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Notable people with this given name

Lyndon Amick Lyndon Amick (born June 30, 1977) is an American former NASCAR driver. He spent most of his NASCAR career in the NASCAR Busch Series driving for his family-owned team. Racing career Amick was the 1996 NASCAR Goody's Dash series champion. Amick ...

(born 1977), American racing driver * Lyndon Andrews (born 1976), Trinidad and Tobago footballer * Lyndon Antoine (born 1986), Grenadian footballer *

Lyndon Buckingham Lyndon Vernon Wayne Buckingham (born 13 February 1962) is a New Zealand Christian minister who is currently serving as the General of The Salvation Army since 3 August 2023. He is the first person from New Zealand to hold the office. Family an ...

(born 1962), 22nd General of the Salvation Army * Lyndon Byers (born 1964), Canadian ice hockey player *

Lyndon Brook Lyndon Brook (10 April 1926 – 9 January 2004) was a British actor, on film and television. Family and early life Lyndon Brook was born on 10 April 1926 in Los Angeles, California, to British parents. He came from an established acting fami ...

(1926–2004), British actor * Lyndon Campos (born 1966), Brazilian hurdler * Lyndon Carlson (born 1940), American politician * Lyndon Dunshea (born 1991), New Zealand rugby union player *

Lyndon Dykes Lyndon John Dykes (born 7 October 1995) is a professional footballer who plays as a striker for club Birmingham City. Born and raised in Australia to Scottish parents, he plays for the Scotland national team. Dykes previously played for Mudge ...

(born 1995), Australian footballer * Lyndon Emsley (born 1964), British chemist *Lyndon Lyn Evans (born 1945), Welsh physicist * Lyndon Evelyn (1759–1839), British Member of Parliament *

Lyndon Farnham Lyndon John Farnham is a Jersey politician who has served as the Chief Minister of Jersey since January 2024. He formerly served as the Deputy Chief Minister and Minister for Economic Development, Tourism, Sport, and Culture. He has been a De ...

, Jersey businessman and politician *

Lyndon Ferns Lyndon Ferns (born 24 September 1983 in Pietersburg, South Africa) is a retired Olympic gold-medalist and former world record swimmer from South Africa who attended the University of Arizona. He swam for South Africa at the 2004 and 2008 Oly ...

(born 1983), South African swimmer *

Lyndon Hannibal Lyndon Hannibal (born 20 November 1965) is a Sri Lankan international cricket umpire and a former first class cricketer. Umpiring career He stood as an umpire in the tour match between Sri Lanka Board President's XI vs Indian national cricket t ...

(born 1965), Sri Lankan cricketer * Lyndon Hardy, American physicist and author *

Lyndon Hooper Lyndon Hooper (born May 30, 1966) is a Canadian former professional soccer player and former assistant coach of the Toronto Lynx soccer team of the United Soccer Leagues USL First Division, First Division. A former midfielder, he was a prominent ...

(born 1966), Canadian soccer player and coach * Lyndon Jackson, Micronesian politician *

Lyndon James Lyndon Wallace James (born 27 December 1998) is an English cricketer who plays for Nottinghamshire. Career James made his first-class debut for Nottinghamshire in the 2018 County Championship against Essex on 10 September 2018. He made his Lis ...

(born 1998), English cricketer *

Lyndon B. Johnson Lyndon Baines Johnson (; August 27, 1908January 22, 1973), also known as LBJ, was the 36th president of the United States, serving from 1963 to 1969. He became president after the assassination of John F. Kennedy, under whom he had served a ...

(1908–1973), thirty-sixth President of the United States *

Lyndon Johnson (American football) Lyndon Baines Johnson Jr. (born May 23, 1994) is a former American football defensive end. He played college football at Cincinnati. College career Johnson began his college career at Holmes Community College, where he played both football and ...

(born 1994), American football player *

Lyndon Jones ''For the Welsh footballer see Linden Jones''. Lyndon Owain Jones (born 8 November 1976) is a Welsh cricketer. Jones is a right-handed batsman who bowls right-arm off break. He was born at Newport, Monmouthshire. Jones made his Minor Coun ...

(born 1976), Welsh cricketer *

Lyndon LaRouche Lyndon Hermyle LaRouche Jr. (September 8, 1922 – February 12, 2019) was an American political activist who founded the LaRouche movement and its main organization, the National Caucus of Labor Committees (NCLC). He was a prominent conspiracy ...

(1922–2019), American economist, philosopher, and political activist *

Lyndon Lawless Lyndon Kent Lawless is an American musician and music educator best known for his creation and leadership of the Ars Musica period instrument chamber orchestra (Ann Arbor 1971-86). He also developed and conducted the nationally known Youth Perfor ...

(born 1945), American musician and music educator *

Lyndon Lea Lyndon Lea (born 13 January 1969) is an English financier and investor, known for co-founding Lion Capital which specializes in making investments in the consumer sector. Notable previous and current consumer brands owned by Lion have include ...

(born 1969), English financier and investor *

Lyndon Loos Lyndon Loos (born 31 July 1966) is a Sri Lankan former first-class cricket First-class cricket, along with List A cricket and Twenty20 cricket, is one of the highest-standard forms of cricket. A first-class match is of three or more days sche ...

(born 1996), Sri Lankan cricketer *Lyndon Andy McMillan (born 1968), South African footballer and coach *

Lyndon Menegon Lyndon Menegon (born 11 February 1948) is an Australian former cricketer. He played two first-class matches for Tasmania between 1967 and 1971. See also * List of Tasmanian representative cricketers This is a list of cricket players who ha ...

(born 1948), Australian cricketer *

Lyndon Henry Morris Lyndon Henry Morris CBE, MC, DL (1889–1946) was a British chief constable and veteran of the First World War. Early life Morris was born in Bakewell, Derbyshire, in 1889. He was the son of Reverend Ernest Edwin Morris, the vicar of Ashbour ...

(1889–1946), British chief constable *

Lyndon Mustoe Lyndon Mustoe (born 30 January 1969) was a Welsh rugby union prop who was selected for the Wales national team on ten occasions during the 1990s. Mustoe represented several Welsh club sides throughout his playing career, including Chepstow, Ne ...

(born 1969), Welsh rugby union player * Lyndon Needs, Welsh guitarist *

Lyndon Ogbourne Lyndon Saul Ogbourne (born 18 May 1983) is an English actor. He is known for his role as Nathan Wylde in the ITV1 soap opera ''Emmerdale''. Biography Ogbourne began acting at the age of six. He was educated at Commonweal School before studying ...

(born 1983), English actor * Lyndon Lowell Olson Jr. (born 1947), American politician and diplomat *

Lyndon Pete Patterson Lyndon Pete Patterson (December 20, 1934 – December 9, 2017) was an American politician, rancher, and realtor who served in the Texas House of Representatives from 1977 to 1999. Life Patterson was born on December 20, 1934, at Brookston, Lamar ...

(1934–2017), American politician *

Lyndon Rive Lyndon Robert Rive (born 22 January 1977) is a South African-American businessman known as the co-founder of SolarCity, and its CEO until 2016. SolarCity is a provider of photovoltaic systems and related services. Rive co-founded SolarCity with ...

(born 1977), South African-born American entrepreneur *

Lyndon Rush Lyndon Rush (born November 24, 1980) is a Canadian retired bobsledder who has competed since 2004. Rush took up bobsleigh after spending five years playing Canadian football for the University of Saskatchewan. He initially trained as a brakeman b ...

(born 1980), Canadian bobsledder and coach * Lyndon Sims (1917–1999), Welsh rally driver *

Lyndon Slewidge Lyndon Slewidge (born 1954 in Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario) Indicates age 38 and birthplace of Sault Ste. Marie. Indicated age 42. is a retired Ontario Provincial Police officer. He is also a singer who specializes in national anthems. He was the ...

(born 1954), Canadian police officer and singer * Lyndon A. Smith (1854–1918), American educator, lawyer, and politician *

Lyndon Smith Jennifer Lyndon Smith is an American actress. She is known for her roles as Natalie in the NBC drama '' Parenthood'' (2013–2015) and Deirdre in the TNT police drama '' Public Morals'' (2015). Personal life and education Smith is from Pensaco ...

(born 1989), American actress and singer * Lyndon Stromberg (born 1962), American sculptor and entrepreneur *

Lyndon Terracini Lyndon William Terracini (born 1950), is an Australian operatic baritone and from 2009 to October 2022 artistic director of Opera Australia. Early life Terracini was born in 1949, the oldest of four children born to Shirley and Vita Terracini, ...

(born 1950), Australian operatic baritone *

Lyndon Trott Lyndon Sean Trott (born 17 July 1964, St. Sampson, Guernsey) is an elected Deputy in the States of Guernsey who served as the Chief Minister of Guernsey from 2008 to 2012 and has served as President of the Policy and Resources Committee of Guer ...

(born 1964), Guernsey politician * Lyndon Wainwright (1919–2018), English metrologist and ballroom dancer *

Lyndon Watts Lyndon Jeffrey Frank Watts (born 19 January 1976) is an Australian bassoonist. He is principal bassoonist of the Münchner Philharmoniker and an academic teacher. Professional career Watts studied the bassoon from 1988 and completed his senior ...

(born 1976), Australian bassoonist *

Lyndon Woodside Lyndon Woodside (March 23, 1935 in Florence, South Carolina – August 23, 2005 in Englewood, New Jersey) was the 10th conductor of the Oratorio Society of New York. He toured Europe and the Americas, but his home performance space was Carnegie Ha ...

(1935–2005), American choral conductor *

Lyndon Yearick Lyndon Yearick (born November 3, 1964) is an American politician who has served in the Delaware House of Representatives The Delaware State House of Representatives is the lower house of the Delaware General Assembly, the state legislature ...

(born 1964), American politician

Notable people with this surname

Donlyn Lyndon Donlyn Lyndon is an American Third Bay Tradition architect and the Eva Li Professor Emeritus of Architecture and Urban Design at the University of California, Berkeley. Lyndon was a co-designer of Sea Ranch, California. Education M.F.A. Archit ...

, American architect *

Hūhana Lyndon Hūhana Melanie Lyndon (born ) is a New Zealand politician who was elected Green MP in the 2023 New Zealand general election. Education Lyndon graduated from Victoria University of Wellington, the University of Auckland and Massey University. ...

, New Zealand Māori entrepreneur and politician *

Maynard Lyndon Maynard Lyndon (September 6, 1907 – November 15, 1999) was an American architect. He designed over 40 school buildings in Michigan and California, including the Northville School, known as "the first modern public school in North America". He a ...

(1907-1999), American architect *

Neil Lyndon Neil Alexander Lyndon (born Neil Alexander Barnacle; 12 September 1946) is a British journalist and writer. He has written for ''The Sunday Times'', ''The Times'', ''The Independent'', the ''Evening Standard'' the ''Daily Mail'' and the ''Tele ...

(born 1946), British journalist and author *

Roger Lyndon Roger Conant Lyndon (December 18, 1917 – June 8, 1988) was an American mathematician, for many years a professor at the University of Michigan.. He is known for Lyndon words, the Curtis–Hedlund–Lyndon theorem, Craig interpolation, Craig–Ly ...

(1917–1988), American mathematician

Fictional characters

*Barry Lyndon, protagonist of the novel ''

The Luck of Barry Lyndon ''The Luck of Barry Lyndon'' is a picaresque novel by English author William Makepeace Thackeray, first published as a serial in '' Fraser's Magazine'' in 1844, about a member of the Irish gentry trying to become a member of the English ari ...

'' and its film adaptation ''

Barry Lyndon ''Barry Lyndon'' is a 1975 epic historical drama film written, directed, and produced by Stanley Kubrick, based on the 1844 novel '' The Luck of Barry Lyndon'' by William Makepeace Thackeray. Narrated by Michael Hordern, and starring Ryan O'N ...