List of people with surname Taylor

Taylor is an English occupational surname of Norman origin. Listed here are notable people who share this surname.

Art Josephine Taylor (born 1977), American artist Katherine C Taylor (born 1974), American artist Leonard Campbell Taylor (1874–1969), English painter and war artist Lynne Taylor-Corbett (1956–2025), American choreographer, director, lyricist, and composer Mary Taylor (born 1948), New Zealand artist Pam Taylor (1929–2014), British sculptor Persis Goodale Thurston Taylor (1821–1906), American/Hawaiian painter and sketch artist Tanya Taylor, Canadian fashion designer

Business Alec Taylor Sr. (1821–1894), British racehorse trainer Alec Taylor Jr. (1862–1943), British racehorse trainer Cora V. Taylor (1884–1971), American businesswoman E. P. Taylor (1901–1989), Canadian businessman and horse breeder Frank Taylor (1905–1995), English businessman, founder of Taylor Woodrow Frederick Southgate Taylor (1847–1896), American businessman, politician and founder of Pi Kappa Alpha fraternity Frederick Winslow Taylor (1856–1915), American engineer and management scholar Jack C. Taylor (1923–2016), founder of Enterprise Rent-a-Car John Taylor (Taylor Ham) (1837–1909), American businessman John William Taylor (1827–1906), British bellfounder Margarita Kearney Taylor (1890–1982), British-born Spanish businesswoman Rebecca Taylor (born 1969), New Zealand-born fashion designer William Lee Taylor (1854–1915) African American Baptist minister, bank president, businessman, farmer

Entertainment Al Taylor (actor) (1887–1951), American silent film actor Alex Taylor (singer) (1947–1993), American singer Andy Taylor (born 1961), English guitarist with Duran Duran

Aston George Taylor Jr., American disc jockey, rapper, record producer, actor, and host; better known as Funkmaster Flex Avonne Taylor (1897 or 1898–1992), American showgirl and actress. Buck Taylor (born 1938), American actor and artist Cecil Taylor (1929–2018), American pianist and poet Chip Taylor (1940–2026), American songwriter and singer Christine Taylor (born 1971), American actress, wife of Ben Stiller Corey Taylor (born 1973), American musician, best known as the lead singer of Slipknot Courtenay Taylor (born 1969), American voice actress Danica Taylor (born 2001), English television personality Dave D. Taylor, game programmer formerly employed by id Software Dean Taylor (musician), American rock guitarist Deems Taylor (Joseph Deems Taylor, 1885–1966), American composer, music critic, and promoter of classical music Demetria Taylor (born 1973), American Chicago blues singer and songwriter Dick Taylor (born 1943), English musician and early Rolling Stones bassist Don Taylor (American filmmaker) (1920–1998), American actor and film director Dorothy Brenda Taylor (1909–1996), better known as Brenda Forbes, British-born American actress Dub Taylor (1907–1994), American actor Ebo Taylor (1936–2026), Ghanaian guitarist, composer, bandleader and arranger Eddie Taylor (1923–1985), American electric blues guitarist and singer Eddie Taylor Jr. (1972–2019), American blues guitarist, singer and songwriter Elizabeth Taylor (1932–2011), English-American actress Estelle Taylor (1894–1958), American actress, singer, model, and animal rights activist Eva Taylor (1895–1977), American blues singer and stage actress Gene Taylor (1929–2001), American jazz double bassist Gwen Taylor (born 1939), English actress Hound Dog Taylor (1915–1975), American blues guitarist, singer and bandleader Iris Taylor (1905–1980), pseudonym of Scottish composer of light music (aka Fred Hartley) Jack Taylor (actor) (1926–2026), American actor Jack Taylor (heavyweight man) (c. 1946–2006), heaviest man in Britain at his death Jack Taylor (musician) (1965–1997) James Taylor (born 1948), American singer-songwriter James "J.T." Taylor (born 1953), lead singer of Kool & the Gang Jane Taylor (1783–1824), English poet and novelist, wrote "Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star" Janie Taylor, American ballet dancer, former New York City Ballet principal dancer The Game (born Jayceon Terrell Taylor in 1979), American rapper Jen Taylor (born 1973), American actress Joanna Taylor (born 1978), English actress and former model John Taylor (bass guitarist) (born 1960), British co-founder of Duran Duran Johnnie Taylor (1934–2000), American singer-songwriter Johnny Taylor, Jr., stand-up comedian Little Johnny Taylor (1943–2002), American singer Kate Taylor (born 1949), American singer-songwriter Karen Taylor (comedian) (born 1979), British comedian Koko Taylor (1928–2009), American singer Krissy Taylor (1978–1995), American model and sister of Niki Taylor Larry Taylor (1942–2019), American bass guitarist, member of the rock band Canned Heat Lili Taylor (born 1967), American actress Livingston Taylor (born 1950), American singer-songwriter M. Sayle Taylor (1889–1942), American radio host Maria Taylor (musician) (born 1976), American singer Melvin Taylor (born 1959), American musician Mick Taylor (born 1949), English guitarist, formerly with the Rolling Stones Nicole Taylor, Scottish screenwriter Niki Taylor (born 1975), American model and business woman Niti Taylor (born 1994), Indian model and actress Noah Taylor (born 1969), Australian actor Otis Taylor (born 1948), American musician Paul Taylor (choreographer) (1930–2018), American dancer and choreographer Paula Taylor (born 1983) Thai actress and model R. Dean Taylor (1939–2022), Canadian singer-songwriter Ralph Forbes Taylor (1904–1951), better known as Ralph Forbes, English actor Regina Taylor (born 1960), American actress and playwright Renée Taylor (born 1933), American actress, screenwriter, playwright, producer, and director Rip Taylor (1934–2019), American actor and comedian Robert Taylor (1911–1969), American actor Rod Taylor (1932–2015), Australian actor Rod Taylor (singer) (born 1957), Jamaican singer Roger Taylor (Duran Duran drummer) (born 1960) Roger Taylor (Queen drummer) (born 1949) Ronnie Taylor (1924–2018), British cinematographer Russi Taylor (1944–2019), American voice actress Ruth Taylor (actress) (1908–1984), American film actress, starred in silent movies Sarah Taylor (personality), Canadian television personality Sean Taylor (musician) (born 1968), Australian guitarist in the band Newsboys Sharon Taylor, Canadian actress Shaun Taylor-Corbett (born 1978), American actor, singer, and writer Shooby Taylor (1929–2003), American singer Steve Taylor (born 1957), American recording artist and film director Steve Taylor (actor, born 1939) (born Richard Cole, 1939–1986), American gay porn actor and producer Teyana Taylor (born 1990), American singer, actress, dancer and choreographer Tiffany Taylor (born 1977), American model Tim Brooke-Taylor (1940–2020), English comic actor Trina (born Katrina Laverne Taylor in 1978), American rapper Vaughn Taylor (actor) (1910–1983), American actor Veronica Taylor (born 1978), American voice actress Vin Taylor (1896–1961), American film set designer Vincent Taylor (musician) (1949–1974), American guitarist with band Sha Na Na

Journalism and literature Brandon Taylor (born 1989), American writer Bride Neill Taylor (1858–1937), American journalist and author Blaine B. Taylor (1946–2021), American author, journalist, political aide, and Vietnam War veteran Cory Taylor (writer) (1955–2016), Australian writer D. J. Taylor (born 1960), British author David Taylor (veterinary surgeon) (1934–2013), British author and television presenter on animal subjects Edgar Taylor (translator) (1793–1839), first English translator of Grimms' Tales Emily Taylor (1795–1872), English schoolmistress, poet, children's writer, hymn-writer George Augustine Taylor (1872–1928), Australian artist and journalist G. P. Taylor (born 1958), British author John Ellor Taylor (1837–1895), English popular science writer, journalist and museum curator Kathrine Taylor (1903–1996), American author, known mostly for her Address Unknown (1938) Matt Taylor (meteorologist) (born 1976), BBC weather presenter Minnetta Theodora Taylor (1860–1911), American author, known for writing the lyrics to the National Suffrage Anthem Nicole A. Taylor, American writer and cookbook author Patrick Gordon Taylor (1896–1966), Australian author and aviator Russell Taylor (cartoonist) (born 1960), British writer and cartoonist Ruth Ashton Taylor (1922–2024), American television journalist Samuel W. Taylor (1907–1997), American novelist, scriptwriter, and historian Sean Taylor (author) (born 1965), British children's book author Sharma Taylor (), Jamaican writer Talus Taylor (1929–2015), American children's book author Tom Taylor (writer) (born 1978), Australian playwright and editorial writer Valerie Taylor (novelist) (1913–1997), American writer of lesbian pulp fiction William Taylor (man of letters) (1765–1836), English scholar and linguist

Liberal arts and sciences A. J. Taylor (1911–2002), English historian A. J. P. Taylor (1906–1990), English historian Alan D. Taylor (born 1947), mathematician Alfred Edward Taylor (1869–1945), British philosopher Alonzo E. Taylor (died 1949), American educator and food researcher Allen Taylor (scientist), scientist Andrew Taylor (poet) (born 1940), Australian poet, professor Anna Heyward Taylor (1879–1956), American artist Bert Leston Taylor (1866–1921), American columnist, humorist, poet, and author Brook Taylor (1685–1731), English mathematician Charles Taylor (philosopher) (born 1931), Canadian philosopher Charles Vincent Taylor (1885–1946), American biologist Charlotte De Bernier Taylor (1806–1863), American entomologist Dwight Willard Taylor (1932–2006), American malacologist Edward Taylor (c. 1642–1729), colonial American poet, physician, and pastor Edwin F. Taylor (1931–2025), American physicist Effie J. Taylor (1874–1970), Canadian nurse Esther W. Taylor (1826–1904), American physician Eva Germaine Rimington Taylor (1879–1966), English geographer and historian of science F. Sherwood Taylor (1897–1956), British historian of science and museum curator Fred M. Taylor (1855–1932), American economist Frederick Taylor (historian) (born 1947), British historian Garth Taylor (ophthalmologist) (1944–2005), Jamaican ophthalmologist Geoffrey Ingram Taylor (1886–1975), British physicist and mathematician George Taylor (botanist) (1904–1993), Scottish botanist George Ledwell Taylor (1788–1873), English architect George W. Taylor (professor) (1901–1972), American academic and labor mediator Henry Osborn Taylor (1856–1941), American historian and legal scholar Isaac M. Taylor (1921–1996), American physician and academic Jill Bolte Taylor (born 1959), American neuroanatomist John B. Taylor (born 1946), American economist John Bryan Taylor (1928–2026), English physicist John George Taylor (), British official of the Foreign Office, an archaeologist investigating the antiquities of the Middle East Joseph L. Taylor (1941–2016), American mathematician Laurie Taylor (sociologist) (born 1936), English sociologist and radio presenter Margerie Venables Taylor (1881–1963), English historian and archeologist Matt Taylor (born 1973), project scientist for the Rosetta mission Richard Taylor (mathematician) (born 1962), British mathematician Ruth Taylor (poet) (1961–2006), Canadian poet, editor and college professor Stuart Ross Taylor (1925–2021), New Zealand geochemist and planetary scientist Thomas Taylor (neoplatonist) (1758–1835), English translator and Neoplatonist Thomas Taylor (botanist) (1786–1848), English botanist, bryologist, and mycologist Verta Taylor (born 1948), American sociologist

Military David W. Taylor (1864–1940), U.S. Navy admiral and engineer Edgar Taylor (aviator) (1897–1918), American flying ace of World War I Frank Harold Taylor (1896–1985), British Canadian military pilot