Hoyt (name)
Hoyt is an English medieval surname, sometimes used as a given name. It is a topographical surname for someone who lived high, or on a hill.
People
Given name
- Hoyt Axton, American country singer
- Hoyt Curtin, American composer
- Hoyt Ming, American old-time fiddler
- Hoyt Richards, American model and actor
- Hoyt Sherman, American banker
- Hoyt Patrick Taylor, American politician
- Hoyt Patrick Taylor Jr., American politician
- Hoyt Vandenberg, U.S. Air Force general
- Hoyt Wilhelm, American hall of fame baseball pitcher
- Hoyt Richard "Dick" Murdoch, American professional wrestler
Surname
- Adelia M. Hoyt, American librarian, author, and advocate for blind people
- Beatrix Hoyt, American amateur golfing champion
- Clegg Hoyt, American film and television actor
- Daniel Hoyt, member of the House of Representatives of the Colony of Connecticut
- Dick and Rick Hoyt, Team Hoyt American duo, with Dick pushing, pulling or carrying his son Rick, who has cerebral palsy, in athletic competitions
- Edith Hoyt, American painter
- Elizabeth Ellis Hoyt, American economist
- Erich Hoyt, American-Canadian author and conservationist
- Garry Hoyt, American and Puerto Rican sailor
- George Henry Hoyt, American attorney who defended John Brown (abolitionist)
- Homer Hoyt, American economist
- Huested W. R. Hoyt, American politician
- James Henry Hoyt, American railroad entrepreneur and member of the Connecticut Senate from 1857 to 1858
- James Hoyt (baseball), American major league baseball pitcher
- Jesse Hoyt, New York politician
- John Hoyt, American actor
- John Philo Hoyt, Governor of Arizona Territory and Justice of the Washington Supreme Court
- John Wesley Hoyt, Territorial Governor of Wyoming
- LaMarr Hoyt, American baseball player
- Lance Hoyt, American professional wrestler
- Martha Seavey Hoyt, American biographer, newspaper correspondent, businesswoman
- Matt Hoyt, American film director
- Nicholas Hoyt, British member of the Connecticut General Assembly
- Norris Hoyt,, American lawyer and politician
- Oliver Hoyt, American politician
- Ryan Hoyt, American murderer
- Sam Hoyt, American politician
- Sarah Hoyt, Portuguese-American award-winning fiction writer
- Waite Hoyt, American hall of Fame baseball pitcher
- Walter Hoyt, founding settler of Norwalk, Connecticut
- William Hoyt (disambiguation), several people
- Zack Hoyt, American content creator
Fictional characters
- Charles Hoyt, a fictional serial killer in the television series Rizzoli & Isles
- Emma Hoyt, girlfriend of Gerry Bertier in Remember the Titans played by Kate Bosworth
- Lenar Hoyt, Jesuit Priest from the Hyperion cantos
- Jake Hoyt, a detective in the movie Training Day portrayed by Ethan Hawke
- Jaz Hoyt, a Nazi biker on the HBO drama Oz
- Detective Woody Hoyt, on the show Crossing Jordan
- Sheriff Hoyt, portrayed by R. Lee Ermey in The Texas Chainsaw Massacre films
- Hoyt Fortenberry, on the HBO series True Blood
- Hoyt Platter, brother of Peggy Hill in King of the Hill
- Hoyt Thorpe, in Tom Wolfe's I am Charlotte Simmons
- Hoyt Volker, in the video game ''Far Cry 3''