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

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

Robert Nathan Floyd            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Robert Nathan Floyd: is an American former Major League Baseball player. An infielder, Floyd played for the Baltimore Orioles and Kansas City Royals.After his MLB career, Floyd became a manager in Minor league baseball. In 1981, as a second year manager of the Lynn Sailors of the Eastern League, Floyd pitched four innings and allowed one run in a game. [1] What is unique about this is that Floyd had never played in a professional game six years prior to that game, nor had he ever pitched in a game throughout his professional playing career from 1964 to 1975.

Frank Joseph Floyd            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Frank Joseph Floyd: was an American lightweight and welterweight boxer who competed in the early twentieth century.