Hoyle
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Hoyle is a surname, and may refer to
  • Alan Hoyle, British basketball player and coach
  • Arthur Hoyle
    Arthur Hoyle
    Arthur Robert Hoyle is an Australian historian and biographer. Born in Sydney, Australia, in 1922 to Arthur Hoyle and Gertrude Underwood , he served in the Royal Air Force as a navigator during World War II and was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross. He returned to Australia and married Moira...

    , Australian historian and biographer
  • Bert Hoyle
    Bert Hoyle
    Herbert Hoyle was a professional footballer who played as a goalkeeper in The Football League for Exeter City and Bristol Rovers....

     (1920–2003), English football goalkeeper
  • Colin Hoyle
    Colin Hoyle
    Colin Hoyle is a former English professional footballer.He started out at Arsenal, but never made a first-team appearance...

    , English football player
  • David Hoyle (performance artist), British performance artist
  • David W. Hoyle
    David W. Hoyle
    David W. Hoyle is a North Carolina politician who served as a Democratic member of the North Carolina General Assembly representing the state's forty-third Senate district, including constituents in Gaston County...

    , North Carolina politician
  • Dean Hoyle
    Dean Hoyle
    Dean Hoyle was the founder and previous owner of Card Factory, a chain of greeting card and gift stores in Great Britain. Hoyle, from Wakefield, set up Card Factory in 1997. As of 2009, the company had 500+ shops, employing over 5,000 people. On 8 April 2010 Card Factory was sold to Charterhouse...

    , British businessman
  • Doug Hoyle, Baron Hoyle, British politician
  • Edmond Hoyle
    Edmond Hoyle
    Edmond Hoyle was a writer best known for his works on the rules and play of card games. The phrase "according to Hoyle" came into the language as a reflection of his generally-perceived authority on the subject; since that time, use of the phrase has expanded into general use in situations in...

     (1672–1769), compiler of rules of card games
  • Sir Fred Hoyle
    Fred Hoyle
    Sir Fred Hoyle FRS was an English astronomer and mathematician noted primarily for his contribution to the theory of stellar nucleosynthesis and his often controversial stance on other cosmological and scientific matters—in particular his rejection of the "Big Bang" theory, a term originally...

     (1915–2001), British astronomer and science fiction writer
  • Geoff Hoyle
    Geoff Hoyle
    Geoff Hoyle is a British performer who originated the role of Zazu in the Broadway theatre production of The Lion King. Hoyle has also performed in vaudeville shows, worked with Bill Irwin in "The Pickle Family Circus", performed with Cirque Du Soleil's Nouvelle Expérience, and performed with the...

    , British actor
  • Henry Hoyle
    Henry Hoyle
    Henry "Harry" Clement Hoyle was an Australian politician and rugby league football administrator of the 1890s and 1900s...

     (b. 1852), Australian politician and rugby league football administrator
  • Isaac Hoyle
    Isaac Hoyle
    Isaac Hoyle was a British mill-owner and Liberal politician.Born in Bacup, Lancashire, he was the fourth son of Joshua Hoyle. His father was the founder of Joshua Hoyle and Sons Ltd, cotton manufacturers of Summerseat near Bury. He was educated at Crosby Hall, Frodsham, before entering the...

     (1828–1911), British mill owner and politician
  • Joshua Hoyle
    Joshua Hoyle
    Joshua Hoyle was a Professor of Divinity at Trinity College, Dublin and Master of University College, Oxford during the Commonwealth of England.-Life:...

     (d. 1654), English theologian
  • Katie Hoyle
    Katie Hoyle
    Katie Cherie Hoyle is an association football player who represented New Zealand at international level.Hoyle represented New Zealand at age group level, appearing at the 2006 Women's U-20 World Cup finals, and again represented the young ferns at the 2008 Women's U-20 World Cup in Chile...

     (b. 1988), New Zealand footballer
  • Lindsay Hoyle
    Lindsay Hoyle
    The Honourable Lindsay Harvey Hoyle is a British Labour Party politician who has been the Member of Parliament for Chorley since 1997. He is the son of Lord Hoyle, a former Labour MP for Warrington North....

     (b. 1957), British politician
  • Robert Hoyle
    Robert Hoyle
    Robert Hoyle was a businessman and political figure in Lower Canada.He was born in Lancashire, England in 1781 and came to New York state in 1806. Hoyle supplied lumber to Lower Canada...

    , Canadian businessman and politician
  • Theodore Hoyle
    Theodore Hoyle
    Theodore Hind Hoyle was an English first-class cricketer, who played one game for Yorkshire County Cricket Club against Northamptonshire at Bramall Lane in 1919...

    , British cricketer
  • William Hoyle
    William Hoyle
    William Henry Hoyle was speaker of the Legislature of Ontario in 1912-1914 and served as Conservative MLA for Ontario North from 1898 to 1918.- References :*...

    , speaker of the Ontario legislature 1912-1914
  • William Evans Hoyle
    William Evans Hoyle
    Dr William Evans Hoyle was the first director of the National Museum of Wales between 1909 and 1926. Trained as a medical anatomist, Hoyle is most famous for his monographic studies on cephalopods from major exploring expeditions of his era including the Challenger, the Albatross, the British...

     (1855–1927), cephalopod monographer and museum director


Places named Hoyle include:
  • Hoyle, West Sussex, a hamlet of Heyshott

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