Ryder (name)

Ryder is both a surname and masculine given name. Notable people with the name include:

Surname:

• Albert Pinkham Ryder (1847–1917), American painter
• Alfred Ryder (1916–1995), American actor, born as Alfred Jacob Corn
• Arthur W. Ryder (1877–1938) American professor of Sanskrit and translator
• Charles W. Ryder (1892–1960), US Army General
• Charles Henry Dudley Ryder (1868–1945), English army officer and explorer
• Chauncey Foster Ryder (1868–1949), American painter
• Cynthia Ryder (born 1966), American rower
• Deb Ryder, American blues singer and songwriter
• Derek Ryder (born 1947), English footballer
• Dial D. Ryder (1938–2011), American gunsmith
• Don Ryder, Baron Ryder of Eaton Hastings (1916–2003), chairman of the UK National Enterprise Board, responsible for the 1975 Ryder Report
• Donald J. Ryder, U.S. military lawyer, responsible for the 2003 Ryder Report on prisoner abuse in Iraq
• Dudley Ryder, 1st Earl of Harrowby (1762–1847), English politician
• Dudley Ryder, 2nd Earl of Harrowby (1798–1882), English politician
• Dudley Ryder, 3rd Earl of Harrowby (1831–1900), English politician
• Dudley Ryder, 7th Earl of Harrowby (1922–2007), deputy chairman of Coutts bank and NatWest
• Graham Ryder (1949–2002), English lunar scientist
• Henry Ignatius Dudley Ryder (1837–1907), English Roman Catholic priest
• James A. Ryder (1800–1860), American Jesuit priest
• Jeremy Ryder (born 1954), British musician known professionally as Jack Hues
• Jesse Ryder (born 1984), New Zealand cricketer
• John Ryder (disambiguation), multiple people
• Jonathan Ryder, pseudonym of American thriller author Robert Ludlum
• Margaret Ryder (1908–1998), British artist
• Michael Ryder (born 1980), NHL hockey player
• Mitch Ryder (born 1945), American musician
• Paddy Ryder (born 1988), Australian football player
• Richard Ryder (1766–1832), British 19th century politician
• Richard Andrew Ryder (born 1949), British politician
• Richard D. Ryder (born 1940), British animal rights activist
• Robert Edward Dudley Ryder (1908–1986), British military hero and politician
• Samuel Ryder (1858–1936), businessman and golf enthusiast
• Serena Ryder (born 1983), Canadian singer/songwriter
• Shaun Ryder (born 1962), British singer/songwriter
• Thomas P. Ryder (born 1985), Anglo-Scot rugby union player
• Thomas Ryder (1863–1935), American baseball player
• Tom Ryder (born 1949), American lawyer and politician
• William T. Ryder (1913–1992), Brigadier general and first American paratrooper
• Dr Andrew Ryder (born 1964) researcher and campaigner for Roma communities
• Winona Ryder (born 1971), American actress
• James A. Ryder, founder of Ryder System, Inc.
• Zack Ryder (born 1985), a former ring name of American professional wrestler Matt Cardona

Given name:

• Ryder Hesjedal (born 1980), Canadian professional racing cyclist
• Ryder Matos Santos (born 1993), Brazilian footballer
• Ryder Windham, American writer

Fictional characters:

• Honey Ryder, the Bond girl in the 1962 film Dr. No
• Charles Ryder, the protagnaist of Evelyn Waugh's Brideshead Revisited
• James Ryder, in The Blue Carbuncle, a Sherlock Holmes story by Arthur Conan Doyle
• Lance "Ryder" Wilson, a fictional character in the video game Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas
• Red Ryder, a fictional cowboy character
• Ryder, a character in the Skrull Kill Krew comics
• Ryder Callahan, a character on the CBS soap opera The Young and the Restless
• John Ryder, a character in the 1986 film The Hitcher and its 2007 remake
• Ryder, the main human character of the Canadian animated preschool TV series PAW Patrol
• Ryder, the protagonist of the Kazuo Ishiguro novel The Unconsoled
• Scott/Sara Ryder, main character of the video game Mass Effect: Andromeda
• Ryder White, a character in the video game series Dead Island
• Mr. Ryder, the biracial main character of Charles W. Chesnutt's short story The Wife of His Youth