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 fl, yielding the related name Floyd.
People named Lloyd:
- 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, British politician
- George Lloyd, British High Commissioner of Egypt
- Terry Lloyd
- David Lloyd George, British politician
- Alan Lloyd Hodgkin
- Andrew Lloyd Webber, British composer
- Julian Lloyd Webber, composer and cellist
- Frank Lloyd Wright, US architect
- Genevieve Lloyd, philosopher
- 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, a character in the video game Tales of Symphonia.
Institutions:
- Lloyd's of London, insurance market; Lloyds List, journal; Lloyd's Register, risk management organisation, all of which were named for the coffeehouse of Edward Lloyd in London
- Lloyd House, Caltech undergraduate dorm
- Lloyd, a former German automobile brand from the Borgward group of Bremen.
- Lloyd cars, a former British automobile brand.
- Lloyd Wise, a group of intellectual property attorney firms based in England and Asia.
