Famous People with Name Floyd

Floyd Joy Mayweather Sr.            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Floyd Joy Mayweather Sr.: a professional boxing trainer, and father and former trainer of five-division champion Floyd Mayweather Jr. Floyd Sr. was a 1970s–1980s welterweight contender

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 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.

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.

Raymond Loran "Ray" Floyd            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Raymond Loran "Ray" Floyd: is an American professional golfer who has won numerous tournaments on both the PGA Tour and Champions Tour.He attended the University of North Carolina. He turned professional in 1961, and quickly established himself on the PGA Tour, with his first victo