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The name Lloyd is a variation of the Welsh word llwyd or clwyd, which means "grey" or "brown".
Edward Lloyd (coffeehouse owner), founded Lloyd's Coffee House, a London meeting place for merchants and shipowners. Several institutions and companies, especially those involved in transport or insurance, were named after, or indirectly inspired by, Edward Lloyd or his (now defunct) coffee house:
- Lloyd's of London, or Lloyd's, a leading British insurance market
- Lloyd's of London (film), a 1936 film about this insurance market
- Lloyd's building, its headquarters
- Lloyd's Agency Network
- Lloyd's List, a website and 275-year-old daily newspaper on shipping and global trade
- Lloyd's List Intelligence (formerly Lloyd's MIU), a maritime information database
- Lloyd's Register, a ship classification and risk management organization
- Germanischer Lloyd, a classification society based in Germany
- Norddeutscher Lloyd, a former German shipping line, and several successor companies
- Hapag-Lloyd shipping line
- Hapag-Lloyd Flug, Hapag-Lloyd Express, Hapag-Lloyd Airlines, former German airline companies
- Lloyd Werft, a shipbuilding dockyard established by Norddeutscher Lloyd in Bremerhaven, Germany
- North German Automobile and Engine, a former German automobile brand founded by Norddeutscher Lloyd, of which most marques carried the Lloyd name
- Österreichischer Lloyd, a shipping line of the Austro-Hungarian Empire; a shipping management company of this name still exists
- Lloyd Triestino, subsequently renamed Italia Marittima, Italian shipping line evolved from Austrian Lloyd
- Austrian Lloyd Ship Management, a Cypriot company founded in the 20th century
- Ungarische Lloyd Flugzeug- und Motorenfabrik, an Austro-Hungarian aircraft manufacturer of the Lloyd C.V and other aircraft
- Nedlloyd, a Netherlands shipping line, later merged into P&O Nedlloyd and now part of Maersk Line
- Lloyd Aéreo Boliviano (LAB Airlines) of Bolivia
- Lloyd Brasileiro, a former Brazilian shipping line
Other companies
Companies not related in any way to Lloyd's Coffee House or Lloyd's of London)
- Lloyds Banking Group, a large retail bank in the United Kingdom
- Lloyds Pharmacy, the largest community pharmacy operator in the United Kingdom
- Lloyd Cars Ltd, a former British automobile brand
- Lloyd's Weekly Newspaper, an early Sunday newspaper in the United Kingdom
- Stewarts & Lloyds, a former British steel tube manufacturer
- Lloyd Hotel, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Objects
- Lloyd rifle, a magazine-fed sporting rifle
- Lloyd's mirror, an optical and an acoustic experiment
Places
- Lloyd, Florida, United States
- Lloyd, Kentucky, United States
- Lloyd, New York, United States
- Lloydminster, or "Lloyd", straddling the provincial border between Alberta and Saskatchewan, Canada
Fictional characters
- Lloyd, Ari Gold's assistant in the HBO television series, Entourage
- Lloyd Asplund, a character from the anime series Code Geass
- Lloyd Braun, in the NBC sitcom, Seinfeld
- Lloyd Christmas, played by Jim Carrey in the film Dumb and Dumber
- Lloyd Dobler, a character in the 1989 Cameron Crowe film, Say Anything..., played by John Cusack
- Lloyd Henreid, in Stephen King's The Stand
- Lloyd Irving, in the video game Tales of Symphonia
- Lloyd Nebulon, the main character in the Disney animated series Lloyd in Space
- Lloyd Tavernier, a character in the BBC soap opera EastEnders
- Lloyd the Delivery Guy, a minor character from Scrubs
- Llwyd ap Cil Coed, a character in the story Mabinogion
- Lloyd Garmadon, main protagonist of the second and third waves of Lego Ninjago
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