William Boyd
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William Boyd may refer to:
- William Boyd, 3rd Earl of KilmarnockWilliam Boyd, 3rd Earl of KilmarnockWilliam Boyd, 3rd Earl of Kilmarnock was a Scottish nobleman.He fought for the British Government during the Jacobite rising of 1715....
(died 1717), Scottish nobleman - William Boyd, 4th Earl of KilmarnockWilliam Boyd, 4th Earl of KilmarnockWilliam Boyd , 4th Earl of Kilmarnock, was a Scottish nobleman.William Boyd was educated at Glasgow. Like his father in the rebellion of 1715, William initially supported the Government side, but in the rebellion of 1745, owing either to a personal affront or to the influence of his wife or to his...
(1704–1746), Scottish nobleman - William Boyd (minister)William Boyd (minister)-Life:Boyd was ordained minister of Macosquin, County Londonderry, by the Coleraine presbytery, on 31 January 1710. He is known as the bearer of a commission to Colonel Samuel Suitte, governor of New England, embodying a proposal for an extensive emigration from County Londonderry to that colony....
(d. 1772), Irish Presbyterian minister - William Boyd (pathologist)William Boyd (pathologist)William Boyd, was a Scottish-Canadian pathologist, academic, and author known for his medical textbooks....
(1885–1979), Scottish-Canadian professor and author - William Boyd (actor)William Boyd (actor)William Lawrence Boyd was an American film actor best known for portraying Hopalong Cassidy.-Biography:...
(1895–1972), American actor, better known as "Hopalong Cassidy" - William Boyd (writer)William Boyd (writer)William Boyd, CBE is a Scottish novelist and screenwriter.-Biography:Of Scottish descent, Boyd spent his early life in Ghana and Nigeria, in Africa...
(born 1952), Scottish novelist and screenwriter - William Boyd (colonel), US Army Air Forces base commander, referenced in Freeman Field MutinyFreeman Field MutinyThe Freeman Field Mutiny was a series of incidents at Freeman Army Airfield, a United States Army Air Forces base near Seymour, Indiana, in 1945 in which African American members of the 477th Bombardment Group attempted to integrate an all-white officers' club. The mutiny resulted in 162 separate...
- William C. BoydWilliam C. BoydWilliam Clouser Boyd was an American immunochemist, who with his wife Lyle, during the 1930s, made a worldwide survey of the distribution of blood types. Born in Dearborn, Missouri, he discovered that blood groups are inherited and not influenced by environment...
(1903–1983), American immunologist - William "Stage" Boyd (1889–1935), American actor
- Bill Boyd (poker player) (1906–1997), professional poker player
- Bill Boyd (baseball)Bill Boyd (baseball)William J. Boyd was an American Major League Baseball player born in New York, New York. He mainly played third base and right field for three different teams during his four year career in the National Association from through . He batted .290, hit three home runs, and drove in 93 runs in those...
(1852–1912), Major league baseball player - Bill Boyd (Canadian politician)Bill Boyd (Canadian politician)Bill Boyd is a provincial level politician from Saskatchewan, Canada. He served as a member of the Saskatchewan Legislature from 1991 to 2002 and returned to office in the 2007 Saskatchewan general election....
, Saskatchewan Party MLA for the constituency of Kindersley - Bill Boyd (musician) (1910–1977), leader of the 1930s Western swing band, Bill Boyd and the Cowboy Ramblers
- Will Boyd (born 1979), American bass guitarist for the band Evanescence
See also
- Billy Boyd (disambiguation)
- William BoydeWilliam BoydeWilliam Boyde is a British actor, best known for his work on British television. He has appeared in Just William ; the BBC drama Secret Army ; Bergerac and the detective series Dempsey & Makepeace...
, a British actor