Famous People with Name Floyd

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.

Floyd Buford ("Bill") Yates            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Floyd Buford ("Bill") Yates: was a cartoonist who drew gag cartoons and comics strips before assuming the position of comic strip editor for King Features Syndicate in 1978.

Floyd Bostwick Odlum            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Floyd Bostwick Odlum: was a wealthy lawyer and industrialist. He has been described as "possibly the only man in the United States who made a great fortune out of the Depression," [1]. After struggling as a corporate attorney in Salt Lake City, Odlum received an offer to a law clerk at a New York firm, and in 1921 became Vice-President of his primary client, Electric Bond and Share Company. In 1923, Odlum, a friend, and their wives pooled a total of $39,600 and formed the United States Company to speculate in purchases of utilities and general securities. Within two years, the company's net assets had increased 17 fold to nearly $700,000 [2]. In 1928, Odlum incorporated Atlas Utilities Company to take over the common stock of his other company.

Floyd "Jumbo" Cummings            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Floyd "Jumbo" Cummings: is a retired American heavyweight boxer. Cummings served 12 years in prison for murder in the Stateville Correctional Center, Illinois, and upon his release started boxing professionally, making his debut in March 1979 at the age of 29. He was a fringe co

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.