Cloyd

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Cloyd is the anglicized form of the Welsh Clwyd, referring to the River Clwyd in northeast Wales.

It may also refer to:

Places[edit]

  • Clwyd, the former Welsh county named for the river
  • Flintshire, the English name of the same area which was known as Clwyd in Welsh

Name[edit]

  • Cloyd Boyer (1927-2021), former right-handed pitcher and pitching coach in Major League Baseball
  • Cloyd Head (1886–1969), Chicago playwright and theatrical director born in Oak Park, Illinois
  • Cloyd H. Marvin (1889–1969), longest serving president of George Washington University, and the then-youngest American university president
  • Cloyd A. Porter (born 1935), former member of the Wisconsin State Assembly
  • Cloyd (surname), a surname carried by some families from the Clwyd area

Other uses[edit]