Blyth (surname)
Blyth is a surname of Scottish origin. It is derived from the Old English pre 7th Century "blithe", meaning a happy or cheerful person.
Notable people with the surname include:
- Alan Blyth, English musicologist
- Alan Blyth (artist), English painter
- Ann Blyth, American actress
- Sir Arthur Blyth, thrice Premier of South Australia
- Benjamin Blyth, Scottish civil engineer
- Benjamin Blyth II, son of the above, also a civil engineer
- Bob Blyth, Scottish football player and manager
- Chay Blyth, Scottish yachtsman
- Edward Blyth, English zoologist
- Gavin Blyth, English television producer and journalist
- George Blyth, Anglican Bishop
- James Blyth, Scottish electrical engineer
- James Blyth, 1st Baron Blyth, British businessman
- Sir James Blyth, Baron Blyth of Rowington, British businessman
- Jim Blyth (footballer, born 1890), Scottish footballer
- Jim Blyth (footballer, born 1911), Scottish footballer
- Jim Blyth (footballer, born 1955), Scottish football goalkeeper
- John Blyth, Bishop of Salisbury
- Len Blyth, Wales international rugby player
- Mark Blyth, Scottish political scientist and professor at Brown University.
- Reginald Horace Blyth, English translator of and writer about haiku, and interpreter to the West of Asian culture
- Robert Henderson Blyth, Scottish landscape painter and artist
- Tom Blyth, English actor