Blyth (surname)

Blyth is a surname of Scottish origin. It is derived from the Old English pre 7th Century "blithe", meaning a happy or cheerful person.

Notable people with the surname include:

• Alan Blyth (1929–2007), English musicologist
• Alan Blyth (artist) (c. 1921 – 1953), English painter
• Ann Blyth (born 1928), American actress
• Sir Arthur Blyth (1823–1890), thrice Premier of South Australia
• Benjamin Blyth (1819–1866), Scottish civil engineer
• Benjamin Blyth II (1849–1917), son of the above, also a civil engineer
• Bob Blyth (1870–1941), Scottish football player and manager
• Chay Blyth (born 1940), Scottish yachtsman
• Edward Blyth (1810–1873), English zoologist
• Gavin Blyth (1969–2010), English television producer and journalist
• George Blyth (died 1914), Anglican Bishop
• James Blyth (1839–1906), Scottish electrical engineer
• James Blyth, 1st Baron Blyth (1841–1925), British businessman
• Sir James Blyth, Baron Blyth of Rowington (born 1940), British businessman
• Jim Blyth (footballer, born 1890), Scottish footballer (Dumbarton FC)
• Jim Blyth (footballer, born 1911), Scottish footballer (Tottenham Hotspur, Hull City, St Johnstone)
• Jim Blyth (footballer, born 1955), Scottish football goalkeeper (Coventry City, Scotland)
• John Blyth (died 1499), Bishop of Salisbury
• Len Blyth, Wales international rugby player
• Mark Blyth (born 1967), Scottish political scientist and professor at Brown University.
• Reginald Horace Blyth (1898–1964), English translator of and writer about haiku, and interpreter to the West of Asian culture
• Robert Henderson Blyth (1919–1970), Scottish landscape painter and artist
• Tom Blyth (born 1995), English actor

See also

Blythe (surname)