Jim Boyd

Jim Boyd may refer to:

  • James E. Boyd (scientist) (1906–1988), director of the Georgia Tech Research Institute 1957–1961
  • Jim Boyd (actor), The Electric Company actor
  • Jim Boyd (boxer) (born 1930), American boxer
  • Jim Boyd (commissioner), politician who appeared in the film Who Killed the Electric Car?
  • Jim Boyd (ice hockey) (born 1949), a major league ice hockey player with the Calgary Cowboys
  • Jim Boyd (musician) (born 1956), musician from the Colville Indian Reservation
  • Jim Boyd (racing driver), New Zealand racing driver, see 1967 Tasman Series
  • Jimmy Boyd (1939–2009), singer
  • Jimmy Boyd (footballer) (1907–1991), from Scotland

Famous quotes containing the words jim and/or boyd:

    “Just kids! That’s about the craziest argument I’ve ever heard. Every criminal in the world was a kid once. What does it prove?”
    —Theodore Simonson. Irvin S. Yeaworth, Jr.. Jim Bird, The Blob, responding to the suggestion that they not lock up the teens pulling the alien “prank,” (1958)

    “Unhappy is the man for evermair
    That tills the sand and sawis in the air;
    But twice unhappier is he, I lairn,
    That feidis in his hairt a mad desire
    And follows on a woman thro the fire,
    Led by a blind and teachit by a bairn.”
    —Mark Alexander Boyd (1563–1601)