANAGER & SENIOR SCIENTIST...
- Boyd ClackBoyd ClackBoyd Clack is a Welsh writer, actor, and musician.He was born in Vancouver, Canada but grew up in Tonyrefail in Wales. His acting credits include Twin Town, High Hopes and Satellite City. He also co-wrote both High Hopes and Satellite City...
- Boyd CoddingtonBoyd CoddingtonBoyd Leon Coddington was an American hot rod designer, the owner of the Boyd Coddington Hot Rod Shop and star of American Hot Rod on TLC.-Early life, education and early career :...
- Boyd ConverseBoyd ConverseBoyd Converse was the 27th head college football coach for the Wichita State University Shockers located in Wichita, Kansas and he held that position for the 1967 season. His overall coaching record at Wichita State was 2 wins, 7 losses, and 1 ties. This ranks him 28th at Wichita State in terms of...
- Boyd DevereauxBoyd DevereauxBoyd Fletcher Devereaux is a retired Canadian professional ice hockey player, most recently played for HC Lugano of the Swiss National League A. He now resides in Kitchener, Ontario with his wife and 2 kids.-Playing career:...
- Boyd DouglasBoyd DouglasAlbert Boyd Douglas, known as Boyd Douglas is a politician in Northern Ireland.Douglas attended Strabane Agriculture College before working as a farmer...
- Boyd DowlerBoyd DowlerBoyd Hamilton Dowler is a former American football wide receiver in the National Football League who played twelve seasons for the Green Bay Packers and Washington Redskins from 1959 to 1971...
- Boyd Dunlop Morehead
- Boyd EstusBoyd EstusBoyd Estus is a director of photography and producer/director in the motion picture industry whose credits include the Academy Award-winning The Flight of the Gossamer Condor, the Academy Award-nominated Eight Minutes to Midnight, and many Emmy-winning television programs...
- Boyd GainesBoyd GainesBoyd Payne Gaines is an American stage, film, and television actor.Gaines was born in Atlanta, Georgia, to Ida and James Gaines. He has appeared in a number of films and television shows, including Fame, L.A...
- Boyd GeorgiBoyd GeorgiBoyd Georgi was president of the Pasadena and Foothill chapter of the AIA in 1964. He is known for a number of important houses and other buildings in California area, including the Altadena library ....
- Boyd GordonBoyd GordonBoyd Gordon is a professional ice hockey right winger who currently plays for the Phoenix Coyotes of the NHL.-Playing career:Gordon was drafted in the 1st round, 17th overall by the Washington Capitals in the 2002 NHL Entry Draft...
- Boyd HaleyBoyd HaleyBoyd E. Haley, PhD , is a retired professor of chemistry at the University of Kentucky. The basic research interest of his laboratory centered on biochemical and biomedical problems involving control at the molecular level, particularly in biological systems regulated by protein–nucleotide...
- Boyd HolbrookBoyd HolbrookRobert Boyd Holbrook is an American fashion model, actor, and artist from Prestonsburg, Kentucky.-Modeling career:Boyd was discovered while he had a part time job, working as a carpenter for a theatre in Kentucky...
- Boyd HoylandBoyd HoylandBoyd Hoyland is a fictional character from the Australian Network Ten soap opera Neighbours, played by Kyal Marsh. He made his first on-screen appearance on 5 June 2002...
- Boyd HuppertBoyd HuppertBoyd Huppert is an American television personality. He is presently a news reporter for KARE 11 in Minneapolis-St. Paul, Minnesota. He is host of the television series Land of Ten Thousand Stories, which has been recognized for its strong photojournalism.-Television work:In 2007, Huppert received...
- Boyd IrwinBoyd IrwinBoyd Irwin was an English film actor. He appeared in 135 films between 1915 and 1948.He was born in Brighton, East Sussex and died in Los Angeles, California.-Selected filmography:* The Fatal Sign...
- Boyd JonesBoyd JonesBoyd Efram Jones is a former American football offensive tackle in the National Football League who played for the Green Bay Packers. Jones played collegiate ball for Texas Southern University and professionally for 1 season, in 1984....
- Boyd KaneBoyd KaneBoyd Kane is a Canadian professional ice hockey left winger who plays for the Hershey Bears of the American Hockey League .-Playing career:...
- Boyd KestnerBoyd KestnerBoyd Kestner is an American actor, who starred in The Outsiders television series and later came to prominence in his role as Alex Barth in the television drama Knots Landing.-External links:...
- Boyd KirklandBoyd KirklandBoyd Douglas Kirkland was an American television director of animated cartoons. He was best known for his work on X-Men Evolution. His other famous works included Batman: The Animated Series. He suffered from idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis and interstitial lung disease...
- Boyd Kosiyabong
- Boyd Langton
- Boyd MatsonBoyd MatsonBoyd Matson is the former anchor of National Geographic Explorer and a former co-anchor of NBC's Weekend Today program. He was also an NBC News correspondent in the 1980s, working mostly on news features and earlier as a sports reporter on KNBC in Los Angeles. He now hosts the show Wild Chronicles...
- Boyd MelsonBoyd MelsonBoyd "Rainmaker" Melson is an American light middleweight boxer.As an amateur, Melson won the 48th World Military Boxing Championship gold medal in the 69 kg. weight class, and was a four-time United States Army champion, a three-time NCBA All-American boxer, a four-time West Point Brigade...
, American boxer - Boyd Merriman, 1st Baron MerrimanBoyd Merriman, 1st Baron MerrimanFrank Boyd Merriman, 1st Baron Merriman PC, KC, OBE, GCVO , often known as Boyd Merriman, was a Conservative Party politician and judge in the United Kingdom.-Education:...
- Boyd MorganBoyd MorganBoyd Franklin Morgan was an American football running back in the National Football League for the Washington Redskins...
- Boyd MwilaBoyd MwilaBoyd Mwila is a Zambian football striker who is a free agent. He has played for Chiparamba Great Eagles in Zambia and Örgryte, Djurgården and FC Trollhättan in Sweden. In march 2010 he was loaned out to Superettan club FC Trollhättan The loan was extended through the 2011 season in December 2010...
- Boyd NeelBoyd NeelLouis Boyd Neel was an English conductor and academic. He is perhaps best known for revitalizing the genre of the chamber orchestra.-Early years:...
- Boyd Orr
- Boyd K. PackerBoyd K. PackerBoyd Kenneth Packer is an American educator and religious leader, and the current president of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints . He served as Acting President of the Quorum of the Twelve from 1994 to 2008, and has been an apostle and member of...
- Boyd PetersenBoyd PetersenBoyd Jay Petersen is a biographer of Hugh Nibley, a professor at Brigham Young University and Utah Valley University, and a former candidate for the Utah House of Representatives.-Biography:...
- Boyd Jay Petersen
- Boyd RaeburnBoyd RaeburnAlbert Boyd Raeburn was an American jazz bandleader and bass saxophonist.Boyd Raeburn was born in Faith, South Dakota, and became one of the greatest and least-known of jazz bandleaders during the 1940s...
- Boyd RankinBoyd RankinWilliam Boyd Rankin is an Irish cricketer, from Derry, Northern Ireland. He is a right-arm medium-fast bowler.William is a tall bowler who stands at 6 ft 8 inches and has a distinctive bouncing action in his bowling...
- Boyd RiceBoyd RiceBoyd Blake Rice is an American experimental sound/noise musician using the name of NON since the mid-1970s, archivist, actor, photographer, author, member of the Partridge Family Temple religious group, co-founder of the UNPOP art movement and current staff writer for Modern Drunkard...
- Boyd Anderson TackettBoyd Anderson TackettBoyd Anderson Tackett was a U.S. Representative from Arkansas.-Biography:Tackett was born near Black Springs, Arkansas...
- Boyd TinsleyBoyd TinsleyBoyd Calvin Tinsley is an American violinist and mandolinist who performs as a member of the Dave Matthews Band. Within the band, Tinsley has collaborated in writing songs, harmonizing, and singing backing vocals.-Early life:Tinsley was raised in a musical family...
- Boyd Travers
- Boyd VanceBoyd VanceBoyd Vance was an African American stage actor, director and producer in Austin, Texas. Vance was particularly known for supporting and advancing African-American performing arts in Austin. In 1993 he co-founded ProArts Collective, which he directed until his death following unexpected heart...
- Boyd WettlauferBoyd WettlauferBoyd Nicholas David Wettlaufer, CM was a Canadian archaeologist, considered as 'the Father of Saskatchewan Archaeology.' His groundbreaking archaeological work in western Canada is considered the foundation of our knowledge of the Northern Plains First Nations people.Wettlaufer was born in...
- Boyd WinchesterBoyd WinchesterBoyd Winchester was a United States Representative from Kentucky. He was born in Ascension Parish, Louisiana. He pursued preparatory studies and then attended Centre College in Danville, Kentucky and the University of Virginia at Charlottesville, Virginia...