Famous People with Name Floyd

Floyd Levin            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Floyd Levin: was a jazz historian and writer who has been published in many magazines, including Down Beat, Jazz Journal International and American Rag. He has received several awards for his work, including the Leonard Feather Communicator Award, given annually by the Los Angeles Jazz Society. He is the author of Classic Jazz : A Personal View of the Music and the Musicians which chronicles his first-hand encounters with many jazz musicians such as: Benny Carter, Barney Bigard, Artie Shaw,James P. Johnson and Louis Armstrong.

Floyd Landis            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Floyd Landis: currently suspended from competition, who was stripped of overall victory in the 2006 Tour de France for a doping offense after testing revealed a skewed testosterone/epitestosterone ratio. He is a time-trial specialist as well as a strong climber.Landis turned professional in 1999 with the Mercury Cycling Team. He joined the US Postal Service team in 2002, and moved to the Phonak Hearing Systems team in 2005.Landis was fired from the Phonak team on August 5, 2006, after a test result indicated an abnormally high testosterone/epitestosterone ratio[1] after stage 17 of the 2006 Tour de France. He subsequently received a two year ban from professional racing, following an arbitration panel's 2 to 1 ruling on September 20, 2007.

Floyd Douglas Little            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Floyd Douglas Little: was a three-time American football All-American running back at Syracuse University. In 1967 Floyd Little was the 6th selection of the first common NFL-AFL draft. He was the first ever first-round draft pick to sign with the American Football League's Denver Broncos where he was known simply as "The Franchise" for saving the team from certain relocat

Floyd Zaiger            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Floyd Zaiger: a biologist who is most noted for his work in fruit genetics. He also founded Zaiger's Genetics.Zaiger has spent his life in the pursuit of the perfect fruit, developing both cultivars of existing species and new hybrids such as the pluot and the aprium.

Floyd Glenn Lounsbury            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Floyd Glenn Lounsbury: was an American linguist, anthropologist and Mayanist scholar and epigrapher, best known for his work on linguistic and cultural systems of a variety of North and South American languages. Equally important were his contributions to understanding the hieroglyphs, culture and history of the Maya civilization of pre-Columbian Mesoamerica.

Eric Augustus Floyd            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Eric Augustus Floyd: is a retired American professional basketball player.A 6’3” guard, Floyd played competitively at Hunter Huss High School in Gastonia, and starred at Georgetown University before being drafted by the New Jersey Nets with the 13th pick of the 1982 NBA Draft. During the middle of an unspectacular rookie season, Floyd was traded by the Nets with Mickey Johnson to the Golden State Warriors for Micheal Ray Richardson. Floyd quickly blossomed while playing for the Warriors, averaging 16.5 points per game in his first full season with the franchise, and during the 1984-85 NBA season, he averaged a career high 19.5 points per game

Charles Arthur Pretty Boy Floyd            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Charles Arthur Pretty Boy Floyd: was an American bank robber and alleged killer, romanticized by the press and by folk singer Woody Guthrie in his song "Pretty Boy Floyd".Floyd was born in Adairsville, Georgia, on February 3, 1904, where his family lived until he was ten years old. They then moved to the Cookson Hills of Oklahoma. At the age of seventeen, Floyd married Lee Hargrove (also known as Robie or Bobbie). The popular history says that Floyd committed his first crime when he struck down a sheriff's deputy who had been rude, but contemporary sources agree that Floyd simply needed a way to make ends meet.

William Ali Floyd            Origin/Culture/Country: American

William Ali Floyd: is a former American football fullback in the NFL.At Lakewood High School in St. Petersburg, Florida, he compiled a 34 - 4 record and led the Spartans to the only undefeated regular season in school history in 1988.

Don Floyd            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Don Floyd: was a college and professional football player. The wiry defensive end earned All America honors at Texas Christian University and stayed in Texas for his professional career.

Robert W Floyd            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Robert W Floyd: was an eminent computer scientist.Floyd finished school at age 14. At the University of Chicago, he received a Bachelor's degree in liberal arts in 1953 (when still only 17) and a second Bachelor's degree in physics in 1958.