Moyle (surname)
Moyle is a Celtic surname that derives from maol meaning bald. It has been suggested that the surname arises in at least two ways: first, meaning "shaven one" or "tonsured", as in a religious person or a locality near a religious site; and second, a dweller on or near a bald hill.
Notable people who share the surname include:
Arts and entertainment
- Allan Moyle, Canadian film director
- Franny Moyle, British television producer and author
- Sarah Moyle, English stage and television actor
Politics
- Arthur Moyle, Baron Moyle, British trade unionist and politician
- Colin Moyle, New Zealand politician
- Edna Moyle, Caymanian politician
- Henry Vivian Moyle, South Australian politician
- James Moyle, American politician
- Joseph Moyle, Member of Parliament from the UK constituency of Saltash
- Mike Moyle, American politician
- Roland Moyle, British politician
- Sir Thomas Moyle, English politician
- Walter Moyle, English politician and political writer
- Walter Moyle (MP), English politician
Sports
- Brett Moyle, Australian rules footballer
- Graeme Moyle, Australian rules footballer
- Herbert Moyle, New Zealand cricketer
- Jamie Moyle, American mixed martial artist
- Kendra Moyle, American skater
- Nolan Moyle, American ice hockey player
- Wallace Moyle, American college sports coach
Other people
- Alice Marshall Moyle, Australian ethnomusicologist
- Henry D. Moyle, American Mormon leader
- Jennifer Moyle, British biochemist
- John Moyle (politician), High Sheriff of Cornwall
- John Moyle, first editor of the magazine Electronics Australia
- John Moyle (British Army officer), captain in the Royal Regiment of Ireland
- John Rowe Moyle, Mormon pioneer
- Jonathan Moyle, RAF helicopter pilot and magazine editor
- Matthew Paul Moyle, Cornish meteorologist and writer on mining
- Michael Moyle (magistrate), Isle of Man High Bailiff
- Olin R. Moyle, American Jehovah's Witnesses legal counsel
- Peter B. Moyle, zoologist and associate director of the Center for Watershed Sciences at the University of California-Davis
- Richard M. Moyle, New Zealand academic specialising in ethnomusicology of the Pacific and Australia
- Walter Moyle (judge), Justice of the Common Pleas, England and Wales