Robert Boyd

Bob, Bobby, Robbie, Rob, or Robert Boyd may refer to:

Arts and entertainment

  • Robert Boyd (journalist) (1928–2019), American journalist, writer, and winner of the 1973 Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting
  • Dice (rapper) (Robert Boyd, born 1970), American rapper
  • Robert Boyd (director) (fl. 1980s–1990s), Canadian film director
  • Robert Boyd (comics) (fl. 1990s), comics editor and critic on The Big Book Of
  • Robbie Boyd, British singer and songwriter

Nobility

Politics and law

  • Robert Boyd (British Army officer) (1710–1794), British army officer and governor of Gibraltar
  • Robert Boyd (civil servant) (fl. 1802–1812), British civil servant in British Ceylon
  • Robert Boyd (Australian politician) (1885–1951), member of the Queensland Legislative Assembly

Science and medicine

  • Robert Boyd (writer) (1803–1883), British physician and writer on diseases of the insane
  • Robert F. Boyd (1858–1912), American physician and dentist
  • Robert A. Boyd (1918–2006), Canadian electrical engineer; leader of the James Bay hydroelectric project
  • Robert Boyd (physicist) (1922–2004), Scottish physicist and pioneer of British space science
  • Robert Boyd (paediatrician) (born 1938), British paediatrician
  • Robert Boyd (anthropologist) (born 1948), American anthropologist
  • Robert W. Boyd (born 1948), American optical physicist

Sports

  • Bob Boyd (footballer) (1867–1930), Scottish footballer
  • Bob Boyd (baseball) (1919–2004), American first baseman in the Negro leagues and MLB
  • Bob Boyd (American football) (1928–2009), American football end and wide receiver
  • Bob Boyd (basketball) (1930–2015), American basketball coach
  • Bobby Boyd (1937–2017), American football player for the Baltimore Colts
  • Bob Boyd (ice hockey) (born 1951), Canadian ice hockey player
  • Bob Boyd (golfer) (1955–2011), American golfer
  • Rob Boyd (born 1966), Canadian alpine skier

Others

  • Robert Boyd (university principal) (1578–1627), Principal of the University of Edinburgh
  • Robert Napuʻuako Boyd (1863–1914), Hawaiian insurgent leader
  • Robert Boyd (stenographer) (1870–?), Canadian inventor of Boyd's Syllabic Shorthand
  • Robert Boyd (bishop) (1890–1958), Anglican bishop of Killaloe and Clonfert and of Derry and Raphoe
  • Robert Boyd (RAF officer) (1916–1975), British flying ace of the Second World War
  • Bobby Boyd, husband of fellow real estate agent Josh Flagg

Other uses

  • Robert Boyd Publications, English publishing company

See also

  • Robert Boyd Brazier (1916–1942), American naval officer
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