Cloyd is the anglicized form of the Welsh Clwyd, referring to the River Clwyd in northeast Wales.
It may also refer to:
Places
- 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
- 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
- 15499 Cloyd, an asteroid
- Battle of Cloyd's Mountain, May 1864, in the American Civil War
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