Floyd as First Name

Floyd Patterson            Origin/Culture/Country: American
Floyd Patterson: American heavyweight boxing champion. At 21, Patterson became the youngest man to win the world heavyweight championship.

Floyd Lamonte Reifer            Origin/Culture/Country: West Indian
Floyd Lamonte Reifer: is a West Indian cricketer.He is a left-arm middle-order batsman and a right-arm medium pace bowler.

Floyd Council            Origin/Culture/Country: American
Floyd Council: was an American blues guitarist and singer. He became a well-known practitioner of the Piedmont blues sound from that area, popular throughout the southeastern region of the US in the 1930s.Floyd began his musical career on the streets of Chapel Hill in the 1920s, performing with two brothers, Leo and Thomas Strowd as "The Chapel Hillbillies". He recorded twice for ARC at sessions with Blind Boy Fuller in the mid-thirties, all fine examples of the Piedmont style in full bloom.

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.

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Floyd as Last Name

Cornelius Clifford Floyd            Origin/Culture/Country: American
Cornelius Clifford Floyd: (December 5, 1972 in Chicago, Illinois) is a designated hitter and outfielder for the Tampa Bay Rays. [1]

Leslie Roe "Bubba" Floyd            Origin/Culture/Country: American
Leslie Roe "Bubba" Floyd: (June 23, 1917 - December 15, 2000) was a Major League Baseball shortstop who played in three games for the Detroit Tigers in 1944. The 26-year-old rookie stood 5'11" and weighed 160 lbs.

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.