Ryder is both a surname and masculine given name. Notable people with the name include:
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Albert Pinkham Ryder
Albert Pinkham Ryder (March 19, 1847 – March 28, 1917) was an American painter best known for his poetic and moody allegory, allegorical works and seascapes, as well as his Eccentricity (behavior), eccentric personality. While his art shared an ...
(1847–1917), American painter
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Alfred Ryder
Alfred Ryder (born Alfred Jacob Corn; January 5, 1916 – April 16, 1995) was an American television, stage, radio, and film actor and director, who appeared in over one hundred television shows.
Career
Ryder began to act at age eight and later ...
(1916–1995), American actor, born as Alfred Jacob Corn
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Arthur W. Ryder
Arthur William Ryder (March 8, 1877 – March 21, 1938) was a professor of Sanskrit at the University of California, Berkeley. He is best known for translating a number of Sanskrit works into English, including the Panchatantra and the Bhaga ...
(1877–1938) American professor of Sanskrit and translator
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Charles W. Ryder (1892–1960), US Army General
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Charles Henry Dudley Ryder
Colonel Charles Henry Dudley Ryder, (28 June 1868 – 13 July 1945) was an English army officer and explorer. An officer of the Royal Engineers, British Army, he served as Surveyor General of India from 1919 to 1924. During his career, he undert ...
(1868–1945), English army officer and explorer
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Chauncey Foster Ryder (1868–1949), American painter
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Cynthia Ryder
Cynthia Louise "Cindy" Ryder (born August 12, 1966) is an American Olympic athlete who won the gold medal in women's single sculls rowing event at the 1991 Pan American Games and participated in the 1992 Olympics in Barcelona
Barcelona ( ...
(born 1966), American rower
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Deb Ryder
Deb Ryder is an American blues singer and songwriter. She has released five albums since 2013, although her involvement in music spans decades in various capacities.
Life and career
She was born in Peoria, Illinois, United States. Early in her li ...
, American blues singer and songwriter
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Derek Ryder
Derek Francis Ryder (born 18 February 1947) is an English former professional Association football, footballer who played as a Defender (association football), full back.
Career
Ryder began his career with his hometown club Leeds United F.C., Le ...
(born 1947), English footballer
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Dial D. Ryder
Dial Duwayne Ryder (June 12, 1938 – October 20, 2011) was an American gunsmith, who gave evidence to the investigation of the death of President John F. Kennedy.
The Assassination of President John Kennedy
Ryder worked at the Irving, Texas ...
(1938–2011), American gunsmith
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Don Ryder, Baron Ryder of Eaton Hastings (1916–2003), chairman of the UK National Enterprise Board, responsible for the 1975 Ryder Report
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Donald J. Ryder
Donald Ryder is a retired major general of the United States Army who served as United States Army Provost Marshal General from 2003 to 2006.
Biography
Ryder was commissioned into the United States Army in 1971. He was promoted to major gener ...
, U.S. military lawyer, responsible for the 2003 Ryder Report on prisoner abuse in Iraq
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Dudley Ryder, 1st Earl of Harrowby
Dudley Ryder, 1st Earl of Harrowby, PC, FSA (22 December 176226 December 1847) was a prominent British politician of the Pittite faction and the Tory party.
Background and education
Born in London, Ryder was the eldest son of Nathaniel Ryder ...
(1762–1847), English politician
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Dudley Ryder, 2nd Earl of Harrowby
Dudley Ryder, 2nd Earl of Harrowby, KG, PC, FRS (19 May 179819 November 1882), styled Viscount Sandon between 1809 and 1847, was a British politician. He held office under Lord Palmerston as Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster in 1855 and ...
(1798–1882), English politician
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Dudley Ryder, 3rd Earl of Harrowby
Dudley Francis Stuart Ryder, 3rd Earl of Harrowby (16 January 183126 March 1900), known as Viscount Sandon from 1847 to 1882, was a British peer and politician.
Life
He was the second son and eventual heir of Dudley Ryder, 2nd Earl of Harrowby ...
(1831–1900), English politician
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Dudley Ryder, 7th Earl of Harrowby (1922–2007), deputy chairman of Coutts bank and NatWest
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Graham Ryder (1949–2002), English lunar scientist
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Henry Ignatius Dudley Ryder
Henry Ignatius Dudley Ryder (3 January 1837 – 7 October 1907, Edgbaston, Birmingham) was an English Roman Catholic priest of the Birmingham Oratory and controversialist.
Life
Ryder's lifelong connection with John Henry Newman and the Oratory beg ...
(1837–1907), English Roman Catholic priest
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James A. Ryder (1800–1860), American Jesuit priest
* Jeremy Ryder (born 1954), British musician known professionally as
Jack Hues
Jeremy Allan Ryder, better known as Jack Hues, (born 10 December 1954) is an English singer, songwriter, and musician, who is best known for forming and fronting the 1980s English new wave band, Wang Chung. Hues was also a member of the one-o ...
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Jesse Ryder
Jesse Daniel Ryder (born 6 August 1984) is a former international New Zealand cricketer, who played all forms of the game. He is a middle-order batsman for Tests and is an opening batsman in ODIs. Ryder also bowls useful medium-pace.
Ryder has ...
(born 1984), New Zealand cricketer
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John Ryder (disambiguation), multiple people
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Jonathan Ryder
Robert Ludlum (May 25, 1927 – March 12, 2001) was an American author of 27 thriller novels, best known as the creator of Jason Bourne from the original '' The Bourne Trilogy'' series. The number of copies of his books in print is estimated be ...
, pseudonym of American thriller author Robert Ludlum
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Margaret Ryder
Margaret Elaine Ryder, later Margaret Vint (1908-1998) was a British artist.
Biography
Ryder was born in Sheffield and, after attending Sheffield College of Art, was based in that city throughout her career. As a freelance commercial artist Ryd ...
(1908–1998), British artist
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Michael Ryder
Michael Glen Wayne Ryder (born March 31, 1980) is a Canadian former professional ice hockey right winger. Ryder played 12 seasons in the National Hockey League (NHL) with the Montreal Canadiens, Boston Bruins, Dallas Stars, and New Jersey Devils.
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(born 1980), NHL hockey player
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Mitch Ryder
Mitch Ryder (born William Sherille Levise, Jr.; February 26, 1945) is an American musician who has recorded more than 25 albums over more than four decades.
Career
Ryder formed his first band, Tempest, when he was at Warren High School, and th ...
(born 1945), American musician
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Paddy Ryder
Patrick Ryder (born 14 March 1988) is a former Australian rules footballer who played for the , and St Kilda Football Clubs in the Australian Football League (AFL). Ryder was noted for his speed, agility and leap for someone of his size and it ...
(born 1988), Australian football player
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Richard Ryder (1766–1832), British 19th century politician
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Richard Andrew Ryder
Richard Andrew Ryder, Baron Ryder of Wensum, (born 4 February 1949) is a British Conservative Party politician. A former Member of Parliament (MP) and government minister, he was made a life peer in 1997 and was a member of the House of Lord ...
(born 1949), British politician
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Richard D. Ryder
Richard Hood Jack Dudley Ryder (born 3 July 1940) is an English writer, psychologist, and animal rights advocate.
Ryder became known in the 1970s as a member of the Oxford Group, a group of intellectuals loosely centred on the University of O ...
(born 1940), British animal rights activist
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Robert Edward Dudley Ryder
Captain Robert Edward Dudley Ryder (16 February 1908 – 29 June 1986) was a Royal Navy officer and a British recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwea ...
(1908–1986), British military hero and politician
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Samuel Ryder (1858–1936), businessman and golf enthusiast
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Serena Ryder
Serena most commonly refers to:
* Serena Williams (born 1981), professional tennis player
Serena may also refer to:
Arts, entertainment, and media
* Serena (genre), 13th-century Occitan poetic genre
* ''Serena'' (1962 film), a British crime t ...
(born 1983), Canadian singer/songwriter
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Shaun Ryder
Shaun William George Ryder (born 23 August 1962) is an English singer/songwriter and poet. As lead singer of Happy Mondays, he was a leading figure in the Madchester cultural scene during the late 1980s and early 1990s. In 1993, he formed ...
(born 1962), British singer/songwriter
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Theodore Ryder
Theodore Ryder (September 14, 1916 – March 8, 1993), often called Ted or Teddy Ryder, was, at the age of five, one of the first twelve diabetes patients in the world to be treated using Insulin (medication), insulin. When he died in 1993 at the a ...
(1916–1993), one of the first people to receive insulin as a treatment for diabetes
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Thomas P. Ryder (born 1985), Anglo-Scot rugby union player
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Thomas Ryder (1863–1935), American baseball player
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Tom Ryder (born 1949), American lawyer and politician
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William T. Ryder (1913–1992), Brigadier general and first American paratrooper
* Dr Andrew Ryder (born 1964) researcher and campaigner for Roma communities
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Winona Ryder
Winona Laura Horowitz (born October 29, 1971), professionally known as Winona Ryder, is an American actress. Originally playing quirky roles, she rose to prominence for her more diverse performances in various genres in the 1990s. She has recei ...
(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
Matthew Brett Cardona (born May 14, 1985) is an American professional wrestler currently signed to Impact Wrestling and the National Wrestling Alliance (NWA). He is best known for his time in WWE, where he performed under the ring name Zack Ryd ...
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Ryder Hesjedal
Eric Ryder Hesjedal (; born December 9, 1980) is a Canadian retired professional racing cyclist who competed in both mountain biking and road racing between 1998 and 2016. Hesjedal won a silver medal at the 1998 Junior, 2001 Under-23, and Elite ...
(born 1980), Canadian professional racing cyclist
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Ryder Matos Santos
Ryder Matos Santos Pinto (born 27 February 1993) is a Brazilian professional Association footballer, footballer who plays as a Left winger, winger or Forward (association football), forward for club Perugia Calcio, Perugia.
Club career
Fiore ...
(born 1993), Brazilian footballer
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Ryder Windham
Ryder Windham is an American science fiction author who has written more than 60 ''Star Wars'' books, including novels, comics, and reference books. He has also written junior novelizations for ''Indiana Jones'' films. Since 1993, he has been w ...
, American writer
Fictional characters:
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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''
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Red Ryder
Red is the color at the long wavelength end of the visible spectrum of light, next to orange and opposite violet. It has a dominant wavelength of approximately 625–740 nanometres. It is a primary color in the RGB color model and a seconda ...
, a fictional cowboy character
* Ryder, a character in the
Skrull Kill Krew
The Skrull Kill Krew are a fictional group appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. They first appeared in their own miniseries published in 1995. They were created by Grant Morrison, Mark Millar and Steve Yeowell.
The grou ...
comics
* Ryder Callahan, a character on the CBS soap opera ''
The Young and the Restless
''The Young and the Restless'' (often abbreviated as ''Y&R'') is an American television soap opera created by William J. Bell and Lee Phillip Bell for CBS. The show is set in fictional Genoa City (not the real-life similarly-named Genoa City ...
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* 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
''PAW Patrol'' is a Canadian computer-animated children's television series created by Keith Chapman. It is produced by Spin Master Entertainment, with animation provided by Guru Studio. In Canada, the series is primarily broadcast on TVOKi ...
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* 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
''Dead Island'' is a 2011 action role-playing game developed by Techland and published by Deep Silver. Released for Linux, Microsoft Windows, OS X, PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360, the game is centered on the challenge of surviving a zombie-infeste ...
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* Mr. Ryder, the biracial main character of Charles W. Chesnutt's short story ''
The Wife of His Youth''
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