Ackroyd

Ackroyd is an English surname.[1][2] Notable people with the surname include:

• Alan Ackroyd, rugby league footballer of the 1960s, '70s and '80s
• Alfred Ackroyd (1858–1927), English cricketer
• Anthony Ackroyd (born 1958), Australian comedian, speaker and writer
• Archibald Ackroyd (1897–1968), English cricketer
• Barry Ackroyd (born 1954), English cinematographer
• Christa Ackroyd (born 1957), British journalist and broadcaster
• Sir Cuthbert Ackroyd, 1st Baronet (1892–1973), Lord Mayor of London 1955–56
• David Ackroyd (born 1940), American actor
• Harold Ackroyd (1877–1917), British Army medical officer, awarded the Victoria Cross
• Haughton Ackroyd (1894–1979), English footballer
• Heather Ackroyd, British visual artist, of Ackroyd & Harvey
• Jack Ackroyd (1926–1992), Canadian chief of police and civil servant
• Jane Ackroyd (born 1957), English sculptor
• Jenny Ackroyd (1950–2004), English vascular surgeon
• John Ackroyd (disambiguation), various people
• Joseph Ackroyd (1847–1915), New York politician
• Joyce Ackroyd (1918–1991), Australian academic, translator, author and editor
• Norman Ackroyd (born 1938), English artist
• Peter Ackroyd (born 1949), English biographer, novelist and critic
• Peter Ackroyd (Biblical scholar) (1917–2005), British Old Testament scholar
• Poppy Ackroyd (born 1982), British composer, pianist and violinist
• Thomas Raven Ackroyd (1861–1946), English bank manager and politician
• Timothy Ackroyd (born 1958), English actor

See also

• The Murder of Roger Ackroyd, 1926 novel by Agatha Christie
• The Mrs Ackroyd Band, a band in Manchester, England
• Aykroyd
• Akroyd

References

1. Hanks, P.; Coates, R.; McClure, P. (2016). The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland. OUP Oxford. p. 10. ISBN 978-0-19-252747-9.
2. Browne, W.A.F.; Reaney, P.H.; Wilson, R.M.; Scull, A. (1991). A Dictionary of English Surnames. Tavistock classics in the history of psychiatry. Routledge. p. 10. ISBN 978-0-415-05737-0.