Gaylord (given name)

Arts and entertainment

Music

• Gaylord Birch, drummer for the bands Santana, Cold Blood, Pointer Sisters & Herbie Hancock
• Gaylord Carter, American organist and the composer of many film scores
• Gaylord Yost, violinist, composer, and teacher

Writing

• Gaylord J. Clarke, American newspaper editor, lawyer, poet and politician
• Gaylord DuBois, American writer of comic book stories, comic strips, Big Little Books, and juvenile adventure novels
• Gaylord Larsen, American crime writer
• Gaylord Shaw, American journalist

Other arts and entertainment

• Gaylord Lloyd, American actor and assistant director, brother of Harold Lloyd
• Gaylord Schanilec, American wood engraver and printer

Government

• Gaylord Kent Conrad, United States Senator from North Dakota from 1987 to 1992, and again from 1992 to 2013.
• Gaylord Graves, member of the Wisconsin State Assembly
• Gaylord Griswold, United States Representative from New York
• Gaylord Nelson, American politician from Wisconsin and the founder of Earth Day
• Gaylord T. Gunhus, retired American Army officer and 20th Chief of Chaplains of the United States Army

Sports

• Gaylord Bryan, male long and triple jumper from the United States
• , French gymnast
• Gaylord Perry, American Major League Baseball Hall of Fame right-handed pitcher
• Gaylord Powless, Mohawk lacrosse player
• Gaylord Silly, French-Seychellois long-distance runner
• Gaylord Stinchcomb, American football player

Other fields

• Gaylord Granville Bennett (bishop), American bishop
• Gaylord Donnelley, owner and board member of R. R. Donnelley
• Gaylord Harnwell, American educator and physicist
• Gaylord K. Swim, American businessman
• Gaylord Starin White, American social reformer and activist
• Gaylord Wilshire, land developer, publisher and outspoken socialist

Fictional characters

• Gaylord Robinson, from The Amazing World of Gumball
• Gaylord Focker, from Meet the Parents
• Gaylord Ravenal, from Showboat