Lloyd (surname)
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The name Lloyd is a variation of the Welsh
word llwyd or clwyd, which means "grey" or "brown". The double-l represents the voiceless alveolar lateral fricative
of Welsh, and was sometimes also represented as fl, yielding the related name Floyd.
Notable people named Lloyd:
Welsh language
Welsh is a member of the Brythonic branch of the Celtic languages spoken natively in Wales, by some along the Welsh border in England, and in Y Wladfa...
word llwyd or clwyd, which means "grey" or "brown". The double-l represents the voiceless alveolar lateral fricative
Voiceless alveolar lateral fricative
The voiceless alveolar lateral fricative is a type of consonantal sound, used in some spoken languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents voiceless dental, alveolar, and postalveolar fricatives is , and the equivalent X-SAMPA symbol is K...
of Welsh, and was sometimes also represented as fl, yielding the related name Floyd.
Notable people named Lloyd:
- A.L. Lloyd (Albert Lancaster Lloyd) (1908–1982), English ethnomusicologist
- Alex LloydAlex LloydAlex Lloyd is an Australian singer-songwriter. His most popular album Watching Angels Mend, which includes the songs "Amazing" and "Green", was released in 2001 went double platinum. His third album Distant Light released in 2003 featured three songs that made the Australian top 40 singles charts...
(born 1974), Australian singer-songwriter. - Alex Lloyd (racing driver)Alex Lloyd (racing driver)Alex Stewart Lloyd is a British motor racing driver. He currently takes part in the IndyCar Series...
(born 1984), IndyCar race driver - Andrew Lloyd WebberAndrew Lloyd WebberAndrew Lloyd Webber, Baron Lloyd-Webber is an English composer of musical theatre.Lloyd Webber has achieved great popular success in musical theatre. Several of his musicals have run for more than a decade both in the West End and on Broadway. He has composed 13 musicals, a song cycle, a set of...
, Baron Lloyd-Webber (born 1948), English composer of musical theatre - Anthony LloydAnthony LloydAnthony Francis Lloyd is an English footballer who plays for Stocksbridge Park Steels as a defender. He played over 60 games in the Football League for Huddersfield Town and Torquay United as well over 40 games for York City in the Conference National.-Career:Born in Taunton, Somerset, Lloyd began...
(born 1984), English footballer - Benjamin LloydBenjamin LloydBenjamin Lloyd was a Coal Heaver in the Union Navy and a Medal of Honor recipient for his actions in the American Civil War.-Medal of Honor citation:...
, American Civil WarAmerican Civil WarThe American Civil War was a civil war fought in the United States of America. In response to the election of Abraham Lincoln as President of the United States, 11 southern slave states declared their secession from the United States and formed the Confederate States of America ; the other 25...
Medal of HonorMedal of HonorThe Medal of Honor is the highest military decoration awarded by the United States government. It is bestowed by the President, in the name of Congress, upon members of the United States Armed Forces who distinguish themselves through "conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity at the risk of his or her...
recipient - Bill Lloyd (soccer)Bill Lloyd (soccer)Bill Lloyd was an American soccer coach who was briefly head coach of the United States men's national soccer team. He was at the helm for three games in 1937, losing all three.-External links:*...
, American soccer coach - Bobby LloydBobby LloydRobert "Bobby" Lloyd was a Welsh international scrum-half who played club rugby for Pontypool and county rugby for Monmouthshire. He won seven caps for Wales and played in the 1913 and 1914 Five Nations Championships...
, Welsh international rugby union player - Carli LloydCarli LloydCarli Anne Lloyd is an American soccer midfielder currently playing for the Atlanta Beat of Women's Professional Soccer and is a member of the United States women's national soccer team.-Early life:...
(born 1982), American soccer player - Charles W Lloyd, Educationalist and The Master of Dulwich College from 1967 to 1975
- Cher LloydCher LloydCher Lloyd is a British singer and rapper from Malvern, Worcestershire. Lloyd rose to fame in 2010 when she participated in reality TV series The X Factor, to which she finished in fourth place. Shortly afterwards, Lloyd was signed by Simon Cowell to Sony Records subsidary SyCo Music, releasing...
, English singer - Christopher LloydChristopher LloydChristopher Allen Lloyd is an American actor. He is best known for playing Emmett Brown in the Back to the Future trilogy, Uncle Fester in The Addams Family and Addams Family Values, and Judge Doom in Who Framed Roger Rabbit. He played Reverend Jim Ignatowski in the television series Taxi and more...
(born 1938), American character actor - Clive LloydClive LloydClive Hubert Lloyd CBE AO is a former West Indies cricketer. He captained the West Indies between 1974 and 1985 and oversaw their rise to become the dominant Test-playing nation, a position that was only relinquished in the latter half of the 1990s...
(born 1944), West Indian cricketer - Colin LloydColin LloydColin Lloyd , nicknamed Jaws, is an English professional darts player on the Professional Darts Corporation circuit. He is a former world number one ranked player and he has won two major television titles in the PDC - the 2004 World Grand Prix and 2005 World Matchplay...
, English darts player - Danielle LloydDanielle LloydDanielle Lloyd is an English glamour model. The former Miss England 2004 and Miss Great Britain 2006, she first rose to prominence when she was stripped of her Miss Great Britain 2006 title after posing for nude pictures featured in the December 2006 edition of Playboy magazine and her alleged...
(born 1983), British glamour model - David Lloyd (tennis)David Lloyd (tennis)David Lloyd is a former professional English tennis player and businessman.He was born in Leigh-on-Sea, Essex. He and his younger brother John Lloyd became two of the most successful British tennis players throughout the 1970s and 1980s. David captained the British Davis Cup team and became a...
(born 1948), former professional tennis player and founder of the David Lloyd Tennis Clubs - David Lloyd GeorgeDavid Lloyd GeorgeDavid Lloyd George, 1st Earl Lloyd-George of Dwyfor OM, PC was a British Liberal politician and statesman...
, 1st Earl Lloyd George of Dwyfor (1863–1945), British politician & Prime Minister - Edward LloydEdward Lloyd (coffeehouse owner)Edward Lloyd ran the Lloyd's Coffee House in Lombard Street in the City of London which became a meeting place for merchants and shipowners. From the habit of their members to meet there, Lloyd's Coffee House spawned Lloyd's of London, Lloyd's Register, and Lloyd's List. There is no connection...
(died 1713) coffeehouse owner (see also below for Lloyd's) - Major General Edward LloydEdward Lloyd (Colonial Governor of Maryland)Major General Edward Lloyd was the 11th Royal Governor of Maryland from 1709 to 1714. He succeeded John Seymour, being elected President of the Council when the senior member of the council, Colonel Francis Jenkins, failed to assert his rights of seniority. Lloyd was succeeded by John Hart...
(Colonial Governor), governor of Maryland Colony 1709-1714 - Edward Lloyd (delegate)Edward Lloyd (delegate)Edward Lloyd IV was an American planter from Talbot County, Maryland. He was a delegate to the Continental Congress for Maryland in 1783 and 1784. In 1771 Lloyd purchased the Chase-Lloyd House in Annapolis, Maryland from Samuel Chase, and in 1790 he built Wye House on the family plantation at Wye...
(1744–1796), Maryland delegate to the Continental Congress - Edward Lloyd (Governor of Maryland)Edward Lloyd (Governor of Maryland)Edward Lloyd V served as the 13th Governor of Maryland from 1809 to 1811, and as a United States Senator from Maryland between 1819 and 1826. He also served as a U.S...
(1779–1834), governor of Maryland in the United States 1809-1811 - Edward LhuydEdward LhuydEdward Lhuyd was a Welsh naturalist, botanist, linguist, geographer and antiquary. He is also known by the Latinized form of his name, Eduardus Luidius....
(1660–1709), Welsh naturalist, botanist, linguist, geographer and antiquary - Frank LloydFrank LloydFrank Lloyd was a film director, scriptwriter and producer...
(1886–1960), English/American film director and producer - Frank LloydFrank Lloyd (horn player)Frank Lloyd is a virtuoso horn player and teacher, Professor of Horn at the Folkwang Hochschule in Essen, Germany and formerly professor of horn at both the Guildhall School of Music and Drama and Trinity College of Music in London....
(born 1952), British horn player and teacher - Frank Lloyd IIIFrank Lloyd (actor)Frank Lloyd is a veteran Australian-born character actor, who is best known for his stint as Neville McPhee in the Australian soap Home And Away. Along with co-star Shelia Kennelley, who played his wife Floss, they were two of the original characters of the Australian television soap opera...
, Australian actor - Frank Lloyd WrightFrank Lloyd WrightFrank Lloyd Wright was an American architect, interior designer, writer and educator, who designed more than 1,000 structures and completed 500 works. Wright believed in designing structures which were in harmony with humanity and its environment, a philosophy he called organic architecture...
(1867–1959), American architect - Gareth David-LloydGareth David-LloydGareth David-Lloyd is a Welsh actor best known for his role as Ianto Jones in the British science fiction television programme Torchwood.- Early life :...
(born 1981), Welsh actor - Genevieve LloydGenevieve LloydGenevieve Lloyd is an Australian philosopher and feminist. She studied philosophy at the University of Sydney in the early 1960s and then at Somerville College, Oxford. Her D.Phil, awarded in 1973, was on 'Time and Tense'...
, Australian philosopher and feminist - Geoffrey Lloyd, (1902–1984) a British Conservative politician.
- Geoff LloydGeoff LloydGeoff Lloyd is a British radio presenter. Lloyd presents Geoff Lloyd's Hometime Show, Monday-Friday, 5pm-8pm on Absolute Radio...
, (born 1973), British radio DJ - George Lloyd (composer)George Lloyd (composer)George Walter Selwyn Lloyd was a British composer.-Early life:Of Cornish ancestry, Lloyd grew up in a family with great enthusiasm for music. He was mainly home-schooled because of rheumatic fever. He later studied violin with Albert Sammons and composition with Harry Farjeon. He was a student at...
(1913–1998), British late-Romantic composer - George Ambrose Lloyd, 1st Baron Lloyd (1879–1941), British High Commissioner of Egypt
- George Lloyd (bishop of Chester) (1561–1615), Welsh Anglican bishop
- George Lloyd (bishop of Saskatchewan) (1861–1940), Anglican minister and theologian
- Gordon W. LloydGordon W. LloydGordon W. Lloyd was an architect of English origin, whose work was primarily in the American Midwest. After being taught by his uncle, Ewan Christian, at the Royal Academy, Lloyd moved to Detroit in 1858. There he established himself as a popular architect of Episcopal churches and cathedrals in...
(1832–1905), English/American architect - Harold LloydHarold LloydHarold Clayton Lloyd, Sr. was an American film actor and producer, most famous for his silent comedies....
(1893–1971), American actor and filmmaker known for his silent film comedies - H. S. LloydH. S. LloydHerbert Summers Lloyd MBE, , known commonly as H. S. Lloyd, was best known for being a breeder of show English Cocker Spaniels...
(1887-1963), British dog breeder - Jake LloydJake LloydJake Lloyd is a former American actor , who gained worldwide fame when he was chosen by George Lucas to play the young Anakin Skywalker in Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace, the first film in the Star Wars prequel trilogy and currently resides in Chicago. He reprised this role in five...
(born 1989), American actor - Jim LloydJim LloydJames Eric Lloyd JP , Australian politician, was a Liberal Party of Australia member of the Australian House of Representatives from the March 1996 election until the November 2007 election, representing the Division of Robertson in New South Wales.Born in Sydney, New South Wales, Lloyd was...
(born 1954), Australian politician - John Lloyd (tennis) (born 1954), British tennis player
- John Lloyd (rugby coach)John Lloyd (rugby coach)David John Lloyd is a former Welsh international rugby union player who captained the Wales team in 1972. He played club rugby for Bridgend, county rugby for Glamorgan and invitational rugby for the Barbarians...
(born 1943), former head coach to Wales national rugby union team - Julian Lloyd WebberJulian Lloyd WebberJulian Lloyd Webber is a British solo cellist who has been described as the "doyen of British cellists".-Early life:Julian Lloyd Webber is the second son of the composer William Lloyd Webber and his wife Jean Johnstone . He is the younger brother of the composer Andrew Lloyd Webber...
(born 1951), composer, cellist & brother of Andrew Lloyd Webber - Larry LloydLarry LloydLaurence Valentine Lloyd was a footballer, a burly and tough central defender who won honours for both Bill Shankly's Liverpool and Brian Clough's all-conquering Nottingham Forest side of the late 1970s....
(born 1948), English footballer - Llewellyn LloydLlewellyn LloydGeorge Llewellyn Lloyd was a Welsh international half-back who played club rugby for Newport and county rugby with Kent. He won 12 caps for Wales and captained the team on one occasion against Scotland....
(1877–1958), Welsh international rugby union player - Lulu Hull Lloyd, namesake of California Institute of TechnologyCalifornia Institute of TechnologyThe California Institute of Technology is a private research university located in Pasadena, California, United States. Caltech has six academic divisions with strong emphases on science and engineering...
's Lloyd House - Marie LloydMarie LloydMatilda Alice Victoria Wood was an English music hall singer, best known as Marie Lloyd. Her ability to add lewdness to the most innocent of lyrics led to frequent clashes with the guardians of morality...
(1870–1922), music hallMusic hallMusic Hall is a type of British theatrical entertainment which was popular between 1850 and 1960. The term can refer to:# A particular form of variety entertainment involving a mixture of popular song, comedy and speciality acts...
singer - Matthew LloydMatthew LloydMatthew James Lloyd is a former Australian rules footballer who played for and was the captain of the Essendon Football Club in the Australian Football League...
, Australian rules footballAustralian rules footballAustralian rules football, officially known as Australian football, also called football, Aussie rules or footy is a sport played between two teams of 22 players on either...
er and Coleman Medallist - Nicholas LloydNicholas LloydSir Nicholas Markley Lloyd, born , is a British former newspaper editor and broadcaster.Lloyd graduated from St Edmund Hall, Oxford. He edited the Sunday People from 1982 to 1983, then moved to edit the News of the World for a year from 1984, and finally edited the Daily Express from 1986 until...
(born 1942), British journalist - Percy LloydPercy LloydDavid Percy Marmaduke Lloyd was a Welsh international rugby union wing who played club rugby for Llanelli. Lloyd played for Wales on four occasions during the 1890 and 1891 Home Nations Championships.- Rugby career :...
(1871–1959), Wales national rugby player - Richard Lloyd (guitarist) (born 1951), American founding member of punk band Television
- Richard Lloyd (racing driver)Richard Lloyd (racing driver)Richard Lloyd was a British racing car driver and founder of multiple sports car and touring car teams...
(born 1945), British driver and multiple racing team founder - Richard Hey LloydRichard Hey Lloyd-Biography:Richard Lloyd was born near Stockport, Cheshire. He was a chorister of Lichfield Cathedral and was educated at Rugby School where he held a music scholarship. He studied at Jesus College, Cambridge, where he was an organ scholar . He took the Music Tripos and holds the Cambridge degree...
, British organist and composer - Robert Lloyd (poet)Robert Lloyd (poet)Robert Lloyd was an English poet and satirist.-Life:Robert Lloyd was educated at Westminster School and Trinity College, Cambridge, graduating B.A. in 1755 and M.A. in 1758. He was author of the popular poem The Actor and the comic opera The Capricious Lovers , first performed at Drury Lane just...
(1733–1764), English poet and satirist - Robert Lloyd (singer)Robert Lloyd (singer)Robert Andrew Lloyd CBE is an English bass singer.Lloyd was educated at Keble College, Oxford and studied in London with the baritone Otakar Kraus. He made his debut with University College Opera in 1969 as Don Fernando in Leonore, the early version of Fidelio...
(born 1940), English bass, opera singer - Sabrina LloydSabrina LloydSabrina Lloyd is an American film and television actress.She has played the roles of Wade Welles in the science fiction series Sliders, and Natalie Hurley in the ABC sitcom Sports Night.-Early life:...
(born 1970), American actor - Sam LloydSam Lloyd (actor)Samuel "Sam" Lloyd, Jr. is an American actor and musician, perhaps best known for his portrayal of beaten down lawyer Ted Buckland on the American comedy-drama Scrubs....
, actor and nephew of Christopher Lloyd - Sampson LloydSampson LloydThere are three generations of Sampson Lloyd in the Lloyd family of Birmingham, England. The second co-founded Lloyds Bank.Sampson Lloyd I and Mary , Quakers of Welsh origin, moved from their Leominster, Herefordshire farm in 1698 to Edgbaston Street in Birmingham.After the death of Sampson I in...
, co-creator of Lloyds Bank, the first bank in Birmingham, England - Samuel Loyd (1841–1911), American puzzle author and recreational mathematician
- Selwyn LloydSelwyn LloydJohn Selwyn Brooke Lloyd, Baron Selwyn-Lloyd CH PC CBE TD , known for most of his career as Selwyn Lloyd, was a British Conservative Party politician who served as Foreign Secretary from 1955 to 1960, then as Chancellor of the Exchequer until 1962...
, Baron Selwyn-Lloyd (1904–1978) British politician and general - Seth LloydSeth LloydSeth Lloyd is a professor of mechanical engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He refers to himself as a "quantum mechanic"....
(born 1960), Professor of Mechanical Engineering at MIT - Seton LloydSeton LloydSeton Howard Frederick Lloyd, CBE , was an English archaeologist. He was President of the British School of Archaeology in Iraq, Director of the British Institute of Archaeology at Ankara , Professor of Western Asiatic Archaeology in the Institute of Archaeology, University of London...
(1902–1996), British archaeologist - Sian Lloyd (news presenter)Sian Lloyd (news presenter)Sian Lloyd is a Welsh television news presenter, currently working for BBC Wales.-Biography:Born in Wales, she grew up in Wrexham and learnt Welsh during her teens, and also speaks fluent French....
, Welsh television news presenter - Siân Lloyd (weather presenter) (born 1958), ITV weather presenter
- Terry LloydTerry LloydTerence Ellis Lloyd was a British television journalist well-known for his reporting from the Middle East. He was killed by U.S. troops while covering the 2003 invasion of Iraq for ITN...
(1952–2003), British television journalist killed in crossfire in Iraq - Tommy LloydTommy LloydTommy Lloyd is an American basketball coach, and is currently an assistant coach for Gonzaga University.-Playing career:...
(born 1974), American basketball coach
See also
- Lloyd (given name)Lloyd (given name)The name Lloyd is a variation of the Welsh word llwyd or clwyd, which means "grey" or "brown"...
- Lloyd (name)Lloyd (name)Lloyd is a name originating with the Welsh adjective llwyd, most often understood as meaning ‘grey’, but with other meanings as well. The name can be used both as a personal name and as a surname...