Lloyd
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The name Lloyd is a variation of the Welsh word llwyd or clwyd, which means "grey" or "brown". The double-l represents the voiceless alveolar lateral fricative of Welsh, and was sometimes also represented as F, yielding the related name Floyd.
People and institutions named Lloyd include:
- Lloyd's of London, insurance market
- Christopher Lloyd, actor
- Jake Lloyd, actor
- John Lloyd, historian
- John Lloyd, tennis player
- John Lloyd, writer
- Harold Lloyd, actor
- Richard Lloyd
- Sabrina Lloyd, actor
- Selwyn Lloyd
- Terry Lloyd
- David Lloyd George, politician
- Alan Lloyd Hodgkin
- Andrew Lloyd Webber, composer
- Julian Lloyd Weber, composer and cellist
- Frank Lloyd Wright, architect
- Genevieve Lloyd, philosopher
- Lloyd House, Caltech undergraduate dorm
- Lloyd Banks, a rapper who is part of G-Unit
- Lloyd Polite (more commonly referred to as just Lloyd), an R&B singer
- Lloyd Irving, one of the characters in the game "Tales of Symphonia".